A True Iron-Islander! (Book-Spoilers)

[GreenAppleFossoway]

Okay, I can distinguish between the book and the show. I know they are different. But they are completely ripping up the Greyjoy/Ironborn storyline. I mean, Dagmer being some nobody, the Iron-Islander thing (wtf?) and did anyone see Theon's SHIP? That thing was a friggen' merchant cog. That was not a Longship for a Reaver. Not to mention Ahsa/Yara getting that tick in the corner of her mouth, like everytime she thinks something is amusing she is trying to hold in a fart. I honestly thought that Theon would stab that sailer right in the throat when he started back-talking him. That's your HEIR APPARENT you are talking to you stupid fat fuck!

So I guess what they are doing is making Theon a likeable character and sympethetic and stuff? Okay, I guess that's cool since it will take three years to bring about his actual redemption, but you could have thought this through before you made him try to rape Osha in season 1.

Also Rodrik Cassel taking 200 men to break the siege of Torrhen's Square? Good luck bro.

[Pliny]

In the books, Asha didn't seem petty and mean, but in the show - to me, anyway- she comes off that way.

And those boats don't seem practical for raiders. Flat-bottomed boats such as those the Vikings used seem much more logical. And I remember that they were called "longships" in the novels but, to my embarrassment as a professor who teaches World Civ, and thus talks about Vikings each semester, I always pictured them as big ol' pirate ships. :blushing:

[My Little Kraken]

They did a whole lot to garner some sympathy for Theon in episode 3 and that one also brought home the concept of Ironborn really nicely. They don't want to undo the good they created with that episode.

I didn't like the scene with the fat sailor either. He just didn't work for me because he was trying too hard. It actually would have been pretty cool if Theon had killed him and got some trinket via the Iron Price.

[Peasant Rebel Leader]

I do agree, the ship seemed wrong for the time and the Ironborn look a bit like caricatures.

Dagmer however is clearly playing a different character from the book that only has the name in common. I do have a crackpot theory on that in the Ramsay thread,

We will not see too much of them in the next episodes though, only Theon, Black Lorren (I guess that's the "fat" sailor) and Dagmer. Asha/Yara will stop by quickly to talk down to Theon, but that's it then ;)