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This video looks at how Game of Thrones—and the Battle of the Bastards episode in particular—evokes such strong emotions in its audience by making sure every scene has a compelling value transition.

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  3. Thank you for this. I was just going to watch this while I take the dump before going back to my room and binge watch breaking bad. Instead here I'm with my notebook out, taking notes and inspired to write a scene following what I've just learnt

  8. i love all your critiques they're so detailed out and made me to watch the movie again.
    could you analyse Vikings i'd like to hear more content of the story telling, the scene and also the depth of characters. i'm very much intrigued what you could possibly come up with.

  17. This doesn't alter the point being made, but… it WAS the third arrow that killed Rickon. It was the second arrow that missed shortly before the climax; Ramsay evidently fired the third arrow while the second was still in the air.

  19. Dude I freakin love your videos. I've learned so much from you already. I couldn't find how to direct message you so I'll ask here. I'm working on a few scripts, still deciding which idea I want to focus on, and I'm having trouble of the process of writing. How do I get started from just an idea of a plot and shots to breaking it down into acts, then scenes and dialogue? What book do you recommend for someone to learn the basics of writing. I trust your input because you've proven that you understand and have talent and skill.

    P.S. please tell me you're writing your own screen plays and are planning to turn them into films one day. Hearing you talk about these topics makes me want to be a part of one of your stories as an actor because I know you'll be creating incredible work.

  29. And one season later no one is at the edge of their seats because every "good" main character that lives without a worry, only non true villains and minor side chars get the axe.
    Watching this video now made me sad, rather, sadder at s7

  30. Forgive me, season 6 did NOT evoke proper emotion. It may have done so only for casual GoT viewers (of which I think you are one). The show writers pretended to carry-on GRRM's unpredictability, but their pretense was entirely obvious. All the main characters suddenly had plot armor which they did not before. And D&D completely forgot the underlying theme of what GoT is, at its core. The scenes you mention, of Jon and Sansa's conversations, of Arya's Terminator performance, of Tyrion's time in Mereen, and of Rickon's death are badly written, contain out of character characters, and expose the showrunners' inability to think beyond the regular film tropes. The very fact that its scenes can be explained so simply using the four elements of desire, action, conflict and change; and that it can be compared to Saving Private Ryan is the defeat of GoT – not its victory.

  32. I don't know how you viewed BotB, but I didn't think for a second that Rickon would get out alive. He literally had no character to care about and the last time we saw him was whne he was being handed over to Ramsay. Likewise, I knew that Jon wouldn't die, and the continued incredulous plot armour of him simply reaffirmed this belief. That the Vale army came in from behind was also just me sitting and waiting for the battle to "desperate" enough for the Vale to come in and win it.

    The BotB was a simple fight of a pure good army against a pure evil army, and that is why I knew deep down that the good side would win. Because it made cinematical sense. In the Battle of the Blackwater, you knew and cared about people on both sides of the battle, so you didn't really want either of them to lose. Likewise, the Wall battle also had liked characters on both sides, and you could understand the motivations behind the Wildlings.

  36. The Battle of the Bastards made me care for a character that not only I never cared about, but that I had always found extremely annoying and useless. Yes Rickon was one of the heirs to the title of Warden of the North, Lord Stark of Winterfell, but I always found him annoying and expected him to die early to end all the scenes I had to watch with him. When it came to the Battle of the Bastards, I thought Ramsay would show Rickon's body with Shaggydog's head, like they did to Rob, or that he'd just show Rickon's head, to get Jon mad. I would actually not care about it. But Rickon was shown alive, and I was like "oh, ok then". Then he started running, and even though I knew the first shot was meant to threaten, I thought the second would kill him, because it would be unexpected, and I would not care anyway. But then the second shot missed, and the third shot too, and I got genuinely pumped about a character I never liked and cared about. I thought Jon would actually save Rickon, which would foreshadow Jon's triumph in the battle, and saving the only legitimate heir to Winterfell. When Rickon died with the fourth shot I actually got shocked, and when his dead body got volley'd I did feel compassion. Despite everything that went wrong with GoT after season 5, this was definitely a spectacular moment.

  37. season 7 spoilers

    I’m sure people noticed but they really got us again with Tormund potentially dying in the second to last episode of the season. He was talking about how he liked Brienne and wanted to make babies with her, then late in the episode when he was very close to getting killed, I thought back to the earlier dialogue and it made me even more certain he was going to die. And yet he didn’t. Brilliant.

  44. And when Jon snow can just slice through 3 layers of armor like a hot knife through butter with the mere flick of his wrist, which is EXACTLY what armor is designed to STOP, and the ONLY people he can kill are those who just stand there open, letting him, it completely ruins any emotional investment I have in the scene, and I just see a horrifically choreographed… product.

  47. They should have watched the video. Season 7 missed emotion (OK, I still enjoyed it, but damn, make us believe that our theories (we already know they are true) were wrongs, motherfuckers!)

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