(April 19, 2016 at 12:16 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I'm always curious of show watchers reading the books. Was the Red Wedding still a crazy experience? For me, never having seen an episode, I have never been so anguished whilst reading. I had to buy another copy for my set because I broke the spine when I threw it at my door.
I had that experience watching the show so it was just different. In the show you hear the music start, then see Catelyn discover Bolton's mail under his tunic, and then shit goes down - and then see Arya so hopeful just outside the gates as the guys come out to kill Greywind.
I felt gutted by that whole scene.
But I knew it was coming in the books so it wasn't as enormous an experience for sure.
It's one of those things where you can't really appreciate the experience the book reader had reading it for the first time just like you can't really appreciate the show watcher's experience seeing it for the first time (one who hasn't read the books). I don't feel like I was cheated of a really dramatic moment from the books because I got the really dramatic moment from the show.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
