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Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 2 is out today. This episode can be summed up in one sentence: how will you spend the last night before you die?
In the first episode of the eighth season, the White Walkers' army broke through the Wall and attacked the northern frontier fortress "The Last Hearth". Long Ma led the troops to Winterfell to prepare for the battle. In the past few seasons, the main characters scattered all over the world rushed to Winterfell (especially the wolf family finally had a big reunion). This kind of warmth of meeting old people , was completely shattered by the darkness of the second episode of the eve of the war.
In episode 2, Tormund, the wildling who held on in the last hearth, escaped back to Winterfell. In his report of the battle, the last Hearth City was completely occupied, and the Umber family stationed there was transformed by the White Walkers into an additional force of the White Walkers. And the White Walkers are marching so fast that they will be on the city before sunrise tomorrow.
In other words, the time left for Winterfell was only one night.
On the last night of this world, everyone in Winterfell is forcing themselves to accept the reality that they will die in battle tomorrow.
Piece believes that on this night, many fans are staring at Long Ma and Snow. In this episode, they know each other that one is my aunt and the other is my nephew. These two spokespersons of ice and fire will be the characters with the highest survival rate in the eighth season of "Game of Thrones", and their stories may still be long.
On this night of tomorrow's death, Piece wanted to focus on three "little characters".
James , who came to Winterfell at the end of episode 1 , was determined to give up his lover and sister Cersei, to give up tricks and deceit, and to fight openly for the life and death of mankind.
In Jaime's distant memory, because of the madness of the Mad King, he had to betray the oath of the Kingsguard, assassinated the loyal emperor from behind, and has since become a "Kingslayer" despised by people.
He was incestuous with his sister Cersei, tumbling in a maelstrom of love and lust. He is the heir to his father's most promising family, but he only covets Cersei's tender land. The lordship of Casterly Rock means nothing to him.
He felt sorry for his younger brother, Little Devil, who had been treated as a monster since childhood. After his brother was kidnapped by the wolf family, he would desperately seek revenge for the wolf father Ned. When he was captured by the young wolf master Robb in the "Battle of the Five Kings", the noble head of the lion family was still high.
Jaime begins to change, beginning with his encounter with Brienne.
Brienne is the type that James doesn't like. She is not a knight, but keeps her word like a true knight. Once committed, once sworn, to death. In front of Brienne, James is like a downright hypocrite, his proud handsomeness has turned into wretchedness, and the experience he has accumulated in his previous life has all become despicable and shameless for Brienne.
When he lost a hand, the golden lion became a trapped beast. Brienne saw his fall, but her gritty personality was reshaping Jaime. For Jaime, he returns to King's Landing, and eventually leaves. Because Cersei is still, and Jaime is not the Jaime he once was.
So on the last night of his life that he might die tomorrow, the two things James did were related to Brienne.
The first thing, he took the initiative to ask to join Brienne's command, to fight side by side with this confidant who lived and died together, and died together;
The second thing, as a knight, he drew out his sword and solemnly awarded Brienne the position of knight. In Brienne's tears, James' whole body was shining brightly.
Erya Arya , who returned to Winterfell , is no longer the hairy girl who was always laughing happily. When she was a child, at the king's banquet, she dared to use food as ammunition to tease her sister. At that time, Erya was a carefree, hilarious tomboy. She is not afraid of Prince Joffrey, if you bully others, I will fight back with my sword. She has her own swordsmanship teacher, and the Sword of Water Dance is elegant and fierce...
Without the tragic death of the wolf father, what kind of adult would Erya grow into?
She may be a woman who doesn't want to be a man. She is more suitable to be the queen of Winterfell than her sister whose IQ suddenly goes up. Like her aunt Lyanna, she will become a wolf legend who dares to love and hate.
But fate is so cruel.
Erya witnessed her father's head beheaded by the executioner with her own eyes. She watched her father's head roll on the ground and listened to all the people in King's Landing calling her father a traitor. She couldn't accept this fact, and in a trance, she was rescued and wandered in the vast but directionless continent of Westeros.
She was led by the hound who was about to fight, and the two confused people gradually changed from kidnappers and hostages to escapees who avoided fate together.
Erya's murder list sounds scary, but when you think about it, a teenage girl's daily life is only to live and take revenge. She suddenly lost her childhood.
In Jia Kun's city of black and white, Erya, who was trained to be a nameless person, forgets even things other than childhood. She was whipped and forced to become blind in darkness. She is about to become a servant of the god of death, a cold-blooded killing machine. But because of revenge, Erya wants to become a faceless one. Also because of revenge, Erya will not forget her pain. Those who are obsessed are either destroyed by obsession or become stronger because of it.
Erya, who had a fine sewing needle in her hand, chose the latter.
On what may be her last night, she finds Gendry, her wandering partner. On that night, she wanted to get back the feeling of being a normal person, so that she could regain her desires other than revenge.
There are many fans of the show who can't stand watching Erya and Gendry grow up and go to bed. But Pieces felt moved— because Erya was not Bran, who knew the world, and her indifference was just because she was hiding her fear.
This sex scene happened to prove the three-dimensional image of Erya. She is an adolescent girl with no face, just her mask.
Finally, Pian Pian would like to talk about Sam.
In Game of Thrones, Sam is the most ordinary one.
He is a fat man. He doesn't like to practice martial arts and love to read books.
As a famous brave lord in Westeros, his father looked down on him and gave birth to a younger brother who could fight with swords and horses. In order to ensure that the younger son can inherit the position of the head of the family, Sam's father showed no mercy, and did not hesitate to send Sam to be a night watchman who could not marry a wife and have children in his life.
If not, he will kill the fat man.
This kind of life, Sam has no love. He came to the Castle Black of the Night's Watch in despair. He was like a walking corpse, and he no longer believed in the Seven Gods.
If the so-called seven gods really exist, they have never blessed themselves for even a second. Even the gods have chosen to abandon themselves. In this life, Sam will be in a hurry.
During this darkest hour, Sam meets his lifelong friend, Jon Snow.
Snow is an illegitimate child, but he has a stubbornness that doesn't bow to reality. He had great ambitions, practiced his sword hard, and wanted to rush out of Castle Black and go outside the Great Wall of Despair like a hero.
Sam envied Jon, even a hint of jealousy. Everyone is a hard-working night watchman, but why is Snow like a wolf, while he is still a fat man who can't be angry?
Sam tries to find answers. He searched for Snow, and in the library at Castle Black. Every night when he was on the night shift on the Great Wall, he looked at the white sky and the ground, wanting to know the answer.
In a chaotic world where many heroes are competing, what is the use of a fat man who can only read? Aemon, the blind maester of Castle Black, often looks into the void with his blind eyes. He used to be the royal family of the previous dynasty, and everything was glitzy like a dream bubble. In him, Sam seemed to see what he looked like sixty years later.
It was the White Walkers who made Sam finally discover his worth.
Sam is the first person in the show to kill the White Walkers. Everything is due to chance. The cowardly fat man encountered a monster that killed without blinking an eye. In desperation, Sam grabbed the dragon crystal on his body and killed the White Walkers.
He had a better choice then, to run away as usual.
Escape is the easiest way to escape, to Castle Black, to escape my father's tiresome sight, to escape the ice blade that the White Walkers may cut down at any time...
But there is a girl named Gilly who needs Sam's protection. There is a baby waiting to be fed, howling in the ice and snow.
At that moment, Sam probably thought of Jon Snow's resolute face, and he did not escape.
After killing the White Walkers, Sam practiced "knowledge is power". He went to the Citadel to find a way to deal with the White Walkers. It was he who discovered the dragon crystals contained in Dragon Stone Island, and he broke through the feudal and conservative system of the school city and cured the stubborn grayscale disease for the dragon mother's warrior, Big Bear.
It was he who brought Gilly back to her hometown, Jiao Ling, and encountered her father's ridicule again. He bravely said goodbye to the past and took away the five-hundred-year-old Valyrian steel sword "Broken Heart". At this time, Sam, Already a warrior.
In Season 8, Episode 2, Sam hands his broken heart to Bear. Just as he gave the knowledge he acquired to all who fought against the White Walkers , there are no completely useless people in this world. Sometimes it's just self-defeating that leads to world-wide frustration.
On the cold night before the war, Podrick sang a folk song. The song is called "Jenny's Song". It depicts a love story of a prince of the Dragon family Targaryen who does not hesitate to give up the throne to marry a commoner girl.
In the singing, we saw Sam lying beside Gilly and Sam on the eve of the war, anxiously waiting for the possible bloody battle; Theon and Sansa, who had returned, looked at each other and smiled; Beside Gendry, staring at dawn; Grey Worm kissing Missandei goodbye...
And all the people sitting in front of the fireplace drinking and listening to songs don't want to sleep anymore, they have to get through the last night of their lives.
It's not yet dawn, the horn has sounded, and the Legion of the White Walkers is here.
Well, the above is what I thought after watching the second episode of the eighth season of "Game of Thrones".
The huge world view of "Game of Thrones" and the complex character lines make many people discouraged, but the wonderful past of many characters and the ups and downs that everyone has experienced are worth savoring carefully.
To this end, Pian Pian has already gnawed on this hard bone, and divided this epic giant system into upper, middle and lower columns to make a column. If you want to watch it, you can pay attention to the WeChat public account: Xiao Pian Pian talks about the big movie, just reply "Game of Thrones" . On April 26, there will also be a birthday bonus!
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