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The other day, a rumor was held: George Martin finished the book “ Winds of Winter”. This was announced by Jack Bender, a director who was invited to shoot two episodes in the future, sixth season of Game of Thrones. Answering questions from Reddit users, he confirmed that he had already read the book. However, the refutation soon followed: the fan-site of the "Games" Watchers on The Wall , referring to a “very reliable source”, said that Bender confused the book with the script of the sixth season of the series.

Be that as it may, Martin really finally hurried. According to the writer, he counts on the publication of the Winter Winter before the premiere of the next season. “I would like the book to be now,” Martin remarked, adding that he had postponed all the things that he could. And he even expressed regret about the “dance with dragons” of the time lost after the release in 2011, when he completely interrupted the work on the saga for six months. He told all this to the Entertainment Weekly portal in April. And the day before, he laid out on his website another spoiler chapter from the “Winds” - the head of Sansa , more precisely, Alena Stone. Under this name, in the role of Bastard's daughter, Petira Bailish Sansa lives in the Arren Valley-and lives hotly: intact, sound and virgin. A month and a half later, after the release of the 6th episode of the series, in which Sansa is married to Ramsi Bolton and he brutally rapees her, and the subsequent grand media scandal thought “Coincidence? I do not think ”did not occur to the most simple -minded fans of the franchise.

Elio Garcia and Linda Antonsson - the creators of the Westeros website were added into the fire. ORG and co-authors of last year’s companion “The World of Ice and Flame”, however, for them, the boiling point was the burning in the series of the little Princess Shiren (readers know that she is alive in books, and although it seems for a short time, it will kill her, at least not Stannis, which, incidentally, is also alive in the books). Garcia and Antonsson were so angry with the producers of the series David Benoff and Dan Wisses that they are now called exclusively on the initials - “ D& D” , deciphering them as “ dumb and dumber” (“stupid and duplicate.” - Ed. ).

To collect and analyze gossip and guess on them what is really happening there - an lesson, but Fandom has long been used to it. Books very quickly turn the attentive reader into paranoid, suspecting that any word can not be just a word, but a hint of some secret that exposes the heroes, their actions and motivation in a completely different light. And even more: to build versions is the main task of the reader, because the saga Martin is a grandiose meta -detective in which the action takes place in time not only forward, but also backward, but in order to start looking for answers, first you need to independently formulate questions (“Whose son John Snow and why is it important?”).

So nothing, you can. It can be assumed that Martin finally arranged the appeal of the authors of the series with its material: very and publication of the spoiler chapter, and the intention to release “Winter Winds” before the next season begins, similar to demonstrative washing of hands and dissociation from the flight of the fantasy of producers and scriptwriters. Well, it's high time.

Perhaps the time was still in the second season, and the matter is not at all in the plot as such. It is clear that the film adaptation should not and cannot completely copy the books. One does not fit into the format, the other-into the budget, some things (first of all-the metaphysics of ice and flame) are unhappy in principle, someone's storylines develop more slowly, and you have to crush additional adventures to these heroes so that the viewer, and so confusing in the abundance of the characters, at least do not forget who all these people are generally. However, the two features of the branded style of Benoff and Wase are completely unforgivable, although probably explainable. This, firstly, is a distortion of the characters of a number of key characters, and secondly, the maximum, as far as the legal framework allows, the pornation of violence and “sex”.

Catylin Stark released the captive Jaime not immediately after he killed his own cousin for the sake of escape, and even more so, not by the teaching of the little finger. By the way , no cousin Jaime, of course, did not kill at all. And, by the way , he also did not kill one of the sons of Lord Karstarka, he also did not kill - he died much earlier, in an honest open battle in a whispering forest, when Jaime was captured, and this is also important, because he motics of revenge and justice, which Karstard justified the murder of lannisters; Thus, the execution of Karstarka Robb from the point of view of justice is impeccable. By the way , Robb is by no means such an idiot to keep Jaime in the same cage with his cousin, “because other cameras are busy”: why at all to plant a person who, as an intermediary, runs between the headquarters of Robb and the Royal Harbor and, if desired, can still try to escape along the road? By the way , Robb violated marriage obligations to Frei not just because he had a zealous, with ease, spatting on debt for the sake of a lubricated foreigner. Which, by the way , was not at all. In fact, after a wound, Robb was lying in the castle of an ancient and once glorious, but swollen house of westerling, when the news of the death of Bran and Ricon came by the hands of Theon. One can imagine in what confusion of the spirit the won all the battles was, but the 15-year-old king losing the war, we repeat, the wounded when the young aristocrat Zhienna Westerling came to console him. Yes, Robba should not be accepted, but the circumstances in which this nevertheless happened fundamentally change the assessment of his actions. And, further, he ended up in a situation of the impossible choice between the honor of a man and the honor of the king. Choose it differently, there would be no red wedding; But then Robb would lose the moral right to be called the son of Ned Stark. By the way , about Bran and Ricon: Katilin let Jaime not do it, but after a message about their death, and precisely because of this-having lost two sons, she made a desperate attempt to save her daughters. By the way , she did not count on the Tsareubians oath, but for the promise of Tyrion, given to him in the royal harbor publicly, exchange Sansa and Arya on Jaim. By the way , Theon, who killed peasant children, in order to give out their corpses by the bodies of Bran and Ricon, of course, not only did not destroy the raven of Winterfell so that the news did not leak, but on the contrary, he sent boastful letters to the cities and weights. In the series, it turns out that he killed the children only to impress a handful of frightened commoners in Winterfell, and this is even for Teona at all.

Here is just one, although a very important, plot node in which the scriptwriters managed to overwhelm everything conceivable and inconceivable and put up the four most important heroes at once - Katilin, Robba, Jaime and Theon - stupid, cheerful and smaller than they really are, and also deprive them of the motivation of elementary logic. This is not justified by any considerations of budget saving or promoting the plot, but it happens all the time. And at the same time, for some reason, the series flatters to the characters, to whom Martin is absolutely merciless. What is one Tywin Lannister, who is presented to the audience with a good grandfather, leading with a servant, spiritual conversations, then the wise patriarch, who is baking about the eternal glory of the generic name. How, after that, the viewer, who did not read books, must understand why Taiwin’s horse piled a bunch right in the throne room and why did he take death in a waste place?

Numerous and persistent changes in such a variety turn the story about the painful moral choice of heroes and the power of fate in the history of politics and about unbridled passions, in a kind of “house of cards” in a medieval surroundings. “In the game of thrones, you either win or die,” that is, who dare, he ate, and Varis with a little finger in his insertion - they are not in the canon - dialogs and monologues repeat and repeat (not without splendor), for which they all collected us here.

Oh, Martin also has enough politics and unbridled passions, but his author’s attitude towards both is very transparent and merciless. With those who do not care about the good of entrusted land, but about the personal authority, who followed by the ego, neglecting the duty, what happened to Theon or Cersei and many more. At the same time, the writer, if you look closely, does not justify his reputation as a bloodthirsty killer: a killer, and cold -blooded, but not bloodthirsty. He usually refrains from the voluptuous savory of the anatomy of death (with the exception of the death of the characters that he frankly hates - Joffrey or Taiwin). On the contrary, he can completely indicate the most terrible with a silence: compare the vulgar gag of the series with a waving sausage Ramsi Bolton and how the reader who guesses about it only from the hints recogniz about the castration, because Theon himself does not even dare to think about it. Of course, the differences between the language of cinematography from the language of literature play a role: to see the squeezed eyes of Oberin Martell, and even a close -up, is not at all the same as reading how it happened. In the spectacles, however, there is no lack.

And the same applies to sex and sexual violence. In some public speech, Martin joked that the series actually did not have two, but three producers, and the third, 15-year-old, is responsible for Boobs (boobs.- Ed. ). For the sake of Boobs , not only pre -impose unnecessary erotic scenes, but even come up with individual characters (whore roses and Miranda, Bastard Bastard's mistress). In fairness, in the last season, Boobs became noticeably smaller - a booth in Dorn, where Tien Sand seduces Bronn, and, perhaps, that's all. The run of naked Cersei through the streets of the capital, of course, does not belong to the Boobs category, the nudity there is not erotic, but the chthonic one, and this scene is directed and played perfectly, convincingly and chaste, even with insight - as a woman is thrown away, she, stained, becomes less and less naked. They can, when they want and when they follow Martin's logic.

The fact that this happens regrettically rarely, you should blame not only the authors of the series, but also - to a greater extent - an audience that diligently reacts to the usual, learned triggers and passes past the eyes and ears, not marked with a well -ill -placed sign with the inscription “special cynicism” in large letters. No matter how many guts and cuts the sip flicker on the screen, how many heroes, including living in books, were killed without causes and meaning, moral scandals in the entire history of the series happened only three.

The first, smaller, in the first season, due to the first wedding night of Drogo and Daenerys, more rigid than in the canon, on the verge, and maybe behind the facet of rape. The second, again modest,-because of the scene of Cersei and Jaime at the tomb of Joffrey, also going beyond our ideas about consensual sex. And the third, already full -scale, is now. The rape of the Sansa was removed as delicately as possible; Strictly speaking, they did not shoot him, it remained behind the scenes as such, and Sansa was also not shown naked. The directorial assessment of what is happening is unambiguous: Ramsi is a monster, nonhumans, Sansa - a victim, and the viewer’s heart is doused with blood, there is no even a distant hint of justification of violence and out of sight. But the American senator Claire McCaskill writes an angry tweet , refusing to watch the series further due to the “disgusting and unacceptable” scene, social networks boil, the word “boycott” flashes, and not only spectators, but also some online media , declare it.

Against the backdrop of severed heads, crushed skulls, crucified children, beating babies, blood fountains there and there, especially if she imagined what preceded her, the death of roses, burning shirers, a ripped abdomen of a pregnant talis, torture of the same Sansa, when her bride Joffrey passed, after Ramsi passed (do not call him Ramsi (do not call him Bastard, he finds out!), After a girl who is spent by the dogs, is still “disgusting and unacceptable” the rape of a decent woman turns out to be.

Medieval wildness is no less, and perhaps more than in the series itself: its heroes, unlike viewers, at least do not consider themselves enlightened, gender sensitive, free from prejudices and humane opponents of violence. All victims are equal, but some are more equal. And if decent women will no longer rape, there are no questions for the producers, otherwise they continue in the same spirit.

The series has an insert episode, very strange. In anticipation of the trial, Jaime visits Tyrion in prison, they talk, including death, and Tyrion, by the way, recalls the case from childhood - the weak -wise cousin Orson, who caught Zhukov and pressed them with a stone, caught and crushed, caught and pressed endlessly, all the time, while she was left to himself, caught, crushed and knocked with a stone, sentenced: "K-K-K-U-oo-ou!". The curious Tyrion began to peep behind the cousin, trying to understand why he was doing this, what does it mean “K-K-K-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U. It should be assumed that Kuzen Orson pressed Zhukov simply because it can. This episode is stylistically, semantically knocked out of the fabric of the series - an absurdity in the style of Ionesko, attached to the drama and action on a live thread, moreover, very long, for five minutes, if not more, screen time. Pended by Fand, scratching the heads of the head, went to draw caricatures with George Martin in the role of Kuzen Orson.

And, of course, I was mistaken. Kuzen Orson is not a writer, but the creators of the series. Let us pay tribute: they had the honor to make a sincere confession by composing and removing this episode.