GAME OF THRONES 5x5 & 5x6 REVIEW – PROTECT SANSA AT ALL COSTS!! – FIRST TIME WATCH – REVIEW

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Oh my god!

What's got wrenching?

Oh my god!

I want a frickin' kill him.

I want a frickin' kill him.

Oh boy.

Dude, I can't.

That makes me so upset.

I legit can't right now.

Like, I'm really...

That makes me...

It just makes me so mad because he's such...

It's good writing, but he's such an evil...

That I can't hold it...

Like, I literally am like,

if we don't get on screen a really good vengeance

where he frickin' dies

in a really terrible way,

I'm gonna be really upset.

That's how I feel right now.

Go ahead, Andrew.

Give some quick thoughts,

and then we'll get into questions,

and then we'll go back and forth.

Well, Tara, how do you feel about Ramsey?

It's what I wanted.

Yeah, two really solid episodes again.

Yeah.

First of all, I love the...

I think my favorite part was...

I mean, I loved everything,

but I think one of my favorite interactions was Lady O'Lena,

which I'm so glad to have her back on.

I really missed her, honestly.

Yes.

5, 6, 7 episodes, however long it's been since she was last on.

But that interaction with her and Cersei,

because Cersei has really adapted to the game

that, you know, O'Lena and Marjorie are playing.

Right.

And, you know, to see that interaction

where she's like, you're not even really writing anything now.

Direct the really being,

where she actually says what she's really thinking,

whereas Cersei is playing the Marjorie game

of having a facade and having subtext

to a lot of her dialogue.

It was just one of my favorite interactions.

So, and I think one of my other favorite interactions

throughout the entire season,

too, was Lord Tywin and Lady O'Lena.

So, it seems to always be a scene with Lady O'Lena,

as well as usually one of my favorite scenes.

What do you think the worst one was out of these two?

Like, that made you mad.

Oh, it's the last scene.

That, I mean, just Ramsey, just...

He's a great...

Whoever that actor is,

he's really good at just getting under your skin as a viewer

and also getting under the skin of characters we care about, too,

clearly, because...

I mean, Sansa has really grown on me, too,

since the very beginning.

And, you know, if she was going to lose her virginity,

I wanted it to be with someone that she really

was attached to and cared for,

not in this sadistic, vindictive, disgusting way.

Yeah.

And, you know, I feel so awful

that that's who she had to lose it, too.

But I understand the long game she's playing

even balish, too.

This, this dude is such a crazy MF

when it comes to the strategies in which he always plays that,

because, you know, now he made a deal with Cersei

where he's going to be ruler of the North,

but she's only...

Sees it from the point of view vantage of...

But Cersei's got to be...

It's kind of like with, you know,

Sir Ned Stark, where it's got to be a head on a stick or whatever.

So I'm curious how that's all going to unravel in the end.

But, sorry, I know you said quick thoughts.

Great two episodes. What do you think?

So you did, you liked them both.

And, like, yeah, the favorites that we did both,

like, Lady O's stuff, which was a lot of fun.

And they did spend a lot of time,

which we both know.

We both love Tyrion so much.

And so it's cool that we got to see that relationship

between Tyrion and Jura.

And now I'm wondering about the frickin' the pits.

Like, the Gladiator pits, the fact that,

thank God Tyrion was there, and he's got a mouth.

He can talk his way out of so many things.

And he talked, it's obviously Jura into the pits

of being like, this is the best one of the best Gladiators he knows.

But what a shocker with Daenerys saying,

she's going to marry that guy, right?

Yeah.

Like, that's, that is a thing that I, you could tell,

she hates it, she has to do it.

But she's gonna do it anyway,

because like, they, like, what's his not,

so it's reading the letter, being like,

she refuses to leave,

unless she gives freedom to the people.

And I think that's, that's great.

You know, like, I think it's great,

but also it's a little dangerous.

Right, well, it's kind of like,

just what we're seeing also with Jon Snow,

when you're a leader, you got to make really hard decisions.

Yes.

So I think that's that, that theme around leadership.

Yeah, because like, do you think that,

like, that Jon Snow, I feel like Jon Snow

is obviously going to be the best Lord Commander

of the Night's Watch ever.

But right now, do we feel like he can really get the Wildlings?

He's going to have to leave.

I mean, it's going to be fascinating to watch for sure.

I think if anyone, I mean, we talk about how Tyrion is so

quick-witted and how he uses, you know,

his intellect in order to get out of sticky situations.

I think Jon Snow is also one of those type of people

where, you know, he really, he,

whenever he talks, he's got a high level of intellect too

and he's really good with, you know,

making people have an understanding of perspective

and even when they don't see that reason for cause at first.

So hopefully, I mean, he, look, he was one of those Wildlings.

I know right now they're probably at a point

where they see him more as a traitor than one for their cause,

but I think he's going to have to make them understand,

like, look, either you follow me and come this way and live here

or you die in the winter and the white walkers

are going to get you, you know, which way do you want to choose?

Yeah.

So, you know, as long as he, I believe,

as long as he, you know, convinces them in that way.

Right.

And also, yes, our God.

Well, I was just going to ask you,

do you believe Baylish?

What side is it on?

What side is the little finger on?

I never know with that guy.

I mean, he always is just conniving his way

to in strategic ways.

I think he just wants to rule the North at the end of the day,

right?

So I don't, I mean, I know he was always in love

with Catlin Stark, that I do know.

I don't know if he really does care about Sansa.

I think she's just a means to an end.

Yeah.

So if she has to die, and that means he has to rule the North,

so be it, he can find another woman.

But who knows, I could be wrong.

Maybe, what we'll see, I just, they always have me on my toes

when it comes to Baylish.

But when it comes to, to Jor, I'm really concerned now

that he has the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the mark.

So I know that Stanis already has found a cure for his daughter.

And, but that was Stanis and we are not interacting.

We're not interacting with Stanis.

So right now time is an obstacle.

And Jora is a character that we are very heavily invested in.

And as we have mentioned time and time and time again,

and we will mention time and time and time again,

no one on this show is ever safe, ever.

Yeah.

So I'm anxious to see what happens,

how we get a resolving from that.

And also to the whole thing that's happening with Arya

and the, the how the faceless men, the faceless gods and all that.

That's a very, another fascinating development as well,

just seeing her as she was comforting that little girl

and, you know, feeding her some stuff to, again,

just to comfort her to prepare,

whereas like before she might have said something different,

but that, I think that showed Joaquin or Joaquin,

I would be say his name.

I think that was showing him that she's slightly getting,

getting to that level of ready to, to not become no one,

but to become at least a faceless.

So yeah, she's shedding her old self.

That she's grown.

Yeah, for sure.

Like what are the heads doing in there?

Like I'm just like, why are there so many?

That's a, the mission of possible faces.

That's a mission of possible things,

but it's just like, God, this is, that's crazy, dude.

That's so many heads up in there that you could use.

You could just be anybody and get your way into anywhere.

And one of my favorite shots in these two episodes was,

is it Drakone?

Is that, do you say the dragon's name?

Yeah.

Tyrion's name?

Or, yeah, they both saw him, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I mean, the dragons have to obviously,

are going to play a big part at some point

by the end of the season.

So I can't wait till that happens.

Hopefully she's tame them by then,

and they're listening to her.

So yeah, I'm just, I'm anxious as well to see that.

I have to see.

Yeah, so this, so, and that,

that also that shot of her feeding,

of them, you know, blowing fire onto that.

And then feasting on them, ripping them apart.

That was freaking gnarly, dude.

That was insane.

It was pretty cool.

That was a great effect for sure.

Cause I think they blended a little bit of practical

and CGI, which is my favorite type of way to do those kinds of effects,

but I was freaking crazy.

I loved it so much.

Dude, I mean, right now though,

also Queen Marjorie and Loris are in jail.

They're locked up.

I don't know what you're going to do there.

I don't know how we get out of this

because that guy, the lead pre-sky is so savage about like God,

that he's like, you lied,

you lied about your brother,

your brother's a pillow bider.

Like, I'm like, oh God, are they going to like kill him?

What do they do?

The only thing I could see possibly happening

is Lady Olena having a talk with Tomin and saying,

dude, you need to grow parables.

I know.

And do some damage on these.

Your wife is like, do you want to get you know,

do you want to have some good times in your bed?

Then free my granddaughter, free your wife, you know.

She would have to sneak in to King Tomin

and find him somewhere because we know Cersei

won't let her get near her son.

And I'm like, Tomin didn't even say anything.

I he literally just looked at his mom,

his mom sat there and smiled.

And I was like, I hate like literally all of this.

I'm not agreeing with what he did,

but it resonates with me because I'm not

the most confrontational human being.

And so I can understand where he's coming from

at the same point when your wife and brother

and law are being dragged off.

And do you have the power to do something?

Do something.

Yeah, maybe do something.

I mean, here's what I would do.

If I didn't do something right then,

I would be like, I'm going to play it cool

because now I need time to come up with a plan.

I mean, yeah, that's what he's,

if that's the long game he's playing.

That's not what Tomin is.

Yeah.

That's what I would do.

Right, right.

Tomin just sitting there going, mommy, what do I do?

I mean, at the end of the day again, he's just a young kid.

Yeah.

And he's in way over his head.

And he's got a crazy cuckoo fricking bananas, mom, dude.

Yeah, yeah.

All right, Care Bear says hi to us.

And she says the Game of Thrones actors

often had to film in some pretty tough locations.

Icelandic glaciers, Moroccan deserts, and Belfast

are aimed, but the visuals are unlike anything in TV.

Today, many shows have switched using tech

like the volume to create backdrops.

If you were on a production, would you

choose to create your conference of new tech

or tough it out to be on location?

I understand the desire to want to do

creature comforts of new tech, for sure.

It makes it, I mean, you got to,

it definitely makes it a lot easier on the actors,

but there's something authentic about being tough on location.

For me as an audience member, it feels

more authentic and real, and I just appreciate it.

And more, it's kind of like Tom Cruise

when he does these dangerous stunts.

And God forbid, I hope nothing ever happens

because I appreciate and love him so much.

But there's something genuine when it feels more real

when they're on location, because there's a lot of times

where terror myself will say when we're watching them

on screen, like, it looks really cold there.

You can see that the smoke coming out of their mouths

because it looks like it's freezing on that scene,

or you can see the rain coming down whatever,

or the Moroccan deserts.

Like, I appreciate that authenticity.

So I personally would prefer when they're

toughening you know, it on location,

but I understand when you don't want to do that,

and you probably have to, and you do the blue screens

and all that, it makes life a little bit easier,

but it also kind of takes me out of, you know,

what we're watching a little bit, but that's just me.

The thing is, Care Bear, if I had an unlimited budget,

then I would tough it out on location.

What we are not going to see anymore, sadly,

we'll only see it with big budgets,

like people who've been making films for a while,

and they want the realistic thing,

because you can feel it.

Those are what, you have to have a big budget for that,

for smaller stuff, the reason why it's CGI,

and you know, the creature conference of new tech

is just because it's less expensive, sure,

it's easier to get it done,

because you can have tons of people on one green sink room

and make them place them wherever you want.

So it's easier to get it done, but there are some films,

like before everything became a lot focused on CGI and AI,

we're kind of in the world of AI now,

but if you think about like, even Harry Potter,

you work with a mixture of real life,

practical car in a tree, but you're in a green sink room

so that the background, mostly,

yes, of what you see fully on screen as CGI,

but the rest of it where they are,

what they feel is practical.

I'm okay with that stuff.

I hope we don't lose it, but we are getting to a point

where you can really just set an actor down in a chair

and build a car around them and change their outfit

within a second, and not have them actually have to change

their makeup or their hair or their outfit or change

where they are.

And that is, it's a little scary, which is why,

as of, I mean, I don't know when this will come out,

but as of like Wednesday, January 28th,

SAG is still like, hey, we still kind of don't want AI

and they're kind of like, we could strike though.

So they're on and off of like,

there could be a strike to say like,

you kind of have to listen up

because there has to be regulations, so we'll see.

That was a long answer, but there you go.

Well put.

Jay Rochkin, he's asking you

with Miranda the River and the show,

the way they mock Sansa before the wedding.

I mean, look, she's definitely a character

that gets a little bit under your skin for sure.

And I think she's be perfect for Ramsey,

but I'd say right now, Cersei Ramsey, Bolton,

those are Ramsey's father, either.

I think those are right now the actual villains,

right now especially Ramsey.

A man is so vindictive and so sadistic

and he just makes you want to punch through the screen

and hit him, but he's a great actor too

because he's, you know, it's kind of like Joffrey,

you know, they're listening

those type of reactions out of us,

which is the point, they're not supposed to be liked.

So I wouldn't call Miranda the villain of the show,

per se, like just her by herself.

I would say she's an antagonist for sure,

but I would say also those other characters

right now that, but yeah, right.

Yeah, I would say, you know, I agree with what Andrew was saying,

but I'm like, she didn't get to fully mock Sansa

because Sansa turned around and clapped back.

Which was great.

And she had with Nootah's Hell in a bathtub,

which is awkward.

It makes you feel very vulnerable

and she was like, bitch, don't come for me right now.

It was basically what the subtext was.

So I really like that.

I do think that, you know,

because she likes Ramsey so much,

but then we got to see her Miranda specifically

in a vulnerable place with Ramsey,

where he's being a total prick to her,

of being like, don't worry after I'm done with Sansa,

like I'll still, you'll be around, right?

Like, and you're just like, oh, he's the worst.

So we're feeling the brunt of what she has to deal with

and she'd like loves the guy.

So that sucks.

And we're dealing with like her jealousy, all of that juice.

It makes her not as villain-esque, right?

Because right now Ramsey is not a human to me.

Miranda is a little bit more of a human

only because we got the scene

where there's jealousy coming up,

which is a real human emotion.

And Ramsey is just Kuku bananas up here.

I know she is too.

They're made for each other.

They're both so psychopaths,

but still you kind of get what I'm saying,

where I'm like, oh, they set it up nicely,

where we got to see Miranda in a vulnerable position.

So it's like when she mocks Sansa, we hate her,

but we don't hate her as much as Ramsey.

So I really do think like, real villain right now is Ramsey.

And just like after seeing this episode,

I wanna freaking kill him.

And if I don't get, if somebody doesn't kill him

by the time this whole show ends,

like they would never write that.

They would never write a villain like that

and have him get away with stuff.

He's just been on here so long that I'm like,

oh, bro, like you got it coming.

Like, I just said that reference.

I would also say Walter Frey as well,

even though we haven't seen him in a while.

I'm trying to think.

Who else do you think?

I'm trying to think who else?

Who do you think the hero is?

Oh, I would also say too,

the religious cold people.

Oh, the Golden Harpy people?

Yeah, the, the John, like the religious cold.

Yeah, I would say they're pretty whack-a-do crazy right now.

They are.

They are.

Who do you think the heroes are of these two episodes?

Oh, I would go definitely Terry and Jorah.

I would also say Sansa.

I would say, yeah, John Snow, of course.

I would say Baylish is also an antagonist as well,

because he's always, he's a very selfish human being.

He's always looking out for himself.

Yeah.

And he's keeping us on our toes

because we really don't know where he's going to go.

Never, never, but he's always, like I said,

he's always looking out for himself at the end of the day.

Yeah, but I really believe that he was like looking out for Sansa

and that's why I lost my mind when he goes into Cersei

and he says all the juice and I'm like, wait, okay.

This might have been his plan the entire time,

but right now I don't know, and that makes me scared.

Right.

Like, he's the worst.

He's terrible.

Okay, do you have any last thoughts for the people?

Andrew.

No, I'm just excited to see what is going to happen.

The next, I guess, four episodes to finish the season.

I can't wait hopefully for the dragons to be tamed.

And yeah, see what happens.

Yeah, we'll see, man.

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