Recently, while the final season of "Game of Thrones" premiered in North America this Sunday, Ms. Bao revisited the first episode of the first season that aired 8 years ago.
At the beginning of the film, the North Stark family came to a forest on their way home.
They saw a dead deer first. The deer is the king of the Seven Kingdoms, the family emblem of the Robert Baratheon family.
Theon asked: Did the lion kill the deer? The lion is the family crest of the Lannister family.
Afterwards, the group walked forward and saw the body of a Steppenwolf again. That's right, Dire Wolf is the Stark family's own crest.
Steppenwolf was stabbed in the throat with antlers. Later, Ned, the head of Stark's family, also died at the hands of Joffrey of the Baratheon family. Wolf, killed by deer.
Jon Snow proposes that the family adopt the dead steppe wolf's cub. Five wolf cubs were given to five Stark family children: Radish, Sansha, Erya, Bran, and Rickon. But Jon Snow herself, as an illegitimate child, doesn't need to be adopted.
But in the end, he found the sixth wolf cub, a snow-white Steppenwolf that was different from the others.
Revisiting the first episode after 8 years, this 3-minute clip can be said to be meaningful: the tragic failure of the wolf family and the deer family, the behind-the-scenes manipulation of the lion family...
And most importantly, Jon Snow's background - he is a member of the Stark family, but he is different from others. This is because the blood of Targaryen still flows in his body.
The whole 7 seasons of the plot, these three minutes of drama, have all given hints. Everyone's fate is already doomed. And by digging and sorting out the clues that the screenwriter buried in the past 7 seasons, the mysterious white fog shrouded in the final season will disappear...
Prophecies, Prophets, and Suggestions
I don't know if you have discovered that in "Game of Thrones", if there is any prophecy or hint, there is a high probability that it will be redeemed in the future.
Take Bran's "Chef Mouse" fairy tale in Season 3: Legend has it that a chef killed the visiting king's son and made mincemeat for the king. In order to punish the cook, the gods turned him into a mouse, and had to eat their own children all day long for a living. Because he broke a sacred law that a master cannot kill a guest in his room.
In the third season, Radish Stark and Caitlin Stark, who were guests at Frey's house, were brutally murdered by Frey. This is the most famous "Blood Wedding". The Stark family was so stagnant that it wasn't until the sixth season, when the children grew up, that they gradually gained a foothold.
And Frey also tasted the retribution for killing his own guests: At the beginning of the seventh season, Erya assassinated Frey's sons and made them into pie first to Frey, just like that fairy tale.
Another hint came at Joffrey's wedding. After the bloody wedding, the old rose said when comforting Sansha who lost her mother and brother:
"War is war, but killing people at a wedding is so bad, who would do such a thing?"
Immediately afterwards, Joffrey was poisoned to death at his wedding, and the murderer was Old Rose.
The most famous prophecy in the entire series, I'm afraid the witch made to Cersei when she was a child:
"You will not marry a prince, you will marry a king"
"You will be the queen (queen). But there will be a younger and more beautiful woman in your place"
"The king will have 20 children, and you have only 3. They will be kings, but they will not escape the fate of death."
Cersei married Robert and had three children. And by the end of the seventh season, all the children are dead.
In season 8, the younger and more beautiful woman who will replace her should be Daenerys Targaryen .
The fate of all people is contrary to the ideal
Tyrion's biggest motivation in previous seasons was to gain his father's approval.
Adhering to the creed of "the ugly person must read more", he devoted himself to learning the art of running a country, and his political vision far surpassed his peers.
He was the unsung hero of the Battle of Blackwater. With the entire city without a leader, as the Prime Minister, he calmed himself down and miraculously commanded the army to defeat the huge fleet of Stannis.
But in his father's eyes, he was still the freak who killed his wife, a family shame he couldn't take out.
If the elder sister was enthroned and the elder brother became the Kingsguard, then the inheritance of the family castle Casterly Rock should belong to Tyrion. But his father made things difficult, accusing Tyrion of murder and bribing Tyrion's lover...
In the end, the dwarf who was eager to get his father's approval finally couldn't bear it any longer and pressed the trigger to shoot his father to death...
And Jon Snow, he's been that extra kid since he was a kid. Everyone else's name is Stark, only he is Snow who symbolizes the bastard.
This is why he gave up the idea of making a career since he was a child, and instead hoped to join the Night's Watch and become a screw in the group, and was silently forgotten.
However, the Night King's invasion, and the tragic deaths of his father and brother, once again put him at the center of the political struggle. He had to become the lord of Winterfell, the king of the north.
Snow wanted to die. Whether it was in the battle of bastards or the capture of savages in Saibei, whenever the enemy was in front of him, Jon Snow's first reaction was to fight the army of millions by himself and escort his companions.
However, even in death, he failed to do so.
And then there's James.
Throughout the show, James' motives are also very obvious: loyalty, love, and family.
But he got none.
The first is loyalty. Jaime is a member of the Kingsguard, equivalent to the king's personal bodyguard. Loyalty clearly comes first for this position.
However, during Robert's war for the throne, the then King "Mad King" Elis ordered the slaughter of the people of King's Landing. Unable to sit back and watch, James killed the Mad King out of concern for the bigger picture. But later, people gave him the title of "Kingslayer", ridiculed and ridiculed him for killing his own king.
That's why James admires "Beauty" Brenney so much. Because Jaime adores the idealized chivalry of Bryony: loyalty and bravery.
Then there is the family. Cersei's three children are actually Jaime's. While they were growing up, James had always loved his children. But all three of them were killed for political reasons in the end. The father was killed by his younger brother, who defected to their enemy.
The entire Lannister family has been torn apart.
As for love. His love affair with Cersei was long gone by the end of season seven. The only thing that keeps them together is family and responsibilities. In the prophecy, Cersei will be killed by her own brother. Most netizens have determined that the one who finally killed Queen Cersei must be Jaime, the former king killer.
In the third episode of the first season, an old grandmother once told Bran the story of "The Long Night"
"When winter comes, the thick snow is more than a hundred feet high. When the night is long, the sun does not rise for years. Children are born, grow, and die in the dark. Never see the sun in their life.
This is the moment of terror, when the White Walkers roam the woods.
In the darkness, the White Walkers came to earth for the first time. They swept through countless cities and countries, riding skeleton horses and hunting with their giant white spiders..."
If nothing else, in the final chapter of the eighth season, we will see the scene of the White Walkers invading the continent as described by the grandmother.
The night is long, the day is never seen
In this dark night, only the chosen lightbringer, Azor Ahai, wields his lightsaber, which cuts through the endless darkness.
At that time, all the characters we know and love will usher in their final fate.
The curtain has been drawn, let us enter the world of ice and fire for the last time.
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