I agree. I loved the beginning of the series, but lost interest along the way. Same with the books. I loved at first how they seemed to have cut down on some of the boring parts of the books, but now it’s just as bad. At this point I figured I’m just gonna watch the series instead of reading.
Book!Shae and TV!Shae are two completely different characters. Book!Shae has no mysterious background. She’s a camp follower and nothing more. When they gave her that touch, that there might be something more, in the series I wondered where they were heading with it since I knew her fate in the books. Book!Shae seems to care less deeply for Tyrion than TV!Shae did. She also has no contact with Sansa and those scenes are only in the series. She also does not pull a knife on Tyrion before dying. To me it felt like with the changes they made to her character they shouldn’t have forced the book ending on her because as you said, it threatens to ruin Tyrion’s characterization. Sometimes the changes are for the better, but then at some point all the changed characters have to come back to the books’ storyline.
One of the coolest was a girl cosplaying Daenerys who had made a very lifelike dragon to ride on her shoulder.
Ah, I see... thank you for telling me. Yeah, that sounds like the series thought it would up the ante on Shae by making her more mysterious and giving her more of an emotional bond to Tyrion - entirely without considering that they would have to bring the relationship to a close at the same point the books do. They should have changed things at the end so that they made sense with their earlier changes - and they should not have thrown the red herring of Shae being a noble by birth out there if they were never going to do anything with it. That's a cheap, cheap trick.
I don't know if you've heard about the Jaime Lannister problem the series has introduced in direct opposition to the books, but it's a real problem, and the series seems entirely unaware of it. :-/
Book!Shae and TV!Shae are two completely different characters. Book!Shae has no mysterious background. She’s a camp follower and nothing more. When they gave her that touch, that there might be something more, in the series I wondered where they were heading with it since I knew her fate in the books. Book!Shae seems to care less deeply for Tyrion than TV!Shae did. She also has no contact with Sansa and those scenes are only in the series. She also does not pull a knife on Tyrion before dying. To me it felt like with the changes they made to her character they shouldn’t have forced the book ending on her because as you said, it threatens to ruin Tyrion’s characterization. Sometimes the changes are for the better, but then at some point all the changed characters have to come back to the books’ storyline.
One of the coolest was a girl cosplaying Daenerys who had made a very lifelike dragon to ride on her shoulder.
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I don't know if you've heard about the Jaime Lannister problem the series has introduced in direct opposition to the books, but it's a real problem, and the series seems entirely unaware of it. :-/
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