3 Brilliant Moments from the Battle of the Bastards

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YES I LOOOOOVED THE BATTLE OF THE BASTARDS EPISODE

I think the battle of the bastards was my favorite battle seen (non modern battle scenes). It made me feel like I was there. It also kept me on my toes. I didn't know how the battle would end.

That scene where horses are charging right at him & he looks defeated yet draws his sword… best few secs of TV I'v ever saw

But forreal no zig or zag?really rickon

Rickon's death was dumb and shock factored, the cinematography is cool but wasted on a dumb plot hole.

"And stress-eating the LD50 of Doritos" . Hahahhaha, that line is gold :).

honestly these videos are bit annoying to me cause im way to stupid to understand or analyse cinema movies wish makes your scrpit totally awful to me !
but hey its not you its me im pretty sure most of you viewers enjoy your videos !

Of all the deaths in Game of Thrones I hated Rickons the most. I wasn't even attached to him. But it was the worst. I got used to death in that series, but that one… that one I just couldn't take

the long shots good but the sword like magically goes through the enemy on one of the kills

I hate your noisy, overamped fucking intro.

poor rickon's probably died 20 times in this analysis

People don't seem to realize, that he isn't JUST torturing rickon when he makes him run, he is actually finding maxium range for his archers.

This was awesome, I need more of these episode breakdowns. I just hope you guys can find more episodes as brilliant as "Battle of the Bastards".

Please do Netflix's Daredevil!!!

I think the long take of Jon just as the battle starts is one of the best long-take-action-sequences out there.

Anyone notice at 8:55 Jon' sword seemingly appear behind the Bolton soldier when immediately before it was in front. Not only that but when Wun Wun is getting riddled with arrows one is floating above his head stuck into nothing

The part where Jon is getting buried under people and suffocating and the camera is cutting crazy fast and being regularly covered with bodies actually gave me a moment of panic where I suddenly felt cold, shaky and I could suddenly feel my heart beating in my chest. It's like I suddenly aware of my own mortality and everyone I know, even though I was just sitting in front of a screen. And when Rickon suddenly takes an arrow to the back my heart just dropped. I felt sick. It's very, very rare to find moments in film that create not just an emotional reaction, but a physical reaction to those emotions.

Yes, more deep dives

Battle of the bastards was the episode that really got me into game of thrones.

I remember watching the show for the first time around its 2nd or 3rd season. I'll admit I thought it was a pretty good show even back then, but I hated fantasy as a kid I found it boring. Like lord of the rings the only entire one I ever watched was the first one, and then half of the second and that was it.

But I've watched all the GOT episodes this summer, and it's become one of my favorite shows.

Just waiting for season 7 to come onto iTunes though

It's been done to death, but I would love to see a video from you about the beach scene from Saving Private Ryan

Please do a video on "The spoils of war" as well.

I wonder if they'll do this for the Loot Train Attack, that scene was brilliant.

omg, i want to love anything as much as this guy loves cinema

Excellent except for the fact that Jon doesn't refrain from killing Ramsey becasue he wants to give that pleasure to Sansa. When Jon is beating Ramsey it is dark and brutal, showing that Jon has a more animalistic nature and is venting his fury on Ramsey. He is channelling his inner Wolf and just tearing his prey apart. When he sees Sansa he realizes that this isn't who he wants to be. Jon not only stops to spare a girl that brutal sight (something Eddard would have done) but also because he doesn't want to become another beast in Sansa's eyes. Just as Geoffrey and Ramsey were.

The whole battle was the best one I've ever seen in film or TV. Absolutely epic.

This video is longer than the battle itself

This episode had me holding my breath, shrieking in fear, and biting my nails in a way the show never had before. I felt so afraid for Jon because it felt like I was right there with him the whole time. Absolutely brilliant. I can't wait to see what kind of stuff season 7 has in store; can they top The Battle of the Bastards? 😱

You and New Rockstars should collaborate on a GoT breakdown would be so awesome.

War, war never changes

The first time I saw Bastard Bowl and Jon was beating Ramsey, I thought him seeing Sansa snapped him out of the rage. Sansa looked afraid of Jon, she wasn't watching what was happening to Ramsey. She was watching what her brother was doing to him. It looked like she was thinking, "Holy shit, Sandor was right about my brothers being killers."

That long take of Jon in the battle is probably the greatest battle scene Ive ever scene, does anyone have something they think that can top that? Im in the mood

When I was watching this episode for the first time and I saw the third arrow hit, I knew he wouldn't let him live but I was confused so that when the fourth arrow hit it actually caught me off guard anyways

the we need about kevin call was truly masterful…

The episode was so brutal. I thought The Mountain and the Viper was brutal but this took it to a whole new level.

Kind of makes one question how the makers of the show can set up such accomplished scenes and fail so completely and utterly at making the Equipment and tactics seem realistic.
Mostly, I was thinking that Jon was far more lucky than he deserved, for anyone of his side to even survive the battle.

Freakin' brilliant!

knowing this cinematography stuff it gives me more reasons to love good movies and shows. I appreciate it more cause of you guys!

I appreciate these breakdowns but is this really how directors think and construct scenes? that's incredible

what? sansa is dead??

Did anyone else love that the presence of a fucking Giant on Jon's side actually made a significant impact that was expressed?
Often we see that sort of thing and then theyre just taken out by something to remove them from the equation.
But Wun Wun is repeatedly shown completely fucking shit up and genuinely keeping the tide from being turned.

I hate to call a giant realistic, but if the situation hypothetically were real, I would imagine this would be the devastating effect such a creature or combatant would have on a fight. RIP Wun Wun.

yeah, delve into some of Breaking Bad's season 5 masterpieces.

yeah, delve into some of Breaking Bad's season 5 masterpieces.

How did the Vale army get past the Twins?

How did the Vale army (plus a logistics trail) get all the way to Winterfell without anybody (Boltons/Frey) noticing? Doesn’t Ramsay have any scouts? So, we’re supposed to believe that his ’20 good men’ are superheroes but when it comes to scouting, his men are completely incompetent?

How did that huge pile of bodies magically appear out of nowhere? A small pile, sure, but something resembling a mountain? It makes absolutely no sense. See the picture below. Are we supposed to believe that people kept climbing on the pile and then died? Not just once, but many times in a row? And all this happened off-camera? Even if this happened in front of a gate or wall (where it would begin to make sense), the pile wouldn’t be this big.

Why didn’t Sansa tell Jon about the Vale army? No explanation is given for why she would keep it a secret. Telling Jon wouldn’t change much, he still couldn’t depend on the Vale army so he would attack either way. At most, he would delay a bit more (which is a good thing).

Why does nobody seem to care that Jon came back from the dead?

Why is Jon completely incompetent at convincing people to fight for him (the Wildlings, Lyanna Mormont) and also completely incompetent as a field commander? We get several scenes establishing military strategy (‘we won’t let him catch us in a pincer maneouvre, we’ll make trenches’), only for Jon to mess it all up. Okay, this is not much of a plothole but how are we supposed to root for this guy? And why was he made king? It’s completely unearned.

Why was the ‘the North remembers’ theme dropped completely? Why didn’t either Karstark or Umber betray Ramsay during the battle? How did Ramsay get away so easily with killing Fat Walda and Roose? (a 30sec scene of the Freys letting the Vale army pass would fix two plotholes at once!)

How does Sansa know Ramsay’s dogs haven’t been fed in 7 days, when she rode off during the parlay before he could say that? Are we supposed to believe that Jon and Sansa talked about Ramsay’s dogs after the parlay? Sure, this is a very minor point, but combined with the rest the lack of consistency bothers me.

Why didn’t Ramsay try to kill Jon, while he had two chances to do so? (first, when Jon runs to Rickon’s body, second, when Ramsay shoots WunWun instead of Jon).

When Jon is beating up Ramsay, he stops because he sees that Sansa is watching him. How did she get there? It took maybe 2 minutes for WunWun to smash the gate and for Jon to rush in. Are we supposed to believe Sansa was in the vanguard?

How is it possible that there is snow everywhere when Stannis attacked Winterfell, but when Jon attacks there’s mostly grass and mud? And when we see the inside of Winterfell (after WunWun smashes the gate), suddenly there is snow again? Remember how Sansa survived jumping from Winterfell’s wall because of the huge pile of snow? What happened to that? It seems their artistic vision of a battle in the mud, a huge pile of bodies and Jon almost suffocating, took priority over everything else.

What was Jon’s army doing while Ramsay’s spearmen slowly surrounded them? Just chilling?

Why doesn’t Jon have any siege weapons? How did he plan on taking Winterfell?

Why doesn’t WunWun have a weapon (answer: because then the battle wouldn’t be so desperate for Jon’s side)? We’ve seen Giants use crossbows before and WunWun is their king. At least give him a tree and a door as a shield. He becomes 10x as effective with a weapon and shield.

Why does nobody care that Sansa withheld extremely important information? She is hailed as a hero while she got most of their army killed for no good reason.

Where was Ghost?

Why does nobody (in Jon’s army) have helmets? For the main characters, this is acceptable because they have to be recognisable, but what about the extras? It’s not as if a helmet is particularly difficult to craft. There is also a severe lack of shields and polearms, for that matter.

Why did Ramsay let his archers fire at his own cavalry, when it was previously established that Ramsay’s cavalry was (numerically) superior to Jon’s, so they were most likely winning already?

Why doesn’t Davos relocate his archers (e.g. to fire at Ramsay’s archers) and instead joins the melee almost immediately?

Why does Jon have insane plot armor and basically becomes Aragorn from LotR? Wasn’t GRRM trying to get rid of these fantasy cliches in his books?

Where were the Manderlys? Why couldn’t Jon wait a bit longer and recruit more men? It’s not as if the snow was a problem (see previous point about snow).

LOVE your deep dives into single scenes!

absolutely incredible

I always thought that Ramsay only ever shot 3 arrows and they just didn't show the second one missing until after the third one was shot, or maybe I missed something, or maybe I'm just strait wrong.