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00:00He'll come for me.

00:03He's tried before, many times with many three-eyed ravens."

00:07The second episode of Season 8 gave us a crucial scene

00:10that finally explained what the entire Game of Thrones fandom

00:13has been wondering about for years now,

00:15what the Night King is after, and on a deeper level,

00:18what his quest represents.

00:20He wants to erase this world, and I am its memory.

00:29The endless night that the Night King aims to bring to Westeros

00:32is translated for us by Bran and Samwell Tarly

00:35as the destruction of all living memory.

00:38That's what death is, isn't it?

00:40Forgetting.

00:41This scene pretty much dismisses the widespread fan theory

00:44that Bran is the Night King,

00:46but it also explains why that theory was so persuasive to some.

00:51There's a deep link between Bran and the Night King.

00:53His mark is on me.

00:55He always knows where I am.

00:56The two are mirrors of one another.

00:59One is memory, and the other is forgetting.

01:02So let's linger on this for a moment and unpack what it really means.

01:06If the Night King's forgetting equates with death,

01:09then the series is saying memory is life.

01:12I can see everything, everything that's ever happened to everyone.

01:17In fact, memory is a good definition of what separates the army of the dead

01:21from the army defending Winterfell.

01:23The Night King's wights are reanimated corpses

01:25who have the basic hallmarks of life,

01:27they can move and pose a very grave threat to the living,

01:31but they have no knowledge of who they are or what they've seen.

01:33If we forget where we've been and what we've done,

01:36we're not men anymore, just animals.

01:40Through this theme, the series is getting somewhat meta,

01:43as we are all engaged in watching and exercise in preserving humankind's memory.

01:48This story is loosely inspired by medieval history,

01:51as well as classics of literature and fantasy.

01:54Most fundamentally, it's trying to pass down to us

01:56the deeper lessons history has taught us about power, love, survival,

02:01and the bigger picture.

02:02But before you leave, you must learn.

02:08Learn what?

02:09Everything.

02:11This sentimental gathering on the eve of the battle against death itself

02:15reminds us that, if we don't preserve this shared, better self,

02:18we don't just lose life, we've lost what makes life valuable.

02:23So in this crucial scene revealing Bran's ultimate importance,

02:26the show subtly announces its own ambition

02:29to bring us closer to that precious font of memory,

02:32because stories that contain the truth

02:34are the key to making us alive in a real sense.

02:37Your memories don't come from books.

02:40Your stories aren't just stories.

02:42If I wanted to erase the world of men, I'd start with you.

02:45In light of this message, it makes sense that the rest of this episode

02:48is about ghosts and the memories and truths these ghosts carry with them.

02:52Near the end, we get a melancholy song from Brienne's Squire Podrick.

02:56And she never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave.

03:07And it feels like the lyrics are speaking about passionately wanting to live,

03:12not wanting to leave this life, which is here deeply intertwined with wanting to remember.

03:18I remember the first time we were here, the first time I saw this hole.

03:23The first line of this song, Jenny of Old Stones, comes from the books,

03:26while the rest was written for the show.

03:28The lyrics tell of a young woman dancing with ghosts.

03:31Jenny would dance with her ghosts.

03:35And as the army of the dead gets ready to strike,

03:38it's as if all of our characters' ghosts are present at Winterfell,

03:42symbolically in formation ready to pounce on the living.

03:45The episode ends with Jon telling Daenerys the secret he's dreaded bringing to light.

03:51My real name is Aegon Targaryen.

03:57And just like his conversation with Samwell,

04:00again this painful moment of truth happens in a crypt.

04:03So it's as if the truth itself comes from our ghosts below ground.

04:07Though it remained buried a long time, it's still there ready to rise again.

04:12The way that each character reacts to truth in this episode is symbolic.

04:16Daenerys responds to Jon's information with anger.

04:19It's impossible.

04:20We see this Targaryen rage coming out of her more and more

04:23when she doesn't get her way.

04:25If you can't help me take it back, I'll find another hand who can.

04:28And here we might notice that Jon lies to protect Sam from Dany's wrath.

04:32Who told you this?

04:35Bronn.

04:36He saw it.

04:38He saw it?

04:39And Samwell confirmed it.

04:41So even this incredibly trusting man who loves her

04:44fears that she will rush to fury before fair judgment.

04:48Dany's first response is, predictably, skepticism.

04:50A secret no one in the world knew, except your brother and your best friend.

04:57But Jon isn't interested in wasting time on denial.

04:59It's true, Dany.

05:01I know it is.

05:03And this look he gives her before they're interrupted betrays a disappointment

05:06that her first instinct is a selfish and defensive concern for her claim.

05:10You'd have a claim to the Iron Throne.

05:12If the incestuous implications aren't the main issue here,

05:15then she's also not being logical.

05:18If they got married, two claims are better than one.

05:21A proposal is what I'm proposing.

05:23So the fact that she assumes there's a need to compete and wants to be the sole primary

05:28ruler underlines a key difference between the two as leaders.

05:32In the next week's scenes, we hear Sansa say,

05:34The most heroic thing we can do now is look the truth in the face.

05:39True to form, the unfailingly decent and dutiful Jon faces the truth with a reluctant,

05:44mournful acceptance.

05:46But Dany has become so attached to a particular narrative of herself,

05:54that she's resisting any evidence that contradicts her narrative.

05:57And this impulse to strong-arm the facts is the hallmark of rulers who abuse their power.

06:03Someday you'll sit on the throne and the truth will be what you make it.

06:06Meanwhile, Tyrion, despite his recent faltering,

06:10reminds us again why he's the smartest of our central characters.

06:13You're here because of your mind.

06:15As he enthusiastically steps up to welcome the truth with open arms.

06:19You've had a strange journey.

06:21Stranger than most.

06:22I'd like to hear about it.

06:24This moment epitomizes Tyrion's devotion to making knowledge his best friend,

06:28to attempt to know the full story.

06:30It's a long story.

06:32If only we were trapped in a castle, in the middle of winter with nowhere to go.

06:38And we can only wonder what useful insights he may have gleaned from this off-screen conversation.

06:43Meanwhile, we see Jaime forced to face his truth publicly,

06:46as he's put on trial by a collection of his former enemies for his many past sins.

06:51When I was a child, my brother would tell me a bedtime story about the man who murdered our father.

06:59Jaime's more recent good deeds save him from death.

07:02You vouch for him.

07:04I do.

07:05You would fight beside him.

07:07I would.

07:08Yet crucially, Jaime stands behind his so-called sins because he did them for the right reasons.

07:14Everything I did, I did for my house and my family.

07:17I'd do it all again.

07:18Thus, the Raven's line to Jaime,

07:20The things we do for love.

07:21is not just a veiled nod to Jaime's attack on Bran,

07:24The things I do for love.

07:26But also an unironic statement.

07:29Jaime really did do it all for love.

07:32And that's why, even in his haughtiest early days, he was so likable.

07:36No matter what you do, you're forsaking one power or another.

07:39He did terrible things honestly, not letting himself off with self-deception like other characters do.

07:45What were you thinking?

07:46I was thinking of us.

07:47You're a bit late to start complaining about it now.

07:49As Tyrion says of Jaime's love for Cersei,

07:51She never fooled you.

07:53You always knew exactly what she was.

07:56We loved her anyway.

07:58In this scene, Bran chooses not to share Jaime's greatest sin of all with the group.

08:03Why didn't you tell them?

08:04So while we're seeing this moral that one must face the truth,

08:08at the same time the Three-Eyed Raven demonstrates a complimentary wisdom.

08:12If you are far smarter than the limited minds around you,

08:15there's a value to being selective about the truths you reveal.

08:18As a superior intellect understands how pieces of the truth influence human behavior.

08:23You won't be able to help us in this fight if I let them murder you first.

08:27On the theme of ghosts, this episode also returns to three different unresolved loves

08:32who have been haunting one another.

08:34The reunited Arya and Gendry finally act on their feelings.

08:37We're probably going to die soon.

08:41I ought to know what it's like before that happens.

08:45In their time apart, both have solidified their identities as fighters.

08:49Are you going to be down in the crypt?

08:50No, but-

08:51But you're a fighter.

08:52Now they try to put on a brave face for this battle.

08:55He's got many faces.

08:56I look forward to seeing this one.

08:58But after their love scene, we even see Arya's fearless mask drop for just a moment,

09:04as she contemplates the war against death itself.

09:07Sansa and Theon reunite at the place they once escaped together,

09:11and the intensity of feeling between them sends an interesting message about

09:16how living through terrible things can bring people together.

09:19Your name is Theon Greyjoy.

09:24Last surviving son of Balon Greyjoy, Lord of the Iron Islands.

09:27Do you hear me?

09:28Despite what Theon did to the Starks,

09:31his brave sacrifice in rebelling against his terrifying abuser gave Sansa life.

09:35I'll know them away.

09:36No, I won't make you without you.

09:39These two ultimate victims are the only ones who understand the trauma each other endured.

09:44It can't be any worse.

09:45It can.

09:46It can always be worse.

09:49And they've come through that experience with a stronger-than-ever sense of self and purpose.

09:54If Sansa is in love with Theon, and if Arya were to get pregnant by Gendry,

09:58this would be an interesting reversal of where we expected each Stark girl to end up.

10:03Sansa wanted to be a traditional lady who mothered lords.

10:05I love him, and I'm meant to be his queen and have his babies.

10:09Seven hells.

10:10But Theon can't father any children thanks to,

10:12I'm not killing you.

10:15Just making a few alterations.

10:18Arya once dismissed the idea of motherhood.

10:20That's not me.

10:21Yet she's become so confident in her own skin that we saw her take control

10:25of her first sexual experience with the daring that defines her.

10:29I'm not the red woman.

10:31Take your own bloody pants off.

10:33And we can imagine her taking on parenthood with the same sense of agency

10:37and lack of concern of doing it the usual way.

10:39Meanwhile, if Gendry and Arya's night together does produce a Baratheon Stark heir,

10:44that could ultimately complicate lines of succession for the Iron Throne.

10:48But that's a major if, relying on certain people not surviving,

10:52and Arya avoiding the tragic fate of the aunt she so reminds people of,

10:57Lyanna Stark.

10:58The greatest love story of this episode is that of Jaime and Brienne,

11:02and their romance with knighthood itself.

11:04Arise, Brienne of Tarth.

11:08A knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

11:10We have a whole video coming up about Brienne,

11:13so we'll be digging more into this there.

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