The Reel Rejects - GAME OF THRONES 5x5 & 5x6 REVIEW – PROTECT SANSA AT ALL COSTS!! – FIRST TIME WATCH – REVIEW

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Starting point is 00:00:26 Have it all with Blue on Disney Plus. We're getting into it. Oh my God. Gut wrenching. Oh my God. I want to freaking kill him. I want to freaking kill him. Oh, boy.

Starting point is 00:00:49 Dude, I can't. That makes me so upset. I legit can't right now. Like, I'm really, that makes me, it just makes me so mad because he's such, it's good writing, but he's such an evil. That I can't hold it. Like, I literally am like, if we don't get on screen a really good. good vengeance where he freaking dies in a really terrible way. I'm going to be really upset.

Starting point is 00:01:17 That's how I feel right now. Go ahead, Andrew. Give some quick thoughts and then we'll get into questions and then we'll go, we'll kind of go back and forth. Well, Tara, how do you feel about Ramsey is what I wanted? Yeah, two really solid episodes again. Yeah. First of all, I love the, I think my favorite part.

Starting point is 00:01:39 was, I mean, I loved everything, but I think one of my favorite interactions was Lady Olena, which I'm so glad to have her back on. I really missed her, honestly. Yeah. Five, six, seven episodes however long it's been since she was last on. But that interaction with her and Circe,

Starting point is 00:01:55 because Circe has really adapted to the game that, you know, Elena and Marjorie are playing. Right. And, you know, to see that interaction where she's like, you're not even really writing anything and how direct they're really being, where she actually says what she's really thinking, whereas Circe is playing the Marjorie game of having a facade and having subtext to a lot of her dialogue.

Starting point is 00:02:16 It was just one of my favorite interactions. And I think one of my other favorite interactions throughout the entire seasons, too, was Lord Tywin and Lady Olena. So it seems to always be a scene with the Lady Olena, is usually one of my favorite scenes. What do you think the worst one was out of these two? Like, that made you mad.

Starting point is 00:02:35 Oh, it's the last scene. Yeah. that. I mean, just Ramsey, just always, he's a great, whoever that actor is, he's really good at just getting under your skin as a viewer and also getting under the skin of characters we care about too, clearly. Because, I mean, Sonsa has really grown on me too since the very beginning. And, you know, if she was going to lose her virginity, I wanted it to be with someone that she really was attached to and cared for, not in this sadistic, vindictive, disgusting way. And I feel so awful that that's who she had to lose it to. But I, you know, I I understand the long game she's playing with, even Baylish, too. This dude is such a crazy MF when it comes to the strategies in which he always plays at because, you know, now he made a deal with Searcy where he's going to be ruler of the North, but she's only sees it from the point of view vantage of, but Searcy's got to be, it's kind of like with, you know, Ned Stark where it's got to be a head on a stick or whatever.

Starting point is 00:03:31 So I'm curious how that's all going to unravel in the end. But sorry, I know you said quick thoughts. Great two episodes. What did you think? So you did, you liked them both. I did? Yeah. The favorites, we did both like Lady O's stuff, which was a lot of fun.

Starting point is 00:03:49 And they did spend a lot of time, which we both know, we both love Tyrion so much. And so it's cool that we got to see that relationship between Tyrion and Jura. And now I'm wondering about the freaking the pits. Like the gladiator pits, the fact that, thank God, Tyrion was there, and he's got a mouth, he can talk his way out of so many things. And he talked, obviously, Jora into the pits of being like, this is the best, one of the best gladiators he knows. But what a shocker with De Naira is saying she's going to marry that guy. Right? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:31 Like that's, that is a thing that I, you could tell she hates that she has to do it. But she's going to do it anyway. Because like they like, what's his nuts? She's reading the letter being like she refuses to leave unless she gives freedom to the people. And I think that's, that's great. You know, like, I think it's great, but also it's a little dangerous. Right. Well, it's kind of like just what we're seeing also with John Snow.

Starting point is 00:04:57 When you're a leader, you got to make really hard decisions. Yes. So I think that's that theme around leadership. Yeah, because like, do you think that, like, that John Snow, I feel like John Snow is obviously going to be the best Lord Commander of the Knights Watch ever? But right now, do we feel like he can really get the wildlings? He's going to have to leave. I mean, it's going to be fascinating to watch for sure.

Starting point is 00:05:25 I think if anyone, I mean, we talk about how Tyrion is so quick-witted and how he, uses, you know, his intellect in order to get out of sticky situations. I think John Snow is also one of those type of people where, you know, he really, he, whenever he talks, he's got a high level of intellect too, and he's really good with, you know, making people have an understanding of perspective and even when they don't see that reason for cause at first. So hopefully, I mean, look, he was one of those wildlings. I know right now they're probably at a point where they see him more as a traitor than one for their cause. But I think he's going to have to make them understand, like, look, either you

Starting point is 00:06:04 follow me and come this way and live here or you die in the winter and the white walkers are going to come get you, you know, which way do you want to choose. Yeah. So, you know, as long as he, I believe, as long as he, you know, convinces them in that way. Right. And also, yeah, sorry, go ahead. Well, I was just going to ask you, do you believe Baylish? What side is he on?

Starting point is 00:06:27 What side is little finger on? I never know with that guy. I mean, he always is just conniving his way to in strategic ways. I think he just wants to rule the North at the end of the day, right? Yeah. So I don't, I mean, I know he was always in love with Catlin Stark. That I do know. I don't know if he really does care about Sansa.

Starting point is 00:06:50 I think she's just a means to an end. Yeah. So if she has to die and that means he has to rule the North. north, so be it he can find another woman. But who knows, I could be wrong. Maybe, we'll see. They always have me on my toes when it comes to Baylish. But when it comes to Jor, I'm really concerned now that he has the,

Starting point is 00:07:12 the stone. Yeah, the mark. So I know that Stannis already has found a cure for his daughter, but that was Stannis and we are not interacting. They're nowhere near each other. Yeah, we're not interacting with Stannis. So right now, time is an obstacle. And Jora is a character that we are very heavily invested in.

Starting point is 00:07:30 And as we have mentioned time and time and time again, and we will mention time and time and time again. No one on this show is ever safe, ever. So I'm anxious to see what happens, how we get a resolving from that. And also, too, the whole thing that's happening with Aria and the faceless men and faceless gods and all that. That's a very another fascinating development as well,

Starting point is 00:07:55 just seeing her as she was comfort. that little girl, you know, feeding her some stuff to, again, just to comfort her to prepare her. Whereas, like, before she might have said something different, but that I think that showed Jokin or Jok, have you say his name. I think that was showing him that she's slightly getting, getting to that level of ready to not become no one, but to become at least a faceless. So she's shedding her old self. That she's grown.

Starting point is 00:08:23 Yeah, for sure. Like, what are the heads doing in there? I'm just like, why are there so many? That's the mission impossible faces. But it's just like, God, this is, that's crazy, dude. That's so many heads up in there that you could use. You could just be anybody and get your way into anywhere. And one of my favorite shots in these two episodes was, is it draconne?

Starting point is 00:08:46 Is that how do you say the dragon's name? Yeah. Seeing. Tyrion's, yeah. Or, yeah, yeah, they both saw them, right, Georgia. But, I mean, the dragons have to obviously are going to play a big part at some point. by the end of the season. So I can't wait till that happens.

Starting point is 00:09:00 Hopefully she's tamed them by then and they're listening to her. So, yeah, I'm just, I'm anxious as well to see that. Well, I have to see. Yeah. And that, that also that shot of her feeding, them, you know, blowing fire onto that. Feasting on the man. And then feasting on him, ripping him apart. That was freaking gnarly, dude.

Starting point is 00:09:22 That was insane. That was a great effect for sure. Because I think they blended a little bit of. practical and CGI, which is my favorite type of way to do those kinds of effects. But I was freaking crazy. I loved it so much. Dude, I mean, right now, though, also, Queen Marjorie and Loris are in jail. They're locked up.

Starting point is 00:09:41 I don't know what you're going to do there. I do not know how we get out of this because that guy, the lead priest guy, is so savage about, like, God that he's like, you lied. you lied about your brother your brother's a pillow biter like I'm like oh god are they gonna like kill him what do they do the only thing I could see possibly happening is lady olena

Starting point is 00:10:07 having a talk with toman and saying dude you need to grow a pair of balls and let your men do some damage on these your wife is like do you want to get you know do you want to have some good times in your bed then free my granddaughter free your wife she would have to sneak in

Starting point is 00:10:24 to King Tomman and find him somewhere because we know Circe won't let her get near her son and I'm like Tom and didn't even say anything I mean he literally just looked at his mom his mom sat there and smiled and I was like I hate like literally

Starting point is 00:10:39 all of this I'm not agreeing with what he did but it resonates with me because I'm not the most confrontational human being so I can understand where he's come from at the same point when your wife and brother-in-law are being dragged off and you have the power to do something do something Yeah, maybe do something.

Starting point is 00:10:57 I mean, here's what I would do. If I didn't do something right then, I would be like, I'm going to play it cool because now I need time to come up with a plan. I mean, yeah, if that's what he's, if that's the long game he's playing, sure. That's not what Tom and said. That's what I would do. Right, right. Tom is just sitting there going, mommy, what do I do?

Starting point is 00:11:16 I mean, at the end of the day again, he's just a young kid. Yeah. And he's in way over his head. And he's got a crazy cuckoo-frikin bananas mom, dude. Yeah, yeah. All right, Care Bear says, hi to us. And she says the Game of Thrones actors often had to film in some pretty tough locations, Icelandic glaciers, Moroccan deserts, and Belfast to rain.

Starting point is 00:11:37 But the visuals are unlike anything in TV. Today, many shows have switched using tech like the volume to create backdrops. If you were on a production, would you choose the creature comforts of new tech or tough it out to be on location? I understand the desire to want to do creature comforts. of new tech for sure. It makes it, I mean, you got to, it definitely makes it a lot easier on the actors, but there's something authentic about being tough on location. For me, as an audience member, it feels more authentic and real and I just appreciate it more. It's kind of like Tom Cruise when he does these dangerous stunts, and God forbid, I hope nothing ever happens because I appreciate

Starting point is 00:12:16 and love him so much, but there's something genuine when it feels more real when they're on location, because there's a lot of times what terror and myself will say when we're watching them on screaming like, it looks really cold there. You can see the, you know, the, the, the smoke coming out of their mouths because it looks like it's freezing on that scene, or you can see the rain coming down, whatever, or the Moroccan desert. It's like, I appreciate that authenticity. So I personally would prefer when they're toughening in out on location, but I understand when

Starting point is 00:12:45 you don't want to do that, and, you know, you probably have to, and you do the, the, the, blue screens and all that, makes life a little bit easier, but it also kind of takes me out of, you know, what we're watching a little bit, but that's just me. The thing is, Care Bearer, if I had an unlimited budget, then I would tough it out on location. What we are not going to see anymore, sadly, we'll only see it with big budgets. Like, people have been making films for a while,

Starting point is 00:13:12 and they want the realistic thing because you can feel it. Those are what you have to have a big budget for that. For smaller stuff, the reason why it's CGI, and, you know, the creature comforts of new tech is just because it's less expensive. Sure, it's easier to get it done because you can have tons of people on one green sink room and make them place them wherever you want. So it's easier to get it done. Sure.

Starting point is 00:13:53 mixture of real live practical car in a tree, but you're in a green sink room so that the background mostly, yes, of what you see fully on screen is CGI, but the rest of it where they are, what they feel is practical. I'm okay with that stuff. I hope we don't lose it, but we are getting to a point where you can really just set an actor down in a chair and build a car around them and change their outfit within a second and not have them actually have to change their makeup or their hair or their outfit or change where they are. And that is, it's a little scary,

Starting point is 00:14:36 which is why as of, I mean, I don't know when this will come out, but as of like Wednesday, January 28th, SAG is still like, hey, we still kind of don't want AI. and they're kind of like, we could strike, though. So they're on and off of like, there could be a strike to say, like, you kind of have to listen up because there has to be regulations. So we'll see. That was a long answer, but there you go.

Starting point is 00:15:01 Well put. Jay Rushden. He's asking you, if Miranda the Rivana, the show, the way they mocked Sansa before the wedding. I mean, look, she's definitely a character that gets a little bit under your skin for sure. and I think she'd be perfect for Ramsey but I'd say right now Circe Ramsey Bolton

Starting point is 00:15:22 those are Ramsey's father rather I think those are right now the actual villains right now especially Ramsey that man is so vindictive and so sadistic and he just makes you want to punch

Starting point is 00:15:39 through the screen and hit him but he's a great actor too because he's you know it's kind of like Joffrey you know they're eliciting those type of reactions out of us, which is the point. They're not supposed to be liked. So I wouldn't call Miranda the villain of the show per se, like just her by herself.

Starting point is 00:15:56 I would say she's an antagonist for sure. But I would say also those other characters right now that, but what we do? Right. Yeah, I would say, you know, I agree with what Andrew was saying, but I'm like, she didn't get to fully mock Sonsa, because Sonsa turned around and clap back.

Starting point is 00:16:12 Which was great. And she was nude as hell and her. bathtub, which is awkward. It makes you feel very vulnerable. And she was like, bitch, don't come for me right now. It's basically what the subtext was. So I really like that. I do think that, you know, because she likes Ramsey so much, but then we got to see her, Miranda specifically, in a vulnerable place with Ramsey, where he's being a total prick to her of being like, don't worry. After I'm done with Sonsa, like I'll still, you'll be around, right? Like, and you're just like, oh, he's the worst.

Starting point is 00:16:48 So we're feeling the brunt of what she has to deal with, and she, like, loves the guy. So that sucks. And we're dealing with, like, her jealousy, all of that juice. It makes her not as villain-esque, right? Because right now, Ramsey is not a human to me. Miranda is a little bit, a little. bit more of a human only because we got the scene where there's jealousy coming up, which is a real human emotion. And Ramsey is just cuckoo bananas up here. I know she is too. They're made for each other. They're both psychopaths. But still, you kind of get what I'm saying. Where I'm like, uh, they set it up nicely where we got to see Miranda in a, in a, uh, vulnerable position. So it's like when she mocks onso, we hate her, but we don't hate her as much as Ramsey. So I really do things.

Starting point is 00:17:42 think like real villain right now is Ramsey. Especially after seeing this episode, I want to freaking kill him. And if I don't get, if somebody doesn't kill him by the time this whole show ends, like, they would never write that. They would never write a villain like that and have him get away with stuff. He's just been on here so long that I'm like, oh, bro. Like, you got it common. Like, whoa.

Starting point is 00:18:08 I just said that reference. I would also say Walter Frey as well, even though we haven't seen. We haven't seen him in a while. I'm trying to think. Who else do you think? I'm trying to think who else. Who do you think the hero is? Oh, I would also say, too, the religious cult people.

Starting point is 00:18:27 Oh, the golden harpy people? Yeah, the, like the religious cult. Yeah, I would say they're pretty wackadoo crazy right now too. They are. They are. Who do you think the heroes are of these two episodes? Oh, I would go definitely Tyrion, Jora. I would also say Sonsa.

Starting point is 00:18:49 I'm going to go John Snow. Yeah, John Snow, of course. I would say Baylish is also an antagonist as well. Because he's a very selfish human being. He's always looking out for himself. Yeah. And he's keeping us on our toes because we really don't know where he's going to go. Never, never.

Starting point is 00:19:03 But he's always, like I said, he's always looking out for himself at the end of the day. Yep. But I really believe that he was like looking out for Sonsa, and that's why I lost my mind. when he goes into Searcy and he says all the juice and I'm like, wait, okay, this might have been his plan the entire time but right now I don't know and that makes me scared. Right.

Starting point is 00:19:22 Like, he's the worst. He's terrible. Okay, do you have any last thoughts for the people, Andrew? No, just excited to see what is going to happen the next, I guess, four episodes to finish the season. I can't wait, hopefully for the dragons to be tamed.

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The Reel Rejects - GAME OF THRONES 5x5 & 5x6 REVIEW – PROTECT SANSA AT ALL COSTS!! – FIRST TIME WATCH – REVIEW

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