Game of Thrones

Attention at least spoilers, non -critical. You can read the uninitiated! Much of the information presented will only help to quickly understand the intricacies when viewing.

Prologue.

The legends say about winter, which lasted centuries about terrible darkness, which spread above the ground. Then remained in history under the name of a long night. In the middle of darkness from the Far North came white walkers. At the head of the armies of the dead, they went to war on the living, ruining villages and fortresses, leaving horror and destruction.After years of bloody battles and unbearable losses, the first people in alliance with the children of the forest drove the walkers and their minions back to the northern northern wastelands, from where they appeared.

Bryan Cogman (Bryan Cogman) Screenwriter

Epigraph.

There for the ninth tenth shaft!King?! Queen?! – The absurd failure, I am afraid that their servants and subordinate divided art in a dream … Then completely formidable lines poured, their souls are black, like the anger of the Halls, through the pain and through evil, the fire poured everywhere, blood boiled into them with a broken armor.Their troops chopped a head to each other, and for the sake of which? For the sake of the power of the reins?!The eyes lit up like a hellish flame, only suffering reigned everywhere!Why swords so zealously crossed?For the mercy of the Lord? For the world about the war?Against the background there was a deaf wolf howl, the stupid principle of a stranger ruled here ..

Analytics.

The ship of the throne only began its movement, but I managed to bestow already with extremely rich feelings now … I am not able to resist the flight of my feelings, I write this review only after 20 episodes, 20 unforgettable and imperceptibly flying hours. While the taste is still fresh, I am like a postal crow, I hasten to deliver the lead from the lands of the seven kingdoms.

The series … all the guts opposed the use of this word in relation to the already favorite “throne”. There is something in it that he differs from others wearing this title. Here we are waiting for a competently set film and an excellent adaptation of books multiplied by the medieval theater.

Game of Thrones is a fantastic saga that is not inferior in saturation with a paper original. Unexpected turns, political intrigues and some taste of mysticism – a business card of the entire series. The moments of irrealism can be counted on the fingers, but, despite their inconsistency, they fit perfectly into the overall picture of the events of the Middle Ages – wars, debauchery, betrayal and sea of ​​raging social thunderstorms. This is the world of pronounced rich and deep poverty, the world of neighborhood of honor and dishonor, a world where a dozen deaths in an hour is a common thing ..

The plot almost immediately took my consciousness for boarding and completely seized interest. The chain of narratives does not let go for a second, is it worth saying that at the end of the first season I made a trip to the dark cellar under the table to search for my lower jaw, and the emotions showered after ten 60-minute periods of the second still archaic reminds of themselves.

Perhaps I have to regret only one thing: I can’t feel all those impressions again, like many times before that with the intoxicating moments of the past, who left the spiritual bar in my personal history. But with its main motivating function, the “series” copes with “excellent”, after watching each new episode, the inner fire of the desire to get acquainted with the entire cycle of Mr. Martin’s books is fed more and more. By the end, it is already impossible to resist it ..

You can not ignore the amazing sound accompaniment of the authorship of Ramina Djawadi, which is one of the components of the local atmosphere. Enjoying compositions brilliantly emphasize the style and essence of the project.

Of the obvious minuses, it is worth noting a fairly high threshold of entry. From the very beginning, unfamiliar names, names of cities, territories, lords, terms that can scare away newcomers are dumped on the viewer from the very beginning. It is still recommended to watch after reading at least the first part of the epic, but not necessarily, t.To. The reverse option is also provided. Most likely, after half of the first season, you will begin to get involved, and what is happening will be several knowledgeable for you.

Interesting fact: Each season contains in order one of the books of the Sague of Ice and Flame, which completely absorbing its plot and contain the squeezing of the most basic and dominant moments. That is, the first season eventually ends with scenes from the Alpha of the book, the beginning of the second coincides with the next part, but the third volume of the promised heptagogy promises to break in two, hence and 3-4 seasons. Increasing the vastness of the narrative will make the project only better. Therefore, apparently, Got will delight us for a rather long time ..

All the details of any interested “directorial version” will be able to find out on his own in the evening in a soft chair at a reading table with a cup of coffee. However, if you are slow and do not get acquainted with books before watching, then there is an undoubted plus in this – you will be extremely surprised by the scenario moves of the local chessboard represented by Westeros, all the key moments will be mysterious strangers for you, like a traveler who goes to a meeting on the road of being of being.

J. Martin is planned 7 books, at the moment there were 5 … And there are no guarantees that the author’s already extensive work suddenly will suddenly overwhelm him like a glass with noble wine, will begin to shimmer over the edge, forcing us to observe the current scarlet waterfall in the form of a couple more works from under the pen of the writer. After all, in fact, the regularity is such that the next part is usually larger and the thickness of the previous one, and the text becomes more and more closely within the same manuscript. We generally do not mind, so worked out unusual unusual rarity. The main thing is that the old intrigues do not drag out and new, flooding the stove of attention.

Among other things, due to the abundant number of white spots in the main plot, the writer already plans to give it to the adaptation and background of his saga.

P.WITH. I would like to express a separate “thank you” to the alexfilm team, which created one of the amateur translations. It differs more reliability for the era and purity of the voices, providing soft and smooth immersion.

The plot branch.

Under certain circumstances, the king leaves the throne, which is quite predictable and here the same undisguised and dirty “game of throne” begins. Supporters of the ideas “everything or nothing” appear from everywhere who have some influence and wealth, but those who want to get more, cover everything, take the leader’s place and manage the lands of the seven kingdoms, kneel the continent named Westeros and become his new face … The monarchy as it is ..

By the way, all these ideological like -minded people have a provincial noble origin from certain family houses. They formally obeyed the king, but in reality they conducted their own games, conspiracies and intrigues. The power that is crazy, given from birth to each of them, eventually turned out to be insufficient, because, as you know, it is worth tasteing it only a little and already wants more, the mind overcomes the desire to take possession of everything even through recklessness! The reins of government is one, and thirsting for getting a lot of them, therefore, no matter how difficult it is to guess, a bloody civil war flare up in the struggle for the throne and crown.

These events are developing, despite the news of the secondary appearance of the so -called “white walkers”, dormant for many centuries until the current moment and again coming from the north. This is undead, which hates the sun, iron and life itself. It is no wonder that people, being much younger than this age and never encounters such a forgotten danger, declare this news slander and fairy tales, empty epic myths. Only now, after 2 seasons, all “players” have to doubt their own solutions. While they found out their relations and fought for the iron throne, the walkers finally intensified and moved to the “wall” as an entire army – the only obstacle between the human world and the kingdom of the rebellious dead. The guardians of the stone obstacle – the brotherhood of the “night patrol”, made an oath to protect the earthly vale from the upcoming horror from the enclave of permafrost and have been dealing with this for several thousand years until now. Their ranks were once impressive, for they were measured by hordes, but gradually the garrisons began to thin. 300 years ago, a mark of 10,000 warriors was recorded, after another 100 years only a quarter remained. By the time of the unfolding incidents, they became very few and amounted to only a thousand people in total on all forts. They always went to them with different goals and intentions … Some were ready to put their heads, blindly believing in their purpose in the name of salvation and protecting people. Others from hopelessness and loss in, being broken, or no more meaning of life. The third, which are now the majority sentenced to the death penalty and set before the choice – a wall or death? That’s the question … Not everyone agreed ..

Nevertheless, all three groups Spinsy.co.uk are united by a lifelong oath, which everyone who entered into a patrol is obliged. Any of the fraternity on equal terms of equal rights can be appointed commander of the lord.

Listen to my oath and witness my vow! The night is going and my patrol begins. He will not end until my death. I will not take myself a wife or land, I will not be a father for children. I will not put on the crown and will not achieve fame. I will live and die at my post. I am a sword in darkness;I am a sentinel on the wall;I am a fire that accelerates the cold;I am the light that brings dawn;I am a horn that wakes up sleeping;I am a shield that protects the kingdom of people. I give my life and honor to the night patrol in the middle of this night and all who are coming after it.

Needless to say, a night patrol dies: a huge army turned into a proud separate flock, and in the minds of the people he turned from a knight’s valiant shield for potential criminals. The goal has changed from defense to relative survival.

In addition to the walking masses, those whom the people of Westeros nicknamed “wild” have always lived behind a stone massif. The same people only, unlike the savages, according to the Southerners, who have lost everything that were inherent and likened to animal creatures. In general, this is not to the end of the truth … However, it is true that these people are of the highest degree of ability to survive. North, therefore, harsh, intraspecific laws are tougher, natural selection is more selective. The weak among the game do not complain ..

The night patrol does not release anyone outside its man -made mountain, whether it be living or a dead man, for the merger of civilization and barbarism, life and death in one glass of civilization and death … This threatens the onset of an antagonistic whirlpool, a dark whirlpool, from which a few will get out of which.

There are no good and bad heroes of the throne in the saga – representatives of the most important clans of the kingdoms. These include Starks, Baratheons, Lannisters and Targary (dragonor -rosary). Here is also Graijoi (iron -roted). As they say, “in the family is not without a freak,” so there are individual personalities who are perhaps the majority of caretakers, but at the same time you will definitely find in each of the family houses of the families of those characters who will sympathize and impress. You will find these among ordinary people of Nonorolevsky blood, who also have their own, no less worked out stories.

The center of the picture is represented by an iron throne. Its origin simply cannot be ignored. He was created even during the reign of Targaryenes. According to legend, it is believed that thousands of swords, iron spikes and lanes of metal were rafted among themselves with the help of the dragon’s breathing and, hot, forged, forged for 59 days! Thus, the guns acquired a crimson color and the structure of baked soot. Later the throne was ennobled and decorated with dragon skulls. According to legend, only a worthy can sit on it, he constantly wounds others, even deaths from sign regalia are known. Only the true ruler and right hand of the king during the absence of the first. After the capture of the Red Castle, Robert Baratheon demanded to remove the skulls, moving them to the lower tiers of the fortress, apparently to designate the new owners of the kingdom.

The designated castle, in turn, is located in the Royal Harbor – the largest city of the continent and a kind of capital. This is a real stone heart of Westeros, where and where the whole scenario web is weaving.

About the local world.

Family:

Barations – short -sighted egocentrists, obsessed with power. Always occupy a ruling position, not always understanding why they need it. The blood of this kind is pretty distinguished by temper. (Sign – horned deer; motto – “rage to us!”;Rule with stormy lands;Castle – a stormy limit that has departed from the Durrandons)

Starki – Loners and keepers of the northern part, as close as possible to the wall. They pursue exclusively their interests, they want to live alone on their own land without commandments from the royal harbor. Power and the throne are uninstered by them, politicians shun. Are assistants of the night patrol. (Sign – gray fierce; motto – “winter is close!”;Rule the territory of the north;The clan castle – Winterfell)

Targary (dragonorrheated) – Former owners of the throne, overshrown from the rightful place by the uprising of barates. They are looking for allies who are found in the person of the savages of the Dotraki, intend to regain their throne. Rumor has it that the blood of real dragons flows in their veins, which were exterminated as a thousand years ago. (Sign – dragon; motto – “blood and fire!”;Previously ruled all Vesteros from the summer castle)

Lannisters – Rich arrogant genus. The main goal, if you do not saddle the throne, is the opportunity to manipulate the decisions of the true king. Always pay their debts, tend to arrange unholy games, use any way to achieve goals. Bicolines … (sign – golden lion; motto – “Hear my roar!”;Rule the territory of Western lands;The main castle is the cliff of Casterley (Caster Lee Rock))

Graijoi (iron -grown) – ferocious island pirates, everyone is used to getting with battle without excessive diplomacy. Rumors go, they say, their true power manifests itself near the coast, which are near the sea, salt and stone. Instead of gold, they are always ready to offer an “iron price”. They want to kneel all other houses, believing that only the strong has the right to occupy the throne and take revenge on the Starch for old grievances. (Sign – kraken; motto – “we do not sow!”;Territory – iron islands;Castle – ration)

At the same time, you can describe the Drandowkins, also known as “horse -drawn lords” – these are savages for whom any death is fun, whether it be an animal, enemy or even one of the tribe. The leader of them is called Khal, who becomes the strongest of the dotra soldiers. Rob, kill, rape and engage in slave trade … immoral. Their invasion can be compared only with the mass fence of the locust. During their lives, they did not have natural threats and dangers that could control the number, which in the end did not prevent the huge nomadic community-armed forces. One “but”, they live behind the sea, therefore are isolated from the castles of the aforementioned birth and consider them uninteresting for themselves. For now … (without identification signs and motto, but if they were, then a horse would have flaunted on the banner, and they would have voted in chorus “the whole world!”)

Despite their difference, all heroes have something in common, uniting them and being a knot because of which they cannot go in their direction. Family ties are important for all of them, they are a mountain behind their own and are ready to fight to the last drop of blood. Many local politicians are looking for the weakness of the people who are objectionable among the people who are dear to him, in order to pull the threads, preventing him from self -will and maneuver, simultaneously control them like a puppet, and force them to dance under his tune.

But all this is characteristic of mortals, monstrous creatures are located on the opposite cup of weights – others whose existence is shrouded in mysticism … Ice, in shape resembling creatures, wearing armor and skillfully fighting on swords. It was not really possible to study them, for their body is melting, after the evaporation of their spirit.
It is known that they are able to raise dead animals and people, turning those to ghouls, so any corpses behind the wall are considered to be properly burned. According to legends, their mobile transport is huge ice spiders, and the blood of living creatures serves as the blood of the urgent. However, the use of other large animals was recorded as sled (before that, naturally killed).

Their skin is dead, their eyes are blue, like ice from the highest and northern mountains, the blood is pale blue. They were nicknamed “white shadows” for the supernatural ability to move silently and they, it would seem, are so easy that even the snow under them does not fail. Perhaps Winter itself – one of the four face of nature is afraid to give out the location of the envoys of death … How terrible these monsters are ..

For ordinary weapons, these monsters are completely invulnerable, with the exception of the obsidian (“Dragon Glass”) and Valiri (“Dragon Steel”). When impacts, they hear the sound remotely similar to the crunch of ice, their body begins to collapse and flow in front. The material of weapons of walkers is still unknown to a person, as it fades along with its carrier. “Cold shadows” are reasonable, as evidenced by the speech and negotiations between them, this language is similar in sound like a crunch of ice records.

Ghouls, all the evil spirits that the “white death” gives rise to anabiosis in the afternoon with the only purpose in order to rebel again at night. The best remedy against silent zombies is fire or physical dismemberment and destruction.

From a philosophical point of view, white walkers are similar to the Apocalypse, Armageddon, fiery hell for civilization, which has reached the peak of its development ..

Peculiarities:

The local climate and the nature of the change of seasons is extremely unusual in its behavior and differs from the standard earthly. The year also consists of approximately 12 months, which are called in the “songs” differently, but the transition from one season to the next does not have clear frames, quite chaotic and unpredictable. Each of the four periods can last from a few weeks and months to several calendar years! The longest summer is 10 years, 2 months and 16 days. It is at its end that the events of the start of the series fall. In summer and winter, the duration of the day and night, as well as their temperature regime, as in our reality, change, due to which Maysters can predict the approach of the warm summer or the coming ice winter.

Winter periods on average last 2-3 years and are characterized by a decline in crop and cold long nights, but once in Westeros the so-called “long night” came (8 thousand. years ago), when the winter lasted a whole generation, and the sun hid and did not peek out for years. This time marked the invasion of “other” (white walkers). Humanity, which appeared in the balance of death, nevertheless overthrew the undead and delayed its sentence, not without the help of the warrior of the light (Azor Ahai) and the children of the forest with their own magic. It was then that it was decided to build a huge wall capable of protecting cold creatures from the repeated misfortune, and a night patrol was established to combat evil. At the same time, the Rod Starkov was founded to help the patrol and supply it with new people. Perhaps it is just a coincidence (many people do not think so), but an eclipse fell with the victory over the walkers, the cold retreated, and the long night stopped ..

In the summer there is a heat everywhere, except for the northern part, especially in Dorn – the southern region of the mainland. Even in the peak of the activity of the Sun in the vicinity of Winterfell and the walls, snow falls, “summer” and not persistent, but still in abundance. In winter, snowflakes fall in the southern part, and harsh and hard cold come in the north. Since the Starks live in Winterfell near the wall, then, like no other, they know the winter in the eyes. This is due to their motto – “Winter is coming”, they remember her and are always ready for her and her manifestations.

Everything in Westeros is balanced, so for a long time of summer relaxations you will have to pay long cold. Such a change of seasons, according to Martin, is associated with a certain magic and will be clarified at the end of the saga.

Mainly large land in spiritual terms is covered by two main fractions. Faith in seven and worship of the old gods. Of course, there were no religious renegos-atheists, who put under great doubt the existence of any higher forces.

The old gods are the oldest belief in the spirits of nature, going into the northern lands by its roots. This is not how much a full religion, how much actually nationality. Worshiped in the Mother of God with sacred Chardrevs. Against the backdrop of the seven relief, the old gods look like a relic of the past and “superstitions”, however, they are often explained from small to great, from the courtiers to kings. Natural forces are more likely to complement seven -sides and accompany the spiritual heritage of Westeros, if they are confrontation.

Semevials are the most common official religion in Westeros, which replaced the traditional faith in the old gods as a thousands of years ago. It was brought by the militant fanatical Andals that came with the Essos. They began to impose their beliefs with bloodshed and massacre, but could not win the north, therefore, in the lands of the Starks near the wall, as well as on the iron islands, old beliefs were preserved.

Seven – father, mother, maiden, old woman, blacksmith, warrior and unknown – not seven different deities, but seven faces of one single deity, which, however, are worshiped separately. Faith in seven preaches mercy, asceticism, the defendation of earthly life, justice and retribution for sins. The number 7 is sacred, and its ministers use as symbols a star with seven rays and a crystal with seven faces. Big church temples are present in all major settlements. Seners are called septons (men) or septas (women). All small villages are visited by wandering templers. In cases where a prayer occurs outside the septa, it is customary to use the symbols of seven and raise them above the head.

Each of the seven personifies one or another side of human nature, activities, different phenomena of the world around. Septons emphasize that each of the seven faces individually embodies everyone else.

Unlike the “green” religion, the worship of the seven is very burdened by the concept of sin. Gods can punish people for duties during life, sending misfortunes and troubles. In addition, it is believed that when the time comes, the heavenly fathers are able to send fire from heaven to the ground, in order to cleanse the world from filth and rotten human souls … The sin in the face of the gods must be redeemed, first of all, by ascosis, post and prayer. Torturing his flesh, the believer feels cleaner and closer to the gods. Good deeds, such as the presentation of alms and the protection of the weak, are pleasing and can serve as a redemption of the fall. Septons take confession in believers and release sins. You cannot be forgiven without repentance. Heavy sins may require public recognition. Unusual sinners after death awaits the eternal punishment in seven underworld.

Epilogue.

This is a truly adult and smart series created by the master of this craft-the American cable TV “HBO”, which has repeatedly proved to us his talent in this matter. And in the appendage, as is customary, the brainchild of this channel is also expensive, which can be seen by the naked gaze of any commoner, not to mention acute artistic contemplations.

Interesting fact: The budget of the first season was a long time vague and uncertain. At first it amounted to ~ 45 million dollars, then it was decided to rise to the number 60. Through simple calculations, we can say in the affirmative that the cost of one series in production has $ 6-7 million! The second season was generally more expensive by about 20% and the further the series moves, the more success it collects, the only better, more colorful and larger it becomes, t.To. It is extremely known that on the scenes of the battles previously strongly saved, and many remained uncomfortable at all. One of the rare cases of competent handling.

With its vitic development, the “song of ice and fire” will not leave indifferent even the most picky critics and ossified condoing people. Thanks to the scriptwriters, the film crew, those who have a hand in creating, to everyone who worked and, of course, thanks to George Reimond Richard Martin – the author without whom there would be nothing of this. In the field of cinema and literature, grain has already become a young sprout, but dreaming of becoming a powerful centuries -old oak.

I hope that a strong fair wind and storms are waiting ahead of the epic, which the ocean has not yet seen … High waves that will lift it above Olympus, forcing the frigate to push the clouds to the sun and new achievements.

So what am I trying to say all this? This is a masterpiece, my friends! Do not pass by, viewing is recommended to everyone and everyone.

Lords and ladies, someday I will return, or maybe more than once, because it was not patience to wait several years to publish a full-fledged article. But there was a time that could erase all the new impressions. The plans for the future read the cycle “The Song of Ice and Fire”, as well as the background to it and come again with the detailed analysis of the flights of this wonderful, bewitching, magical universe.

P.WITH. At the time of writing, I did not start any of the books of George Martin. Based solely on its own conclusions and speculations from a multi -part film.
In general: Errare Humanum Est ..

Extremely superficial, but still used information from the 7kingdom portal.ru “(specifically a little by childbirth, castles and ruling territories, as well as religions).