Has the screenwriter "Abusive Fan Dafa" played enough? Snow is coming back

Although only 10 episodes are broadcast a year, the writers of Game of Thrones have the ability to keep the audience thinking about the character's next fate during the 360 days of waiting.

It has been more than half a year since the final episode of the fifth season was broadcast, but whether Jon Snow, who was stabbed to death in the snow in the show, is a topic of constant debate among fans.

However, from the poster of the sixth season released last week to the preview trailer exposed yesterday, Jon Snow, played by Kit Harrington, appeared on the screen again, accompanied by Bran's narration "They have no idea what will happen", indicating that Snow's death has another hidden meaning. This made the audience, who had been struggling for more than half a year, say: "Is the screenwriter going to punch himself in the face?" This 'they' are laughing at the audience!"

In fact, not only "Game of Thrones", the "protagonist aura" is no longer applicable in many British and American dramas, the more popular the characters, the more "killed" high-risk groups, as the audience who is "abused" can't help but want to ask the screenwriter: "The most basic trust between people and people!"

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The protagonist is dead! Oh, another way to continue living?

Case: Game of Thrones

Since Jon Snow was poked in the snow at the end of the fifth season, the character "dead or not" has become a hot topic of discussion among the media and fans, and every time there is any wind and grass, it will cause some speculation.

Unlike the disgusting Joffrey when he was poisoned, the audience's joy and happiness, or the visual shock of the "Red Viper" being headshot, after all, Snow is a character with the aura of the protagonist in the eyes of many viewers, and many people think that the "ice" of "A Song of Ice and Fire" refers to him, if this role is killed by the screenwriters who do not play cards according to reason, how should the plot go next?

How big was the response to Snow's death? Even the supporting actors who participated in the stabbing of Snow in the play have become the target of attack. Oyawick, a member of the Night's Watch, is the second person in the series to stab Snow with a dagger, and the actor who plays this role, Brian Fuchon, revealed, "During the time when the assassination scene was first broadcast, I was often verbally attacked by people, and even some fans would call me a jerk for something innocuous."

At the beginning, from actor Kit Harrington to the crew, they repeatedly stressed that Snow was really dead, but since the start of the sixth season, Harrington has been caught on the set many times, and he still has Snow's long hair, and his previous statement of "will not return" is self-defeating.

But then, HBO program director Michael Lombardo came out and clarified: "Dead is dead, he is absolutely dead, and from what I have seen, heard and read, Jon Snow is dead." Some speculate that Harrington may have gone to shoot scenes such as funerals.

"What is the fate of Snow" has become one of the biggest suspense in the history of American dramas, and last week, HBO amplified the move, and on the trailer poster of the sixth season, Snow with a bloody face reappeared, instantly igniting fans, "All the posters, the sixth season will always have him"?

Even Kit Harrington's attitude became ambiguous, suggesting that he still had a contract with the crew, but when asked when the characters would return, he sold off: "I can't talk about it, I can only say that Game of Thrones will remain a part of my life for some time." 」

Yesterday, "Game of Thrones" released the first preview of the sixth season, still focusing on the return of Snow. Swedish actor Max von Sito narrated as the "Three-Eyed Raven": "We observe, we listen, we remember." History has been written and ink has dried up. Snow appears, and the picture begins to flash back to plots such as "Blood Wedding", and finally freezes in the scene of Snow's death. At this point, Bran's voice said, "They have no idea what's going to happen."

As soon as the trailer came out, the audience immediately exploded again, "history has been written, the ink has dried" seems to imply that Snow's death is an immutable fact, but Bran's words foreshadow another possibility, after some viewers speculated that Snow may have been "resurrected" by the red-robed witch Melisandre with black magic, because shortly before Snow was stabbed, Melisandre had just returned to the Great Wall, which may not be a coincidence. Now it seems that Bran may play a role in Snow's resurrection, just as Bran was able to possess his soul to the snow wolf, and snow is likely to possess the wolf spirit when he is seriously injured. Of course, the truth won't be revealed until April.

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Did you see him dead? In fact, he dodged it!

Case: The Walking Dead

The screenwriter unexpectedly sent a "bento" to the protagonist is not a patent of "Game of Thrones", "The Walking Dead" broadcast to the sixth season, from the first season of the original characters have survived very little, and in this season, the audience's favorite Korean brother Glenn was besieged by the walking dead at the end of episode 3, and all kinds of situations looked certain to die, which immediately caused an uproar among the audience.

In the third episode of the sixth season, Glenn and Nicholas are besieged by the walking dead, Nicholas raises his gun and explodes, and the two of them fall into the corpses, surrounded by corpses, blood splashing, and the screen is black.

For a time, Glenn became the "second Snow" of this year, and his life and death touched the hearts of thousands of drama fans. The playwright clearly understands the audience's mind, and the answer given by screenwriter and producer Scott Kimber at the time was: "In some cases we will see Glenn again, whether in a flashback way or in a realistic narrative." Later, in another interview, he said: "What the audience sees on the screen is what it is, and there are different ways of understanding it."

Producer David Albert's response is more emblematic of the producer's mentality, "We believe that writing a story the way fans want it is exactly what they want to see." Audiences love to watch The Walking Dead is to watch the death in it, whether you admit it or not, this is definitely one of the reasons why you watch this show. If none of your favorite characters die, you won't like this show!" It sounds like it makes a lot of sense, but it can't be refuted!

Fortunately, the suspense does not last very long, after 3 episodes, the mystery of life and death has been revealed: Glenn is not dead! As many people think, he hid under the body of Nicholas, who was devoured by the walking corpse, and then used a trash can to avoid the attack, which made the audience breathe a sigh of relief.

What is even more indebted is that when Snow appeared on the poster of the new season of "Game of Thrones" last week, the official push of "The Walking Dead" also forwarded: "We can beat the fans!"

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Of course he wasn't dead! But why?

Case Study: Sherlock

The screenwriter makes the audience worry about the life and death of the character, which can also be seen as a manifestation of the success of the story, but sometimes they do it more fiercely, that is, when the play clearly tells you that this person is not dead, but you still can't help but guess what all this is all about? This is also a common "abuse fan" trick used by the screenwriters of the series.

Once in the Sherlock Holmes novel, Conan Doyle arranged for Sherlock Holmes to fall off a cliff and die, which caused readers to protest and the author had to resurrect the great detective. At the end of the second season of "Sherlock", Sherlock created the mystery of fake death in order to fight against the villain Moriarty, and looked at Watson standing in front of his friend's grave with a painful face, which made many fans feel heart-wrenching.

During the long wait, fans constantly speculated about how Sherlock would explain "fake death", which became the focus of the opening "Ethereal Coffin" in the third season. Sherlock, who had been suspended for two years, suddenly returned to Watson, and the mystery was revealed, and it turned out that when he fell downstairs, there was a rope behind him that pulled him back in time, and at the same time, someone disguised Moriarty's body as Sherlock, and this scene was carefully calculated and completed in an instant. The audience sees this and says: What? That's it?

The screenwriter may have expected that the audience would not be satisfied, and told another version of "fake death": Sherlock really jumped off the building, but the downstairs was covered with air cushions, and he borrowed obstacles such as ambulances to block Watson's vision, and arranged the "death scene" unconsciously.

However, the audience's appetite is too high, no matter which explanation, many people feel that it is too dramatic, not enough brain-burning, "full of loopholes, simply powder". This is not enough, at the end of the third season, in the second season, Sherlock's hard-won Moriarty actually returned gorgeously, screenwriter, are you teasing everyone?

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Forcibly collar bento! Can it be a little rougher?

Case: Downton Abbey

Unconsciously, "Downton Abbey" has come to an end in November, the time back to 2012, that is the most beautiful time of the series, not only rave reviews, ratings broke various records, but everything took a turn that Christmas, the most popular "big cousin" Matthew played by Dan Stevens for personal development reasons, everyone is looking forward to his story line can be explained in the Christmas special.

Generally, when an actor does not renew his contract, the TV station will make some technical treatment accordingly, one option is to invite another actor to continue to play the role, and the other is to let the screenwriter find a reasonable excuse to arrange for the role to leave.

The producers of "Downton Abbey" said in advance that Matthew would not be replaced, so the Christmas special was the end of the role, and the result was that after Visiting his wife and newborn son in the hospital, Matthew encountered a car accident when he returned home, and his head was broken and bleeding.

Without any warning, the writers easily killed the role at the last minute of the family-friendly Christmas special, making fans say it was unacceptable. Before that, there have been many fans of the show who have taken a chance, as long as the screenwriter reasonably arranges for the character to leave, as long as Dan Stevens changes his mind, he can return with joy and dignity, but look at this ending, can't the screenwriter leave a way back with people and yourself?

The departure of "Big Cousin" led to the abandonment of many fans, "Downton Abbey" was seriously injured, and Stevens, who was bent on going to the United States to develop, did not have any bright performance in the end. After the end of the sixth season, "Downton Abbey" will air the final Christmas special on the 25th of this month, ending the six-year-old era drama.

(Chuchu _CS)