Le Noir Faineant

Actually, I think D&D have been pretty respectful with the source material, so far - especially giving GRRM's notorious delays. A more pragmatic, or progressive producer would have simply stepped over the original novels at this point. - Like, I still remember the days when Tolkien's LotR had a script that morphed Arwen and Eowyn into the same character. For them, not to straight up everything not explicitely detailed in the novels, already a compliment. I am registering, however, that the show started to become very unfocused, pretty much with season 3. As in, many completely unnecessary scenes - and I am not talking about Theon's finger-ride, or his castration. But, for example, if Lady Stoneheart was never to appear in the series, why even introduce the Brotherhood Without Banners? Or, so, Barristan Selmy was dramaticall introduced only to be killed off without even a line of text in his last scene? Or, the whole thing with the sand snakes?! Like, really. Seems to me more like the producers are looking for low-cost-production fillers: Please write better fillers, gents.