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Game Of Thrones, Season 3, Episode 9.

The Rains of Castamere

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Youtalkingtome

Thank you guys for not spoiling this, because WHAT DID I JUST WATCH????!!!

Yannick Denis-Trudel

Welcome to the club now... we have jackets! ;-) But this is THE major spoiler you have to keep from new watchers, and you know why now!

Yannick Denis-Trudel

Can't wait to see your watch! Going to do that right now...

Pam Nail

I usually just watch the YT edits for GoT, but this one HAS to be seen in full. Welcome to the episode that created the TV reaction channel.

jimmy2k4o .

omg is he ready? is he ready? jk none of us are ever ready for this one

CB

So glad no one ruined it for you! I feel like I've been waiting forever to see your reaction to this episode! A sweet summer child no more!

Yannick Denis-Trudel

It's so tough to see you plan ahead on Arya's reuniting with her family... And there's so much more than the Red Wedding (that's the name of this event BTW) Bran's warg powers shown to us is quite interesting, but easily forgotten after the finale of the episode. And then your reaction when Osha and Ricon leaves, it just shows how the episode is so well balanced... but then the ending.

John Sky

as shocking and disturbing as the scene was, and I consider it to be borderline gore exploitation shlock, this is a huge pivot point and a big refresh, and it's always fun how much the story opens up to so many possibilities going forward from this episode, sort of like an ending to all the geopolitics of the first 3 seasons

TC Elba

probably the worst thing to watch just before heading to work, I needed some time to rant and rave when I saw it. hope work is okay and you're able to take your mind off it. it's so well done with the song where you can just sense something is up

Yannick Denis-Trudel

Little tidbits about the wedding. Remember when Talisa (Rob's wife) talks about how good the Band is on the mezzanine, and then a Frey says "I hope, because they cost enough", well Will Champion, drummer of Coldplay, is in that band as a cameo.

Lady Stoneheart (UnCat)

Didn't see your reaction yet, but now maybe you know what that spoiler convo was (if you saw it) I have been waiting for you to get to this spot before I watch all the edits because I didn't want to comment and spoil anything. ❤️

Sarah P

- SO sorry you had to go to work after this — no one is ever ready for it. Other people have mentioned that it’s such an iconic moment that it gets referred to as “The Red Wedding”. Guaranteed — when you started this series, everyone who’d seen it before had the thought, “Yay! . . . But oh no . . . I have to witness this poor man witness THAT!” Not to say that there aren’t shocking and violent things to come, but this is a pretty brutal way of instilling a sense of “be prepared for anything” in your audience. - I think you are a sensible amount of “sap”, but I’m sorry that you had to cry twice in one episode! The actor playing Rickon really sells that scene in the tower. This episode is incredibly brutal to the Stark family. I don’t want to make you cry again if this hasn’t already occurred to you, but — Jon, Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon are the only ones left. That’s a gut punch in of itself!

nj

as soon as you said this'll be a quick one because you have to go to work. and that maybe walder frey isn't so bad. and something positive about having two weddings in a row. 😬🤐😶 welcome to the other side of sweet summer childhood. a couple years ago i was talking with a friend who hadn't watched the show and didn't want to. she said she felt like she got the gist of it from the zeitgeist - rattling off some plot points she was aware of, "oh, and of course the red wedding, where apparently some guy gets killed." me: um, yes. some guy. and his wife. and his unborn baby. and his mother. and his dog (wolf). and a bunch of soldiers from his army. all right as his little sister, who hadn't seen them since the beginning of season 1, was just pulling up to be reunited with her family and saw people murdering the wolf and soldiers. 🤷‍♀️

dys

One of the more major changes from the books is Robb's wife, she's much more of a developed character in the show. In the book he basically has a one-night stand with the daughter of a noble but minor lord (Westerosi, not a foreigner from Volantis), and his sense of honor compels him to marry her. They seem happy enough (until this point, obviously), but she's pretty meek and barely a character, nothing like the romance we get in the show. Which makes this episode that much more tragic... It was definitely a massive fucking gut punch to read, I'm sure I said "no no no" out loud while reading just like you did here. This season only covers the first half of the third book, next season covers the other half, and the third book overall is my favorite of the series if that tells you anything.

nj

@lady stoneheart (uncat) love the name, btw.

dys

Yeah Ned's death is way too thoroughly spoiled in pop culture now, and it's easy to get complacent and think that was just to set the stakes that anyone could die but they wouldn't really kill all these beloved characters, right?

dys

That spoiler about a certain subplot is probably safe to spoil at this point since it was cut from the show entirely anyway.

dys

If you remember Cersei's speech to Margaery last episode about House Reyne of Castamere... how the Lannisters destroyed that whole family... And then if you've noticed we've heard people sing the song The Rains of Castamere several times, Bronn was singing it with the Lannister soldiers at the beginning of Blackwater for example... it's the Lannister song, and that's the melody the wedding band started playing right before shit went down.

Mithroch

Our sweet summer child has grown up. Welcome to one of the most anticipated scenes on any reactors journey. When this aired... people who had read the books and knew what was coming filmed the reactions of their unaware friends. Compilations of these reactions quickly followed and were shown on just about every morning show the following week... as well as during a George R R Martin interview on one of the late night shows. While reaction channels did exist... the viral explosion of reactions to The Red Wedding brought them into mainstream culture... and now... here you are with a channel of your own. BTW... if you want a bit of a giggle... watch some of those first reactions... though... maybe wait until you've gotten over the shock of the scene... because they reshow it each time.

dys

Martin does write one episode of each of these seasons, but it's a different episode in each one. The only episode 9 he wrote was Blackwater.

Lady Stoneheart (UnCat)

Yup that's why I'm here, but I initially had an illustration as my pfp so I just avoided this place altogether until I changed that lol. Might change it back now but might not. I even made cat lowercase juuuust in case because people be p savvy these days ... but imma change that back now

Lady Stoneheart (UnCat)

Yep, ironically, you owe your even being on here doing this to this episode 😭

trenton gragg

“You’re in the great game now. And the great game is terrifying.” This episode was the apex of YouTube reaction content. In 2013, there were so many reaction videos to this episode. It was truly a television moment, I remember being a little depressed that Monday morning at work after this episode. Michelle Fairley, should’ve received a supporting actress Emmy nomination for this season and this episode for portraying Catlyn Stark.

dys

We might be some of the few who've read the books posting here anyway... be my guest to dumping the info on your screenname if you want

Roland Cooke

> Joe is so shell-shocked, he forgets to move house... <

Kallie Pampuch

I’m really glad you weren’t spoiled on this at all. THE NORTH WILL REMEMBER THIS MOMENT

Roland Cooke

It was a little disconcerting to see you need your inhaler _before_ the episode started proper.... 🥶

Roland Cooke

I deliberately (and carefully!) re-briefed Joe on the story elements about the noble Reynes of Castermere, including the infamous song about their demise, The Rains of Castermere.

Roland Cooke

The Red Wedding is inspired by The Black Dinner held in Scotland in 1440. https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/06/the-black-dinner-an-event-that-inspired-the-red-wedding-in-game-of-thrones/139523

Roland Cooke

Joe's competitors... 😉 https://youtu.be/TZZpdHMo4UQ?si=MNJ4NlSRZ9QKv0Ih

Roland Cooke

The look of relief on Joe's face when he sees that Edmure's arranged marriage isn't a horrorshow was delightful. It'll all be fine! 🤣

Roland Cooke

There's almost zero spoiling of this episode, because everyone loves to see the unadulterated shock and horror....

Roland Cooke

I just found out that Joe's day job is in bomb disposal. Luckily that's not a job where emotional stability is critical.... 😉

dys

It'll be totally awesome because she's an attractive girl at least 15 years younger than he is. I'm sure that is a recipe for a great marriage where they don't know each other and her 75 year old father just arranged for his whole family to be killed.

dys

I don't think that's how asthma works Roland...

Youtalkingtome

Is Lady Stoneheart a GOT thing? Also I don't think I've had such a visceral reaction to anything more than that

Youtalkingtome

I was able to manage. I talked to some friends at work who have seen it and they were so excited to talk about it

Youtalkingtome

They really went for it. Just gore everywhere and the stabbing of the belly literally churns my stomach.

dys

It is but I'll let Lady Stoneheart tell you about it, because it isn't in the show at all.

Youtalkingtome

I am glad that I get to share this with you all. This community means everything to me and I won't spoil a second of this show for anyone. Thanks for being here guys

dys

I was team "if Tyrion or Jon Snow die I will quit this series" after reading the Red Wedding in this book. Not telling you what happens to them after this, I could've changed my mind, that's just where my headspace was for the limited number of characters I still liked at that point in the book.

John Sky

the size of the worldbuilding was what made the books fun, the books are full of minor characters and minor houses that dont even get mentioned in the television adaptation, think of one major house like a kingdom and the nobles in that kingdom being minor houses, some houses as small as one village as you move into the next seasons the differences become massive (and of course the books aren't even done), we're talking characters being dead/alive, entire wars and battles happening, huge plot elements being prepared in the books without any resolution in sight, etc.) when you're done with the HBO show, I really hope you check out some readings from the books on youtube of some insanely cool scenes/chapters that aren't even attempted in the tv series, because of these gigantic differences between TV show and books the theorycrafting and discussions about what the books will bring is still very much alive

Lady Stoneheart (UnCat)

Aww Joe, we ALL know how you feel. People in the 90s threw their books across the room and refused to pick them up for weeks. I binged this show just before the last season came out by the urging of my roommate at the time and I was AGOG (sorry another channel is watching Severance) at this scene. I didn't even know what to think except WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME?!!! Then I end up doing the same thing to a friend who literally said not a single word and left and was in a mood for a week. It's supposed to have this affect, the real consequences of breaking oaths (time and time again) and waging in battle. Take all the time you need to process/recoupe, we all had to ... and yes this will probably stick with you forever. It still hits every time. That's why I am channeling the spirit of Lady Stoneheart, to cope.

Lady Stoneheart (UnCat)

I skip Catelyn's cry every single time. I just can't. Michele Fairley NAILED IT SOLID. And would have made the PERFECT LS 🫶🏾 I think GRRM said they cried together when she read the script.

Roland Cooke

YouTube is FULL of people filming the reactions of their friends and family to this scene. :)

Kristi Govertsen

As someone who had read the books (and, yes, I threw it across the room at the end of The Red Wedding scene), knowing TRW was coming in the TV show didn’t make the scene in the show any less shocking or awful. The one thing that did (and still does) surprise me,is that almost no therapists completely altered their practices to focus solely on helping GOT fans’ trauma. They would have made a killing. *rimshot*

Roland Cooke

Eh, I'm on daily Symbicort with a (very rarely used) Ventolin for emergencies, so I sympathise. My allergies actually got a lot better after I moved to the USA, which was a happy surprise.

Youtalkingtome

Kevin here. I asked Joe this morning with a smile: "so, you finally saw the Red Wedding yesterday?" He started with "OH MY GOD!" He was still shaken.

Sarah P

We’re glad you decided to go on this journey — and, emotionally, we ARE thinking of you in the difficult bits.

Lady Stoneheart (UnCat)

I believe George R.R. Martin wrote this scene last in A Storm of Swords because even he was heartbroken to do it. In the books, Catelyn is so distraught by Robb's death, she scratches her face bloody while laughing hysterically, so they slit her throat to end it.