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  1. Why not send Varys to Dorne and use the Trystan for fAegon substitution? I'm not against changing things from the book, in fact, I think they would have been better off making bigger changes earlier and going in their own direction. It would appear this series has too many characters to do any of them justice. Personally, I would rather have had a good series than bad imitation. As you can tell from my last post, a lot of us didn't care for the writing in season 1.
  2. Can't believe I got sucked in last week. This series is worse than ever. At least, I will always envision Tyrion as Peter Dinklage, although he should be much worse for wear at this point in the story. The scene. A part of the problem is they made TV Stannis better than book Stannis and then all of a sudden much worse. It felt like cheap sensationalism and very contrived that he went from loving father to child sacraficer for such a nebulous gain. I was suprised the Sansa scene drew as much criticism as it did, its not that far off from what a wedding night was for a great deal of human history. This, however, felt like sensationalism on the level of playing up Theons castration. Unneccesary and played to the hilt for every bit of horror and outrage it could wring out of us. This is only the surface of the issue here though. While Stannis has become a complete villain, Varys has been boiled down to a "for the good of the realm" good guy. I interpreted him saying that in the books as if he really meant it, but actually he was just fooling himself. He had done terrible things along the way, yet he raised the perfect kid and so, it would all pay off in the end, right? In actuality he's doing the same thing as the other players in the game of thrones underneath it all, and especially a lot like Stannis in that he really does believe he is in the right. How people convince themselves of these things is interesting. In contrast, TV Varys wears a white hat while TV Stannis wears a black hat, and "shades of grey" seems to mean occasionally villains aren't always monsters and the heros sometimes have to play dirty. Maybe at one point in time I would've seen this as a step up from the normal pulp fiction, but now I just find it disingenuous. I've seen it so much now, I just interpret it as a lazy writer's path to getting a mass market while also getting to eat their critical approval at the same time. You can say the series is hard to translate to screen all you want, but at the end of the day I can only judge it by what they produce. There are other TV series that can make complex characters and this isn't one of them. There are at least 5-10 TV shows that have been on in the last few years that can match the level the book series is at, why spend time on this dreck? I stopped watching originally when I thought the Renly/Loras reveal was handled so hamfistedly. That they were gay wasn't very interesting, but how it was revealed through the reactions of the other characters circling around them was. I started again thinking I would at least get an ending to the series. The problem is, I've either seen a really bad fan fiction kind of ending, or I've spoiled the real ending with this lesser interpretation of it. I should've remembered how things I read in detail about were handled in this TV series before coming back to it. Basically, I'm out. I really hope GRRM didn't give these guys the full plotline, it would be terrible if people are going to experience it first this way.
  3. Yeah, the zombies looked and acted too much like they do in modern zombie stories for my taste. Fast, climbing over everything, and then all the biting - they still can use weapons, right? The banter between Dany and Tyrion was really good for me, although hearing them interrelate on the personal stuff is something we, the book readers, have been waiting for a while to hear. Could be the excitement of seeing that come to a head, I suppose.
  4. I don't even know why I kept watching the TV series .... until this episode. Tyrion meets Dany ... and the dialouge is the best in show so far. And the Others have arrived! Hopefully, the earlier flaws were just necessary for them to get on track for this.
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