Game of Thrones: Season 2Follow

But you have to remember, for those of us that didn't read the books, we're not missing anything. I think it's been a really good series so far and anything they've added and/or left out hasn't taken away from it from my perspective.

It's like none of you ever read a Stephen King book that was made into a movie.

Edited, May 20th 2012 10:20pm by Nadenu

....yeah, not to mention the totally random, completely unnecessary pre-sex scene with King Robb and the soulful pretty girl.

I love some of the characters of the show, but I'm liking the screenplay less and less each week.

She's a very obvious stand-in for lady what's-her-face (Jeyne?) that Robb finds himself taken with in the books. That character wasn't really fleshed out in the novels (she just sort of appears out of the blue), so HBO sort of needed to provide her with a more robust introduction and backstory. I suspect that since that would involve making stuff up, they figured they might as well just rewrite the character to make her introduction flow more seamlessly into Robb's storyline. Probably went something like:

"Robb's on the battlefield, so how does he meet a girl?"

"We'll have her be a field nurse."

"Well, she's supposed to be nobility, right? Is there a way we can fit that in?"

"Sure, we'll give her this backstory to explain why she's totally down with sawing off dude's limbs, and to show her as a nice, principled girl that Robb would dig."


It's a small, superficial change, and there aren't any real consequences from it. It addresses a minor issue that arose from the translation from book to tv. Makes perfect sense to me.

Post-Traumatic Stress from a failed childhood attempt at the Aggro Crag on Nickelodeon's GUTS, I suspect.

Boobies!

I'm not so worried about the director re-arranging Robb's story arc a bit, or even condensing 3 books' worth of Dany's misadventures in the Far East. What worries me is that they appear to be setting up Arya's plot line to Spoilercompletely skip Bravos, which is one of my favorite threads from the book.

Also, I love every exchange between Cersei and Tyrion. The loathing is so think you can practically cut it with a knife.

SpoilerJaqar H'Glockenschpiel gives her an iron coin, and tells her that it will buy her passage to Bravos with the magic phrase "valar morghuelis", which means "all men must die." There's still the possibility that she'll go there anyways, as she still has to roam around the Riverlands with the Hound for a few months after he flees King's Landing following the battle of Blackwater Bay.

Epic show was epic.

I noticed this as well, but as I recall, the Many-Faced God is really just a collection of all gods. Still, this may be yet another clue that they plan to skip the Bravos segment.

The Many Faced God is supposed to be death. At least, that's what I understand. He's a representaton of all the gods of death throughout the world.

Again, Braavos is kind of key to Arya's story. I don't see how they could justify cutting it out, without just completely dropping her from the programme.

edit: here's an interview with the man himself. He kind of touches on the reasoning behind some of the changes: http://youtu.be/QTTW8M_etko

Edited, May 22nd 2012 10:53am by Nilatai

A little bit. I think it's in the eyes and prominent brow.

Well, I wasn't the only one that thought so, I looked it up today and found a few people talking about it. I just kept thinking the whole time Tyrion was up on those battlements looking over the walls, his face reminded me of House.

I found a pretty funny picture. I mean, the pictures they chose didn't highlight the similarities as well as what I kept seeing in my mind, but the equation made me laugh.
https://plus.google.com/100801061924982065053/posts/AooX4vTuM1p

I am sad that there is only one episode left this season.

I really enjoyed this week's episode. Also they've finally made a change I like. Tyrion didn't lose his nose! I think that would have annoyed me by halfway through next season.