A Million Ways to Die in Westeros

Theodore 2022-01-29 08:09:09

All are mortal. This is true of people in reality, and the same is true of literary and film and television works that have been artistically processed on the basis of reality. Watching more movies and TV series, the audience can gradually sum up the rules: the supporting roles die casually, and the protagonist has a halo body protection and can always turn bad luck into good luck. It's a pity that this experience of the audience is completely invalid in front of this "A Song of Ice and Fire". The show has a deranged original writer and writer, so none of the characters on the show are safe, no matter how popular they are.

Just killing these characters can't reflect the madness of the screenwriters. What's even more outrageous is that those who died, those who were regarded as the protagonists by the audience, would put a lot of their own emotions into them. Most of them died miserably; and those who were on the opposite side of the protagonist and did all the bad things, either would never die, and even if they did, they would die very comfortably. The screenwriter abuses the characters in the drama, but he is also indirectly abusing the audience, but even so, the audience still does not give up, and the online rating of this drama is still higher than season by season, it seems that we all have a bit of Stockholm Syndrome. Abuse me thousands of times, and I treat the ice and fire like first love.

Note that the text below contains a lot of spoilers. Spoilers only include episodes that have aired so far, so if you've watched every episode of the TV series, you can safely scroll down, because I'm not a fan of the original, and I don't know more than you. As for the friends who are behind in the viewing progress or even just interested and have not officially started watching, although I think my spoiler can be regarded as a kind of resistance to the bloody screenwriters, and the audience who was spoiled have some You may be more mentally prepared in the face of those sudden character deaths, but you still need to warn in advance to avoid accidental injuries.

The death of Ned Stark in the first season is absolutely unexpected for those who haven't read the original. After watching it at the time, I smugly thought, how could the first protagonist die so easily? It must be a suspended animation, with pubic hair, and will be resurrected soon, and there will be a big reversal within two episodes. As a result, I waited until the second season before I finally accepted the reality that this shit is really dead. The first protagonist, the person painted on the poster, gives the impression that people all over the world are dead, and he can still stand on the cusp of the storm and hold the person hovering around the sun and the moon, but he died so uselessly. In fact, the fact that his actor is the famous Uncle Bento Didou is equivalent to sounding the alarm for the audience early in the morning. But judging from the progress of the plot, it is really difficult for the average audience to expect this character to die so quickly. Usually, the more depressed the protagonist is suppressed by the enemy in front, the more fun the resistance will be at the back, just like the more the ball is pressed down, the higher it will bounce. Ned Stark has been affected by all kinds of birds from the first episode, and the whole fortune is all the way down. Just when I was expecting him to bottom out near the end of the season, he died. Never thought that he would end his own life like this, what a life without dignity.

It was a little hard to accept the death of this character at first, but after watching the sixth episode of the latest season, I finally figured it out. The character of Ned Stark should be damned. Faced with the same predicament, Tyrion chose to roar and fight, maintaining his nobility as a lion. In contrast, Ned Stark can be regarded as a confused person. He was pedantic when he should be flexible, and he failed to retain his last integrity when he was caught in the dead. Of course, it's also his bad luck that he encountered the super bug, Qiao Dadi, the strongest bear boy in history, and no one will come to save him if he breaks his throat.

Ned Stark's eldest son, Robb, was quickly established as a new generation of heroes. Young and promising, invincible, and quickly accumulated a high popularity. So, the screenwriter began to prepare for the harvest. Regarding the red wedding, there is actually a foreshadowing in front of it, so Robb will hit the street because of this, and the audience is supposed to be psychologically prepared. But the screenwriters are ruthless, and they still have a way to catch us by surprise in the face of audiences who are already on guard. In the Red Wedding episode, the atmosphere in the first half was too peaceful and harmonious, and even though I had been spoiled by the fact that Robb would die in this episode, I was still skeptical when I saw it halfway through. Then the screenwriter suddenly got into trouble, and Robb's family was killed like a chicken. After his father died, his head was cut off by King Justin Bieber to play with, and he was no better. After his head was beheaded, a wolf's head was sewn on, and his body was molested by a bunch of thugs. Both grandpas were abused to the death, and the audience had a psychological shadow about putting themselves in the role of the wolf family.

Corresponding to these two men, King Justin Bieber, an unprecedented bear child in the history of film and television dramas, actually persisted tenaciously until the fourth season, and he who abused countless people was poisoned so easily, and he was dying. He also proudly humiliated Tyrion, who looks the safest so far, has the most audiences, and is also the most popular. Even if the fuck is dead, let Tyrion slap him a few more times before he dies to make us have fun. It's been a long time since I had a slap in the face, can we still play happily together? As a viewer, I cannot accept the death of our king, and I strongly request to return it and send it back to die!

I feel that such an important character as King Justin Bieber has died this season, and the rest of the people should be safe. If you follow the show with this naive idea, the screenwriter will definitely shoot you with blood. In the eighth episode just past, another popular character hit the street. Generally, an important character has to be active for a few seasons first, and then wait until the popularity is fattened. When the audience formed this fixed impression, they fell into the trap of the screenwriter. Prince Oberyn, who attracted a lot of attention as soon as he appeared this season with his bohemian image and exotic accent and style, seems to be a new and important role, and he should be hanging around for a few more seasons. As a result, the seventh episode just had a heart-to-heart conversation with Tyrion, which made the audience's favorability to him rise to a peak, and the eighth episode suffered a headshot. The screenwriter is really brutal. Not only is he bloodthirsty, but his killing methods are still evolving, so it's hard to guard against it. Prince Oberon gave the impression that he was Zhao Zilong from Changshan at the beginning, but he became the general Pan Feng in the end. Of course, it's not entirely fair to him to say that, because he is indeed powerful, but I just hope he can remember in the next life that no matter how many words he has, he will first cut off his opponent's tendons and hamstrings before speaking slowly. He is not a red viper, he is a red parrot.

That's it for the topic of dead people, let's go to the next point. As mentioned above, Prince Oberyn's spear performance reminded me of Zhao Yun, a famous general of the Three Kingdoms. In fact, when I had nothing to do a few days ago, I was thinking of making an analogy between the characters in "Binghuo" and the characters of the Three Kingdoms. Ned and Robb are Sun Jian and Sun Ce, especially Robb, who have the power of being invincible and invincible. The little prince Bran should naturally be Sun Quan, and he should be like Sun Zhongmou when he has a child, but it is not bad to be able to give birth to a beautiful boy with super powers like Bran. In fact, I think the closest literary image to Bran should be the cartoon character Professor X. If you want to find one in the Three Kingdoms, it would be Zhuge Liang, who often used a wheelchair in his later years. Super powers are almost there. His sister Arya is the First Lord Liu Bei! In fact, I want to say that she is Conan's, and she has the kind of domineering that makes people die wherever she goes. But if we want to talk about the characters of the Three Kingdoms, it is Liu Bei, who fled everywhere, and took the opportunity of sending him under the fence to give all the people who took him to Xiangrui. Arya needs to be more ruthless, and others have already been auspicious by her before they have time to see her face. King Justin Bieber can correspond to Sun Hao, the last monarch of Wu State, but his younger brother King Toman has a faint feeling of Emperor Xian of Han. The cheap dad Robert of the two is reminiscent of Dong Zhuo in appearance. Although he is not that bad, he is also a foolish king, and he is not a godfather. He has to carry half of King Justin Bieber's shit. , so Dong Zhuo. As for Tai Wen, who was holding his grandson to make the princes, it should naturally be Cao Cao, but his country is now in jeopardy. And Littlefinger, who has been making waves behind his back, has the taste of a genius Jia Xu, but his ambitions are much bigger than the latter. Stannis and Renly, these two brothers are completely copies of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. They are the same living treasure brothers. The two brothers look down on each other. Although they are quite powerful together, they have to fight each other. died.

Finally, including me, the hearts of many viewers, Tyrion Lannister. Defending King's Landing and defeating Stannis' fleet with fire attack is comparable to Zhou Yu's burning Chibi. It is a pity that Tyrion does not have the peerless appearance of the latter, and it is because of this that he has been looked down upon by the world. No matter how hard he tries, he will not be recognized by the people around him, including his relatives. Now that the verdict of the contest has come out, Tyrion's life is hanging by a thread, and his situation is precarious. Exactly how he ended, and whether he could save the day, let's look at the next episode.
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above part is written in the eighth After viewing. I watched the ninth episode a few days ago. It was a full episode of the Great Wall attack and defense, and it was also an episode where the crew showed everyone where the budget was spent. The action part is indeed not inferior to the production level of the movie. My favorite is the scythe, which has the feeling of a lawnmower in "Plants vs. Zombies". However, this episode is completely different from the scriptwriter's usual style that I mentioned above, which has always been careless and terrifying at every turn. In terms of rhythm, it takes care of the habit of watching movies, TV dramas and cartoons for so many years as an old-fashioned audience like me. The place is warm, the place that should be warm is warm, there is no crazy reversal of WTF like the competition judge in the last episode and the previous Red Wedding (I was abused by the screenwriter, and I was mentally prepared for the fat man to die in this episode.) I feel that as long as I rehearse this worst-case scenario in my brain, I should not be scared).

I've been spoiled for a long time about Igritte's death in episode 9, and even if no one gets to know me, her fate is probably predictable. When I was first exposed, I heard that she would be killed by Jon Snow, but in the play, a supporting character who was most hated by others was asked to do it, so the result presented was not abusive at all, only the remaining Full of warmth and a touch of sadness. Most of the scenes of the dead people who were shocked at first glanced at me for a while, and then quickly let go; and the death in this episode was already expected, and there was no psychological impact at all. It was as if the heartstrings were lightly picked, and then kept vibrating there with an almost imperceptible small amplitude. Before she died, she and Jon Snow could finally let go of everything and say some heartfelt love. The death of Igritte is probably the most comfortable death scene among the death scenes of important characters in the show so far, although this kind of comfort can't make up for the regret of the poor life.

Since this episode is different from the previous one, there is no switching of perspective and stage, so the suspense about Tyrion's fate left at the end of the eighth episode was not revealed in this episode. Episode 10 may continue to feature major character exits, perhaps ending the season on a bland note and setting the stage for the next. Exactly how soon will see the difference.

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tenth episode writer started to kill like crazy , died in one breath of four important resident characters, all of which have been active for at least two seasons. This is considered a year-end bonus, kill it at a time, otherwise you will have to hold back for another year if you miss this opportunity.

Jiu Jian is basically the role of a tour guide, and he should be the kind of tour guide that people hate, because after bringing tourists to the destination, he will die obediently, and he will not fool tourists into buying this and that. But also because of this, this character, at least to me, didn't leave a deep impression, so I didn't feel sad about his death, it was nothing more than "Oh, another one died". I was a little excited when I heard that Thomas Sangster had joined the show before the third season and had a lot of opposite scenes with Bran, because he was my favorite before Bran. The image of Zhengtai in the United States, so the spark of the two generations of Zhengtai male gods is really worth looking forward to. I kind of liked his performance in the episode where he was captured by the Traitors of the Night's Watch, a sinister feeling between grim and hysterical. It's a pity that he is still dead, but that's fine, long pain is worse than short pain. It's more humane to get a bento early than to kill the audience after cultivating their feelings.

George Martin has previously said there will be unexpected, sad character deaths this season. I haven't read the original book, but when I was chatting with a friend, I said it might be the hound that died. He is an important character, but his death is not enough to affect the direction of the story, and the most important thing is that he is a tragic character who is both good and evil. For the ferocity of the hound and Brienne's fight in this episode, I once thought that the bloodthirsty screenwriter wouldn't want to rake grass and beat rabbits and send out two lunch boxes at a time, but it turned out to be yellow, violent, and full of male persecution. In TV dramas with plots that objectify women, it is extremely rare that female characters have the upper hand. And because it was Brienne who started, the hound's death seemed less sad. I just think that in the end, Arya was still a little cruel to him. No matter how evil the hound was, it was still very good to her. Before that life-and-death struggle, the conversation between the two of "That's what you're doing? Watching over her?" "Aye, that's what I'm doing." Apart from the parting part of Tesheng, the lines that make me feel the most warm. (Additionally: My third favorite is the part where Bronn persuades Jaime to visit Tyrion who was just thrown into prison.) Shae

's death should be more popular. From the time she betrayed Tyrion and became a tainted witness, everyone was counting on her to get her lunch. Just looking back at her first acquaintances with Tyrion and Bronn in the military camp, plus Podrick who joined later, the four people who used to share adversity together in the crisis-ridden city of King's Landing. But it finally fell apart. Shae's death is not sad, but Tyrion's loneliness makes me feel bad.

Finally, let's talk about the old man picking up dust and being shot to death by his own son in the thatched hut. Now I feel that I have overestimated Tywin a little in front of me. Under the guise of safeguarding the interests of the family, he messed around with the marriages of his son, daughter, and grandson. As a result, he turned around and secretly found a female technician to do major health care, and specially picked the one that his son often ordered. If the marriage is so effective, why can't he be the old man himself? I think he and the teacher of the Tyrell family are also very good, and I haven't seen him sacrifice his personal happiness (maybe not Sacrifice, I think the teacher is very spiritual, and can fight for another five hundred years. Maybe after the two become together, he will give him the song of the Nine Heavens of Ice and Fire every night). But seriously, Tywin is indeed a character. He is pointed at by the angry Tyrion with a crossbow, and he can still talk and laugh, and make up the nonsense of "I didn't want to kill you at all". If I changed to a coward like me, I might have softened my heart at the time, and then I would have the old man handle it when I turned around. Fortunately, the old man said something he shouldn't have said, which happened to help Tyrion decide to kill. Some people may appreciate Tywin's ruthlessness, and think that Tyrion's killing of his father for the sake of his children's personal affairs is a move that lacks political savvy and overall view. But I appreciate it very much. As I mentioned above, what separates Tyrion from the likes of Ned Stark is his insistence on his own way. He has always followed his heart, sleeping a whore if he wants, drinking if he wants to drink, and slapping the king if he wants to. Since you want to kill this old thief, let’s do it; if you don’t kill him, you will be harmed by it, let’s not say, even if you survive, you will have to block it for the rest of your life, so if you don’t kill him at this time, it will be a long time. To apply TVB's classic lines, it is "Hey, the most important thing to be a person is to be happy~". I have never felt that doing whatever you want and being famous is a cakewalk. As long as you are strong enough, you can master it; if you are not strong enough, even if you deliberately sacrifice one of the two, you may not get the other. Aggrieved by their own will to conform to the wheel of the times, it is very likely that the final result will be run over and smashed to pieces; not only will the fiery desires of heroes not hinder them from making achievements, but on the contrary, it is the fuel that the wheels of the times need to move forward.

The Lion Family has basically played the role of the villain of the whole show. As a result, King Justin Bieber, who was in charge of the group ridicule, and Tywin, the core character of the family, were lost one after another this season. The remaining one is not enough to attract audiences hate. Guessing the next plot from the standpoint of a non-original party, I think the strong candidate to take over the Lannister family and carry the banner of the villain should be the Bolton family. The feud between their family and the wolf family is more than what the lion family did before, and his family also has a son who has similar interests and hobbies to King Justin Bieber. first king.

Finally, add a deliberate and blunt ending to this article to echo the beginning:

all people must serve.

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  • Horacio 2022-03-30 09:01:10

    There are many surprises and more regrets. After all, film and television art ≠ literature and art.

  • Aryanna 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    I finally understand the idea of ​​"A Song of Ice and Fire", it's like this: If you look very powerful, arrogant, handsome, orthodox, and extraordinary, then you will die soon, and die horribly. Indecent... If you are weak, deformed, or even disabled, or an illegitimate child who is discriminated against, you will find your own way. "You can never walk...but you can fly."

Two Swords quotes

  • Oberyn Martell: Do you know why all the world hates a Lannister? You think your gold and your lions and your gold lions make you better than everyone. May I tell you a secret? You're not a golden lion. You're just a pink little man who is far too slow on the draw.

  • Oberyn Martell: And what are you? His hired killer?

    Bronn: Started that way, aye. Now I'm a knight.

    Oberyn Martell: How did that come to pass?

    Bronn: Killed the right people, I suppose.