'Hardhome' #ForTheThrone Clip | Game of Thrones | Season 5

If they get through, everyone dies #ForTheThrone.
The final season of Game of Thrones returns in April.

[thesurge]

Those were the days when you actually thought the threat of the north king would materialize into something beyond measure by the end of the show.

[garrettdownes]

The moment he raised his hands and they all started getting back up with blue eyes was one of the best moments in TV history

[d.eliiii]

One of the best scenes of the entire show.

[polak]

The silence and Jon's look is impeccable in 3:38 because he know they are fucked.

[divinegokublack]

When the Night King reached the end of the dock, I had a real hard time believe he wouldn’t simply step onto the water and freeze it. Like imagine how much more of a nightmare it would be, trying to row away while the water beneath you was freezing AND you were being chased by a growing army of the dead. Like holy shit

[danielfilipek]

To be honest i enjoyed this one way more than Battle of Winterfell...

[SHVideografie]

Some say season 1-4 were the best of the show, but a couple of episodes of season 5 and 6 were some of the best the show had to offer.

[posham]

I was talking with a friend who was complaining about why the night king didn't attack hardhome sooner to which I explained that the night king was probably fattening the turkey. Everyone in the north in one place and if they stay there, they reproduce and giving him more dead. He only attacked when jon arrived because the turkey was escaping.

[kikavader]

This episode STILL creeps me out!! One of the best in my opinion.

[jeremikarpinski]

The moment when Jon’s valyrian steel sword clashed with the white walker’s. THE BEST moment in the entire show imo

[shadypikachu]

this scene single handedly ended the entire series of the walking dead

[andrewroughanproductions]

This still remains my favourite GOT moment. The whole episode is just such a great way to set up everything to come and is just such an amazing piece of storytelling. The brief moments of hope as we learn that white walkers can be killed and that they have the weapons to do it. Followed by the incredible way that they execute that ending, completely shutting off all hope against insermountable odds. The measured way that the Night King just barely acknowledges the sheer desperate escape by simply staring Jon down and raising the army back up, now with new recruits. He doesn't even try to kill them, he knows they are so utterly demoralised he has won already. Then that wide shot of sheer numbers and scale and you realise, as an audience, all the politcing, all the struggles for the throne, it just does not mean a damn. This shifted the whole paradigm of the show. The villain, the REAL villain of the show who has always been lurking off screen, truly announces his arrival.

A real shame there was never a satisfying payoff for all this work.

[PrabhanjanMangalgi]

From 2:10 to 4:10, everything (cinematography, BGM, acting etc...) in every frame of this entire sequence deserves seperate awards. This scene is, literally, more than terrifying. From the characters physical and mental strength perspective, Except Jon Snow no one would've had the stomach enough to see what Jon faced here.

[leslief]

1:57 Tormund's face expression always gets me as he watches his people get slaughter. He's truly heartbroken.

[codcastrecall]

D&D: "It didn't feel...right...for Jon to be the one to kill the Nightking"

*This episode clearly setting up the conflict between the Nightking and Jon

[adddddwait]

All that built up tension between jon and the night king
And Arya got to kill him. Well fucking done

[sammcoin]

i love this whole sequence it’s in my top 3 in the entire show. When the Nights Watch first arrive at Hardhome the wide shot shows the area was lively with people moving freely going about their business it and basically living their own separate lives and the episode ends on the same exact shot it began with only EVERYTHING is dead still.. the boat isn’t being rowed, the whits are motionless, even the water has little to no ripples from all the commotion, the characters and the viewer are stuck in a void of nothingness and silence until the credits begin rolling while ur still in total shock of how abruptly everything happens… i still vividly remember the chills i got watching this episode for the 1st time and was one of the few bright spots in the 2nd half of the show

[Jojo-kviv]

Wun Wun was one of the bravest and kindest characters on the show. At this point theres no doubth that the giants will soon go extinct and that he might even be the last one alive. Yet, he stil wants to give his last to protect his cute little human friends. Such as (at 0:52), shielding them from the walkers until they are safe.

[liamdenise]

What I love, is how smart the night king is. The white walkers aren't the undead, not reanimated corpses. They're alive, with intelligence and actual intentions and plans, and expressions, heck they have their own armour and weapons plus obviously have a command system, . When Jon blocks the blow, you can see the white walker actually is shocked, looking at him in shock, almost looking at him in curiosity as if to ask something. When Sam is seen by the white walker, it actually rolls it's eyes in annoyance at the sight of in it's mind such a weak and useless person, and then calls out making the gesture with it's sword for the army of wights to advance, when the night king looks at Jon and reanimates the dead, you can see it's curiosity and smugness at these humans who escaped, and at the one who killed one of it's lieutenants in almost impressed look, then doing so in a gesture to tell the people they are nothing to it and will be defeated soon.
When the white walker sees the fire and goes to investigate in the wight hunt, you see it showing curiosity and looking for clues as to who it belongs to.

The night king was doing everything by a plan. First, he took his time wiping out the children of the forest, so that Bran finds the last hiding in a cave with wards specifically to repel them, because he knew they had magic necessary to defeat him and the weapons necessary to do so, dragonglass. Then, he slowly picks off the nights watch, doing so that Jeor Mormont is left with no choice but to lead a expedition to find out what's going on, sending men north of the wall. He also goes after the wildings slowly, not to kill them all yet but to drive them all south, knowing the nights watch will not let them through. He then also over the years takes Crasters sons, to build his numbers of white walkers, while also creating more contention between the wilding groups by this. He gets the white walkers to lead the attack on the great ranging at the fist, letting them get all this way north so when they do, they have no wildings or escape nearby, so they can massacre most of the men, sending them south to Crasters keep where he knows they will have a mutiny likely killing more, and so eliminates the men who have seen wights and white walkers and are loyal to the watch and know the threat, like Jeor.He then lets the two sides kill each other, knowing the wildings will go to one place only, Hardhome. He then waits, until Jon and the other men arrive to try and rescue them, doing so when they are unprepared and knowing most of the people are outside the fortified town, so that by the time they are aware and begin to arm themselves, he's already taken the majority down.He then lets them escape, showing his power to terrify them knowing they have no proof they are real, while simultanously also knowing the few remaining wildings being let south will just result in more death of the nights watch. Then, he bides his time, building his army by scouring the lands beyond the wall for more bodies, letting the kingdoms further weaken, because remember they only start acting after the war of the five kings begins, because at that time the armies would be too many while by season 8 the land of Westeros is extremely decimated, particularly in the north. He then traps the men on the rock island, waiting for the dragons to show up, knowing he will do so which is why he has no reaction, he knows she'll burn some of his army but he also knows three dragons can't be easily controlled, so one will be easy to target. Then, he drags it out and makes it a white walker dragon, using the magic in it to destroy the wall, when he finally has enough power to reach the lands south of the wall, and with no children of the forest left to ward him off, and he does so.Then he marches his army through, targeting each settlement down to Winterfell, knowing everyone is there.But then season 8 dumbs it down and makes the army so slow and weak Sam survives crying lying on the ground against many wights while they shuffle slowly towards Jamie and Brienne because for some reason they're speed is now generic slow zombie.What a waste.

[BatmanHQYT]

Hands down one of the best moments in the entire series. I love how this battle wasn't played as "epic fight" but "what the fuck just happened". The dead silence at the end as Jon stares at the undead horde felt like I was actually there.