Treesicle

**Treesicle** is channel that releases videos going into different topics, often on media or internet culture.

## History

### On *Game of Thrones*

MauLer, Rags, Fringy, Al, and RobotHead first encountered Treesicle on EFAP 36, when they were going over videos defending the final season of Game of Thrones. Treesicle argued in the video "G**ame of Thrones: The Genius of Darkness**" that the battle between the protagonists and the White Walkers was genius, with exceptional cinematography (some of it was neat), and while he normally doesn't go through individual episodes, this episode was so masterfully made that he had to. He described this episode, not the finale, as the culmination of the whole series, as the White Walkers have been in the background since Season 1. He called it a "film" because it's only 10 minutes (actually 8) short of the minimum requirement to be considered a feature film, and if you combine three episodes and then the other three episodes you will get two three-and-a-half-hour movies, which is indeed how combining things work. He described the "impossible" task of telling twenty different characters' stories in the episode, and how they made the narrative cohesive through the chaotic event, by having everyone yell and swish. He praised the episode for opening on the trembling hands of Sam, the most consistently scared character (Sam had already gone through his arc of overcoming his cowardice), to make us feel fear as well. He compared the narrow corridors the characters were confined in to flies in a spiderweb, showing an image of a spiderweb onscreen in case we didn't get it, and said that without a word being said we know that there is a battle coming, when people had been talking about this battle in the episodes leading up to it. The morale is low, and nobody knows if they will survive the night, probably because the tactics used in the battle were so bad. Treesicle praised the episode for not showing any of the fighters early on, except for Theon, and Sam, and all of the warriors with weapons, and Arya, showing that the protagonists have to rely on small numbers, causing us to feel, "unease, uncertainty... not so much helplessness," whatever that means. The protagonists have done all they can to fight the White Walkers, which he compares to a tsunami, and the best they can do now is to run at it, which is not how you deal with a tsunami. He described the scene as evoking two different moods, "Tension" and "Helpless," and then split the characters shown so far into two halves, fighters and non-fighters, despite having said previously that they showed no fighter characters. Suddenly, a filter wiped onto the screen and question marks exploded onto the image, for some reason. Treesicle praised the director for understanding the importance of passing the battle, since eighty-three minutes of only violence would get boring and dampen the effect, and "it's the dialogue and the plot that encompasses the fighting scenes that make an episode exceptional." EFAP countered that long battles can work plenty of times, as long as they give a sense of progression, and not just a dude slashing at a zombie for ten minutes.

He disagrees that it was too dark, because it was meant to be too dark, and the people who complained that it was too dark have darkness in their souls. "The mass pit of blackness" made it more scary because we couldn't see anything, and that if we had been able to see the Night Walkers, it wouldn't have been as good, despite every other battle they've been in having them visible. He described the Night Walkers as covered in shadow, to which Fringy pointed out that nighttime isn't shadow, it's night. The abundance of darkness also means that the light means hope, like the light in the castle and the dragon fire (which will later go on to burn children).

The video got so boring that EFAP didn't want to continue, and MauLer commented that it was his least favorite type of video because while other videos are incompetent, this video is well-produced but says nothing.

## Trivia

* he has weird voice
* Even slowing him down won't make him sound fun