GoT: Put On A Happy Face!

[eynon81]

I want Stannis to win so bad......but I am a Broncos fan so......

[Philly]

[Spider]

[eynon81]

awe shit...here he comes:

[The Comrade]

i'm not even excited for it. it's not that they've strayed from the books it's that the entire feel of the show is getting really pedestrian. characters are starting to feel bland as they leave what was spelled out for them in the books. situations seem contrived and awkward now that they aren't following what angry santa laid out. what really kills it for me though is i know that the story is going to be spoiled for me but in a way that doesn't come close to doing justice what GRRM will write.

i'll probably watch it still but the hype train hasn't left the station.

[Philly]

Is Comrade's view the widely held belief of people who read the books? I'm a dissenter I guess. It's not perfect but I feel like they're really killing it for what it is: an adaptation of an epic book series that is so sprawling and complex that many things have to be changed for it to work as film. I think those of us who have read the novels tend to fall into the mistake of thinking of the TV show as a companion piece for the books, and like Comrade said, it's awkward when the show doesn't follow our expectations. But the show has to stand on its own, and it has to be made with a viewer in mind who has never read a page of the novels. It's not awkward to people who aren't focusing on the inconsistencies, and since we don't even know how the whole thing is going to end yet, we can't know for sure if the changes they've gone with are to help make a later central plot point of the books work appropriately on the show.

tldr: yeah it's getting less familiar for readers, but it's still fun

[The Comrade]

if it wasn't going to spoil the books i wouldn't care at all, really. it's the fact that it's going to spoil the major points, but f**k up everything interesting that happens inbetween that bothers me.

[The Comrade]

oh, and in regards to changes. it's not changing something that bothers me, it's when something that didn't need to be changed that harms a character or the story in some way what bothers me. for example, the knight of flowers being reduced to a f**k. he doesn't have a huge part in the books either, but he has a little more depth then "i love rooster, shove it in me". or the whole "let's rape cersei" scene.

[Philly]

[The Comrade]

i'm aware of that. that doesn't mean his character needed to be distilled down to gay jokes and getting rammed in the ass. his character didn't really need to do most of what he's done in the show. but that didn't stop them from placing him around like a gay conversation piece.