So basically to honor her deceased lover, Ellaria decides to kill her deceased lover's brother and nephew. Oberyn is probably so proud of her.

"Petyr's brain can't work in cold" is my new head canon.

Maybe the Harpies initially intended to kill Tyrion, but then they saw how dumb he was after Season 5 so they decided to let him stay with Dany in the hopes of inadvertently ruining all her plans.

21:35 Not to mention how utterly offensive that line is to Oberyn's memory. "He was BUTCHERED." He volonteered to defend an innocent man from an unfair accusation, and to simultaneously to avenge the death of Ellia. And he succeeded. Yes, he got carried away and died. But they both had to know it was a very real possibility before he went in. And he still managed to defeat Gregor! He went out in the blaze of glory! And this is how his lover honors him.

My dog is called Ghost. He is also the goodest boy. I do have enough money in my budget for him.

I REALLY HATE when the guy yells "It's a bloody woman!" When Brienne rides toward him, like he could tell

Bruh... I never noticed the parallels between "Ramsay, a stranger, saving Theon in S3" and "Brienne and Podrick, strangers, saving Theon and Sansa in S6" and I am SHOOK! You are so right! This was never adressed, he never reacted to this, this would have been such an opportunity! Woah, I am not even half through the video and it's only getting better.

Wait, wasn't Elaria the one who said to the sand snakes in the books "vengeance cannot bring back my oberyn"? That's worse character assassination than her assassination of Doran

Doran Martell is such a strong character in the books. His actions may seem weak at times, but the reader quickly learns he is much more cunning and aware than it seems. That coupled with the fact that he's constantly living with almost unbearable pain makes him one of the toughest characters in the series. And here in the show, we hear "Weak men will never rule Dorne again" and are supposed to believe Doran really was a weak-willed ruler.

Ellaria Sand:" We did it Patrick! We saved House Martell!"

I needed this more than you know

I have to say that Brienne waiting the whole of season 5 for a goddamn candle (Brienne from the books would've stormed the castle on her own by that point - "no chance and no choice", that's her whole thing in the books!) and *then* choosing revenge over Sansa is so extremely out of character, it made me so mad. They wrote Brienne so wrong from the start, portraying her as this battle machine, when in fact she is one of the most sensitive characters in the books and would do anything to keep her oaths and for the people she loves, who she swore her oaths to.

Oh, look! It's funny Australian man yelling at bad dragon show. My favourite thing on KZfaq. Edit: He got Princess Shireen, rightful heir apparent to the Iron Throne, to tell people to subscribe to his channel. What a madlad.

I love Arya's Bionicle obsession so much. She is finally relatable to me.

Hey remember when Jeor Mormont took a knife in a back from Rast during the mutiny at Craster's and still almost choked Rast to death? Oh well

22:48 it isn't a plot hole, there is a simple explanation: Dorne has access to the only surviving speedboat. They should have included speedboat sound effects to make it clearer.

i don’t understand how you keep making better and better content every time but somehow you do!!! amazing video glidus :D

The fact that over 2 years later people are still making critical analysis videos of how Game of Thrones fucked up so bad is a testament to just exactly how big of a colossal fuckup the show actually was. It is STILL a hot topic to pick apart.

In vengeance of house Martell, they kill every Martell. Love it. To protect the citizens of kings Landing from Cerci's tyranny, let's turn them into ashes. Danny always wanted to queen of the ashes

Can’t believe how badly they butchered Stannis’ story, Stephen Dillane beautifully portrayed his stoicism and lack of empathy throughout the series, and to die the way he did was un-just. Parts of season 5 really highlighted the decline in Game of Thrones, at least he’s still rocking about in the books

I find it hilarious that D&D’s solution for the horrible Dorne plot was to have the worst characters in that plot kill off the best characters in Dorne. Morons.

Glad I’m not the only one who saw the missed potential of a Sansa-Pod relationship. After all that she’d been through, Sansa deserved to have someone in her life who was literally the exact opposite of a psychopathic monster. It would have probably helped stop her from being such a jaded and unlikeable character in later seasons. Plus it would show that Sansa had progressed from her dream of marrying a prince or high lord. And from Pod’s side, he was genuinely the kindest and purest character in the show, and it’s a shame that in the end he was only used as comic relief.

Kinda seems like being told to "go on and do your duty" would've worked better as a stannis line to brienne if it reminded her of her actual duty to Sansa like I kinda thought would happen when I first watched the show Especially with the cut away thing as a potential fake out It's so logical that most people thought stannis wasn't dead until they were literally told he was by the show runners between seasons

anyone else watch the season 6 pisstakes like, dozens of times at this point? i dont even mind waiting for a new one b/c these are so flippin rewatchable.

I remember how badly the Dorne plot hit me especially because I talked about it to my co-workers in a temp job in the summer, and my Boss called me in and I was sure she was gonna scold me for talking about GoT instead of working but instead she wanted me to talk to her about the books because she had also read them 💀 that's the only positive experience I have with the Dorne plot in the show.

The complete mischaracterisation of Ellaria might just be my least favorite thing about got

It was Season 6 where I officially fell out of love with the series. Whenever I hear people say it's their favorite season I want to go out to my local fight club and destroy something beautiful.

The sand snakes should be deemed as kin slayers for murdering their cousin one of the worst Taboos in all of Westeros but it is just glossed over

Tyene... wasn't even tall enough to stab Areo Hotah in the neck. Yet he died in a second.

I just realized that they totally could have gone with the book version of Arya overcoming her blindness through skinchanging. Sure, they never established in the show that any of the Starks besides Bran is a skinchanger. But Bran gained his skinchanger abilities after his fall and being paralyzed, right? Just have the 3-eyed Raven explain in an extra scene that skinchangers often awaken their abilities after a traumatic event such as an injury or disability. Or say that it takes prolonged time in darkness to develop the ability of skinchanging (Bran was in a coma for weeks after all). It would explain Arya's dormant abilities suddenly awakening and would make her a bit more special which might help a bit with the whole killing the Night King bit later on. It‘s a shame they seemingly didn‘t even consider the idea.

The worst crime of GoT was Stanis’s character assassination

Season 5 & 6 are totally worthy of a PISSTAKE. Go for it, bro.

Imagine how annihilated Davos would be that Stannis and Shireen were both dead, like actually

it’s also worth pointing out that when Melisandre removes the necklace here, she’s fine aside from being old, whereas when she does it in season 8, she ages into death and disappears, which feels even worse than her being unaffected by not wearing the necklace in season 4 because back then they hadn’t set up the old reveal, but the moment in season 8 is *literally* a response to that season 6 episode and yet the consequences are completely different. It’s these kinds of continuity errors that are demonstrative of truly uninspired writing, because if you can’t maintain consistency with the most important elements of the plot you clearly aren’t very invested in what you’re writing or haven’t thought about it very much

"weak men will never rule dorne again" *cut to season 8*

The mhysa rant melted my linguist heart, and thanks for book recommendation! So happy to have you back Glidus, great video as always

I finally realized what that scene of Ellaria's throwing her tissue into the wind reminded me of... Gob trying to throw an envelope into the ocean in Arrested Development only to have it keep blowing back at him. Only in that show it was supposed to be funny, not a sad metaphor for the show itself.

Seeing Jon laying on the ground made me giggle. It was like watching a high-school play.

I just want to point out how bad ass they painted the new Khal to be in one of the season 6 trailers "Millionth of your name, Queen of nothing." With a gruff and intimidating voice, which was clearly altered in post and what we got was an idiot who dies right away.

i always wished that instead of "do your duty", Stannis would have said "explain how my younger brother could be the true King, you supposedly honorable giant".

I see you already got your likes. Now where's this form? I really want to talk about my "Dan and Dave ruined the series on purpose" theory.

Pretty much everything after season 4 was a fall from grace. Those early seasons were some of the best television ever.

20:50 Also, good luck getting another Maester from the Citadel, meaning these broads have robbed themselves of all medical care, bookkeeping, communication... I think what happened is that Dipshit&Dogbreath honest to god forgot that this was supposed to be a maester and what that meant. It was just "he's some guy, he's for Doran, he might do... something bad, so it makes sense for them to kill him too!"

I, a Dutch Scot, was over the moon at you mentioning Dunfermline and swiftly brought back to earth by how you said Michiel Huisman, en emotional journey akin to watching game of thrones in it’s entirety. Overall, though - the return of the King!

I like the subtle difference between "Ser Alliser Thorne" and "Mr AllisTer" haha. To answer Arya's question, my favourite Bionicle has always been Axon. Even though we're looking at Blind Beth, I chose to assume the "small Mercy" line about the Arya scene was no coincidence, and I approve.

Good day Lord Glidus, Terrific video once again. Yours sincerely, Lord Aglahir

The disappearing dogs during Sansa's escape isn't nitpicking, it's a massive oversight on the shows part. I noticed it right away watching the episode live, and I'm surprised it didn't bother more people.

Having Brienne choose Sansa over Stannis would have had a clear and powerful ripple effect that could better almost every related plotline. Firstly, Brienne chooses to save the innocent rather than punish the guilty, she overcomes her need for revenge and instead focuses on doing good. It makes us like her more, she sacrifices her desires for doing the right thing. And so she is there able to rescue Sansa and Theon after they jump. Secondly, Stannis can be captured by the Boltons. In their camp, it would allow some nice meaty scenes between Stannis and Roose or Stannis and Ramsey, and can grant House Bolton leverage over House Lannister. If they kill Stannis, the Lannisters would move on, but if they keep him alive, he will always be a threat, which can make the Lannisters offer more for his head while also creating tension between them (since the creators want to hint towards some kind of Bolton scheme against the Iron Throne). It would also give more reasons for Jon to attack Winterfell, since he saved the Night's Watch and the Wildlings (though, he also killed many Wildlings and much of the Night's Watch didn't like him, causing more tension). Jon could attack in an attempt to save Stannis as well as Rickon. And, after the Battle of the Bastards, all these plot points converge into one very tense situation. The Trial of Stannis. He killed a child, he killed his daughter, he killed Shireen, and he must answer for that. We get to see Davos grapple with that and maybe abandon him, we get to see Brienne grapple with her own desire to see him dead (Sansa would probably want him alive, since he has Storm's End and is a rival claimant to the Iron Throne that she can support, and so Brienne's loyalties are once again tested), and Jon would have to grapple with his own sin of killing a child earlier this season. The outcome could still be Stannis's death and the naming of Jon as the King in the North, but there would not be a political and interpersonal element to it, as the allies of Stannis would not support Jon and relationships may be changed (Brienne and Davos may be able to work out their differences, but Jon and Sansa may not be a bit more at odds, helping set the status quo for the next season), also Jon executing the man who attacked Dragonstone when Dany was born (and indirectly being responsible for her mother's death) could be used to endear Dany to him when she first hears about him. And that's not even mentioning Theon, who could be present this whole time and would also present a character with a history of child-killing. Three men who have killed kids to satisfy their own desires in one way or another, all in the same plotline that explores that very thing. It would be so interesting. And Jon would know Bran was alive, but would also know that two other innocent children were killed, and so there is still tension there. AND THEON KNOWS HOW TO TAKE WINTERFELL, AND THE BOLTONS HAVE RICKON! The plot perfectly sets up the middle of Theon's redemption arc. He rescues Sansa, he fights to save Rickon, and at the end he will die protecting Bran. Theon could use his skills to infiltrate Winterfell and open the gates for them after the battle (and so they expect a siege and Theon to save Rickon, but then Ramsey takes his army outside the castle along with Rickon, so Theon fails, but he becomes instrumental in taking Winterfell, so it's this grey area). There's just so much meat in this potential plotline. Stannis's Trial could also happen alongside Theon's trial, the resolution after the climax. Hell, in the scene where they go to Deepwood Motte before the battle, they could parlay with Yara who turns down their offer of an alliance. They say they have her brother captured but she doesn't care, she thinks he is broken beyond repair, and then she goes off to the Kingsmoot. After the Kingsmoot, she flees and realises it can be nullified since Theon, a serious claimant, was alive but wasn't present, and so she returns and at the trial of Theon she arrives to present an alliance going forward, turning the tides in his trial and saving his life. Victarion or whoever the hell can be the one to go to Meereen and bring Dany back, creating tension between the Jon and Dany camps. It's crazy how the Brienne plotline really just fucks up a bunch of other ones in a butterfly effect of shit. Having Brienne choose Sansa over Stannis just enhances all these different plotlines, but the writers sought instant gratification rather than any kind of long-term plan. It was the writers, not just Brienne, who wanted to have their cake and eat it too.

“Nitpicks are real and they do matter. You don’t want nits do you? If left unattended, they’re going to hatch into lice. StoryLice!!” … That was EPIC.

The "i did" clip gets me every time, something about the way he says it, his voice or something is just too good

What you don’t realize is that just out of frame of the sand snake dock shot, there’s Ellaria’s jet ski which she graciously lent to Barb and Catwoman

The thing I didn't get is how did it take Dorne so long to find out that Myrcella was killed? She died literally 10 metres offshore, surely they would have rowed back and told the prince that Ellaria killed her

I cried about Tyristans death. He had a beautiful name... Have a nice Day Yours sincerely Tristan

“Little deer overcooked” made me laugh much more than it should have XD

In regards to the vow sansa said to Brienne, no, Catelyn did not make it up on the spot. Those words (place at my hearth, meat and mead at my table) are used in various forms through the whole series, made obvious by the fact pod knows them too

"Barristan no longer bold" that just got me sad ;-;

I love everything you said, except the thing about both Catelyn and Sansa responding to Brienne’s oath with what I assumed was just a standard response when a Lord or Lady accepts an oath in Westeros. Sansa probably learned it when she was still in Winterfell, during the lessons with her Septa. Catelyn probably learned it when she was young, too. Podrick likely learned it from Brienne or Tyrion or Bronn. It just really seemed like the standard, well-known Westerosi response when a Lady or Lord accepts an oath. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm so glad you're making this series. Season 6 is so many people's favourite season but it let me down on so many levels. Better than S7 and S8 for sure, but still bad on too many levels. This is the season that made me certain that the ending of the show would be terrible. When my knowledge of the lore of this world is enough for literally every episode to rub me the wrong way at some point, I know the writers are either incapable or can't be bothered to try, and that's not to mention the other issues with it. The scenes I enjoyed the most were actually the ones lifted from the books (funny that), like the siege of Riverrun... although the kingsmoot was a let-down. I can't wait until you get onto Arya's plot this season - the play was the only good bit, the rest was irritatingly nonsensical at every turn.

The thing about Sansa falling in love with Podrick cracked me up. And then I thought that’s actually quite the grrm thing to happen: Sansa falling in love with the cousin of the man who beheaded her father

i had a pizza hut ad that ended with "no one out pizzas the hut" and it cut strait back to "i did"

Oh boy, here i go, rewatching all pisstakes again

I can’t believe I never noticed they called Sunspear Dorne in the opening. What the fuck.

I'm actually fine with Brienne finding and saving Sansa at the start of this season, that's the kind of contrivance stories like these are built around (although there probably should be a scene of Brienne and Pod hearing the hounds as they ride though the forest and deciding to check it out to make it seem like a little less of a deus ex machina), but it should've been much later in the episode, maybe even only in Episode 2 to heighten the consequences of their actions (that way it also makes much more sense for the hounds to find them in the mean time). Because as it stands Sansa just jumped off a castle wall, paddled through a freezing river and then ran track and field through a snowy forest for what must've been hours and didn't even have hoarse throat to show for it. Brienne finding Sansa as she lays seriously wounded, dying of hypothermia and about to be recaptured by the Boltons, would've made it so much more obvious to her how much she fucked up by going after Stannis first while still keeping the progression largely as is except Brienne now isn't just completely off the hook for abandoning her sworn duty. In fact Brienne getting Sansa to safety while she is injured and being pursued by the Boltons should've been a neat one episode conflict. I suspect that the reason for why this didn't happen was due to the early symptoms of Sansa's transformation into a #girlboss and as such depicting her as vulnerable wasn't in the writer's interest.

Idk how people thought this season was so good, literally upon watching this first episode I could immediately tell the writers were going their own way with the plot ugh...

Glidus I've literally watched every video on your channel including both the hours long Best to worst GOT episodes video waiting for Season 6 pisstakes/GOT Review.... so Plz don't ever make me wait this long again I'm already going to die waiting on TWOW.

Years after the episode aired, 2 years after this video dropped, and on my second watching I am just now learning that Dr Bashir plays Doran Martell

The one thing that bothered me above all other poor writing problems is how Dorn was handled. In the book, the prince was a superior intellect and always one step ahead of everyone. Plus his bodyguard was a major badass that would never be taken by such a weak attack. I would have preferred that they left Dorn out of the show. But I know GRRM was with them when they wrote it in and not there when they changed it all. Probably to allow for the reduced number of seasons that nobody wanted except the two writers.

One minute in and I’m smiling constantly, you’re a f%cking genius

I don't get how people can still defend season 6 as one of the better ones. Season 6 was the season where I finally realized that the show was going down the drain for good.

That Established Titles sponsorship didn't age well.

This episode totally killed the series for. That having Jon come back to life with absolutely no consequences for either himself or the person who revived him completely broke all the rules of the world. For the entire series, death was clearly established as being a permanent condition. The perfect way to get rid of your enemies. Granted they already broke that rule with Berric, but at least he was only a minor character and he didn't have much effect on the plot. To do that with Jon simply because they didn't want to lose him as a character completely destroyed the rules of the show and there was no hope it would ever recover.

It upsets me how obsessed Dorne is with honor and rightful rule in the books, and then the show has the prince die like a pansy and no plots or plans to put Dorne on the throne were even hinted at. But Misella is cute.

Finally... he has returned to glory.

That introductory poem was better written than the last 3 seasons of GoT

"a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one" - me whenever a glidus vid drops

i love these videos. that said, i Did always assume caitlyn and brienne's oath was like a standardized one that's always used for knights swearing service to a lord or lady, and it would make sense that a squire/former squire like pod would know it.

Actually the ginger in the room with Jon's corpse is Brian the ginger from season 5, he's a well known character.

Killing of Selmy was the start of the end.

19:10 Dude's got a wheelchair. Tell me again why Bran's a genius for copying a wheelchair by browsing the internet for a Targaryen invention?

My first time shouting at the TV was when they killed Ser Barristan off like this.

16:53 I mean Catelyn was reciting the oath, one that is often given between sworn swords and their lords...and Sansa was reciting what she could remember of it...and Podrick, being a squire and wannabe sworn sword in his future, knows the pledge. These are all Nobles...they'd know this kind of etiquette or at the very least trained in it. Sansa out of the bunch is the most likely to have forgotten parts of it because she hasn't been trained as a lady since she basically left Winterfell.

Even in the bad seasons the acting is still mostly phenominal.

2 minutes in and our boy Glidus is straight up spitting hot fire in such quantities that he burned down King's Landing a second time

More invested in your relationship with Straw Man than I ever was with Jon's with Dany. Keep love alive

Theory: The children of the forest are reference to the Mi-Go in The whisperer in darkness by HP Lovecraft and the 3 eyed crow might be Nyarlothetep

My favorite post season 5 GoT moment was... when all my friends realized, that the writing has gone to shit and I was like "Have you not seen Season 6 or 7? The writing has been garbage for years, you just ignored it..." Also: Someone might finally mention the biggest plothole of all time: That Kingslanding should already be burning in Season 7, because Cersei literally sets it on fire at the end of Season 6. And yes, there is no way you control that kind of Wildfire burning in an overcrowded city as a medieval society. so at least half the City burns to the gound.

House got destroyed by hurricane Ida this is the best thing lately , thanks buddy .

Spot on with the Brianne thing and theon. You're insanely good at this, keep pumping out the content, im sure these take forever to make but how you don't have way more subs is beyond me, if they're are other series or game series your interested in you should look at trying to do this with more stuff, that being said I think you will have 6 figure subs soon enough, just have to get some more of the asoiaf channels veiwers as they're is obviously overlap, maybe reach out. I guess I dont know a ton about how all that works but awesome video.

Glidus ist wieder am Start! Und er ist in Bestform!

These videos have one of the highest replaying value. I often listen to them when I cook

I find it ironic that Brienne kills the man Ned Stark supported for the the throne with a weapon made out of his sword. Nevermind that Stannis wanted to give the NORF back to the Starks

Your appearance on my dash was a proper jumpscare

These poems get better and better omfg. I'm pretty obsessed with the rhyme patterns.

Established Titles is a scam, the land isn’t even enough to legally recognize you as a lord

Bruh, the thumbnails on these videos alone are enough to click on em. That Hodor one be having be having me dead

I cannot tell how many times I’ve replayed the screaming segment after Sam’s “oooh!”

I’ve been watching the past pisstakes on loop when I do my homework. I love that I’ve got some new ones now

When we needed him most... He returned :)

Cant believe Dunfermline got a shout out. Literally one of the last things I thought would happen on a Glidus video

He could've put in like 5 more Aliser "I DID" jokes and I would've laughed literally every time