Game of Thrones? More Like Dame of Scones!

[spectralbovine]

A series as dense and complicated as A Song of Ice and Fire could never be made into a proper film series and still retain most of what makes the books so great, so it's good that we live in a golden age of television, where HBO can throw its support behind a television series and actually have George R.R. Martin involved. And what they have

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[anoel]

See I read the second book RIGHT before S2 started so I think most of the changes in S2 were for the worse. I still think S1 was a MUCH better adaption although the opening episodes were certainly hard for a non book read (me at first) but upon rewatch, I was super impressed with even the changes. However a lot of the characterization, dialogue and plot changes in S2 I found unnecessary and sometimes OOC or giving the wrong impression and it really bothered me. The biggest problem being how they fucked up House of the Undying, I am still LIVID and horrified and how they just took out so much of the best stuff from it. Not to mention as a vidder, it took away so much great material.

Sorry to be all negative, I actually agree with you on everything else and I really, really do love the books and TV show (mostly) and I love seeing it come to life on TV with such great actors, settings and in general, writing. That Blackwater episode in particular was just wow. I do think reading the books increases the emotional reaction of everything so much more but sadly not everyone is convinced by that or has time to read them all. I loved the third book so I'm really looking forward to seeing what they do with it and hoping some distance from the books will help me not get quite so frustrated at the changes as last season. 2 more months!

[spectralbovine]

The biggest problem being how they fucked up House of the Undying, I am still LIVID and horrified and how they just took out so much of the best stuff from it.
It wasn't what I expected. I guess it would have been hard to recreate the scene from the book, and I realized that you couldn't really do the visions because they would have to be actual spoilers instead of cryptic descriptions. But they did their best to be a little surreal, and I really liked the scene with Drogo and Rhaego.

That Blackwater episode in particular was just wow.
SERIOUSLY. The wildfire was incredible, and drunk Cersei was amazing.

So you've read the third book but not the fourth and fifth?

[anoel]

No I've read all of the books, I love the depth of the world that he's created.

I'm not saying it needed to be spoilery but the atmosphere was all wrong and they left out important stuff and I wanted Targaryen footage and more cool visual stuff. The fact that they ADDED stuff is even more despicable to me when they could have used stuff that was there. If they hadn't build up the House of the Undying as this BIG thing, I might have been more fine with that but that combined with the fact that it was the scene I most wanted to see was a HUGE disappointment. I still have hopes that someday I'll be rich I can spend money to make sure it get filmed RIGHT.

[spectralbovine]

Yeah, it didn't really live up to the ominous portents. It was somewhat surreal, but it should have been really fucked up and disorienting.