Game of Thrones Battles Ranked

Calling Ygritte "Rose" multiple times is both funny and heartwarming.

Like with the Battle of Winterfell, how did plot armor protect THAT MANY main characters. Just a few well known characters died…smh

I can think of a really simple change that could make the Battle of the Bastards better. Instead of Sansa not telling anyone about the knights of the Vale, make it so that Jon and his army knows they’re coming and have them wait near Winterfell for the knights to arrive. When Ramsey learns that the knights are coming, he decides to surprise attack Jon’s army while he still has the upper hand and a bigger army. This fixes the battle on so many levels. Jon still gets to be the underdog, but his objective is to hold out long enough for the knights to arrive, making it less contrived when they do. It also makes Sansa look way better. Finally, it fixes the problem of Ramsey going out of Winterfell to battle, for some reason. In this version, he’d be doing it because he knows he has no chance when Jon’s army meets up with the knights of the Vale. He’s attacking while he has the advantage and element of surprise, but he’s making a rash, in character decision which will ultimately lead to his downfall. It still doesn’t fix the fact that the Knights of the Vale show up right on time to save the day, but I think you can excuse that more when the stuff surrounding it makes much more sense.

The Watchers is a 12/10 surrounded by a bunch of 6-8/10 battles. There’s no comparison except Blackwater.

The one thing I can't understand with Battle of the Bastards, is that there are mountains of bodies which don't correlate to the actual number of men who died both on Jon's and the Bolton's side. Seriously how are there that many bodies? Neither side had that many men!

I know everyone loves "The Battle of the Basterds", but for me it's hard to look passed the logical erros. I mean the Boltons should outnumber Jon's forces by a lot but throughout the battle, it almost look as if the Wildlings have a numerical advantage. I mean it doesn't really feel like anyone died, seeing how there were still so many survivors when the Boltons created the Shield wall. Also, the many bodies that lay on the field are pretty unrealistic. It looks as if both sides suffered way too many casualties. I prefer when battles make sense from a tactical point of view. This is just two cavalries blindly clashing, with a melee afterwards.

Aside from the battles, what still gets me upset is the neglect of the dire wolves :( I’d love to see everyone’s good boy decked out in dragon glass armor

Hardhome has one flaw, how everyone behind the wall died immediately without any cause. The screaming stopping is similar to Dothraki torches snuffing out, visuals over writing.

If there's anything positive to gleam from GoT's complete failure towards the end, it's that we'll never run out of quality content from fans finding new reasons to complain about it even 4 years after it ended.

24:28 Once again accidentally said Rose instead of Ygritte. The real-life dynamic is too strong XD

What’s funny about Sansa not telling Jon is that she knew Rickon was there and still withheld it. She’s a major reason he died imo.

Also about the battle of bastards, Rickon dying and no one even bothering to mention him afterwards is still hilarious

"Where does the light come from? Same place the music does" - someone on the crew of The Lord of the Rings talking about night scene lighting - I think his name was Andrew

At the end of the Battle on the Wall when the nights watch has surrounded Tormund and Jon captures him instead of killing him and Tormund says “I should’ve thrown you from the top of the wall boy!!!” And Jon even though he won but in his heart he was defeated just says “aye, you should’ve” breaks my heart man. That battle was hands down the best one

As far as the battles go: 3.) The Watchers on the Wall 2.) Hardhome 1.) The Blackwater Black water is number because of how badass it was to see Tywin declaring victory to Cersei. Easily one of the best moments in the whole show.

You forgot to mention the plot armor flaw with hardhome. The wights had so many opportunities to kill Jon, one of them could have easily run his spear through him after disarming him, but instead he hits and pushes him, even after that while Jon was down, he could have killed him but instead grabbed him with his hand and threw him. Also how did the giant escape? Ed

you know you're emotionally invested when you call a character by their actor's name 😂

One thing i hate about Hardhome is that Karsi told Jon that he must go with them otherwise the Night's Watch are gonna disobey his orders and kill them, but Jon being Jon decided to stay and fight completely ignoring that Ser Alliser is more likely to do just that.

Jon having plot armor after he's revived could have made sense if he was Azor Ahai. I like the idea of him surviving more and more ridiculous scenarios as long as the people around him didn't also have plot armor and they actually had Jon end the long night

battle of blackwater for me 🔥