Most of those scenes were him talking about his past self with Ian Mcshane's character and how they both have changed. The hound helping them was nice, but during that episode, there weren't any particular moments where he was being nice. In hindsight, I probably should have included something from that episode.

@@supercutaction9709 he chopped wood for them, and carried logs. That's nice. I just dunked on you

@@mustafanawab1719 its is if your killing bad people just like sending them to deathrow

@@mustafanawab1719 kill em with kindness.

@@cerberus8462 sending people to death row is not 'nice'. some people may think its 'fair' or 'necessary'. But alot of people would argue that too

Like winning the award for skinniest kid of fat camp, not a lot of characters avoided getting shat on from seasons 5-8. Don't get me wrong though, I definitely "stan" for the Hound. (is that how the kids say it?)

Theon's arc was awesome.

@@Sky_Guy seasons 4-7 >>

I would have also said Jaime had one of the best character arcs but in episode 5 they threw it away in my opinion, yes of course he will still love Cersei but it didn't sit right with the rest of his character arc

It was predictable but it was good and makes sense. Not like all the other stupid "surprises" D&D wants to throw at us.

that moment and when sansa held his hand. it was so funny because tormund put his hands on him before that and he muttered 'don't touch me.' idk why tormund felt such kinship with the hound. it's inexplicable like his love at first sight for brienne (which made her go for her sword)

Literally one of my favorite parts in all of s8. And s8 was mostly crap

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Totally Agree When she called him Sandor... He probably wept around the 1st corner

he should have replyed am i still on your list girl

Yes :')

Lol - interesting take, but very true!

Brienne doesn't know squat about Arya at that point.

i liked the way arya and brienne both looked when they saw bælish at castle black

good point.

A very well-written grey character.

Any man who tries is already good imo. Even if he fails.

Nah he’s a good guy on a bad world and raised under bad circumstances. His qualities only began to shine through once he rebelled against said bad world

Firelight157 “fuck the king” 😂😂😂😂

He's an anti-hero

It was such a shit ending to the arc though, just a random fan fiction ending where he finally kills his brother

Do you think he know there was fire pit down there? He pushed through the wall probably without thinking of whats below. Beside youre gonna die from falling from such height regardless, doubt fire was the thing on his mind.

Lil Hodge That's not true. There's plenty of better fan fiction out there than whats actually happened this season

@@MonTheWell1886 Hahahaha true Fr tho have u seen invictas version of the battle of winterfell, it's sooo much better

Fire indeed was his fear but when he saw Arya in trouble he was able to overcome. She is basically the closest thing to a daughter he's ever had.

essentially goes Dad mode. Half imagine him taking both Sansa and Arya to Winterfell where Robb and Catelyn are, and they ask who he is, and he says: I'm their guard dad".

I'm pretty sure it's young girls in general. In the books he had a sister when they were kids but his brother killed her. So now if he sees a young girl in peril it flips a switch in him. You can do whatever you want to a man in front of him and he won't flinch but if you hurt a young girl he's probably going to gut you. Unless of course you're the king and he's sworn as your guard then he couldn't but you could tell he really wanted to.

@@colecampbell1906 maybe because Ned gave a harsh punishments to The Mountain when he was the hand. He stripped him from all titles and own lands. If Robert wasn't dead, that will came true even though Beric Dondarion can't killed him. This is the near justice given to The Mountain, and we all know Gregor was Sandor worst enemy which he can't defeat.

@@seoulsisters8204 wtf are you talking about? That has nothing to do with what I said at all. And most of it is nonsense lol

He was the plot armor.

He deserved so much better

One of the very few moments that were worth watching that season for. It was so kind, gentle, vulnerable... I loved it so much.

what about the little girl whose skeleton he buries in one of the clips here after robbing all of her father's silver earlier in the series and declaring that he's leaving them to die?

I feel like this is part of it and a love the theory especially in relation to Arya (I’m a SanSan shipper so it makes it weird to think about that relationship with Sansa). But as Semechki has pointed out, he doesn’t protect all girls. I think it has something to do with the Hound’s code of honour, which is honesty in a world that is harsh. The Hound “know the way the world works” and therefore he knows that there is jo chance trying to save the farmers daughter bc there’s no way she could be saved. However Arya and Sansa stood a chance - Sansa because she was a Stark and Sandor believed that she would survive under Robb’s protection (as he was still a alive at that time), and Arya at first for the same reason but also because she’s a badass who can look after herself and also reminds him of himself. But he’s not going to waste time on a girl who is likely to die anyway

Zoe Bourne please tell me that "I'm a sansan shipper" does not mean what I think it means 😬

​@@BournetoRead Hound is an old pervert, holds her against a wall, touching her, and commands his "little bird" to sing for him. she's also underage during that scene. it's not only weird to think about that relationship, it's gross.

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Indeed love x

What the fuck's a lommy?

I’ll have to eat every fucking chicken in this room

I so wished for the two of them to travel the world together now that all has been said and done, but - alas! - it was not to be...

@@renderizer01 When Arya called him by Sandor for the first time and said "Sandor......Thank You"...I got choked.

I mean, they starved because he took all their money. There's a very good chance they died directly because of his cruelty. That would have been the guys life savings, it could have been enough to get them both transport further south. Sandor took away any hope or chance of their survival. It's like me stealing all of your money and then being surprised to find you hungry and struggling the next week - like, what else would you expect?

@@elizabethannemillar3013 Exactly. You can’t predict an outcome if you directly intervene in the course of action lol, even when uttering a prediction you change fate (see prophecies etc)

@@elizabethannemillar3013 the money would not have helped at all. they would have starved regardless because the father and daughter wouldn't have been able to use such funds in their situation. you can't exchange money for food if you live in the middle of nowhere and there is no one nearby to exchange it with.

@@elizabethannemillar3013 Sandor's apology was not just for the circumstances of their deaths but his role in it as well.

@@strangefire2024 she clearly said the money could've been used for transportation. Not just food.

Because he is that fear.

I get you but he didn’t exactly know he’d be landing on Dragon Fire.

and when he saved arya he wasnt afraid

@Genghis Khan He knew it was a long way down, don't think fire or otherwise was an issue. Just gotta stick the landing.

But to be fair he couldn't have known of the inferno before he fell, also the Hound didn't die... the Hound never dies...

So true every word of it.

My favourite charachter alongside Arya. The Hound was simply badass.

Good Ol' Papa Law Yarp Anyone get that reference

Good Ol' Papa Law heck yea!!

Yarp

THE WRITING BROKE BEFORE THE HOUND DID

Me to Arya and D&D : Yeah fk you too

Well, Arya probably realized it was a very small chance that they would meet again after the battle ended. So, I guess that was the best farewell/last words to him that came to her mind

Jugglers and acrobats require applause. He is Sandor

9 years actually...

Thank you for being an amazing character

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You have 666 likes. I can’t change this 😂

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Why do people always write it as 'Fook' he doesn't have an accent like that, the hounds accent is alot more posh that people seem to remember, if anything he pronounces it as "Fack"

@@Keyecomposer It comes from ''FOOK EM' TILL THEIR DEAD''.

​@MindoverNonsense he almost died though. You are the one who can't think well

Technically Sandor was never a knight.

@@Gelorica he never wanted to be he hated knighthood

Any man who must say he is the Knight of the Realm is no true Knight.

@@Gelorica Completely missing the point ...

@@nowgoawayanddosomethinggoo8978 he chose not to be a knight since he realised they're all monsters with fancy titles. He did his fair share of bad things so he refused it since knighthood is described as something held for honourable men. Only one who lived up to it was Barristan Selmy tbh.

He was probably one of the most honest main characters.

That’s not an option friend that’s a fact.

Him AND Arya 😘

Absolutely!👍👍

He is definitely my favorite

And when he did the horrible things it was because he was ordered to. He did them out of loyalty because the Lannisters gave him a home when he had none left with his family. It was when he realized that they didn't feel the same loyalty toward him (Tyrion ordering him to fight in the fire when everyone should have understood he'd had a bad experience with it) and that they were going to let Joffrey continue to abuse an innocent girl that he finally got fed up.

What "terrible things , you irrelevant stuid NPC losers. Who the fk are you !! Shut up.

Pastor Al? You must be meaning Septon Lovejoy

But she was too stupid to take him up on his offer.

😂

Two chickens. 🍗 🍗

@@5445jedi every fucking chicken in this room.

@@LeonardoRozasVillegas and it's you the one who will pay it, fook the king

and arya got her own horse (:

That was a hard scene to watch.

@@aethertech Yeah, it was like adding insult to injury. As if the Red Wedding wasn't bad enough, then we had to see that, too.

Better, even!

the classic tragic hero is usually somewhat handsome. The hound is not even that, poor guy was the best character for me after Ned.

@@vhaleryanadamant1975 True, however if his brother hadn't done what he did when they were kids, he would've been. Maybe he's not the classic theatrical tragic hero, but definitely cinematic.

Anti-hero, a tragic hero is someone who’s heroic trait is the cause of their death (such as bravery, a heroic trait, which in excess could cause hubris or a situation they can’t get out of). The hound’s on the “good” side because he’s good at, enjoying even, killing the “right” people, with singular focus targeting his brother. He’s not a hero for heroic traits, he a hero out of his vengeance lining up with the goals of others, thus anti-hero.

@@flamingmuffin666 I do believe he has a code of honour, such as: looking out for the Stark girls; when he stopped his brother killing the other jouster; and also when he sought revenge on the deserters who murdered his friend and the villagers. He was just a soldier following orders, for the most part previously. He also, in regards to the butcher's boy, proclaims that, it's not his place to question royalty. His negative traits were brought about due to how his brother and father treated him, whether the burning in regards to Gregor, or ignoring what Gregor did and not protecting and defending him from his brother. Tormund even notes that Sandor has sad eyes and doesn't believe he is really mean. Being in Arya's company, causes Sandor to reclaim his soul, figuratively, for the most part, and only his need for revenge/closure is what makes him do what he does, regardless of how he has changed and mellowed to a point. It is what many of us do when we think of, or can't let go of the past, we contemplate "What if..." He was a boy, who became pragmatic about the harsh realities of the world he is in and the cruelty of it's people, especially the ones who should be caring of him, and therefore developed into the man he was. Along the way he came to realise he could care about others, be selfless. When he finally finds peace with himself, when he confronts his brother, and before that, warns Arya of being like him, he dies. That's the tragedy, making the full journey, which most of us will never do, and then dying.

@@harimadhavan1712 A tragic death does not a tragic hero make, and I believe you are also mixing definitions. Anti-heroes commonly have codes of honour, can be personable to others, have strong bonds with others, have redemption arcs etc., none of this adds or takes away from the concept of an anti-hero. The iconic tragic hero is Achilles, his drive for glory (an traditionally heroic trait) causes him to be seen as a hero, drives him to fight the city of Troy, suffers loss and claims vengeance as a result of his glory drive bringing him there in the first place, and dies because of it. The core concept is that a heroic trait, causing the death of the character, is what makes a tragic hero. Depending on the character, they can progress and change, they can fully change through various hero/villain types, but The Hound doesn't do this. The Hound's vengeance drive ( a non-heroic trait), is a fundamental constant of his character, he probably has the most fleshed out idiosyncratic morality of any character ( a very common but not 100% necessary anti-hero trait), and gives his life for his vengeance. The Arya and Sansa plots serve, for the hound, the point of splaying out his morality, by showing how he responds to the trope of a Morality Pet. The Morality Pet trope is finely executed in Sandor's arcs, such that its natural and non-obvious, but they are not the main point of his arc, vengeance still is. He goes north because of vengeance over the Sept that healed him, he never valued the "making a new life" goal, but he valued those that did, and they can't do that if the night king comes. He even fails in that goal when Winterfell is being overrun, but springs into action when the Morality Pet is threatened. Nothing drives an anti-hero like the threat to their Morality Pet (John Wick is entirely about an anti-hero who loses their Morality Pet). Once that's done, all that's left is his brother. Sandor remains an anti-hero for the entire series, what he does do, is a Heel-Face Turn, this "lightens" his morality or at least how he's seen by the viewers, without changing his core drives. Other Anti-heroes: Bronn, Deadpool, Wolverine, Richard B Riddick, The Punisher, V. To contrast, an obvious Tragic Hero in GoT is Eddard Stark, with his duty/honour drive.

Stephen Paul At least he died in the arms of the woman he loves.

Blane Griffin are we sure he is dead though

KingRaptor Gaming I mean, he suffered lethal wounds. And I'm pretty sure he got crushed. So probably.

Jamie is alive :-0

@@TheBrokenGods there was no more valid reason for Jaime to live (at least for the sake of the plot). The moment he left Brienne to go back to KL and to Cercei, only meant that he never really changed. That's a death of good character development right there. It's as if the Brienne+Jaime scene was just done for the sake of the fans, as much as the Gendry+Arya scene.

I am sad they didn't end up together. I remember reading them in the books and thinking they had a chance

Praise the Beef Yeah I mean he hit Arya round the face...

Seemed fair given she tried to stab him.

@@ladyfoxwf1075 don't forget why dumbass

@@servor3313 I'm not a dumbass, and in my opinion you shouldn't hit a child. The Hound is still my second favourite character, so don't get butthurt.

@@ladyfoxwf1075 I think hitting a child is justified if they attempt to fucking stab you

Tinou He saved Loris Tyrell from his Brother early in the show.

Yeah, and always been protective towards the Stark girls.

Are you forgetting about him riding down and murdering Mycah? I mean ultimately that darker element needs to be there to make his redemptive arc more full and interesting. But I can't see how you could consider killing an unarmed kid "nice"....

To be fair to Sandor, there wasn’t much he could do. If the prince tells you that kid attacked him, you don’t have much choice but to obey, unless you want your head chopped off too.

"Im not a thief" Also he steals the last remaining gold from a struggling family leaving them to die terribly in the winter. He isnt quite as constant as you might remember.

He was nearly dead without many good memories, and his greatest ambition never fulfilled, and the people he tried to protect always treated him like shit even when doing things for them. So yes, if his end was a shameful one of being killed by a woman he’s never heard of ( even if it is brienne of Fucking Tarth🤤) where he’s given no quarter or mercy from even the one he protects!! It seems like a pretty fucking tragic moment😞

He didn’t want her to die. In a weird way he loved her.

@@genevaechols3993 not in a weird way.

Firelight157 🙄

@@genevaechols3993 You use emojis, lots of people use emojis too. Lots of cunts.

He's far from being the true knight. He was a lost soul who found purpose.

Knights ? Bunch of Cunts

Hardly, but's kind of a good guy, though really tough. :/ Love that about him, though. He's a very grey character, but actually pending more towards good then towards evil.

@@maverickmurphy he is the realistic portrayal of a true knight in contrast to jaime how we think they were like. Look it up knights were murderous rape-y mofos. Sandor looks and acts like a historically acurate good knight

Brienne was a true knight

I love this take, how come no one has mentioned it before?? But Sandor goes and does his own revenge anyway. A part of me hoped cleganebowl didn’t happen honestly

​@@crowsguardthats the entire point, Sandor was already too consumed by his revenge to turn around now, whereas Arya could yet be saved. That's why he stops her, and talks sense into her

@@tortyreus2384 yes and no. Sandor did talk sense into Arya (which is a good decision) but then why didn't he talk sense into himself if he already knew vengeance and hatred could only lead to darkness? Clearly he was only after Gregor for revenge because he literally let Cersei slip right past him. Also, he must have known Gregor would die from dragonfire anyway - so why go after him, when he was doomed and not hurting anybody anymore, and literally let one of the biggest villains in the series run right past, if not for revenge?

Lover of chicken and caller of cunts

He died for our sins

@@deplorible753 fucker of corpse's protector of assassins

@Chris M yeah 😂😂

@Chris M anyone else sends a laughing emoji, IL RAPE HIS FUCKING CORPSE

Am I the only one who wanted him to survive

@@purplexninjamom He would've lived a terrible life had he survived, plagued by nightmares and poverty, possibly alcoholism and depression as well. He probably wouldn't want to take a wife and start a family after everything he went through, either.

@@Vlad_Tepes_III hmm it would seem he would want to travel a lot if he had survived. My my if only we knew someone who was out to explore the world. *(fucking cries in the corner)*

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he gets his revenge at the end while also protecting the stark girls so perfect ending in my books

The death of Hodor was the saddest imho

@@MrTchou i understand but think of sandor who was a "dog" a weapon for the throne before he made a good decision to leave the false king and save the stark girls , not in his best interest but made that choice , good hearted and good killer

Tyler Tayleure lol

"Doggy Heaven" that took me a second, lmao

And wine

All dogs go to heaven

MadRonnie97 He was a great man. All his actions and words prove it. Noble, brave and fearsome as needed and as required. Killing his "brother" was not worth his death but he was human and as humans we each have our weaknesses. Truly one of the best characters ever on screen. Bravo!

Or... growing up in the shadow of sadisitic/unhinged evil people like his brother and father and the trauma of it catalyzed him into being a better person. Without that hate of what they were, maybe he wouldn't have strived to become better and wound up just as bad or worse. Something to consider.

Often men become what they need to be to make it to the next day. Littlefinger needed to be cunning, Varys needed to be well informed, Tyrion needed to be clever, and Sandor needed to be brutal. Humans were made to survive it is hardwired into all we are, for that reason we will always be most likely to become what we perceive we need to be to keep on living.

And most of the best bits didn't happen in the books. Shock horror!

Yarp

@@LordSpleach i just knew this would be the comment under this 😂

@@GabelhelmSogarbraten Yarp

69 LIKES SOMEONE DONT RUIN IT OR DIE TMR

You will never get to eat any chicken.

@@whichDude A small price to pay.

He probably would get annoyed by you very quickly

Meanwhile I'm the absolute idiot in everyone's eyes who chooses Theon just because I'd want to be able to talk with him. Boi is a great character and deserves the absolute world

@@pedinhu18 he'd get annoyed with any companion except arya 😂

There is Jorah too who stayed consistent but true

He is my fav charachter along with Arya but if i had to choose one it would be him. He was awesome from start to finish.

Absolutely the best character! His adventures with Arya made GoT for me. I also liked his conversations with Tormund.

@Christopher Hoch it's the other way around.

Yes it could've been 5 minutes of Sandor being sweet to Stark girls

I agree with you

And her voice too, that moment where she's just calling him ? It made me shiver

Theon

again a complainer. how crazy lame

Podrick's singing

Yes, and even he couldn't save that shit season.

I even forgot about that one time when Jaime and Bronn were in Dorne, Jaime said he wanted to die in the arms of the woman he loves.

One of my favorite moments in entire series.

There was actually a trampoline in canon. He lives

It's a chicken farm right? With a vineyard.

Nah, he winds up stocking groceries for a small English village in the countryside.

@@dawntraveler42 yarp!

This is the ending I choose

What are you talking about, scar or not, Sandor remains handsome? Had I been born gay he'd probably be my got crush instead of Catelyn.

Sandor in the TV show thought of Sansa as a little sister. Sandor in the books was attracted to her, but my theory is she accidentally warged him. It explains her false memory of a kiss that didn't happen -- Sandor regretted not kissing her (and not doing certain other things) and thought about that at least once where she could pick it up long-distance. There's precedent in the books that warging a human being is possible, and among the wildlings it is forbidden. That's going to be interesting if I'm right and they find out she managed it.

@@urthboundmisfit I shipped them in the show too

I think it's amazing. Up until Blackwater he was just a lost, battle hardened soul who didn't care about anything but revenge. But then he found purpose for his life. And he went down achieving his life goal.

Just one kiss between him and Sansa, and don't even need to be in the lips :/

@Pappy Tron lmfao

I think it’s written somewhere in the books that he slept with whores. Guy was about to get laid S8 E2 but he growled at the poor girl.

I find that difficult to belive even with that scar on his face Sandor's chances to getting laid were still pretty good.

Your name is funny lol.Must be cool making english friends

Rip Hound

With a Huge smile on his face, since he never smiled at all

This is just the second time

@@maverickmurphy you forgot lord baelish?😂

@@tommyshelby12 oh right, how could I forget my favorite schemer

Steal that comment did ya?

poor poor theon

yeah i know its funny

I always thought the Hound was the older one at the beginning

Whilst I would like to agree, in the scene where Ned's guards are stabbed in the throne room, Sandor is one of the first to be aggravated

Couldn't he just be human and care for 2 girls he perceived as helpless and thrown into a world of deception and murder?

Tooneus Maximus he feel the same level of sorry for all the other young kids thrown into the same world?

When sandor first came across Arya, he wanted to get ransom for her from her relatives. But the fates wouldn’t allow it. All of Arya’s siblings kept dying.

The batman who laughs “gentle”... he killed 5 people over chicken

@@josephmcnulty5870 they attacked him first, and that cuntting mouth guy didn't shut up.

​@@josephmcnulty5870 Nothing of value was lost when he killed those scumbags.

@@josephmcnulty5870 Because when the Hound wants his chicken, you get him his chicken and don't be a talker. Plus those guys were a bunch of cunt mouths anyways.

joseph mcnulty Agreed. He’s definitely not a gentle giant. But he’s a good character.

He probably found it easier to just carry her than drag her along in the crowd and try to keep track of her

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