BinkyBonks

We are not being purists. I personally prefer the television adpatation to contain surprises of its own. The problem is that they're taking too many liberties which are simultaneously stupid, unsatisfying and illogical. The "three blasts" scene illustrates this perfectly. To build the suspense like Martin does in the novels, all they would have needed was about ten or fifteen extra seconds. This change was unforgivable. One of the most awesome sequences in the entire series, ruined. If they're going to waste about a third of viewing time with unnecessary, gossipy crap, cynically packed in to boost ratings, then they have no business saying there's not enough time.

We're not being nerds or crybabies, it's just an awful, terrible episode. They're taking too many liberties which aren't necessary.

Awful, absolutely awful. There are so many changes from the book, and all of them are terrible. The Bastard of Bolton doesn't sack Winterfell. The Maester Luwin scene is bungled, and he looks full of vitality even though he's supposed to be dying, and this would be confusing for non-book-readers. The House of the Undying is just pathetic. The conclusion to the Qarth part of the series -- with Danaerys storming the city with a few men -- is absurd. Ghost doesn't intervene in the fight with Qhorin Halfhand; the dire wolves were almost entirely absent this season. Samwell hides behind a rock in the midst of an undead horde, which is goofy and unnecessary (he could have watched from a cliff). Shae is being presented as humane, when she's supposed to be presented as materialistic. I could go on and on. The excuse that they have to cover so much ground in a single episode is not enough to get them off the hook for this. They could have easily had the Bolton men instead of Pyke men sack Winterfell, for example. They keep taking liberties, and all these liberties are stupid. Instead of trying to translate a work of genius as well as possible to television, they are trying to improve upon it. Predictably, they're failing.