Why Does Ned Stark Die?

This video is about the rules of “Game of Thrones”. The video explains why Ned Stark and other characters die.

To understand why characters survive or die, for example, Ned Stark, you need to watch a TV series not as a movie, but as a game, for example, a football match. All characters are players. If you know the rules of the game, then, as when watching a football match, it becomes clear who is playing well and who is breaking the rules. Ned Stark breaks the rules. In the TV series, characters receive warnings when they violate the rules of the game, in the same way as football players receive yellow cards. A red card for a football player is removal from the field, and the death of a character is removal from the TV series. The death of Ned Stark is a removal from the game for violating the rules. Some of the basic rules of «Game of Thrones» are given in this video.

The text of the video about Ned Stark and the rules of “Game of Thrones”

The TV series is called «Game of Thrones». The key word is game. The whole TV series is a game: the game of faces, a game of theatre, a word game, the game of authors with viewers, a game of characters. And as any game – board, sports or computer, the TV series also has rules, set by the authors but not obvious to the viewers and to the characters. The rules of the game are hidden under the guise of ordinary phrases spoken by the characters during the plot. For example, Читать далее The Rules of “Game of Thrones” Why Do Ned Stark and Other Characters Die? What Do Football and the TV Series “Game of Thrones” Have in Common →