Regarding the eighth season of "Game of Thrones", besides the final outcome, what I was looking forward to earlier was this tragic epic battle in this episode.
In the battle of Winterfell, which lasted as long as 1 hour and 22 minutes, there were shocking moving and unexpected deaths. There are moments of classic flashes, and moments of disappointment.
As actor Peter Dinklage, who played Tyrion Lannister, put it, "The previous bastard battles look more like theme parks than this Winterfell battle."
Perhaps our previous expectations were too high, and we always felt that this show could do better. In fact, the main creators have done their best, after all, it is difficult for us to see such a huge scene from other dramas. Although the overall feeling of this episode is not the highest level, the quality of the completion is still OK.
[Warm reminder: The following contains spoilers. In addition, the dark tone of this episode makes my eyes dim, and it is inevitable that some details will be missed. Please forgive me for the bad writing. 】
The dead don't die
Although before the broadcast of this episode, we had a premonition that there would be heavy casualties, and even prepared for the defeat of mankind, the moment we saw death really came, we still had mixed feelings in our hearts.
When the swords of the Dothraki cavalry were lit, the war between the living and the dead began.
The Dothraki cavalry who charged first, only a few returned in the end.
They became cannon fodder for the first wave of deaths, how could one not feel despair?
I still remember that when Ma Long went to Astapor to buy the Unsullied army, there were some Dothraki people who traveled with them on a boat.
They were seasick and vomited on the spot, obviously not adapting to the bumpy sea road. At that time, Mother Long also told the big bear next to her not to laugh at them.
In the eyes of Westeros, these Dothraki are savage gentiles.
However, it was these Dothraki warriors who could have lived happily ever after on the continent of Essos. They worked tirelessly and traveled thousands of miles to Westeros to participate in a war that had nothing to do with them, just for them to swear allegiance The dragon mother, but finally ended up almost completely destroyed.
The so-called "mortals are mortal", given that there are quite a lot of flags in the last episode, we expected that some main characters and even our favorite characters will make tragic sacrifices in this episode.
Although the main characters were not killed as many as we expected, there were still a lot of tears, especially against the background music, their deaths were both tragic and hopeless.
The 999th Night's Watch Commander-in-Chief of Castle Black - the melancholy Eddie, when the war was about to start, he did not forget to play his own joker attributes, and complained about the belated Sam beside him.
At the Fist of the First Men, he and Glenn the Night's Watch complained about Sam's clumsiness. It is precisely because the slow-moving Sam will be held back, the two of them will just leave Sam and run away when the White Walkers attack.
This time in the battle of Winterfell, the melancholy Eddie did not abandon Sam again, he died to protect him.
In fact, Eddie has more experience fighting the White Walkers than Jon Snow and Sam, because he has participated in all the battles the Night's Watch has experienced in the play: from the Fist of the First Men to the Custer Fort Rebellion, from the Battle of Hardtown. Then to the Battle of Winterfell, there is also a battle to defend the Great Wall between the Night's Watch and the Savages. In addition, he also went through the whole process of protecting the corpse of Jon Snow to the return of Jon Snow's resurrection.
He once said, "Only the mediocre live long" , and he enjoyed being an obscure watchman because he thought he was safer than a ranger.
However, when 囧雪 left him the burden of being the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch, he was destined to no longer be a mediocre person.
His watch ends here, but the spirit of the Night's Watch never dies:
"The long night is coming, and I will watch from now on until I die. I will not marry a wife, hold no lands, and have no children. I will not wear a crown, and I will not compete for honor. I will do my duty faithfully, live and die. I am darkness. Sword in the middle, guard on the wall. I am the flame against the cold, the light of dawn, the horn that wakes the sleeper, the shield that guards the kingdom. I offer my life and glory to the Night's Watch, tonight and every night Of course."
"We are not a big family, but we are a proud family, and every Bear Island warrior can fight one against ten."
This is what Bear Island loli Lyanna Mormont said to Jon Snow, Sansa, and the Onion Knight on the eve of the Bastard War. She decided to support the Stark family at that time and sent 62 Bear Island warriors to fight alongside Jon Snow.
In the eyes of nobles like Sansa, this force may be quite rare, but for the poor Bear Island, this is the maximum number they can give.
If Bear Island Lolita followed Big Bear's advice and hid in the cellar of Winterfell, beside Sansa and the little devil, she might still be alive, but she's definitely not a Mormont woman. style.
The Mormont family is a family with a sense of honor. The women of the family are all warriors to defend their homes. Bear Island Loli once said that her mother died fighting for Robb Stark.
Bear Island Loli took on the responsibility of the family lord at a young age. She did not have super strength, but she bravely rushed to the front line.
I still remember the defense of the Great Wall in the fourth season, where the six Night Watchmen led by Glenn and a giant perished together. It was six able-bodied adult males who recited the Night's Watch's oath to embolden themselves before they died.
Bear Island Loli has done what six men have done with a single girl, and she has not only done one against ten by killing giants by herself.
This tragic standing with our heads held high makes us awe-inspiring, but also saddened that the future of the Mormont family is so lost.
Bear Island Loli once blessed her cousin Big Bear in the last episode, but neither of them could escape the fate of being killed in battle.
Jorah Mormont the bear was originally the lord of the Mormont family, and his father Jeor Mormont volunteered to join the Night's Watch as the commander-in-chief in order to let his son inherit the family business as soon as possible.
In the war that quelled Balon Greyjoy's rebellion in the Iron Islands, Bear became the second man to storm the walls (the first being Thoros). After the war he was knighted by King Robert, and he told the intrepid Barristan about it, which he said was the proudest moment of his life.
However, he didn't go all the way there. In order to make his vain wife happy, he spent all his wealth and even had to make money by selling slaves. He was punished for this and was exiled to the continent of Essos on the other side of the Narrow Sea.
There, he met the most important woman in his life, Long Ma, and fell in love with each other.
He had betrayed Long Ma in order to be forgiven, but he was willing to return to his beloved Khaleesi for love, even though he had been exiled twice by the other party.
I have to say that Da Xiong is a good man, and he can die in Long Ma's arms.
Theon Greyjoy, like Bear, has been around since the first season and has been lucky enough to live to this day. They accomplished their mission at the cost of their lives in this episode, and it's rather sad to say goodbye to them now.
After Bran opened his eyes (I still don't understand what his purpose was), he returned just in time for the arrival of the Night King, and sent Theon a good person card on time.
Bran seems to have foreseen Theon's end, saying to Theon: "You are a good man, thank you" .
Given that Theon had saved Sansa from Flaying, Jon Snow had also forgiven him. Among all the children of the wolf family, Theon was most sorry for his good brother Robb, who was Bran.
Theon once betrayed Robb and occupied Winterfell during Bran's tenure as the city lord. A series of operations caused great damage to Bran's young mind, and indirectly contributed to the tragedy of Winterfell being burned to the ground.
The moment he charged the Night King with the knife, he completely completed his self-redemption.
As Jon Snow told him, he was both a Greyjoy and a Stark.
During his tenure as Prime Minister in King's Landing, Ned made an order that would change the life of Berry Dondarrion the Lightning King: he sent him to the Riverlands to capture the Mountain.
The Lightning King failed to capture the magic mountain, but was killed once by the opponent. He was resurrected several times by Thoros, the red-robed monk of Myr, and became the leader of the Brotherhood Without Banners.
Since then, King Lightning has led the Brotherhood without Banners in the Riverlands to fight against the Lannister troops stationed nearby.
The last meeting between King Flash and Erya was not very pleasant. At that time, Gendry refused to go to Robb Stark with Erya and insisted on staying as a member of the Brotherhood without Banners. However, for weapons and money, Hui turned around and sold Gendry to the red-robed woman Melisandre.
Erya was very angry about this behavior. After she made a rude remark to King Flash, she left the Brotherhood Without Banners. However, as soon as she went out, she was caught by Uncle Gou.
It is mentioned in the original book that the Brotherhood without Banners discovered the body of Catelyn Tully after the Scarlet Wedding, and King Flash sacrificed himself to resurrect her as Lady Stoneheart.
Although this content was deleted in the play, the ending of King Flash is the same, he still died for the Stark family.
His wandering life started with Ned Stark and ended with saving Erya, and he honorably fulfilled the mission entrusted to him by the Lord of Light.
In the sixth episode of the third season, before the red-robed girl Melisandre took Gendry away, she once said this to Erya:
"I saw darkness in you, and in that darkness there were eyes staring at me - brown, blue, green, and you'll close those eyes forever, and we'll meet again."
As she said, she met Erya again.
Melisandre hints to Erya that blue eyes represent the White Walkers, if the blue eyes represent the Night King and the brown eyes represent Walder Frey, does the green eyes refer to Biochemical Mountain or Cersei ?
It occurred to me that when Cersei blew up Baelor with a wildfire, Lancel Lannister was the closest to the blast, and his eyes were green before he died.
My understanding is that the color of the human eye is green only when the wildfire explodes in front of you, does this mean that the wildfire under King's Landing will be ignited and Erya killed someone at the moment of the explosion (Cersei or Biochemical Demon Mountain), then she is probably not far from the explosion, which means that she will... I hope that Erya's ending will not be what I guessed.
In addition, Melisandre said this to Varys after she facilitated the meeting between Ma Long and Jon Snow last season: "Oh, I'll be back, dear Spider, I'm doomed to die in this foreign land, and so are you. ."
Although Melisandre has misunderstood the Lord of Light's will many times, most of her own words have come true.
So, Varys' bento may already be on its way.
Melisandre did these three things during the Battle of Winterfell: ignited the sword, ignited the trench, and directed Erya in confusion.
After completing the mission of the Lord of Light, she fell on the snow and paid for the mistakes she had made (burning Celine and others, causing Stannis's house to be destroyed).
This scene is so poignant and poignant that it reminds me of a sentence from Shakespeare's play "Macbeth": "No matter how long the night is, the day will come . "
time not yet
"What shall we say in the face of death?" "Not today!"
At that time, Erya was in a state of exhaustion, confusion and fear, and King Lightning sacrificed to cover her again.
Melisandre woke Erya with one word, arousing her fighting spirit.
Erya's swordsmanship enlightenment teacher, Sirio Freer, also asked Erya similar words before her death.
Some characters in the play were able to survive by luck, which is exactly the time to answer this sentence.
The Winterfell Crypt is undoubtedly the biggest Flag set up in the last episode, when everyone in the show said that the Crypt is the safest refuge. The White Walkers also break into the cellar in this episode, proving that no place is completely safe.
The shared weal and woe between Sansa and the little devil in the cellar makes me feel that the relationship between the two seems to be developing further.
One of them wanted to live and die with his own people, but was persuaded by his sister Erya to go into the cellar; the other wanted to be a hero who could turn the tide, but was helpless, and was forced to stay in the cellar by his boss, Longma.
To say the strongest warrior in this episode, Erya deserves it.
Erya held the exclusive weapon Gendry built for her - a long stick, and her neat skills turned over a group of other ghosts at once, and the Onion Knight Ben Cong was stunned.
Uncle Gou suffered from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) because of the shadows of his childhood, and this time he almost made the same mistakes in the Battle of Heishuihe.
It was useless for King Lightning to persuade Uncle Gou to join the battle, but as soon as Uncle Gou saw Erya in danger, he rushed out without saying a word. Sure enough, the attributes of Erya's guardian were deeply embedded in Uncle Gou's bones. Enough to make him forget his fear of fire.
In this episode, in addition to curing illness and saving people, Erya also turned the tide of the battle with her own power.
Erya had made wine with Tywin during Harrenhal and talked about heroes. At that time, Erya showed her admiration for Visenya Targaryen:
"Visenia Targaryen was a great warrior, and she had a Valyrian steel sword called the Dark Sister."
In this battle, Erya's feat of killing the Night King with a Valyrian steel sword was enough to make her a legendary hero.
Many girls want to marry a hero, but never imagine that they will become that hero.
After talking, it's time for my rants.
The first is whether strategic deployment is scientific? In the early stage of the war, almost all the powerful troops were placed outside the city, but in the middle and late stages of the war, they were beaten and returned to the city, which did not seem to hold the army of the dead for much time. If that's the case, why didn't you stay in the city to guard it in the first place?
There is also the practice of the Dothraki cavalry taking the lead in charging, which is more of a death in vain. And knowing that Bran is the main target of the Night King, why not send more troops lurking around?
Then there are the two aunts and nephews and the two dragons. It can be said that the people with the strongest strength have basically played no role in this battle.
If it wasn't for Melisandre's uninvited arrival, I'm afraid the task of lighting the trench would not have been completed.
Erya knows how to use sneak attack when facing a strong enemy, but our fool not only does not know how to outsmart, but also does not know how to cremate all the fallen martyrs. He forcibly showed his strength, forcing the Night King to directly show his signature moves, pushing the battle to a more tragic direction.
Originally, the Night King was obsessed with the ritual sense of [killing Bran with his own hands], and only wanted to enter the city alone to complete the task as soon as possible. However, when he saw silly rushing towards him, he could only raise his hand to resurrect more dead people to deal with Jon Snow. That's good, Bear Island Loli, melancholy Eddie and others have all cheated.
Melancholy Eddie talked about the cremation of the body for a long time, but Sam forgot about it because he was busy fighting. Eddie had exclaimed that Tormund's eyes were blue, but he didn't expect his own eyes to be blue as well.
Looking at it this way, Jon Snow in this episode is still the one who went deep into the enemy's army in the illegitimate child war, which is really stupid and cute.
He told Long Ma that he was going to find Bran, but he was obsessed with the task of killing the ice dragon and couldn't extricate himself. When he mustered up the courage to face death, he found that the battle was over...
If he stayed by Long Ma's side, I'm afraid the big bear wouldn't be sacrificed. So, silly, let's have a snack.
After watching the preview of the next episode, I am a little worried about whether the alliance of Long Ma and Silly Jon can resist Cersei's Golden Group?
After all, the current situation is what Cersei most wants to see, because she is taking advantage of the fisherman: the enemy has suffered heavy casualties, not to mention that both dragons seem to be injured, and I don't know if they can resist Cobain's dragon-slaying weapon.
Judging from the preview, I feel that Long Ma is a little underestimated. She has already started a celebration banquet with her subordinates to drink and eat meat. In her opinion, since the battle of life and death has been won, can the battle of power be won?
Cersei's Golden Regiment has a total of 20,000 troops, and it is not bad that Long Ma and Daojong's troops together can reach 10,000.
I always thought Sansa was a small player, but now it seems she is right, Cersei is far more threatening than the Night King.
In view of the main leaders of the Long Ma and the Silly camp, and currently only Sansa has an IQ online, it is hard not to worry.
There are also several unidentified characters in this episode, such as Jon Snow's second fangirl Arleigh Karstark, Jon Snow's Direwolf Bai Ling, Bronze Jon and the Valley Cavalry.
Long Ma's Dothraki cavalry was almost wiped out, and the Unsullied Legion suffered heavy losses. I personally guess that there should still be a certain number of valley cavalry under Sansa's orders, and they may become the main force in the next battle.
In other words, I waited for Bronn until all the flowers were gone, but I still didn't see him appear in Winterfell. In addition, does the screenwriter remember Edmure Tully by the Daming Lake?
There are three episodes to follow, 78 minutes, 80 minutes and 80 minutes respectively. They basically revolve around Game of Thrones and the ownership of the Iron Throne. It took only one episode to win the Night King, while the battle with Cersei required Up to three episodes in length.
Who will live to the end? Who will claim the Iron Throne? We will wait and see!
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