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  • What's going on guys Carmine here and welcome to my review for the season 6 finale of Game

  • of Thrones and all I got to say is what the hell just happened. I've got to say episode

  • 10 was insane and it fulfilled the wet dreams of almost everybody who watches this thing:

  • Jon is king in the north, Arya gets revenge on Walder Frey, the High Sparrow finally shuts

  • the fuck up, Dany is on her way to Westeros and R+L=J finally confirmed on the show. Now

  • if you ask me? this episode gets a 5 out of 5 rating simply because they hit almost every

  • single nail on the head for every character except one....my favorite Petyr Baelish. That

  • scene between him and Sansa is the most idiotic I've ever seen Baelish on the show thus far

  • and we'll get to him in a moment but all that aside? all of it was fantastic. The music

  • was on point, acting was very good and I absolutely loved the scenery this time around with Oldtown,

  • the library inside Oldtown and the ships in the last scene. Something Game of Thrones

  • always does right, along with its big battles, is the scenery and it did not disappoint this

  • time around. Now let me stop rambling and get on with the review.

  • First lets start with King's Landing. I didn't expect the Mad Queen theory to come on full

  • force in this episode but it did deliver on so many levels and then some. Before I continue

  • let me praise the level of detail on Cersei's costume here. While it looks cool and gives

  • her a bit of a Darth Vader feel? it does speak volumes to her character. Personally I've

  • always loved her in the Lannister colors of red and gold but I'm digging this new look

  • on her. It definitely sets her up to be the villain in season 7 which is a little weird

  • for the show. Consistently the show has always had a way of making you re-think whose a bad

  • guy and whose not. Originally we all thought that Tywin was evil but hes just a hard to

  • please douche. Roose is an opportunist that happens to be an asshole and the masters are

  • just victims of that high class self serving life style that made them scumbags from birth.

  • Many of these people you could argue aren't villains like Ramsay or the Night's King but

  • it seems that the show is going all out to make Cersei the main bad guy for next season.

  • Her actions in this episode definitely set her up as the villain and I think her descent

  • into that realm of darkness was spectacular and very well done with some unintentional

  • consequences with Tommen.

  • I'll get back to Cersei in just a minute but let me touch on the trial for a bit. i got

  • to say I just feel bad for Loras most of all. He had to endure all that torture for nothing.

  • And We also haven't seen him all season and the reason for that is, like Brienne last

  • season, the actor got a role on Marvel's Iron Fist premiering on Netflix next year but losing

  • the Tyrell family this episode does hit home for me because I always liked Loras' character

  • and Margaery going down is not something I expected in a million years. Mace and Kevan

  • going down was always in the plan of course but almost everyone whose had a story line

  • in King's Landing has been killed and it gives you a sense of finality. With all of them

  • gone you can definitely tell that the show is coming to a close very very soon.

  • What really made King's Landing for me in this episode was the music which really set

  • the tone. After Cersei puts on her costume, Lancel walks out to go get her and Pycelle

  • going down in the basement you really start to hear it and it does stick with you throughout.

  • It did an amazing job of putting me on the edge of my seat and I loved every minute of

  • it. When Lancel goes down there and he realizes that Cersei setup barrels of wildfire all

  • over the place you kind of want him to put out the burning candles in time but you just

  • know hes too much of an idiot that it won't happen. He was very close to the candles and

  • he could've reached out and grabbed them too but it was too late. It was very satisfying

  • seeing the High Sparrow go down the way he did and it was pretty graphic. If you go back

  • and slow it down a little you can see the flesh melting off his body too. I also need

  • to call out the amazing job Jonathan Pryce and Natalie Dormer did in this episode. When

  • she realizes something is wrong with the whole situation it really set her character aside

  • from everyone and showed she isn't stupid and I liked that. Once again I didn't want

  • Margaery to die because I kind of wanted to see her in Olenna's place trying to face off

  • against Cersei but at the same time I understand that it was time for her to go. Her character

  • has pretty much done all she could and I feel like Olenna was always the more interesting

  • and likable one in that family.

  • As for Tommen jumping out the window? I really didn't expect that at all. Not only was it

  • so random and out of nowhere but I never took him for the suicide type. I mean sure he was

  • a weak and naive fool but jumping out the window? I mean if he was going to kill himself

  • I figured he'd do something a little less public and more along the lines of poison

  • or that Essence of Nightshade, which was almost used back in season 2 when Cersei feared that

  • Stannis would take King's Landing. She prepared to use it on Tommen at the time but at the

  • last minute it didn't happen. Now that does put a damper on the whole Cersei-Tommen master

  • plan to catch the High Sparrow off guard scenario. I was really hoping that Tommen wasn't so

  • damn easy to control and maybe Cersei was able to get into his head and make him somewhat

  • of a player in the game but no. I will say that it's kind of a shame because I did think

  • that the plan could've still been implemented with the same results making more sense. Now

  • I know you guys don't like me doing the whole "if I was writing this" crap but bare with

  • me for a second it'll be worth it.

  • Wouldn't it be much better if there was a secret plan between Cersei and Tommen to catch

  • the High Sparrow off guard and she tells him every bit of the detail until the last part

  • where she has the sept blow up with wildfire. Tommen seeing this realizes that he basically

  • helped kill all those people and the guilt is too much for him. He commits suicide because

  • he cannot become the type of person his mother has made him. She wants him to be strong but

  • he just isn't like that. To me it would've made sense from a character development point

  • of view for Tommen to be internally conflicted on who he is and what hes become. This would

  • show the audience that not every one can make the transition from good guy to bad guy. That

  • some people would rather lose their lives than lose their morality. Do me a favor if

  • you agree with me or not let me know in the comment section about my whole idea of tommen

  • and cersei being in on the plan and him not wanting to be that type of person. But as

  • I was saying the whole Tommen jumping out of the window due to Cersei's actions kind

  • of hearkens back to the beginning of the series when Jaime pushes Bran out the window. It's

  • almost like the Gods are playing a cruel and sick joke on Cersei and Jaime for what happened

  • with Bran.

  • But the King's Landing scenes in this episode were all around amazing. I loved Cersei getting

  • some payback on Septon Unella and making her the zombie Mountain's bitch. I loved Jaime

  • coming in at the right time to see Cersei crowned as queen and I loved the atmosphere

  • surrounding all of it when she is crowned. It was dark and ominous with a sense of awe

  • and fear. All of it was great. They did an amazing job and it definitely hyped me up

  • for next season when shes actually in charge of everything but what I'm really excited

  • for is how her relationship with Jaime will unfold and how he'll take the turn of events

  • that came about in this episode.

  • Over in the Riverlands the Freys and Lannister soldiers celebrate their victory over the

  • Blackfish. We get some nice banter between Jaime and Bronn to close out the season and

  • an awesome discussion between Jaime and Walder which kind of puts the Freys in their place

  • a little and that's always welcomed.

  • Throughout the entire feast we see this one girl pouring drinks for everybody and she

  • kind of gives Jaime the that look. Now some of us don't know what that look is and some

  • of us do....it's the look a girl gives you when she either wants to rob you for your

  • money or ride your like a wildebeest or maybe both.

  • Either way I definitely knew that Arya right away. Why? because the actress they got for

  • that disguise looks exactly like Masie Williams. Did anybody else notice this or was it just

  • me? Side by side this girl looks exactly like Masie Williams. I don't know why but I just

  • knew it was her from the beginning. Maybe it's the nose and the eyes that look alike

  • but I could tell that was her but this is something I predicted a long time ago but

  • it was mainly a wish of mine. I don't remember the name of the video I said it in but it

  • was one I uploaded in 2015 and in it I said that she would go on her first mission and

  • kill Walder Frey and whisper in his ear "the north remembers muthafucka".

  • Obviously the muthafucka part wasn't making it on screen but I really thought she was

  • going to say "the north remembers" but I'm also quite happy with the line we got. It

  • felt so good to see her kill him...it felt like justice but holy shit...the frey pies?

  • chopping his sons up and mixing them into pies? Didn't Eric Cartmen on South Park chop

  • up some guy's parents and put them in Chili and feed them to the guy? Goddamn Arya...I'm

  • so fucking proud of you. That's my girl. Now all she needs to do is team up with Hot Pie

  • and we got ourselves a Game of Thrones version of Sweeney Todd. Seriously someone with Photoshop

  • skills make this happen. But the Riverlands scenes were absolutely epic. Arya getting

  • her revenge in an insane way was great and getting one last Bronn moment before the season

  • ends is just icing on the cake.

  • Beyond the wall we get our last Bran moment of the season and it's a short one with big

  • purpose. As I predicted Benjen would not follow Bran back over the wall and will instead stay

  • back in what I assume is a plan to reduce the numbers of wights . It was really cool

  • to have him back as coldhands but the main focus of the Bran stuff this episode is to

  • finally see inside the Tower of Joy and we do. R+L=J is confirmed on the television show

  • and it's to be expected because the show runners have been teasing their support for that theory

  • for a very long time. I also need to give a shout out to one of my subscribers for pointing

  • this out to me, thanks a lot Andrey. What he did was point out this really cool easter

  • egg about Jon Snow being the Azor Ahai.

  • In this scene Ned takes Arthur Dayne's sword up to the tower and he leans the sword next

  • to some blankets covered in blood. The legend of Azor Ahai, which is basically the Jesus

  • Christ of the GoT universe, states that the prince that was promised would be born under

  • a bleeding star. Theres the star and there is the blood. Not only that but Lyanna constantly

  • telling Ned to promise her also gives that theory more credibility.

  • The one thing that I loved that the show did was not spoon feed the audience that Jon Snow

  • is Lyanna's baby by having Howland Reed come out of nowhere and tell everybody.The show

  • cut to the baby's face and then cut to Jon's face with some nice dramatic music and I think

  • they did this tastefully. It was the best way to do it to confirm R+L=J without making

  • it overly complex or too simple.

  • Now lets cut to the North with one of my favorite scenes this episode: Davos confronting Melisandre.

  • Of all the stuff going on in this episode this is the one that hit home for me and I'm

  • sure many people will agree. The actor did an amazing job convincing me that he really

  • loved Shireen and that she was like a daughter to him. You could feel the emotion from him

  • and that is what makes him an amazing actor. It's sad to see Melisandre leave but I think

  • her character can still maintain a sense of epicness if they team her up with the brotherhood

  • or go as far as combining her story line with Euron or Cersei for the next season. As for

  • Jon and Sansa this episode...they were a little weird for me. What I didn't like was that

  • she never really explain why she kept all that stuff from him at all and but the same

  • time I did like their little conversation on the wall about their father. As for Sansa

  • and Petyr? this is what really annoyed me about the whole episode: Petyr Baelish. He

  • is my favorite character and he completely dropped the ball this episode. Baelish never

  • reveals his full plans to anybody and him declaring the Vale as allies of the Starks

  • is really dumb.

  • Especially considering he wants some of that Sansa and chill but never gets it. She promised

  • to reward him but he didn't really get to collect on that and that isn't like him. Petyr

  • is a good manipulator but in the end all he really did was fall for Sansa's cock tease.

  • It makes the character look dumb for opening his mouth like that without fully trying to