Also, keep in mind that in the books we have a constant, immediate stream of consciousness reaction to the events with us reading the character's thoughts. It would be super awkward and nearly impossible to follow if the characters in the show blurted out their inner thoughts every two seconds just to keep an interesting side story alive. So although the "Tywin did not shit gold" line was awesome in the books, it would've been really awkward for Tyrion to just come up with that out of nowhere in the show since we couldn't see his thought process.
Another point that caused a tumblr shitstorm (the arbiters of good art, of course) was the omission of the Tysha part of Tyrion's backstory in season 4 and how Jaime confessed to him about her true nature. Again, this goes back to the point that we can't hear Tyrion's thoughts. In the book he's constantly reminiscing about her, but almost none of it is verbal. We only had Tyrion's short telling of that story from season 2 to go on, and if Jaime just suddenly came out of nowhere in the show and confessed it would've been extremely jarring and the majority of watchers wouldn't know what the heck was going on. That, or Tyrion would literally have to mention Tysha by name in every other episode to keep her in our minds.
People bitch waaay to much about adaptations, it's rare enough we get one this fantastic.
Another point that caused a tumblr shitstorm (the arbiters of good art, of course) was the omission of the Tysha part of Tyrion's backstory in season 4 and how Jaime confessed to him about her true nature. Again, this goes back to the point that we can't hear Tyrion's thoughts. In the book he's constantly reminiscing about her, but almost none of it is verbal. We only had Tyrion's short telling of that story from season 2 to go on, and if Jaime just suddenly came out of nowhere in the show and confessed it would've been extremely jarring and the majority of watchers wouldn't know what the heck was going on. That, or Tyrion would literally have to mention Tysha by name in every other episode to keep her in our minds.
People bitch waaay to much about adaptations, it's rare enough we get one this fantastic.
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- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
