(May 10, 2016 at 2:58 pm)Aegon Wrote:(May 10, 2016 at 1:40 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Is it the Umbers who in the books seem to be on the Boltons side but kill Bolton men from within winterfell?
That's House Manderly, who all book readers adore. Half the Umbers seem to be on the Boltons' side, while the other half is for Stannis (since Stannis is alive still in the books.) It is implied that Wyman Manderly had two Frey boys killed and baked into pies which he fed to Freys and Boltons. So yeah, I'm hoping Manderly is in the show soon. They've been mentioned a few times
The show often combines chracters, and I suspect at this point that the Greatjohn will likely represent both sides of the story for TV.
As much as I would like to see more of the beloved book characters come to life, I know from experience with my own non-book-reading family that many show watchers have a difficult enough time keeping track of the secondary characters, houses, and their alignments.
For instance, as pissed as I was initially that we have not seen Lady Stoneheart, I can see why the show has deleted her (at least so far). It would have held back Brienne's story, which would have held back Stannis, Jon and even Sansa's story. Perhaps later she will be needed, but they just cannot clutter up the show with new characters when existing ones will do well enough for the plot to advance.
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