GOT S5E4-5 FULL REACTION
Added 2023-04-12 05:41:34 +0000 UTCComments
Nobody likes Ramsey Bolton.....nobody.
Nicholas Johnson
2023-08-14 17:56:12 +0000 UTCMr Boyd, the next few episodes left this into Season 5 are great. But Season 6 is greater!!! Stay tuned! Can't wait for this week's two reactions. It's getting spicy and we think you'll be further intrigued!
PatronPioneer
2023-04-16 17:07:14 +0000 UTC@47:45 Sons of the Harpy are a grassroots, salt-of-the-earth, guerrilla warfare cult. They can attack and pick at a smaller band of Unsullied, then disappear without a trace - much akin to Hannibal of Carthage against the Romans. Their whole shtick is hiding among the people and *being* the people - which means, unfortunately for the Unsullied, that they are the antithesis for an invading force. The Unsullied are excellent warriors and warfighters - they aren't trained police, and they have next to zero people-reading, empathy-reliant skills. Think about what just happened, and what we've seen so far! The Unsullied couldn't find people that were hiding in the most basic of hiding places a few episodes ago. They have eternally been horrendous at reading a room, or at using any kind of cunning and wit. They don't place any value on their own lives. They don't trust anybody, but they have never been taught to take that distrust and make any executive decisions; when the woman was crying and pointing at where she said the Sons of the Harpy went, they took her at her word and never assumed to even entertain the thought that maybe she was lying and they were headed into an ambush. There is a lot of crap that I will give them, but I will give it to the show writers in that they nailed, "Show, don't tell.", when it comes to the character of the Unsullied as a whole.
Phill Millennial
2023-04-14 03:03:45 +0000 UTCJust wait till you finish the series, and come revisit this moment, this transition... I figured out of through context clues further into the series than now, but I also didn't know enough about cinematography to pick up the more subtle clue like you. My art lies in the story telling, where as yours seems to be with how the story is told. I asked my kids and family all the time but guessing endings about a quarter of the way through. I'm starting to see the same trait in you as we watch more movies and such together. As always, great reaction. Love the details you pick up on that went unnoticed when u watched this by myself. Showed me how much more heat the writing and directing were.
Shawn Leaf
2023-04-13 06:40:47 +0000 UTCThat makes sense
Lenear Boyd
2023-04-13 06:18:05 +0000 UTCI think the unsullied were more easily taken out because the other people know the area and used stealth and numbers to force the unsullied into managable battles and slowly gnaw at their ranks. Kind of like a flash mob. They can hide in plain sight and then ambush at a predetermined time and place.
Jay Owin
2023-04-13 05:54:15 +0000 UTCOh bro you can't even imagine! because the cliffhangers in most of the episodes are CRAZY so I was itching for the next episode every time
Billy
2023-04-13 04:51:23 +0000 UTCAppreciate your words. I can't imagine having to wait a week or a year for the next episode
Lenear Boyd
2023-04-13 04:32:30 +0000 UTCIt's so interesting watching this show with someone who is incredibly open minded in the way the story is taking them. What I've learned is that you do not make predictions, you immerse yourself in every minute you're watching. That is definitely how this show should be consumed. Watching it as it was released from the start really messed with my head because all I could think about was the next episode and what we could potentially see
Billy
2023-04-13 03:50:25 +0000 UTCCan't help it. My Asperger's makes me focus a lot on details and 90% of the time is completely useless but I'll still remember
Lenear Boyd
2023-04-13 01:47:36 +0000 UTCMy goodness, you are very perceptive, aren’t you?
Maggie Jordan
2023-04-13 01:32:41 +0000 UTCno se
Slimsycentaur37
2023-04-13 01:25:42 +0000 UTCi appreciate that so much! just don’t want to annoy anyone :)
kallista
2023-04-13 00:36:58 +0000 UTCI like long comments, I particularly enjoy reading all the thoughts and the explanations you guys give me.
Lenear Boyd
2023-04-13 00:35:01 +0000 UTCso sorry for the long comment but sometimes i have a lot to say!
kallista
2023-04-13 00:04:12 +0000 UTCthat scene with stannis and shireen almost makes me cry. so the sand snake that ran up to ellaria and embraced her was her and oberyn’s daughter, but the other two (nymeria and obara) are oberyn’s children with other women! it’s not clarified well in the show. i hate that barristan and the unsullied were taken out so easily too. i understand daenerys doing that to the masters and the great families. it was one man that in all reality probably did have something to do with it. i understand that they are men, but they were also slavers. i don’t care what happens to slavers personally. most of the time i agree with her actions even now, but i didn’t agree with her executing that man that killed the son of the harpy without her leave a few episodes ago. i understand that just as i do now except i think she was right in this i feel no sympathy for that man. i love that you smiled at stannis correcting bowen marsh by saying “fewer” instead of “less.” it’s super funny to me. it’s really hard to not feel bad for theon during the dinner scene. the story about how ramsay was conceived is AWFUL. roose did this bc he wanted to claim “the lords right to the first night” which gives their lord a common woman’s maidenhead before her new husband can claim it. this was banned but obviously roose does not care. no wonder ramsay is so fucked up. i like ramsay bolton because he is actually interesting unlike joffrey and the actor does such an outstanding job. i also LOVE lady walda frey-bolton, can’t explain it but i do. it’s winter because they are super up north, the north even gets snow in summer!
kallista
2023-04-13 00:03:04 +0000 UTCNow that you’re more familiar with Tyrion, look back to the James Bond/Austin Powers ERB and one of the Connery Bond lines will shine in a new light lol. “I’m an extraordinary gentleman, I’m distinguished. If they want a mini me, they’ll have to cast Peter Dinklage.” That line was specifically about this character
David Nettles
2023-04-12 23:17:02 +0000 UTCI've realized that the transitions are not at random. It made me think a lot because: are they trying to tell me something?
Lenear Boyd
2023-04-12 16:23:10 +0000 UTCThat made me chuckle
Lenear Boyd
2023-04-12 16:20:20 +0000 UTCHe was clearly talking about the camerawork of that scene
Slimsycentaur37
2023-04-12 13:17:47 +0000 UTCHe's clearly talking about the camerawork of that scene with Master Aemon, Jon, and Sam
Slimsycentaur37
2023-04-12 13:13:31 +0000 UTCSo the doom was absolutely the culmination of 14 volcanoes erupting at once. The valyrians used blood and fire magic to keep the volcanoes at bay and to keep them from erupting as they mined them. The theory is that the faceless men were hired by the slaves to kill the mages which in turn caused the volcanoes to erupt. Bravos was created by former slaves of old valyria long b4 doom. There is several theories that cersi and jamie are actually the mad kings children and until we get the rest of the books we will never know but in the books Cersi is often referred to in similar terms as the mad king and when lannisters are described they always have emerald eyes but cersi I referred as green as wildfire. Cersi is absolutely insane and runs off of pure emotion. She gets mad or scared and she retaliates not thinking about the consequences believing she is untouchable as queen. And when it comes to varys and littlefinger littlefinger absolutely has more power than varys everything that has happened in this show was started by littlefinger. Him and lyza killed her husband and blamed it on the lannisters starting a war between the lannisters and starks he married lyza and got control of the vail. His main goal has always been to get the throne and he knows what he needs to do to try and make that possible and will do anything to achieve it. Varys has his spies yes but that's all they are is spies littlefinger has actual power not to mention he can still father children which already makes him more powerful than varys by westerosie tradition. Greyscale is passed by direct contact with the infected area or in the princesses case a doll so no jorrah is not extremely contagious just that particular spot on his arm is, and what happens is it slowly tlcovers the entire body and eventually into the brain which causes them to go mad like the stone men seen in this episode. If u are ever confused by the lore there are several videos that explain the lore season by season so it doesn't spoil upcoming seasons and episodes.
Convulsion Gaming
2023-04-12 11:26:58 +0000 UTCThe Stanis amd Shireen scene gets me every time. That guy really loved his daughter. Her Grey scale was cured but that is rare and most everyone who gets it ends up like the stone men. Tommen is really a wuss. I hate Geoffery and didn't like Tywin too much but if either one were around those sparrows wouldn't have lasted a day. Jon is such a great leader forsure as he is willing to make the tough choices no one else would. Just like his dad he will do what's right no matter what. Sansa is screwed right now. Trapped with a bunch of psychos. I love your take on Danny. She is very unreasonable and rash. She doesn't think things through very well. Tyrion and Jorah are yet another hilarious unlikely duo.
Drewcliff82
2023-04-12 08:37:05 +0000 UTCYou’re asking all the right questions in this last episode. And yes between sparrows, sons of the harpy, red woman and faceless god there is a lot of zealotry / cultism in this season.
Brandon Tracy-Hurst
2023-04-12 08:28:37 +0000 UTCHere we see once again Cersai's key flaw, she thinks she's much smarter than she actually is. She's also narrow-minded, she can't possibly fathom the mind of the devout so she can't see how this might come to bite her in the ass. Finally Jaime realizes his right arm still exists in a fight. The Unsullied are past masters in warfare. This is not warfare, this is the kind of fighting that a nobleman trained in dueling as a hobby might excel at. This we see is part of Daenerys's lack of experience, trying to press open-field soldiers into use as policemen. Daenerys... Daenerys... Daenerys... She's courageous, intelligent, and of high moral character. She's also inexperienced, closed-minded and inflexible. These are dangerous combinations. I think those dragonglass 'daggers' may have actually been spearheads, they just need to be fitted to a haft. Back when we first encountered the army of the dead they lit a Wight (the in-universe name for these zombies) on fire that was going for Sam, and it stopped moving far too quickly, like it stopped before being burned could've destroyed enough of the body to end it's ability to move. This suggests 'Magic' is involved, and fire is seen as an instrument of cleansing and purification in many mythologies. Could be there's some similar aspect to Dragonglass... among other things. 'Winter is Coming': In the world where Game of Thrones is set 'Winter' and 'Summer' aren't seasons as we know them. They have the usual spring-summer-autumn-winter... but 'winter' is not 'Winter', which is more like an Ice Age, which this world sees repeatedly on a close enough schedule that living memory of the previous 'Winter' has not passed from the world by the time the next capital-W 'Winter' comes around. It's been suggested that 'The Doom of Valyria' was a volcano erupting near or possibly IN the city of Old Valyria. I... really don't see what was so weird with master Aemon. Did you forget that Maester Aemon was once Aemon Targaryan before he took his vows of the Night Watch? As for Rhaegar Targaryan. The stories say he stole Lyanna Stark and forced himself upon her. The stories say... and this justified Robert's Rebellion. But the only witnesses to the act itself were Rhaegar and Lyanna, and they're both long dead.
Molly McAllister
2023-04-12 08:11:07 +0000 UTCI'm not sure exactly what you were confused about with the Maester Aemon stuff but he is related to Danerys so he is speaking to the fact that he is now a member of the nights watch where he once was in line to the Iron Throne and Dany now seeking power is a member of his family that he left behind. He has regrets but also knows that saving humanity from the white walkers is more important than the "game of thrones" as it were.
Ashley
2023-04-12 07:56:04 +0000 UTCRemember Maester Aemon is a Targaryen. He revealed that in S1E9 to Jon.
James Wall
2023-04-12 07:43:47 +0000 UTCNah. Not this time, Boyd. I've got to work for at least 13 hours tomorrow and you will not tempt me with your Iberian sorcery.
Nick Chevalier
2023-04-12 05:44:31 +0000 UTCI was just busy watching you react to ERB on YouTube, but I can get back to that once I'm done watching this lol.
Christopher Wichman
2023-04-12 05:42:53 +0000 UTC
