Whats going on guys, Carmine here and today we'll be taking a look at the brand new Game
of Thrones Trailer from HBO.
This is the second trailer for season 7 and we got a couple of new footage from it.
Some of the scenes I'll be skipping because they were re-used from the first trailer.
We'll also be discussing the second trailer on the next episode of the Game of Thrones
Podcast which will be Aftershow episode 3 so look forward to that.
Also leave your comments and questions below for a follow up Q&A video to the second trailer.
Lets get to it.
The first scene we get in the trailer is of Sansa, still in Winterfell with the weirwood
behind here while Petyr Baelish tells her not to fight in the north or the south but
to fight every battle, everywhere.
I like that, even now, Baelish is still counseling Sansa.
There have been rumors that he doesn't survive past this season which is a shame, if true,
because he has always been the guide that Sansa has needed in her life to get her through
things.
But I do like that even in season 7 he'll be scheming and trying to control things.
Sansa on the other hand is who I'll be focusing on because, when everything is said and done,
I feel like she'll be the very last Stark.
Jon, Bran and Arya are all going to be participating in the final battle with Sansa, once again,
on the sidelines which is fine.
Even if they all go down she'll be the last stark left, which would be disappointing but
deserved.
Sansa has never really been at the forefront of House Stark and after everything shes been
through and learned, it'll be good to see her with some power, kicking ass and taking
names.
Next up we have a scene beyond the wall, it looks like Bran and Meera are entering Castle
Black.
You can tell its them because she has to keep dragging him on that sled.
Now Meera has been an interesting character for me and there have been rumors that once
she leaves Bran off at Winterfell, that we won't see her til season 8 which is fine but
I was hoping for a kind of Bran and Meera relationship thing going on but I understand
why its not.
Bran is still suppose to be like...12 or 13.
Keep in mind that its only been 3 years since season 1 so he is suppose to be a little kid
but puberty hit this guy look a ton of bricks.
I swear, last season, I saw some chest hair and a mustache.
But I will miss Meera, even though she doesn't do too much and isn't as beloved as Hodor
but she does add something to Bran's group but once again, I get why she has to go.
Bran is going back to Winterfell and all the Starks are converging yet again so Bran doesn't
really need his own group.
Hopefully she does show back up next season with some soldiers from House Reed to back
up everybody else.
Next up we get a quick shot of King's Landing and it looks like they're fully embracing
the Lannisters with some banners all over the city.
Some of us already know who it is the gold cloaks are escorting through the city but
for those of you who don't then I won't say it here.
After that we cut back to Dany over at Dragonstone.
In the first trailer I thought that she was using Stannis' war room table as her own but
it looks like when Stannis left Dragonstone he left behind a lot of his own things, including
the little map markers and even his own banner which she takes down.
I will say I'm still mad that Dany doesn't have her own red priestess,
which we saw last season in the form of Kinvara.
If you recall, Kinvara is the one who spoke to Tyrion in Mereen and spooked Varys a little
in their first meeting.
I really wanted Dany to have her own red priestess like Stannis and not be swayed so easily like
he was.
I want that as a contrast between those two.
Like....for 5 seasons Stannis has been persuaded to accept the Lord of Light's ways and we've
seen that and then we get Dany and she is having none of that crap.
It would've been nice and who knows maybe we'll get it because in the last trailer we
saw Melisandre back on Dragonstone for some reason.
We also get some nice shots of the dragons flying towards dragonstone and Greyworm heading
towards some cave.
Now this could be the same cave that Melisandre and Davos used to have Renly killed.
If that is the case then maybe I'll get my wish after all and Dany will be taking Storm's
End.
As a Baratheon fan I'm excited for this because we'll finally see what Storm's End looks like
and you guys know me, I'm a sucker for awesome locations and cool buildings.
But if this turned out to be Casterly Rock, the Lannister main castle, I'd be just as
happy.
Tyrion was in charge of the sewers at Casterly Rock when he and his father still lived there
so its possible that he knows some secret entrance way into the castle.
So this could also be Castely Rock that the Unsullied are sneaking into.
Who knows, either way I'm excited.
Then we get another shot of Podrick and Captain Phasma.
I wasn't a big fan of Brienne for the past two seasons, mainly because she has been kinda
sidelined a bit but that's to be expected.
She's in Star Wars now and she is very busy....you know....being in Star Wars for less than 3
minutes.
Reeaaal busy.
Seriously though Brienne hasn't done anything cool since the beginning of season 5 when
she beat up those Knights of the Vale.
Hopefully she, and Podrick, will be doing more but I that is highly unlikely.
Brienne's goal is to be Sansa's protector and errand girl.
I doubt we'll be seeing Brienne do much other than interacting with Tormund and Arya.
I do hope we get a Hound reunion though.
That'd be cool.
You know between Brienne, Arya and the Hound.
That'd be sweet.
And speaking of the Hound, if you blink you'll miss it.
He appears VERY briefly in the trailer twice.
Once in the snow and once in a sunny location not wearing a coat.
Its possible that this is during a King's Landing scene because we do see a Lannister
soldier in the background in a ruins.
So....possibly the dragon pit in King's Landing which use to be a thing back during Targaryen
rule but is now in ruins of course.
But wait a minute...if the Hound is in King's Landing....does that mean we'll finally be
getting Cleganebowl?
ooooh shiiiit.
Get hyped.
No seriously that would be great.
Both of them died and are now born again in different ways.
I love it.
I would really love cleganebowl but if I know these cockteasing showrunners, and I think
I do, they'll probably just give us a small hint of it and not deliver.
Those Bastards.
But we'll have to see.
Next up we have some cool shots of the Lannisters soldiers going up against the dothraki.
We may not get the unsullied going into phalanx formation but the these guys will and it'll
be interesting to see how the dothraki fare against trained soldiers in formation with
armor and spears.
The main thing the dothraki have going for them, much like the ironborn is that they're
good in hit and run raids.
In the field it'd be interesting because there are so many of them and they all have horses
so its a bit of a toss up.
They're more into overwhelming their foes with numbers and fast attacks but one on one?
against a seasoned knight? they wouldn't be able to do much.
Remember what happened when Jorah fought against one of Khal Drogo's men back in season 1?
Jorah wasn't fast but his defense was good enough to deliver a killing blow.
It'll be interesting but what really gives them an edge is the dragon.
That always turns the tide of any battle.
I mean...if you've played Total War: Warhammer like I have...then you'll know that a dragon
means the difference between winning comfortably to what the fuck just happened.
So...yeah.
I also love the shot we get of Jaime charging in there and it looks like he almost got roasted
by a dragon and wants to go in there and take it down.
If anything hes got balls...which may or may not be made of gold but w/e.
Next up we have some shots of many ravens or crows, w/e you want, flying over the Night's
King, possibly Bran controlling them to scout out the scope of his army and where they are.
I like this because it gives Bran a lot of importance, not just as a character but as
a war potential.
And when I say war potential I mean people who're essential to winning the final battle.
This includes people who're intelligent, like Sam and Tyrion and people who carry Valyrian
Steel swords like Brienne and Jon.
Bran now possess some amount of skill to do more than just show us some cool flashbacks.
I love this and I also love how he has a wheelchair now.
All he needs to do is shave off his hair and we'll have the Game of Thrones version of
Professor X. Nice....very nice.
And this would be fitting because Sansa is obviously Jean Grey and Tormund can be beast
while Brienne can be Colossus.
Holy shit....I think we have almost all the X-Men now.
Somebody photoshop them all together and make this happen.
Also there is one more person with Bran...it could be Davos, it could be some random maester
or it could be the three eyed raven.
He is suppose to be dead but maybe he left a bit of his mind inside Bran's mind?
And maybe Bran is seeing him whenever he touches a weirwood tree? it'd be interesting to have
that and kinda cool.
I always enjoyed their discussions so it'd be nice to have more of that
Next up we have some more shots of the ironborn fleet heading towards King's Landing and of
Euron doing some work.
I always respect a leader who goes in there and does the fighting along with the troops.
Damn straight Euron, make the Iron Islands great again buddy.
We also get the last confirmation that it is Euron who is attacking Yara's fleet.
Now I can't tell who this is, running out there and jumping with a bow in hand but its
possibly Yara fighting back though I doubt she gets away considering in the last trailer
she and Ellaria are somehow together going all lesbian on each other.
So its possible that she does get captured but I hope she doesn't go out like a punk.
I do like Yara's character and its a shame we don't see more of her but hopefully this
season will give her more to do.
I'm also happy that the Ironborn aren't taking a backseat this season and will be in there
with the bulk of the fighting.
This is good, now if only the Dornish and the Tyrell soldiers got in on this then I'd
be incredibly happy with season 7.
And finally we get Jon Snow, Davos and even Beric Dondarion beyond the wall for some reason,
there have been rumors that they are going beyond the wall to find proof of the white
walker threat and bring it back to everyone so they can all unite.
now...this is a large plot hole because this has been done before.
When the wights attacked Jeor Mormont back in season 1, Jon killed it and, correct me
if I'm wrong, Alliser Thorne was sent to King's Landing to show Joffrey the hand of the wight
that attacked him.
This was in season 1 episode 9.
It's why we don't see Thorne until season 4.
I don't know if it is ever explained why Thorne never made it to King's Landing or if he did
and got sent away but this has happened before.
Hopefully it gets cleared up.
In the books this is actually cleared up but we'll go into that later on in the Game of
Thrones Podcast.
But I am really enjoying the preview we're getting from their beyond the wall trip.
The Fellowship of Winter is what I'm calling them #fellowshipofwinter We got the Hound,
Beric, Davos, Jon Snow, and possibly Thoros of Myr.
Now all we need is a wise cracking dwarf, a wise cracking sellsword and a man with no
cock and we have the Game of Thrones version of the Avengers.
No seriously though this trailer has got me excited.
Beric is taking out his flaming sword which does make him a war potential and we'll be
getting ANOTHER White Walker fight and a Dawn of the Dead type scene where the frost zombies
are all running towards our small group.
One thing we never do see is horror in our fantasy and I like that Game of Thrones dances
around that.
Its a nice touch of pace from all the boobs and dragons to get what we got last season
when the Night's King invades the 3 eyed raven sanctuary.
I like it and its always good to sprinkle some different genres in this show to give
us a bit more of everything.
But overall the trailer was fantastic.
There was no signs of Sam or any new characters we might be getting but you do get a sense
of that...we're almost at the end.
I like it.
I left some things out so we can discuss them later on the podcast which will be out sometime
next week so look forward to that.
But guys let me know what you thought about the trailer? did it show too much? did it
show too little? because these kinds of things can happen in a trailer.
I mean...look at Terminator Genesis.
The entire plot of the movie was spoiled in their trailers so it kinda fell flat.
Did HBO commit this sin just now? or was it just right?
But Leave your thoughts and questions below and I'll be discussing them in a follow up
video, possibly tomorrow.
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