2017's Game of Thrones was a bit later and shorter than usual. The first six seasons maintained the rhythm of ten episodes in one season and the climax of the ninth episode, while the seventh season was shortened to seven episodes, and the eighth season of the finale was shortened to six episodes. Every drama has an ending, and no matter how enthusiastic fans are, they can only accept the status quo of watching one episode less than one episode. This August, the seventh season of "Game of Thrones" ended.
As early as the fifth season of losing the asylum of the original book, the drama version of "Game of Thrones" helmed by screenwriters David Benioff and D.B. Weiss was scolded by fans of the original book. A clever woman is hard to cook without rice, and George R.R. Martin has repeatedly delayed the draft. It is indeed difficult for the two screenwriters to independently control such a huge subject. Although it is rumored that Martin has revealed the finale to the screenwriter, but it is created on the basis of the great god, and it cannot be separated from the original framework. In addition, there are countless fans and mother-in-law watching on the Internet, the screenwriting of the seventh season is really not like a human being. of.
In order to catch up with the progress and gather the plot, in the seventh season, the screenwriter slashed the heads of some minor characters with a big knife. The ruthlessness surpassed Martin himself, and it was brutal and rude to the point of sending a lunch just for the sake of it. Some figures such as the Dorne Line, the House of Roses, and Thoros of Myr have withdrawn. The advantage of this is that the plot is more focused on the main characters. In the first two seasons, in order to take care of multiple branch lines, the phenomenon of having to make a big platter of episodes is gone this season. The basic set has a theme, which is much more compact. Of course, there are more lunch boxes, and the cost of the drama is also reduced a lot.
While catching up with the schedule, it will inevitably lead to many logical irrationalities. The first is the portal. When Martin created Westeros, in order to bring the story closer to the real world, he clearly described the vast geography of the cities. But the show sometimes had to sacrifice the legitimacy of distance and open the portal wide. In the previous seasons, there was Littlefinger's Flying Escape. This season, there are Euron's ghost fleet hanging around Dorne, Westland, and King's Landing. Jon Snow shuttles freely between the north and south of Westeros. There is also snow marathon runner Gendry Baratheon, and even more exaggerated is that Long Ma crossed the Westeros continent overnight, and rescued the ghost hunting team with precision guidance. The portal was opened too much, and the magnificent world war was compressed into a fight in several villages.
Secondly, in order to balance the forces of all parties, the IQ of the characters fluctuates up and down. The little devil has played two episodes of soy sauce since he killed Tywin. At the beginning of this season, he turned into a stinky chess basket, helping Daenerys Targaryen to make a few stupid moves one after another, breaking Dorne and Yara. , the three arms of the Rose family, and trapped the Unsullied in Casterly Rock. In the previous seasons, Littlefinger, who was in a row, had basically nothing to do this season except hiding in the shadows and observing, and finally made a big death in the final episode of the show. And Cersei, who was only emotional in the past, after becoming a loner, turned out to be quite skilled in politics, and she was able to wield between various forces, like Tywin possessed, and became more and more worthy of the title of the queen, a senior player in the game of power.
The branch lines continue to merge, and the characters originally scattered all over the place have intersected one after another. Some characters who thought they would never see each other again had to share a frame for various reasons. For example, Ghostbusters in Episode 6 and Dragon Nest in Episode 7 see ghosts. Enemies gather, master and servant are strangers. They have grievances and grievances with each other, but they can only meet in one or two lines of time to meet and laugh. What is commendable is that the lines are well written, and the old grudges are resolved in a few words, or new hatreds are added. Except for the frontline of Winterfell, since everyone else was busy fighting the White Walkers together, they didn't have time to take care of the North, and only the Stark sisters were left chatting awkwardly and fighting Littlefinger.
The most gratifying thing is that after seven seasons of tempering, some characters finally flashed an "arc". Don't have to say "I don't understand" Joan Snow, "report the name of the dish" Long Ma and the little devil, like Sansa from an innocent girl to a master of conspiracy; Theon has experienced all kinds of humiliation, from bugs to daring to kill people. ; Among all the characters, "Arclight" is the most moving, none other than Jaime Lannister. He was the incestuous monarchy and child-killing villain in the first season, and in this season he became a knight of love and honor. He has two of his most moving plays, one in which James single-handedly charges the dragon, with a Don Quixote-like majesty he knows he can't do; When the crippled iron hand put on the glove, a snowflake fell on it. Jaime looked around, and King's Landing was snowing in the sky. Winter has come. The road to the north, riding alone, is the most poetic scene of the season.
Winter is coming for seven years, and at the end of the season, winter has finally come. But until the finale of Game of Thrones, we must endure another spring, summer, autumn and winter. The good news is that the next season will be aired in winter.
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