Episode 2 was really great and the best of that season.

The season overall was disappointing but it still had amazing moments like this.

@@bp8791 That's always been my standpoint. Ep 1 was meh, but not bad. Ep 2 was great. Ep 3 was the jump off a cliff point.

Not to mention Ser Brien filling out Jamie's passage in the king's guard book, that made me so happy, which is crazy because season 1 and 2 I hated Jamie, I was hoping he would get messed up by someone in a fight, I wanted to see his demise but after season 3 and what he did for Brien and learning why he killed the mad king he became one of my favourite characters 👌

Imagine a large cow dung with jewels and gems on top of it... that describes the season quite well.

Can I just say you have the best username I’ve ever seen

@@KeatonHabeck it's Aesthetically Pleasing 😀😀

We do

Yes, he would knight her, unknight her, and knight her again. Over and over. .... right? I'm right, right? 😐

@@N1lav Or did you mean Assthetically Pleasing...given the spelling or rather misspelling?!

knowing her backstory that men used to mock her during her "matchmaking party" no wonder she looked around confused if this is another cruel joke.

That’s such a good point. She thinks they’re teasing her! That’s why she says she doesn’t even want to be one.

I noticed that Ser Davos didnt stand up.

And the way her face changes when it hits her. There is no one in this room that does not understand the significance of what she is being offered (even Tormund gets that it's some kind of big deal). There is no one in this room who would joke about something like this. There is no one in this room who does not currently honor that code, knight or not. Every one of them is here so that they might die tomorrow defending the innocent. All the pomp, all the circumstance, all the conflicting vows and shows of chivalry- none of them existed in that room at that moment. This was always the purpose of those vows, long before they were twisted by violence and ambition. You can see the exact moment it hits her that they're serious. And then, a moment later, when it hits her that they are serious because she really does deserve it.

@@kalimaude3532 ✨👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Beautifully said. I think it takes her a minute to process just how far she’s come in terms of how the world perceives her since the root of her trauma occurred. Like the part about her not only realizing that no one there would play such a cruel joke about something so serious, they all respect and understand the gravity of the rite being offered, AND she realizes she deserves it. That regardless of what other people might believe (re: her being responsible for Renley’s death), she isn’t guilty of any faults other than ones any normal human would have struggled with, and as Podrick points out earlier in the episode, she kept her word to Catelyn Stark. Both her daughters are currently alive and at Winterfell and she, Brienne, played a huge part of that. She’s a fierce and highly capable warrior of great principle that would make an excellent True Knight in an era where the moral decay of such titles is the standard. Everyone is corrupt or out for their own means to some end, except Brienne, who just wants to serve, and be willing to die for, a truly worthy individual or cause.

and witnessing history

Nailed it homie

well said

This is Jaime’s finest moment.

Freaking yes to all of that! Tormont saying he’d knight her 10 times over was low key the most wholesome part of this scene though. And Jaimie never forgot his vows.

Don't you mean Ser Brienne?

her arc was over, it would impact much more if she dead "knightly" on the long night (or rather, a short night, since you know, only 1 single night, for the love of father, mother and warrior)

Same

This scene perfectly closes Brieene and Jaime's arc. At the beginning of their common history, she considered him a man without honor, unworthy of a knight's cloak. And now she accepts a knighthood from his hand. For a man who is so scrupulous about the concepts of honor and chivalry, this is an act of recognition that he has changed, that he is worthy, that she respects him. Perfect scene.

@@AdenNetra well said and so is the case for a few others in this scene alone.

Yes, it is to show that he is taking this seriously and it is not just an act.

Not only that, but that actor that played as Jamie even stated that he was indeed right handed and had to train and practice being left handed after his right hand was 'cut off' in the show.

@@chorlesteajones6794his hand gets cut off??!! You should say “Spoiler Alert” first!! 😂😂

@@tomriddle9032 Oh, my bad. "Spoiler alert" for something that happened in Season 3 of the show 11 years ago. Those are only important when it's less than a year since happening. It's not like the episode happened last week.

Jaime don't says sir though!

@@dpkrj123 Right, he says Ser - which I believe is a gender neutral term.

@@ilianexsisojourner1704 Listened to this 3 times. He doesn't say sir or ser. He says "arise Brienne of Tarth......." I wish he would have added the honorarium, sir or ser. OK, listened to it one more time just to make sure.

@@donaldjones8920 Ser is the distintion of a Knight. He says her name then immidietly says "Knight of the Seven Kingdoms." I dont think youre supposed to say Ser during the "Knighting" only afterwards. You become a Knight once you "arise"(stand up.)

Me too! So many chills!

Stop.

Also, one of the few times you could see what was happening on screen. ⬛️

Omg I know! I totally agree. She must’ve been the happiest she’s ever been and feeling so much gratitude. I’d be so overwhelmed if it were me.

I love the look in Jamie’s eyes before they start clapping. He is so full of countless emotions for someone he deeply cares for.

You're absolutely right. She was the only character throughout the entire series that deserved the title.

Oh the freaking best!

@@nigel_ninja Don't forget Ser Barristan

to be fair, she had no fame, no land, no gold. Who could have in the slightest possible way care for her? Maybe Jaime and Tommund but not anyone else. This is just a pseudo big moment for her. Any corronation without officiality is just plain waste of time.

Perhaps for you, it's a waste. But you need not apply your tragic, defeated world view to these folks. She's being honored by her peers, her friends. And for a woman to earn the respect of men in those ancient times is no small matter...we could still learn something from that in our jaded, modern era.

@@garyspence2128 brother its a fantasy world. Also defeated world view? C'mon now don't be intentionally dull. The woman earned nothing. She was born with bad genes which made her look like a man and growing up treated like a boy she decided to take on her insecurity and make it her strength which in hindsight and in theory sounds nice but in a retro-perspective view and also practicality it was a waste of *life*. I wouldn't recommend anyone to do that with their insecurities. Laugh at your insecurities, don't make them a fortress nobody can enter and treat you well. There is to learn from that situation, well nothing nice to be precise. Also just because we live in a modern con-temporary society doesn't inherently make it 'jaded' rather makes it an explorers golden time.

@@amoththatthinks​​⁠​​⁠​⁠she earned the title she had been denied due to her gender but had done more than enough to deserve, she earned the acknowledgment of her peers, she earned a place of equal footing with a man she greatly respected, she did not earn nothing. Symbolic gestures can still mean a lot for someone, you’re not supposed to watch this scene and see her crying tears of joy and think that’s because she’s so happy at the land and wealth she will now accrue from being a knight. Also my guy, because of her doing this thing you’re saying no good came out of, the world was saved. A number of key people wouldn’t be alive or wouldn’t be who/where they need to be if not for her place in the story. Her taking on that insecurity and making it a strength essentially saved the world.

@@gryph0n55ah yes briene doing this thing, becoming a knight saved the world. I am simply gonna pretend that by this thing you meant briene pretending to be a knight and all that. No, it did not save dogsh|t. You could use the same argument like, "Just because I took a dump in clean water last night is why the universe is still intact. Otherwise that set of energy wouldn't go down that drain and would destroy the peace of energy argh!". Although not a genuine analogy it holds a stronghold against the logic you just spewed out of your arse.

Only for Jaime to leave for Kings Landing literally 1 second later for no reason

@@iansavard4489 Literally, basically undoing all his character progression

@@rysergates7713 precisely

That and Podrick’s song!

@@Joedirt2023 notice how they’re both in the same episode? Literally the only good episode we got in season 7 and 8 combined

Jaime himself was knighted on the battlefield by Sir Arthur Dayne.

Sadly that tradition got corrupted and perverted when it went forward into the American Old West. Pretty much anyone with a beef and a gun got deputized.

@@cormacfarquhar3011 Like, Billy The Kid and the Regulators?

He is right because the lore says so. The rules and traditions of westeros are not those of the real medieval europe

Thank you for clearing that up. I always wonder if Jamie made it up to fulfill Brienne, since they might all died the next day anyway.

And especially about how he didn’t care about the innocents at that moment, or otherwise.

Or maybe how many innocents he killed for his family. Both even

Or how he lost his hand, defending Brienne's innocence...

@@matsdevink2858 Yeah. It really is amazing how D&D managed to ruin an entire 8-season character arc with a single line of dialogue. You have to be genuinely skilled in the art of bad writing in order to do that

He was definitely thinking how he defended bran of that tower

I thought it was the five kingdoms since the Iron Islands also became independent?

The last knight of the 7 Kingdoms.

Then Pod looks at her like - _"Go on. Do it."_ .

@@BobSmith-dk8nwI think Pod’s look is more like, “This isn’t like that other time with those other knights. He means it. It’s ok.”

Quite honestly also, Brienne deserves to be a knight more then most who are knights

A nice side note is, ALL the present men are visibly for and supporting her raising up to a knight... Even if it wasnt customary nor tradition... So their applaude is fully sincere.

It's that she was thinking it was like the story she told Pod...she thought it was an inside guy joke thing and she was brushing it off, waiting for them all to start laughing...except they were all dead serious...and so she looks to Pod for reassurance (who nods) and then to Jamie stiff faced and nodding too and realizes this time her dream WAS coming true. Beautiful scene.

There are plenty of good scenes in season 8. The problem was there were also plenty of bad ones.

Look -lets quit trolling about the 8th season. We all know it was amazing. Maybe we didn't like the outcome, but that isn't up to us, it's up to George.

Correction *DESERVED*

@@holdyboi2473 correction *Got fed by a golden spoon for serving the golden boy*

kind of like how aerys ended up being an absolutely terrible king but had the best team of kingsguards a king could have

Brianne and jaime carried the show for me

@hichemward4398 Yeah, Brienne and Jaime, Tyrion and Varys, and Arya were the storylines that kept me coming back, hoping the show would pull out of its nosedive before the end lol

I agree. His voice in this scene is carrying such powerful emotion and sincerity. It's truly moving.

He's done some nasty things in his life but this is easily Jamie's finest moment!!

The best part was the Jamie seemed to hardly take anything seriously, specially by this point, but he was dead serious here, and the way he recited the knight ritual lines, he did so with true conviction, because deep down he believed them.

Briens face is overjoyed almost like she forgot the whole "im maybe dead soon" her dream came true, one of my favorite moments in the series.

Brother and Sister in arms. At least they had that.

​@@graceskerp Well... yeah, although Jamie has a weird concept of the word "sister"

​@@agusnicoletti3051still fits since he took briennes virginity after the fight

Exactly!

Don't worry mate, you're not the only one who did!

It really is. Possibly the most emotionally satisfying scene in television history.

Absolutely

You're so right. I brings out everyone's vulnerable side. It's beautifully done.

Imo the explosion of the Sept of Baelor is a far more powerful scene, and the conversation between Jaime and Brienne in the pools of Harrenhall as well, but I would surely place this one in a top-5 best moments of the show for sure

It would also have been a bit better if he hadn't for some reason chosen to stand so far away before asking her to kneel. If he had gone toward her instead of away she wouldn't have had to walk so far doubting this was real and they would have been in the fire light so easier to be seen

It's so nice that practically all of the community can come together and agree that this scene is genuinely sweet, despite season 8's massive shortcomings.

"Lets get a look at you!"

She’s more of a Knight than those walking around with “dangling participles”.

She supported an usurper. and killed the only true king of westeros. She is a bigger oathbreaker than jaimee.

Omg I know! Everything about this scene was great. How come in such a disappointing last season we got this gem?

All of the best knights in the story were not true knights. Brienne, the very epitome of knightly virtue, cannot be a knight because she is a woman. Sandor Clegane, a brutal and murderous beast of a man who despises knights, is nonetheless a better defender of the weak than most, and Jaime Lannister who clearly broke his vows nonetheless embodies more true knightly virtues than almost any other (he saved hundreds of thousands of lives at the cost of his honour). It's a beautiful deconstruction and reconstruction of what a chivalric knight is.

@@estarriol7 agreed! Of course there are some true legitimate knights like Jora and Barristan, but your point still remains.

Podrick was so proud of her!