The Travis Scott Astroworld festival of 2021

This was the most insane episode Ive ever watched in a tv show or even a movie, this battle was so real and brutal

You know sometimes you forget how perfect this show got at its peak.

One of the most powerful moments in the series.

I always wondered why the giant didn't have a weapon. He should have had a club or something. Like the one in Narnia. Swing them around and break their lines. Or maybe chop some trees so he can throw them. One giant could have been very destructive

STOP! IM FREAKIN OUT! GIVE US A REAL TEASER! GAAAAAAAAAH!

As a claustrophobic, this scene made me so stressed 😫

This scene feels like such a throwback to season 3 finale, where the liberated people raised up Dany forming a circle of raised hands around her. Here Jon rises through the bodies , gasping for air, whilist the camera pans up revealing a similar circular pattern . It feels intended that the scenes share this aesthetic similarity. In a sense both these moments defined Jon and Dany, but the show still makes clear the different kind of obstacles, shaped them to be the leaders they became.

On of the best, if not the best battle in TV history.

Director Miguel Sapochnik and Kit Harrington did a deep dive on how the trampling scene was a metaphor for the rebirth of Jon. Jon by the time of the battle is a man beaten down by circumstance. His increasingly agitated interactions with the people closest to him is reflective of his inner despondence and self-doubt. This is a man betrayed by his own Brothers. A man who's lost faith.That famous one take of Jon zig zagging through the field dodging arrows and horses is the height of his resignation to fate. That's the point where he's on auto pilot with a singular purpose to kill or die. Probably the best way to remain alive in a pitched battle, when you've already accepted you're as good as dead. But as the crush starts and he gets buried under a mass of humanity, he's finally forced to slow down. There's a shot of his face looking almost blissful, like he's finally at peace with the end. But in this process of letting go he also regains the humanity he had lost after being betrayed. From under that stampede he finds a new desire to live stronger than before, and as he comes up gasping for air, he emerges a man reborn. THIS, is the real Resurrection of Jon Snow. Or as Sapochnick calls it, 'the vaginal birthing shot' lol. It's a parable for the reawakening of The North. The turning point. Jon being raised above the stampede mirrors another similar turning point moment. To S3 finale "Mhysa" where Dany is held aloft the human tide, except the circumstance is turned over its head figuratively and literally. Btw after hearing the slow sad version for so long, that "triumphant reprise" of the Stark theme as they break through the Bolton lines is perfect use of emotive BGM.

They should have made a 15feet long sword for the giant...

Every time the Onion Knight gives an order i get goosebumps!

This is how ground battles SHOULD be portrayed! Not just flashy, incomprehensible, jumbled action. But frustrating and muddy, while keeping the individual story beats and opponents CLEAR. Game of Thrones deserves EVERY award they get! 🏅

That single shot battle sequence was F**King amazing! Props to the director and everyone involved, and the entire episode made me inch forward in my seat!

Be ready after this rain of videos shall come the season 8 trailer

i never forget the smirk on ramsays face when he shot wun wuns face. oh that was a beautiful acting and the battle of the bastards was one of the best scenes in GOT

Hats off to the producers, artist and screenwriters for gifting us one of the greatest tv series of all time!!!!!!!!!

WHERE ARE MY TEASERS (the real ones.....for season 8)

Of all the game of thrones scenes and deaths (in this case presumed death) the only one that really traumatized me and made me sick to think about was the guy who fell under everyone and was trampled while John was also fighting to get up at 3:57, his fate seems so horrifying

Back then while watching this episode I didn't know that i m watching the best episode ever in my life...

the depiction of one gets stumped in the crowd is amazing

When i saw all of those clips in my feed i panicked because i thought it was about season 8. Well done HBO I didn't have it in my mind and now i am hyped again

Plot twist, Jon isn’t a bastard.

It really reminds me of The Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C. The way Boltons surround John Snow’s army is inspired by the trap Hannibal Barka set for romans. Unfortunately for romans, there was no cavalry to help them as it was decimated prior to encirclement.

As a claustrophobic, I can't breathe every time I'm watching this 😭 Hell of a battle

I felt breathless watching this episode and all I thought was "If they brought Jon back to life just to kill him, I'm through with GoT"

According to me, "Hardhome" and "Battle of the Bastards" are the Best Episodes in GoT. Anyone else agrees!?

This is one of the gems of cinematography, everything was just perfect and right

Anyone else think of this scene specifically after what happened at Astroworld?

People at the travis scott concert were like... 4:20

one of the best scenes in GOT indeed...

Man astroworld was crazy

One of the best fight scenes.. Breathtaking 😨

I'd have to rewatch it now😂

Anyone noticed that while the boltons were winning the battle, there were 3 bolton soldiers tired of fighting and not attacking the widlings at 4:26. Such an interesting detail

Travis Scott concerts be like

I think Battle of the Bastards is the best episode in GOT ever

If you've ever been in a mosh pit, you know how good that clean air breath is

Right before Jon gets back up you can hear someone yell out “lord commander!” before he gets helped up. The details bro 💯

This scene had my brother and I speechless for a good 2 minutes when we watched it years ago.

Best series

3:22 me at the Travis Scott concert

This show was so amazing. Nothing like it yet.

Magnificent; best medieval battle since Braveheart, I've ever seen. Now, this is war!!

I thought this was a trailer I clicked so fast

This is how people in Travis Scott's concert died

I came back here after the Halloween 2022 Seoul stampede. What a tragedy.

3:47 POV: You're at a Travis Scott concert

Here after the travis scott concert

One of the last great moments of the series. So much potential and possibilities at this point that all just fizzled out by the end.

The end of this video looks like jon snow is at an astroworld concert

The music is everything!

As much as we😅 hate Ramsey .....bro had the perfect utilization of troops...😮

3:25 First time i seen this scene, and how it was a desperate situation, i was pretty sure Jon began to unleash at this moment some sort of Lich power the red priestess let inside him after returning from death. I was certain a few second later, cadavers of his fallenfriends will start to stand up and rush against shields in an absolutly epic gothic music, under the horrified eyes of every living dude around !

Live footage from astro world

Best televised battle ever

Almost Friday TV brought me here 😂

#AtrailerIsComing??????

POV you're at a travis scott concert and you're trying to tell organizers and security that people are dying but none of them are listening.

RIP Lord Ramsay Bolton, Trueborn Son of Lord Roose Bolton who was poisoned by their enemies, Warden of the North, The Last Giantslayer

De las mejores tomas de batallas jamás creadas del Cine.

Had to rewatch this scene again after watching Oversimplified’s Hannibal video on the punic wars coz this is exactly how the Battle of Cannae ended up happening

My favourite episode of Game of Thrones along with Hardhome.

I am from mumbai and we have experienced this everyday when we travel by local train lolz

POV ur at a Travis Scott concert

The best episode television has ever seen.

dude i almost passed out watching this. Could barely breathe

Man we will never have another show like this. It didn't hold back or worry about people's reaction. Treated adults like adults.

The camera-man too was suffering with John snow 😂

My favourite episode so far :)

Imagine if Sansa had arrived with the army of the Vale only to see Jon had not been able to come up and had died by suffocation... 😂

One of my favorites

Favorite battles by far in the GOT T.V. series

Travis Scott concert

The scene where John snow has the camera panned on him during that war was the best shit I've seen. Perfectly done

Battle of bastards couldn't find any better title than this

"Winter has came"....Waiting for this since 9 years😂😂

Season 8 is coming...

I cried with this battle, I remember when jon just breathe like hope in the las scene

The best battle so far imo, curious to see how you'll top this!

If i saw a giant pick up a fellow soldier and rip him clean in two i think i'd lose the will to fight

Watching this while eating my perfectly done Spaghetti Bolognese for lunch

The best thing about Bastards is just how much it angered asoiaf drones and the level of psychotic cynicism they would go to tear down this episode while tightly clutching on to their autographed Stannis Da Mannis 8 by 10s, and it's still one of the most beloved and most reacted episode of TV in this century! Let's compare the 5 typical issues Freefolk Brains have with Bastards to Blackwater : (1) "Teleportation of the Vale" - Majority of the Northern bannermen had flocked to Ramsay for the biggest battle, not surprising the peripheries of the North weren't well guarded and were easily overrun by the huge Vale army. Plus who would they have informed? The entire Winterfell was on the field. The massive Tyrell host from the South linking up with an equally massive Lannister army in the Riverlands for Blackwater without anyone in Westeros noticing. Stannis didn't have a single scout in the Riverlands or the South? What about Robb's men who were even closer? I guess troop teleportations are epic when GRRM does it. Only slightly less ridiculous than that time Stannis teleported 20k+ men disembarking from ships!, going from one end of the wall (Eastwatch by the Sea) to the other (Castle Black), without a single Wilding straggler, elderly, woman, child, etc. noticing. When will GRRM learn to "respect the boundaries of the universe" lol. (2) "Why didn't Ramsay use the castle" - With a giant??!! Ramsay had already shown he was impulsive and not exactly defensive minded. If he would meet Stannis head on it's only logical he would be confident enough to meet a numerically inferior Jon head on. Tyrion on the other hand lunged at an army with 10 to 1 odds against him at Blackwater. "Use dah castle" seems like a stock gotcha for all the subreddit military experts, used selectively ofc. How come Mance, with such overwhelming numerical superiority and inner knowledge of the Castle's defenses as a former Night's Watch, wasn't able to formulate a more logical battle plan against 100 men?! (3) "Jon had plot armor" - Stannis got out of the ships like it was DDay, dodged a thousand arrows, and was the first person to climb those towers on dumb ladders without a shred of covering fire. What were his odds of survival again? (4) "Why didn't Sansa warn Jon" - Jon would never have accepted help from Littlefinger. He was too rigid and honor brained for that. Plus it was a hail mary, Sansa didn't know if he would come. What excuse did Tywin have? He knew he himself was coming. He wrote a ton of letters, but didn't give Tyrion a heads up to wait till his arrival and "use dah castle" as defense instead of meeting Stannis head on? Did I miss the part where Stannis had giants? (5) "The Vale was deus ex machina" - Tywin conveniently arriving when Cersei is about to take poison is the biggest deus ex machina I've ever seen. Yet those who screech about the Vale thought it was god's gift to writing. The double standards would almost be funny if they were satirical! At least Ramsay's death being universally acknowledged as one of the most satisfying deaths in TV history primarily due to the incredible lengths of slow burn they went to with him, balances out the ex machina. Tywin just randomly pops up for a Saved By The Bell victory lap without an iota of build between him and Stannis. The story of this battle is the symbolism of Jon's rebirth. Picking up on that is way more important than overcompensating with pedantry over tactics like a emotionally vacant dullard. Asoiaf fans remember this isn't actually history challenge (impossible).

ramsay was really good strategist.

I breath air like ahhhhhhh after jonsnow came out.. That much realistic this scene is🔥🔥 I never seen such a battle like this. So real&brutal. We can imagine how brutal battles are.. Game of thrones at it peaks🔥🔥🔥

The battle would have been so different if the giant had a tree for a cub or something

Jon snow... How he lived in his character. Amazing. That's why we called it one of the greatest series ever made. GOT..

What I never understood is why no one fought with Wun Wun. If some men went in while the wall was focused on keeping him back they could more easily break the line. You'd have to focus target, the men coming at you or the giant above.

Who is here after seeing some clips of Halloween stampede accident in South Korea? 😢

its like an advent calendar, what’s behind this door? A SWORD TO YOUR HEART

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

I hated how they filmed this battle. But one thing I did enjoy about this episode was the brutality, especially when the giant (I forget their names) rips that Bolton guys head off, and when people get slammed by horses, good stuff there lol.

Travis Scott concert sure looks scary.

*The first time I loved Sansa Stark just after this* 💞💞💞

Best ever battle among series

I miss this show so much😢

Still waiting for that season 8 trailer GOT..

Best battle scene ever

3:53 i literally cant breath in real life lol

Thankfully this episode was filmed during the day