[Drama Review] Game of Thrones S5E10 The Mercy of the Virgin: Dead End Season Finale

Dennis 2022-04-24 07:01:25

The season finale is finally here. That's right, the focus of this episode is on the dead, the dead, the dead...
well, let's sort out the plot of this episode first. At the beginning, the melting ice ridges seem to announce to us that in the last episode, Stannis sacrificed his daughter to finally please the King of Light, causing the ice and snow to melt and the army to move on, but then As soon as the camera turned, Melisandre, who also thought so and was complacent, was severely slapped in the face by reality - the defection of half of the soldiers, the queen who died by suicide, and the subsequent departure of Melisandre herself seemed to herald Stannis's inevitable defeat is inevitable... On the
other hand, Jon, who has returned to Castle Black with all his life, is facing separation from Sam... In order to protect Gilly and the child, Sam finally decides to move Old Town, with a view to becoming a bachelor. It's just that the two people who raised their glasses and met at this moment probably never expected that the separation at the moment would be a forever...

And as the eldest lady of the wolf family, Sansa's fate in this episode is still the same. Full of pitfalls. First of all, I finally took the opportunity to light a candle at the ruined tower, but at this time, Brienne, who had been waiting outside, discovered the traces of Stannis' army. The revengeful beauty naturally would not miss this opportunity. When he turned to leave, he also missed the bright candles that Sansa lit in the tower...

The only big scene in this episode - Stannis and the small skinning battle -

well, the so-called The big scene is only a few shots (probably the budget was spent on the eighth episode, hahahaha), there is no suspense about the outcome, and then there are Brienne and Stannis who came to take revenge Confrontation...
Stannis, who was sentenced to death, had a calm expression on his face. He wanted to personally push his daughter to death, his wife's suicide, and the whole army was wiped out. This series of blows has made him disheartened. Perhaps death is his only relief. ...

It is worth mentioning that the question of whether Stannis is dead or not... After all, when Brienne raised her sword and slashed at him, the camera immediately turned to Little Flay, thus burying the unknown suspense of life and death. ... That's right, there is still life and death suspense two, suspense three...
Let's continue. Theon, who gradually regained his humanity, finally took action when Sansa was threatened by the little skinned lover, and the moment he and Sansa jumped down from the tower, he was indeed handsome, hoo hoo hoo...

uh, this is yet another life and death unknown. One of the suspense... In other words, if you jump from such a high city wall, it is unreasonable not to die. However, Sansa has been entangled in this line for so long, and there is no reason to die so easily, so you should not worry about how to escape this. Zed, it depends on the screenwriter's success in the next season... In other words, could it be that Bran, who had no sense of existence in the entire fifth season, finally returned from his studies and saved his sister (after all, one of his abilities It is possible to "fly", well, the brain hole is a bit big)...
And the bloodiest and most violent scene in this episode is also the happiest scene, which appeared on Arya. Yi Rong, she finally succeeded in beheading the first person in her list, stabbed him in the right eye and cut his throat at the end, it couldn't be more neat, but at the same time, she repeated "I'm Arya Stark" ", which once again proved that she has not become a qualified faceless person at the moment. Of course, she, who is blind in her eyes, will really grow and transform in the next season...

As for the death of the little princess of the Lion family, Myrcella, there is really nothing to say. After all, she is not an important person, the only thing worth One thing to mention is that Ellaria's obsession with revenge for her deceased husband won my heart, hoo hoo hoo~~~

As for the dragon mother, I don't even want to say anything... In the last episode, when disaster was imminent, she Huo Huo abandoned his supporters and little lovers, rode on the dragon and ran away. After the danger was lifted, he immediately said, "My people need me, so I plan to go back to Meereen to continue to be her queen, but it's a pity that Drogon doesn't." To save face, Long Ma, who couldn't find food by herself, turned her face and met her old subordinate of her long-dead husband... Is this a large army sent to her door again? So, is this the rhythm to hang up again? Forget it, don't talk about her.

On the other side, in the city of King's Landing, the tortured Sexi finally compromised, and humbly knelt in front of the High Sparrow to confess her guilt, but she could not escape the fate of parading naked on the street, watching her being stripped naked, brushing her body roughly and When she cut her hair, she was still a little pitiful; when she later faced the insults of the crowd with a calm face, I admired her a little (because I think it is generally able to endure these four The person who writes the word is very scary. Once he gains power one day, hehe, whoever bullied him at the beginning, just wait and see), so I am looking forward to the next Madam Sexi's crazy revenge against the High Sparrow... The pain of the upcoming bereavement, the next season's Sexi, if it is not destroyed by these two things, it is bound to become even more crazy...

In the end, the highlight, Jon Snow was finally stabbed by his night watchman brother. knife. In the true sense. Uh, counted, a total of six knives. Those who have read the original should know that Jon Snow's death is not unexpected, after all, he will still be resurrected, but, but. . . . . . After watching the interview with Keaton Harrington, who played Jon Snow, he said that Jon Snow is actually dead, and there will be no him in the sixth season. . . . . . I. . . . . . However, even if there is no him in the sixth season, it does not mean that the seventh season is not there. Let's just wait. After all, apart from Long Ma, he is the only person who has the aura of the protagonist. How can he just hang up like this...

Anyway, the fifth season just ended, leaving a bunch of foreshadowing, waiting for the sixth season to unfold. Another year of waiting begins.
Game of Thrones, see you next year.

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The Wars to Come quotes

  • Melisandre: We all must choose, man or woman, young or old, lord or peasant, our choices are the same. We choose light or we choose darkness. We choose good or we choose evil. We choose the true god or the false.

  • Tyrion Lannister: I still don't see why I had to stay in this fucking crate once we set sail.

    Lord Varys: I saved your life. If they catch you, they catch me. I cannot say I feel overly guilty about leaving you in that fucking crate.