The author is a party to the original work. This article mainly compares the similarities and differences between the drama series and the original work, and makes limited analysis and understanding of the adaptation and expansion. The structure of the article is divided into King's Landing / Northland / Slaver's Bay and Free City / Others according to the plot occurrence area, a total of four chapters. The following is the text -
Chapter 1. King's Landing
01 Cersei - The Misplaced Queen
Cersei's knot is obsessed with finding the beautiful young woman who will replace her
The fourth volume of the novel, A Feast for Crows, is an unremarkable volume, because after the tragic Battle of the Five Kings, all parties need an interlude to ease up and clean up the battlefield by the way. And a major event in this blandness was Cersei's naked parade.
Binghuo pays attention to karma, and some characters seem to have cruel or unexpected endings, but in fact, there must be a reason for everything to happen. The humiliating blow to Cersei's character is devastating for Cersei's parade. The sixth season of the American TV series corresponds to the beginning of the fifth volume of the novel "A Dance with Dragons". The author of the novel arranged a lot of Cersei's POV to describe her fragmented psychological state and the long post-disaster reconstruction. Cersei is pitiful, but this pitiful is the result of her past misdeeds and mistakes. Poor, not worthy of pity, but to say that its despicable and foolish soul has nowhere to be placed.
The main purpose of this season's large number of play-in-play is to prop up the empty plot under the slow narrative rhythm.
The novel's attitude towards Cersei is clear, but in the parallel space of the American TV series, the screenwriter is trying to whitewash the role. The method of whitewashing is to discover Cersei's instinctive maternal love for her children in her evil motives, and this kind of love has an aura of good intentions. The form of whitewashing is the troupe performances that have appeared many times this season. Privately analyze several major roles of screenwriters in arranging such bridges. 1. Filling the empty plot, the fourth and fifth volumes of the original work actually spent a lot of ink and ink on expanding each branch. When the American drama cut off these branches, the screenwriter was embarrassed to find that the main plot actually only moved forward a little bit. 2. Sort out the plot, "The screenwriter teaches you to watch Game of Thrones" and "Understand the Purple Wedding in 3 minutes". 3. String the development of Arya's line, which will be described in detail after the part about Arya. 4. Attempt to whitewash Cersei.
It is undeniable that most of the characters in Ice and Fire are gray (that is, they cannot be judged purely as good or bad) and are constantly changing (that is, there is no permanent good or bad), and it is not mandatory that American dramas must be loyal to the original work. But whitening Cersei does require a lot of carefully constructed scenarios to rationalize her past folly. Because in the novel, when Cersei's stupidity and conceit hit you in the head with double damage from the main point of view, it's hard not to feel disgusted with this character.
Cersei's several major shortcomings, one of which is the conceit of her beauty and her omnipotent use, and finally made everyone betray her and caused her own commotion. The second is the miscalculation and stubbornness of his own political IQ. Tywin, who prides himself on being incompetent, but the reorganization of the Imperial Council and cronyism led to political dishonesty, the hostility to the wealthy High Court led to financial deficits, and the refusal to return the iron treasury arrears led to credit sweep the floor. The most deadly thing is that the cult armed she supports in order to fight against Tyrell is tantamount to bringing wolves into the house and raising tigers, making Lannister at the cusp of a dual-front struggle between monarchy and church and state. So the street parade is the punishment for her failure. Unfortunately, her mind was blinded by hatred. In the American TV series, this punishment failed to redeem her soul.
Cersei's heart is to find the beautiful young woman who will replace her, and her destiny is that her children will die after the coronation, so she is the lonely power fighter in the family. But she doesn't have enough political wisdom to fight for the Iron Throne alone, and her poor emotional intelligence makes her betrayed and offended half of Westeros. So even the screenwriter can't think of what to do next, but the ultimate battle of ice and fire is about to kick off, and the schedule for Jon and Long Ma has also been arranged, what should I do? In a hurry, the screenwriter slapped the table: it's better to set King's Landing on fire and let the church and Tyrell rule the lunch box! All of a sudden, it was like a edifice tipped over, and it ended up with a white land that was so clean!
This is the second time the wildfire slaughtered the city, the last time was the Usurper War. The last time it was the Mad King, this time it was Cersei, similar methods, but no reason for doing this same treatment. The only thing that is certain is that the rest of the story is much easier to write, and there are no more High Sparrows chattering around Cersei, and no more annoying thorny roses that are always secretly rubbing. Half of Westeros has turned into a blank sheet of paper again, with only a shy, stupid woman sitting on the iron throne that hurts her buttocks, waiting for the dragon mother to ride her dragon to come to King's Landing and make herself a power. Game background board.
02 James - bound love
James lives as a puppet embarrassed in the role of lover's father and the struggle between monarchy and church
In the sixth season, Jaime's fate took a huge divergence from the original. At the end of "A Feast for Crows", Cersei sent a letter of help to Jaime when she was facing trial by combat, but Jaime did not reply to the letter and burned it, which is why Cersei had to choose the Inquisition and then Parade to the public about this. So the novel sends a clear signal in the fourth volume that Jaime and Cersei will eventually break up and go estranged.
James appears as a villain at the beginning of the novel. As the Kings Guard, he killed the king he was supposed to guard and gained the title of Kingslayer; emotionally, he had incest with his sister, and in order to destroy the corpse and destroy the traces, he was cruel to the little Bran who was in bed. The tower was pushed down and the latter was disabled for life. These are the evil sides that the characters show us, and as the plot develops, we get to see the richer and lesser-known sides of the characters.
James is a tragic character. This tragedy is first reflected in the fact that he has endured too many misunderstandings and prejudices from the world. For example, we later found out that his monarchy in the usurper war was to prevent the mad king from slaughtering the people further, and even Robert, who was the beneficiary of the victory in the war, did not cleanse him, but further magnified him in front of the world The image of the Kingslayer. The tragic side is reflected in his feelings, he loves his sister in flesh and spirit, and this incestuous love is doomed to be tolerated by the world. What's even more sad is that his love for Cersei has been exchanged for Cersei's endless use of him. She slept with Lancel, Osmond Kettleblack, and even Moonchild! When James learns of what his sister has done, his ideals of love collapse too.
Slowly we find that James is actually a man with traditional chivalry. There are POVs with chivalry and honor in Ice and Fire: James, Brienne, Barristan and the Hound. Ironically, except for the old Barristan, the rest are not typical images of traditional knights. This setting is exactly what the author is guiding us to discover the nature and heart of people under the surface. Jaime's tragedy stems from the conflict between his chivalrous beliefs and his worldly love for his sister. He thought that he and his sister were sour mates, but in fact they were just meat mates, and he was not the only choice for his sister.
The novel arranges a lot of bridge events to let James say goodbye to his past self. The first is the capture of James in the Battle of the Five Kings, which gave him the opportunity to get to know his enemies up close, and found that people from different positions may actually have similar original intentions, such as protecting his loved ones. Then James' right hand was cut off, making him realize the huge harm that a small evil thought can cause to others, just as he pushed Bran down from the tower. Then there is the re-examination of love. The person who made him think is called Brienne. Ironically, this person called "Beauty" is not beautiful at all, he is thick and rigid, but it is precisely under the ugly appearance that James discovered her. A noble soul, which contrasts with Cersei's femme fatale under her beautiful exterior. So he began to think about what choices people should make when facing the inability to have both spirit and flesh. Later, James gave his oath-keeper sword to Brienne, which is a hint that on the one hand, the sword is for men, like the gun now, it is a symbol of masculine power; on the other hand, the name of oath-keeper seems to It also has a pun meaning (it is a bit over-interpreted here, please calm down and don't lift the table).
The actual control of the monarchy by religion makes the military power in an embarrassing situation
It's a pity that the American TV series ignored the previous foreshadowing and forcibly pulled James back into the entanglement with Cersei, and pulled him back to the center of the vortex of power struggle with no chance of winning. He is a knight, but not a good politician. The two souls who were already strangers were forcibly bound together, and James had to continue to struggle with Cersei for the far-fetched reason of fatherly love, and fell back into the small pattern of petty play. No wonder James in the sixth season is more embarrassed and confused. He hypnotized himself and told others over and over again: I love Cersei, and I would do anything for her. Then, for the love of Lalang, he acted as Cersei's pawn in political and religious struggles and military struggles like a puppet. Ice and fire are good-looking because of the change and development of the characters, and the wise man enjoys water because the flow of water is inconstant. Originally, the plot had arranged all kinds of trials for James to starve his body and skin, just waiting for his nirvana rebirth after enlightenment. It's a pity that this possibility was stifled in the cradle by the screenwriter.
03 Tyrell - Withered Rose
The Inquisition did not become a turnaround for Rose, but instead became a field of slaughter.
The annihilation of the Tyrell family in the sixth season of the American drama is the greatest manifestation of the screenwriter's poor skills and the biggest fool of the audience's IQ. The screenwriter made this arrangement. Personally, I speculate that it is to create big news for the dull season, and secondly, it can also clear the branch lines to simplify the plot, so this time their butcher knife actually extended to the entire Tyrell family. This may be the most horrific terrorist attack in Westeros in modern times.
If you think about it, perhaps the family phrase "endless life" is the original sin of the Tyrell family being wiped out. Because it is too small, the screenwriter doesn't look down on it, but can't see it at all. Tyrell came to the fore from battles with the great houses of Highgarden, gaining power without earning enough respect. So they especially know the importance of Forbearance and Xu Tu's development. The Tyrell family sits on the second wealthiest High Court in Westeros, and is equipped with the strongest military force on paper, but it has a weak sense of existence in modern history. The ones that can be remembered are the Lie win at the Battle of Poplar Beach in the Usurper Wars, and the victory of the Allied Lannisters against the Stannis Army at the Battle of the Blackwater. But they are always in the power struggle. The meaning of endless growth may be to use the fragile stamens to meet the rain in the dry season. It is inconspicuous, but it will never be killed. The rose is always looking for an opportunity to bloom.
If the northerners use valour as their weapon, the westerners use gold as their weapon, and the dragon mother uses dragon flame as their weapon, then in this Game of Thrones, Tyrell tells us what it means to use the heart as a weapon. This Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which took place in the Lions, Roses and the Church in King's Landing, not only catered to the post-war mild depression in rhythm, but at the same time boosted the audience's depressed mood with another turbulent and ever-changing tension. .
The setting of Tyrell's yin and yang's decline is destined to need women to hold up most of the sky
Little Rose Margaery is my favorite female character, long before I found out that it was played by my beloved Natalie Dormer. Perhaps because of the tutelage of Lady of Thorns, Margaery showed a mature political wisdom that far surpassed the male members of the family and most other female characters in the Ice and Fire (the full Sansa might be able to fight one), and there was no princess disease. There is no love for children outside the family, and some have a sense of family honor and responsibility. She knows her role in the family power struggle and the weapons she is good at. The author intentionally or unintentionally created the temperament of the rose family: Duke Mace Tyrell is a slightly fat Mr. Donut, his eldest son is lame, the second son Yongwu was cut off by the American drama, and the third son Lola Si Ying Wu Jun Lang's knight image is in sharp contrast with the downturn when he was imprisoned after the Battle of the Five Kings, so in the struggle of King's Landing, it was Margery who used her thin shoulders to support the spirit of the Rose family. .
Margery has several advantages in this fight without gunpowder: 1. Perfect political public relations and means of handling things, no matter whether she is really guilty of adultery and other crimes, but she has never been hammered by the enemy. 2. The political philosophy of forbearance knows how to show weakness in the confrontation with the church, and at the same time rely on Tommen to secretly use strength. 3. Mrs. Thorns is an active pick-and-roll as the perfect wingman. 4. The existence of the Imperial Council ensures the basic political sanity of the Lions and Roses in the struggle. 5. The support of Randall and other Highgarden family forces makes Tyrell unstoppable in military deterrence.
But at the same time, Tyrell's biggest disadvantage in the power struggle is precisely their yin and yang's decline. Like all palace fights in ancient and modern China and abroad, women's means in the struggle for power are all dependent on men. Occasionally Empress Wu Zetian Elizabeth I is called Queen, which is also a special case. So if the Rose family can survive the King's Landing struggle, they urgently need to find a new marriage partner, otherwise they can only wait for the disfigured Loras to change from the idol to the powerful. But there is not much time left for them, because at the end of the fifth volume of the novel, Kevan Lannister is assassinated, and no one can stop Cersei's madness.
As for the American TV series, we can only hope that the old tree of Mrs. Thorns will sprout... Even if Cersei takes revenge, what will happen to the Tyrell family?
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Chapter2.Northern Line
01囧——See yourself
Jon's resurrection freed him from worldly responsibilities, but it didn't bring him a sense of himself
The two key words I define for Jon Snow (hereafter referred to as Jon) are the price of death and the search for oneself.
There is a concept in medicine/psychology called near-death experience, which refers to the moment when a person is about to die, the soul leaves the body, the quantum of consciousness radiates into the universe, the emotions and memories flash back together, and the heaven and man are one. The death of the body gives the soul the opportunity to return to the universe. The death of too many important characters is portrayed in Ice and Fire. On the one hand, it shows the real cruelty of the power struggle, and on the other hand, it also makes the readers and screenwriters fall into a misunderstanding. It makes us ignore the sacredness and seriousness of death in this work, and also makes us lose respect for death.
Although there are countless deaths in the ice and fire, there are only three main characters in the book who have risen from the dead so far. Caitlyn was resurrected after her death as Lady Stoneheart, a soulless vengeance machine with the face of the dead (the line was cut off in the American series); The Mountain was resurrected after a trial by combat with the Red Viper and became The headless horseman feared by all; Lord Flash is better, but each of his rebirths is accompanied by the loss of a part of his memory, and he ends up trading his own eternal death for Caitlyn's resurrection. These examples are all talking about one thing, that is, death is ultimate, and death and rebirth must come with a price and some kind of eternal loss.
囧 is mortal. He needs death to get rid of himself in this life, to have an epiphany in a near-death experience, and then to be reborn as a completely different self. Of course, the cost of which we cannot predict. This talks about his confusion and shackles in this life, which is called ignorance in Buddhism, that is, he does not know who he is and what he wants to do.
囧's confusion lies in the lack of identity cognition. His identity as an illegitimate child led to his lack of recognition by the family (Grey Wind is also the one outside the main wolf pack, which coincides with his master's condition and mood), so he chose to become a night watchman without an identity, but in the In the confrontation between the night watchman and the savages, he became an inner ghost, and he was also a character who lost his identity and lost his camp. In the end, he became a traitor in the eyes of the night watchman brothers because of his alliance with the savages, which led to his death. Ygritte keeps saying "You know nothing", which is his state of ignorance. Interestingly, Arya, who had the best relationship with him since childhood, was also almost lost in various identities after the family turmoil. The shackles of 囧 lie in that the heart is suppressed by the prejudice of the world, and the honor and responsibility are not understood by the world. Therefore, like Jesus in the Bible, he can only rely on death to perform miracles, thereby breaking away from his humble status in the mortal world and exuding the divine brilliance of an idol.
So the American TV series did not deal with the resurrection of the 囧. Aside from the stab wounds on his body, we don't see a change in this character in season six, nor the price that death brings to him. Death did not let him realize his true self, and the stereotyped sense of honor and impulsive character were still the labels that could not be washed away from the surviving Jon, and his clumsy military strategy even made him in the relationship with the grown-up Sansa. Completely defeated in comparison. In addition to God's appointment as a dragon knight who was born with a jade, I can't think of any meaning of such an embarrassment, and it can bring any insight and emotion to the audience.
He was born to death, but he was not truly reborn after death; he was ignorant, and he still didn't know anything.
02 Sansa - see the world
Sansa has grown into a politically wise and leadership character in season six
Sansa is my favorite female character after Margaery in Ice and Fire, because she grew up with the dramatic trajectory of conflict and human change.
The contradictions and conflicts faced by Sansa first come from the gap between pure fantasy and skinny reality. Vanity used to be her label, she longed for a refined life, was obsessed with handsome princes and knights, and stood on the opposite side of the family in order to realize her life plan. But reality gave her a tyrannical prince (Little Joe), an unreliable knight (Hundred Blossoms), then fate gave her the respect of an ugly dwarf (little devil) and the gold heart of a terrifying thug (Hound), and then the The hostility of a loved one (Ryza) and the ulterior motives of kindness from the patron (Littlefinger). Different from Jon's abandonment of the family and the loss of Arya's incarnation of various identities, Alain Stone, the illegitimate child's pseudonym, gave Sansa a shelter in the chaotic world, allowing her to calmly experience all kinds of contradictions. Distinguish between good and evil, beauty and ugliness, true and false, and grow in self-learning. And the deeper contradiction in her destiny lies in the contradiction between her Stark body and Tully's heart. Sansa doesn't have much of the uprightness and rigidity of the northerners who believe in the old gods. She will judge the situation more, show forbearance and deceit, and use her strengths and enemies' weaknesses to survive in troubled times. .
So Sansa's growth started the moment she was forced to witness her father being killed. Season 5 of the American TV series arranged for her to marry Ramsay and then be raped. I think it was the most unacceptable and crude adaptation, not No, it's not necessary. Sansa doesn't need to use such a grandstanding farce and tragedy as the fuse for her growth and maturity. She is no longer a frog sitting at the bottom of a well. evil. Another aspect of my dissatisfaction with this adaptation is my speculation and anticipation of Sansa's future development due to the drama of Sansa's current fate.
In fact, Binghuo always talks about a contrast. Good people may not end well, and the dominant party may die. This is a kind of impermanence of fate. You can never judge based on existing experience that someone or a certain force will definitely be good or bad. Since the plot can listen to the wind and thunder in a silent place, then naturally you can also see the rainbow after the wind and rain. Aside from the ash beach theory about Sansa's fate that is widely rumored on the Internet (interested friends can Baidu), since Sansa is arranged to be married to a tyrant, a dwarf and a valley heir, she can still retain her virginity. Arranging her strong enemies to be surrounded by relatives and being jealous of her relatives may indicate that the author is planning to arrange such a reverse contrast, inserting a hopeful fairy tale in the heavy gray epic. Of course, this fairy tale will not end with a beautiful princess marrying a handsome prince and living happily ever after, because there are no princes in this world, only servants and servants who pretend to be princes; there are no princesses in this world, only witches and A witch who thinks she's a princess.
If you pretend that you can’t remember what happened in the fifth season, and only watch the sixth season, I am still satisfied with the Sansa line. Combined with the original plan of the wolf-running era and the prophecy about Cersei’s fate, there is reason to believe that Sansa will become a capable A very powerful force that shakes the political situation in Westeros and even revitalizes the wolf family's business. She has already displayed this political wisdom in season six.
03 Bran - see all beings
Bran's responsibility determines that his little love for his family must give in to his big love for the world
Bran's line has always been wrapped in a desolate atmosphere of solitary quest, with all kinds of obscure prophecies and sacrifice after sacrifice. This line is not "good-looking", because Bran's path to find the Three-Eyed Raven and eventually become the Green Prophet is very different from the gradual entry of other characters into the world. the process of. All affection for family members, love for lovers, and hatred for enemies will give way to insight into the world, knowledge of the past and the present, and finally to great compassion and love for all living beings.
The seven gods are generally believed in Westeros, but the Iron Islands and the North still retain the belief in the old gods. "Looking at history as a mirror can know the rise and fall", the belief in the old gods brought knowledge, and knowledge is power, and this power maintains the order of the world. The game of power in the world of ice and fire seems to destroy this order, and the role of the Green Prophet is to bring the hustle and bustle of the secular power struggle back to the big wheel of history, and to talk about generational replacement from a higher perspective. the inevitable law.
An important plot development in season six is that Bran finally grows into the Green Prophet. His upbringing was accompanied by the sacrifices of various characters including Jiu Jian, the Three-Eyed Raven, and Hodor, and the sacrifices added more ritual to his path to "God". Bran's disability inspired the wolf spirit talent in him, so it was easier for him to integrate into other life forms to perceive the world. The novel is filled with a large number of prophetic dreams to exaggerate the process of his comprehension of the past and present of this world, and the American TV series has simplified and figuratively presented such obscure dreams. This season Bran's vision of green is basically about the past. The most important one is that the children of the forest created the White Walkers, which indicates that the children of the forest and the beliefs of the old gods will inevitably have a huge impact on the battle between humans and the White Walkers. Because the bell still needs to be tied. The second is Jon's life experience. The self-realization that Jon didn't achieve through his own death may have to be accomplished through Bran's vision? In the end, Bran foresaw the invasion of the White Walkers, thus making a connection between the past and the present.
The Death of Hodor is a touching but wild adaptation
This season's adaptation of Hodor's death is very touching. This adaptation also gives the Green Prophet a more powerful and direct ability to influence the world by going back to the past than in the novel. The Prophet is no longer an obscure microphone. Circumstances can directly affect the past and then react in the present world, which opens a wild door to what role the Green Prophet will play in the next battle between humans and ghosts. Of course, the enormous power formed by this time warp must be accompanied by the great sacrifice and cost of the Green Prophet, Bran himself. We've seen Frodos in The Lord of the Rings sacrifice their entire lives to save the world, so if Bran could survive the war and be by the fire with Mera, that might be the perfect ending for the character.
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Chapter 3. Slave Bay and Free City Line
01 Daenerys - Queen Conferred God
As soon as Long Ma hangs up, the author is afraid, Drogon roars, the earth trembles three times
The sixth season of the American drama stole two laziness on the line of dealing with Long Ma.
The first is to weaken the confrontation between Long Ma and the little devil. The end of the fifth part of the novel is the wedding of Mother Long and Hizdara (corresponding to the end of the fifth season of the American TV series), and the little devil appears in the arena of the wedding celebration as a dwarf gladiator. This is the first dramatic encounter between the two. Then out of the poison wine door, the dragon danced wildly, and the dragon mother rode on Drogon and fled the scene. The American drama follows this plot, allowing the dragon mother to conquer the Dothraki outside, and the little devil to calm down the political situation inside, with two flowers blooming and one branch each. The encounter between the little devil and the dragon mother is inevitable, and the episode of how to train the dragon in the sixth season also explained the identity of the little devil dragon knight, but the cooperation between the two cannot be smooth sailing. The first is the feud between the dragon family and the lion family. In the usurper war, Tywin's rebellion was the last straw that overwhelmed the Targaryen rule. Jaime's killing of Aerys II also directly led to the loss of the dragon mother and sister. How Long Ma and the little devil abandoned their blood feud and reached a cooperation should have been a highlight, but the drama did not explain it at all. Secondly, Long Ma does not trust other people, especially men, she does not trust her bed partner, she does not trust the spare tire, and she does not trust the greedy and fickle slave owners. Her subconscious self-protection has established the image of an isolated queen at the same time. , it must also determine that her running-in with the little devil needs a process. But the way the American drama is handled is that Slave Bay besieged the Great Pyramid, the dragon mother fell from the sky, the little devil was shocked into heaven and man, and the two naturally recognized each other.
The queen with dragon flames only needs to be in charge of the second part.
Secondly, there is no deep digging of the role of Longma. Long Ma lost her family since she was a child, was bullied by her elder brother and forced to marry Ma Wang, but her life after that can be said to be a turnaround from salted fish, and she has been on the map ever since. But let's not forget the three flames and three steeds betrayed three times in the prophecy of its fate. The wedding between Ma Long and Hizdala currently written in the novel should correspond to her second group of flames for death (Drogon riots in the slave arena) and the second horse called Fear (Dragon Ma rides a dragon to escape from the wedding scene). ) and the second betrayal for money (Hizdara poisoned the dragon mother). The final suspense was her third flame for love, the third horse for love and the third betrayal for love. Ice and fire pay attention to the interdependence of fate and fortune, and no one is always safe. Long Ma's road to counterattack Westeros is not destined to be smooth, because love is her destiny. She was born without family love, the love between husband and wife is deep but short, the love in bed is not true love, the uncle of true love is a spare tire, and all the forces who come to the marriage have their own ghosts, so her heart is lonely and longing Love. On the one hand, this kind of loneliness creates a boring protagonist template, on the other hand, I don't kindly expect that maybe this will be her fatal flaw? We know that most of the history of Westeros is the history of Targaryen dynasties. If the Iron Throne returns to Targaryen after the war between the heroes, it will be a retrogression of the times. It is like dividing into three kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then returning to Han after the Three Kingdoms. Let's not talk about the problem that Long Ma herself is a woman and has no successor. Therefore, the final fate of Long Ma, I think there will be a contrast with the gods blocking and killing gods so far.
There is a recurring image in the novel, that is, the red door of Braavos that appears repeatedly in Long Ma’s dream, representing her desire to return home, and behind the door is the little girl who is eager to be protected. The American TV series avoided excavating the part of her human nature, but was busy consecrating her as a god - conquering the Dothraki people in the ashes, and then rushing back to Meereen to rescue her in time, and she hit it off with the little devil regardless of previous suspicions. There was no struggle, at most, he was teased by Ma Min for a few words.
But the special effects of Long and Longyan are really handsome, handsome enough to make us ignore the weakness of the plot. Quentin's role was cut off, it doesn't matter anyway, the Martell family is useless to the Dragon Ma;
02 Arya - Assassin Whitewash
I always feel that there should be a few blackened characters in Ice and Fire. Since the world is fluid and changing, there should be a few blackened characters with a whitewashed little brother like James. Caitlin won't talk about it, anyway, her role in the American TV series has been cut off, and whether the resurrected cat aunt can be regarded as a cat aunt, the remaining one with the most blackening tendency is Arya.
First of all, she has a motive for blackening. She had a vivid memory of her father's beheading, and her family's deep feud in her heart. She took out a long list of revenge lists and recited them several times. Secondly, she has the subjective condition of blackening. The youngest daughter of the wolf family grew up savagely, ignoring the social rules of lady etiquette, unrestrained indulgence and love of freedom, and the way of revenge is more emotional. Again she has the objective condition of blackening. The Faceless is a religious assassin organization that believes in "mortals must die", which is to justify death by religious means. The assassins cultivated by such groups must be brainwashed killing machines without the love and hatred of mortals. Arya has used various aliases in the House of Black and White, Ah Yan, Canal Cat, etc. This is religion stripping people's self-knowledge, so as to serve the gods reverently and humbly. Arya also reminds herself from time to time that girls don't have names. The God of Thousand Faces represents the different aspects of human nature and desires. Too many choices may make people lose themselves, just like where there are many clocks, you will doubt which time is accurate. And girls may be lost in this namelessness.
The dogma of the Faceless is to forget herself, but Erya successfully found herself
The Court of Black and White is a bit like the yin and yang of Taoism. Taoism says that something is born out of nothing. One life, two things, three things, everything, and that thousand-faced opposition is nothingness. In Chinese philosophy, there is also such a concept of opposites and complementarities. The extreme of hatred generates extreme love and extreme hatred. It is precisely the lovers who are most likely to do ruthless things. The original plan of the novel was called "The Age of the Wolf", suggesting that the wolf family needs revenge and revival, so the revenge part is more suitable for assassins who are proficient in the dark arts.
The homeless child unfortunately becomes a stepping stone for Erya to clean up and leave the house
And the sixth season of the American TV series is doing something called whitewashing Arya. The adaptation was followed by numerous troupe performances that resonated emotionally with Arya and awakened a part of her humanity. Human pity and empathy are the killer's fatal wound. If Arya finds out that the Queen Mother she hates the most and the mother she loves are the same kind of people, who can do everything and even do whatever they can for the sake of the child, how can this kind of confusion between the enemy and the self make her carry out revenge? If that revenge list is what keeps her tormented and humiliated while also refining her assassin skills, then Season 6's Arya should be broken. At the end of the season, Arya emerges as a sentient assassin who finds her humanity, and actually leaves the house of the Faceless. A whitewashed she is destined to be integrated into the main theme of society, but can an upright and upright assassin still be called an assassin?
Let's see how the screenwriter of her line in the seventh season will write it.
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Chapter 4. Other Lines
01 Martell - In the sixth season of Sunset
, the screenwriter Yue Zuo helped the author to end three family lines. One is Tyrell, who knows how many flowers in his dreams, Boom! The second is Bolton, who is destined to be the backdrop for the revival of the wolf family, and the third is Martell, the flame spear. The clumsy infighting of the family and the arbitrary political killings actually announced the Dornish people in the power game. out.
Infighting is the main theme of the Martell family after the War of the Five Kings
The key words of the Martell family are rivals and bonds. The enemy is Lannister. It was at Tywin's behest that Princess Elia was tortured to death by the Mountain during the Usurper's War. Vengeance Lannister became Martell's inescapable knot. And the red poisonous snake in the ice and fire was killed by the magic mountain in the martial arts trial, which further intensified the hatred between the two families. It's no wonder that the sand snakes are going to rebel, but this is the story of Prince Doran, the head of Martell, a gout patient who is struggling to survive. There is a saying that a mature man can live a humble life for his career, and Doran perfectly interprets this sentence. His political strategy was hidden under the appearance of harmless people and animals, and even confused his daughters and nieces. After the death of the red viper, the sand snake was dissatisfied with the appeasement policy of Prince Doran and launched a civil strife. Doran's eldest daughter even planned to support Myrcella as the queen to counterattack King's Landing (this line was cut off in the American TV series), but was brutally suppressed by Doran. Thus ensuring the political stability of Dorne.
So what is Doran's plan? This also talks about the fetters of the Martell family, that is Targaryen. In history not covered in the Ice and Fire novels and Game of Thrones TV series, Martell is the only family that was not conquered by Dragonfire during the heyday of the Targaryen Dynasty. The conquest and marriage of Queen Nymeria (for whom Arya's direwolf is being named) of Dorne blends the pride of the Royana with the indomitable character of the Dornish people. Not only unyielding, the Dornish people have also sought marriages with Targaryens at various times to strengthen their political influence. After the Usurper War, Doran originally planned to marry his daughter to the Beggar King Viserys. After the Beggar King died, he sent his son Quentin to Meereen to propose marriage to the Dragon Mother (this line was cut off in the American TV series, we are fortunate to have not witnessed Quentin's marriage tragic death). Holding your thighs has always been Martell's philosophy of existence.
This shows Doran's two-line plan. On the one hand, marriage is used to stabilize the diplomatic relations of the Lannisters in power and maintain the surface peace. Even if they fall out, they can use the proton of Myrcella to make the Lannisters cast their arms; Alliance, Dorne is relatively far from the main continent of Westeros geographically and culturally, and the alliance with the Dragon family, who also flourished on the border island, can bring the alliance of forces in Westeros to a balance. The Dornishmen, holding their thighs tightly, were waiting for the opportunity, ready to take a piece of the dragon's victory at any time.
The author's long-term pulse is not as deadly as the screenwriter's deadly knife
But all perfect plans die with the screenwriter's two pens. In the fifth season, Myrcella was poisoned by the red viper mistress, and the weak peace maintained by Martell and Lannister was completely broken; in the sixth season, Doran was assassinated by the red viper mistress, and the backbone led the lunch; Tristan was assassinated by the sand snake; The entire line of the court was cut, and there were no male politicians and heirs in the Martell family. It's not sexism, I personally think that there are not many female characters with political wisdom in Ice and Fire. Old Rose, Little Rose and Sansa are considered, Asha (Yara in the American TV series) and Arianne (Daughter of Doran, who was cut off in the American TV series) ) is still politically ambitious over wisdom. So the sand snakes without their brains are really just a mess of sand. What political means and bargaining chips do they have to gain a place in the next power game? The grass snake gray line eventually ran out of oil, and the indomitable and unyielding finally refused to accept it.
Martell's death is also sudden, and the original sin may lie in their weak sense of existence in the story of ice and fire. The novel has enough space and details to present the survival philosophies of various forces. But American dramas are faster-paced. In order to prevent the main dish from being tainted, side dishes like Martell can only be sacrificed in time. Martell is like this, so why not Tyrell?
02 Greyjoy - the ups and downs of the evil sea
The historical prototype of Greyjoy's family is the Viking pirates in the Middle Ages. Vikings plundered Britain and the main continent of Western Europe many times in history, grabbed a lot of wealth and formed a deterrent to those in power, and when the Vikings settled in these places, they could actively integrate into the local politics, religion and way of life. The image of the uncivilized barbarian in the impression. In contrast, Greyjoy is still more in the primitive stage of looting and worship of ancient gods in the world of ice and fire, far away from the power center of the main continent of Westeros and in a corner.
The King's Choir shows the ironmen's primitive worship of the Drowned God
After the Battle of the Five Kings, the new king election of the Iron Islands is the highlight, and the Octopus family finally made their debut on the stage of the ice and fire drama. But compared to the original, the American TV series has made a lot of adaptations and simplifications to the Greyjoy family line.
In the case that the audience can't tell the difference, it is better to directly announce who is the murderer
According to the elders of the family, let’s talk about Baron first. There is no positive description in the novel about his fall from the bridge, but various clues point to his younger brother Euron the Crow hired assassins to carry out the assassination. A real political game. The American TV series may have taken into account the cognitive cost of Euron's debut to the audience, let alone connect him to Baron's death, so they simply arranged the scene of Euron murdering Baron. It is relatively unacceptable that Euron publicly claimed responsibility for the death of Balon at the king election meeting. Although the Vikings have always followed the law of the jungle, they have deposed and even killed their own kin in the power struggle. , conspiracy becomes conspiracy in a second, stripping away the dark beauty that politics should have.
Next is the second brother Euron. I talked about him and the third brother Victarion who was cut off from the American TV series, because the novel is more through the perspective of Dimension to present the mysterious and complex role of Euron. Euron is a typical Viking figure wearing a half-eye patch. After cuckolding his younger brother Victarion, he was expelled by Balon, and appeared in the Iron Islands after Balon's mysterious death. In the novel, his character is an unpredictable careerist and conspirator, while in the American TV series, he is a reckless man with a long axe. Of course, it cannot be said that the adaptation of American dramas is wrong. Externalizing the characters can save the effort of detailed description and laying dark lines. Victarion's being cut off completely implements the screenwriter's purpose of simplifying the plot, otherwise Yiwei will be cuckolded by Euron, and he will be defeated by him in the king selection, and he will have to replace him to marry the dragon mother. The grass mud horse and Xiao Jiujiu don't know how many side branches and variables will be born for the game of thrones.
Theon is not allied with Yara in the novel
Finally Yara and Theon. Yara, called Asha in the novel. This character has not changed much, and has political ambitions, but as a woman, the disadvantage of the ironman election and Huairou's foreign policy are destined to lose the election to his uncle Euron. Of course, Yara, who was defeated in the novel, was not killed by her uncle. As for Yara's lace tendencies, the novel did not describe it in the impression, it should be HBO's grandstanding. Besides, Theon, after ten years of waiting, I suddenly feel that he may be the author's deliberate arrangement, arranging his lingering life to remind us that there is no hope that it may be a possibility of life.
By the way, the image of the wet-haired Ellen in the American TV series fits my imagination of this Drowned God priest very well.
The octopus family is ever-changing, but it remains the same. No matter who goes to propose marriage/alliance with the dragon mother, Greyjoy's approach to the dragon mother is an irreversible historical torrent. The octopus family has the dragon mother's west expedition most needed. The ability to transport by sea, and Long Ma provides partners with the opportunity to touch the Iron Throne, a perfect exchange of resources. However, I am not optimistic about the political outcome of the ironmen, because the final outcome of the Vikings ruling civilized society in history is naturalization and assimilation.
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