This is one of my favorite! scenes from the GOT series...

This was Arya testing herself. She knew how good Brienne was and wanted to see how she measured up.

did they scissors afterwords?

@@jweav151 did they scissors afterwords?

@@bongobongo985 bro you managed to misspell the same two words twice.

But still, that signature smirk of Little finger was irritating

Sofie Turner showed her true colors in real life with her messy divorce. She would rather party than spend time with her own children. Mr. Jonas showed he was a true gentleman and exposed DeaR Sofie for the true person she is A selfish narcissist!

Littlefiger was a little WORM!

@@BrianCarnevaleB26 lols.... what, i mean i agree but, why say this here?

Ya think? 😂

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pdr vs agi

Evasion VS Armor lol

Respectfully disagree, that title goes to The Mountain v Oberyn Martell..

Brienne's expression showed that after that first quick point, she realized that Arya had skill, that what just happened was no fluke, and that she didn't want her going easy on her. And when she kicked Arya backwards, her expression was a blend of battle-rage and genuine concern. And when Arya leaped back on her feet in that low stance with that grin, there was an intrigued smile on Brienne's face as well. She was sparring with a master, regardless of youth or size. The final round, neither held back, and the finishing move made it a draw. Ultimately, it was Ser Davos who actually got to see her in real battle action in the battle of the long night. And it didn't bother me in the slightest that she was the one to kill the Night King.

@@Opnn8d1 I don't mind so much that it was Arya that killed the Night King, her character certainly was built into a super assassin that could do something like that. It even makes sense that she would come and make sure her brother was okay. It was disappointing because there was so much build up to Jon vs the Night King. Their stare off as he raised all those slain Wildlings Jon had tried to rescue. All that Prince that was promised stuff. I fully expected Jon would have to stab Dany, and her dragon's fire blood would ignite his sword into the only weapon that would be able to kill the Night King, because all of that was part of the dramatic prophecy of Azor Ahai. He was even brought back to life by the Lord of Light for some great purpose which was... ... something. Having Arya spring out of the darkness and stab the Night King dead in one shot was a giant anti climax in the face of so much build up. It would have been like having Captain America in Avengers End Game reach for Thor's hammer... and yeah it's still too heavy. Hah, plot twist. Then Captain Marvel just swoops in and punches through Thanos's chest. End of Thanos. It's not that she couldn't... it's not that SHE did it... it's that the narrative build up to a certain pay off that just didn't happen.

First point, this one has skill, time to stop holding back Second point, a lot of skill, time to stop playing nice Third point, all out it is ....

@@Opnn8d1 Arya is a great fighter but the final season and even this season of GoT was trash. Her killing the Night King was very stupid. He would have snapped her neck without the plot armor. Only seasons 1-6 were good with 5 being questionable/average ruining Dorne, and 6 giving hope. But 7 and 8 are absolute garbage.

@@CappyK not only SHE did it, she did it in the most stupid way, like someone overbuffed barbarian in BG3 and then he leaped to the King over 20-30 meters. Could've at least make a duel with John, which he would almost lose because of some Night Kings magic shenanigans only for Aria to sneak on him to finish King off. But no, lets make a jump when dragon showering John with fire...

@@PrinceAlhorian Similar thing is mma and karate, there's a point where you just get lost in the fight and it becomes just as much of a dance as a spar. I miss those days where you could just let go and enjoy the moment.

Nope, it's crap. You know it's crap.

@@PrinceAlhorian Something tells me you're a larper who thinks his anime knowledge of katanas can be used as a defense against terrible writing. I feel nothing for you lol

And you're a book nerd who can't come to terms that this is a show based on fiction...lol ​@@pderham26

I didn't watch much of Game of Thrones, and haven't read the books. Someone speculated that Maisie hid the sword behind her back during a fight so that her opponent wouldn't know which hand would hold the sword when it reappeared. Towards the end of this scene, after she loses the sword, she draws the dagger right-handed and tosses it to the left to continue the fight. Do you recall any other fights where she swapped hands??

@@ralphm6901 how about the fight scene with the Night King? This whole scene was a set up of showing the very move that Arya uses to kill the Night King.

​@@ralphm6901 I'm not really sure about Arya's mind games here but she is supposed to be left handed in the book

Too much time with Inigo and the Man in Black.

This is still crap

They dropped every single ball.

​@@pderham26The cutting room floor has more balls on it than the pit at Dashcon.

everyone TRUE

Poor Syrio 😂

It was the Mountain he showed her how to do that😂

Not hater or anything because Brienne and Arya are two of my favorite characters in the show, but Arya bested Brienne several times during their spar to the point Brienne was swinging death blows and had to kick Arya just to gain some distance from her. Granted I would like to see Arya hold a sword and wear armor like briennes and see if its still fair. Arya won this sparring match imo because she had the lighter equipment, was smaller than her opponent and was a little faster.

She did beat Brianne...Brianne would be dead all three times if this was a real fight

Brianne was indeed surprised by Arya's talent right from the first few moves. The expression on her face said it all. And you cant tell me she didnt get a little excited and put her foot in Arya's chest thinking that would be over, but NO .. Arya was like a litte mongoose and surprised Brianne again, but when she got her lightweight sword knocked from her hand, she pulled the drop dagger change hands trick. The one she later used to save the living..nuff said.

Brienne needed two hands on her sword to be effective.. Arya was using one hand most of the fight.. then Arya disabled Brienne s knee..and takes control of her left hand .. Brienne is now at a disadvantage because that sword 🗡️ was heavy and slow.. designed for two hands.. While Arya maintained her ground continuously using one hand..👀 just sayin.. it seems like Arya is the victor..

Arya with less than a year of training pretty much beating a woman three times her size in full plate who's had like 15 years of training is just absurd. Stalemate or no, this would never happen. Please go do some HEMA, or literally any combat sport. Judo, BJJ, Boxing, Kickboxing, any of them. I've done all of them. If you do too, you'll find out firsthand how retarded this is.

This scene is cringe AF

Ditto. It's one of my favorite scenes in the entire series. I can't help watching it over and over. Its SO GOOD.

my fav was brienne against the hound. love that one, but this one is def still so good

I think this one and the opening of battle of the bastards (the "surrender" scene) are the two I re-watch the most.

@@simongido565 How so?

M'lord

Yeah we get it you like the parts the hacks wrote

@@pderham26 Yeah we get it, you are a miserable hater who is incapable of enjoying good content.

​@@pderham26 Its a lot easier if all the bad writing has a name attached to it so I don't have to think critically about what makes it good or bad. It make brain hurt. Bad writer write bad scene!

@@duckchen2676 naaa.....whiners just didn't pay attention. People are stupid. Season 7/8 whiners are the dumbest of the bunch.

Awful writing

the show went from Godfather level of writing to Transformers real quick.

They did a nice job of running the scene in reverse so it looks like a real kip up.

@@davejohn255 I was a real "kip up", but a stunt double did it and the CGI'd Arya's face on her

aint nobody growled bruh.

@@DonaldPalacios Was more like a bit of a snarl at 2:26 but yeah, wasn't no growl, lol.

it is the single least realistic fighting in the entire show...whoever choreographed this should never work on another show or movie again as they clearly did not know how sword fighting even works and captured a grand total of ZERO of what should have been each characters skillsets. Arya should have been darting in and out. Brianne lacked any actual skill. No one would just grip their sword with both hands and swing it down like an axe and no rapier style weapon is going to magically stop all forward momentum just because it touched another weapon...that is not even how parrying works and no one places their sword diagonally across their chest to stop a weapon as it would be pushed down into you via momentum. Worst fight in the show.

@@thomasjones4570as a martial artist, whenever I watch shows, I dont concern myself with “realistic” fighting. Its great when a show can do that and I respect it but i can just turn my mind off and enjoy it You should too

@@thomasjones4570you can both acknowledge its not realistic and enjoy it at the same time, if ur willing

@@TY-gj6fb You can both acknowledge it isnt realistic and not enjoy it at the same time if you actually value your time and entertainment. You know. If you have any actual sense at all.

Sorry dude, training in your mind only works in anime.

@@n4_ku thats just incorrect or perhaps mental training is the wrong term for you to understand. Im talking about spending time thinking of a way around a problem arya is proven to be intelligent and very driven. Do you really believe after the weakness her fighting style has against fighters of the 7 kingdoms has been shown to her she wouldnt have spent all.that time trying to think of a way around it.

​@@AtemOfTheCross Practice and sparing is everything. And if I remember correctly the only real sparring she had was using sticks. There's no way a girl of that size can parry against Brienne of Tarth that is supposed to be as strong as a man and with years of experience.

Size doesnt matter when your opponent it too small and fast to hit and besides the very first exchange all of arya's blocks were aimed near the tip of the greatsword as a redirection which is a spot that brennes strength would have the least effect as she side stepped im not saying in a straight up death match arya would win im saying in this encounter she had the advantage because she used a style brienne was in no way prepared for if they had fought again after this arya would most likely lose but in this moment arya just had too many advantages that Brienne wouldnt have considered but i feel this kind of exchange would also help Brienne to remember to never underestimate someone again

And we are talking line 3-4 years of training atleast for Arya, would think more

I think she wanted to leave the role behind cuz I remember there being talks about it and her being sorta like meh

How can Jon not be everyone's favourite character?

For me, I will never understand why they didn't have the scene acknowledging her slaughter of House Frey. On their way south, after she kills the night king, Jon or somebody should have asked "where are all the Frey's". Arya: "I killed them".

I always said they should make a show called "The Pirate Arrrrrrrrrya".

​@@3moory_omar394yeah I think Jon and Tyrion are the most likeable main characters, Arya probably comes in third for me

it's actually funny first time i watched this, i thought it was arya avoiding the question and after rewatching the episode again only did it dawn on me that "no one" was the guy that trained her

There were lots of great scenes....illogical whiners simply want to whine. Paying attention is better.

@@doublestrokeroll You should really pay more attention to your own last line. ^^

@@NtoTheM projection is a fallacy.

@@doublestrokeroll Oh the irony. 🤣

@@NtoTheM yeah...another word you don't seem to understand.

I tend to watch the faces of the combatants when I have the opportunity to. During several of the sessions like this, I get the idea that Mazie enjoyed it. The delight on her face is often clear while the actress portraying Brienne doesn't like having to swing her (admittedly) much heavier practice sword, even though it is a prop made of wood. Yes, I do realize that in real life wooden practice swords and often shields were weighted with lead to make them much heavier than the real things, the better to help build muscle and stamina.

I’m not left-handed either.

But Arya isn't a water dancer... She trained for a few weeks, years before this. She kept up some drills before Braavis, that she was forced to stop for at least a year. The faceless men did not prioritize direct combat and she was only there for a year, hardly enough to be skilled enough to take out a stronger, faster opponent. It's Game of Thrones, not a balanced fighting game. Brienne as a fully formed adult woman would be faster, stronger and more experienced much like l'm not faster than LeBron James. Real life doesn't have balance trade offs between people and game of thrones worked off these rules. The Mountain was faster than most and massive.

@@FoxInTheBasement All true, misses the point. "Water dancing" as a fighting style, even if one isn't a Water Dancer by official title, is best suited for one-on-one. Castle-trained-knight style, even if one isn't a knight, is trained for large-scale and chaotic battle where single combat duels are not the norm and acrobatics and roll-dodges just throw you into other people or under horses, etc.

not to forget that this is a *Film* and has 0 to do with reality and how fights work. Armor and reach is a thing. Thats why people wore them.

Plot armor? It’s not even a real fight

The fact that they’re “equal” at all is ridiculous though. Brienne is an experienced fighter and has defeated some of the greatest swordsmen in the story. Arya is a teenage girl who spent two years sweeping floors and training with a wooden stick at the House of Black and White and suddenly emerged as an elite warrior on Brienne’s level. It’s laughable.

It's called an 'Actor' not an 'Actress'. By that logic, Kit Harrington is an Actor Man.

@@YoBigAndy Actor is both the masculine and the neutral. Actress is the specific feminine variant, not dissimilar from other "-ess" variations such as waiter/waitress, master/mistress, count/countess. Modern usage sometimes omits the feminine, but it's not incorrect to say "actress", grammatically, anyway. Now, some prefer "actor", and of course, those can be called by that, but it's weird to be that loud and wrong at the same time.

OH OKAY!@@Fatespinner

@@baboon1233 True, she didn't actually train with a sword since Syrio died, but became a master swordsman? Even if she by some miracle got the skills, stopping Brienne huge sword (Brienne who is and adult+ supposed to be extremly strong) with her little toothpick and her weaker natural strengh is straight impossible, fight is nice to look at, but doesn't make any sense

Valeryan Steel is the secret.

She's not blocking, she's deflecting. In the same way that a slightly built martial arts fighter uses the opponent's strength against them.

Her short sword is objectively stronger than Oberyn's spears, and he fought against a giant wielding a greatsword with one hand.

Even assuming she could deflect that sword (not happening) her sheer size and strength would be easily overwhelmed by someone more than 2x her size.

@@TekkzFoB You're only thinking in terms of size and strength. It doesn't take much force to deflect something if it is the direction that the force is being applied. Also, size is just as much a disadvantage as it is an advantage, especially when wearing plate armour, it takes much for effort to counter the inertia of all that metal to change direction quickly. In the meantime, a small target who is nimble, armed with a thrusting weapon can push that long thin point through the vulnerable parts of the armour... the joints.

yeeeeaaa towards the end I could not suspend my disbelief with this show, which was sad coz it started out not doing this kinda crap. This scene was very fan service which is fine but idk. Also kinda annoys me that that move she does with the knife is the saame move she does to take out the night king o0o0o0o0o0

The rapier replaced the arming sword because a straight thrust from the rapier would kill a knight before he could swing his big and heavy sword. Your rapier's tip is deadly. While it is extended, it is also the world's tiniest and most effective shield... Holding your opponent at range. If your opponent doesn't deal with your tip, you will run him through. If he draws back to strike, he will take a lethal hit to the chest. If the heavy sword tries to beat the smaller blade out of the way, the rapier can be moved at lightning speed and returned to its original and life threatening line. The foil was developed to fit between the rings of a coat of chain mail. Daggers made with a foil's blade dispatched many nights while they were wearing a full suit of armor. On a crowded battlefield, men were experts at finding the gaps in the plates and thrusting their little blades through the mail.

​@@OKOKOKOKOKOKOK-zn2fyIn other words; learn about medieval weapons before you run off at the mouth. Well said BTW

She doesn't ever do a direct parry. She moves most of the way out of the way of the strike, her needle does a small redirect to help her

@@OKOKOKOKOKOKOK-zn2fy The rapier did not replace the arming sword on the battlefield and absolutely never against armoured opponents.

There's a scene towards the end of the Errol Flynn version of Robin Hood after Robin kills Guy of Gisbourne played by Basil Rathbone. Robin makes his way to a cell holding Marion and threatens a guard outside with a very bent sword indeed.

Aluminum will do that.

Arya wouldn't meet Brienne on the battlefield. "Don't fight someone like her" shows that, she would poison her or trap her, SOMETHING else that removed her size and skill from the equation. Sparring was for fun and to show she was a threat to others but she wouldn't come at Brienne like that if she wanted to kill her, far to risky for anyone.

@@mcdotterson4103 the thing with battles and battlefields ( or even a roadside ambush) is that, in the heat of the moment, you literally don't get to choose who you come up against. And whilst on the face of it, a person clad in full plate armour wielding a broadsword might appear to have the upper hand, all that armour would weigh the fighter down, and make them far less swift and agile. Furthermore, for all that plate armour covers the whole body, there are small chinks and gaps that Needle was designed to get into and get to vital organs. If an armoured warrior doesn't disable a fighter like Arya in the first few moments of engagement, they are going to fing themselves in serious trouble!

The best fight is one where your opponent doesn't realise they're in a fight, strike first and accurate.

@@mcdotterson4103if she would need to kill brienne, she would kill Podrick first to come close to her and then just kill her when shes in range. She quite impossible to defend against

@@Infiltator2 exactly, she wouldn't do it on a battlefield. she'd get close and come at her from somewhere unexpected i.e. killing podrick and poisoning her food. Arya wouldn't go after the hound or brienne head on with a weapon unless forced/caught. hence "dont fight someone like her in the first place"

dude, Sansa was utterly USELESS.

Wouldn’t that make it the 11th time?

yeah, all the 6 seasons of this series is a masterpiece

She was always like that. Her brother was killed right before her and she showed no emotions. The one trader who tried to poison her was just whipped until he died. And she enjoyed killing from the beginning, especially with her dragons

@@Infiltator2 that doesn't make her a psychopath. Her brother brought that shitnon himself, and she didn't care because he'd basically sold her off as property. The trader tried to kill her. How would you prefer he died? Because the way she did it was meant to be a lesson to others. As far as her dragons go, she didn't use them to kill indiscriminately. It was always for a purpose or in defense of herself. Hardly the actions of a psychopath.

This was already two seasons past the fall. The fall was the end of S4, when they destroyed Tyrion's arc.

@@TheStraightestWhitest Nothing was destroyed. The fall was S8, IMDB and RT rate all 7 seasons with high scores. But your entitled to your misguided opinion;)

@@ianvera4299 That was the denial setting in. There were tons of complaints, people just had hope the 8th season would redeem it all. Complaints have been ripe since the finale for S4, buddy. You were just blind to them. Still are. The Tyrion and Stannis arcs have been brutally criticized.

@@TheStraightestWhitest "denial" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sure, whatever you say. What revisionist crap will you haters say next I wonder? Yall sound so much like election deniers, it's just sad. There were complaints in the first seasons too, but GOT remains the GOAT of fantasy tv for a reason. Cope harder;)

@@ianvera4299 Oh dear, you're a chronically online politically obsessed little guy, aren't you?

No, she isn't a King Slayer. The title does not go to just anyone because a King is killed; the title applies when you kill your OWN King. It doesn't apply because she isn't a White Walker.

That scene is joke

@@BattleBeast5 just like your opinion

Wild considering the entire concept of the show is unrealistic

i never heard anyone say that. And all seasons where amazing except the very last one. It made ZERO sense.

Last season Is 100% Martin. Sorry

@@Filippo6264 You're lying to yourself. it was the Bozo Clown Shoe bros that ruined the final season. it's common knowledge.

@@GalactusOGNah. A lot of people say it fell off after season 6. Some even say the first 4 seasons were the truly good ones.

Exactly

DUDE, spoiler warning smh. /s

Foreshadows the exact moment the show died you mean.