You are all right, to be honest. I love both the shows and the books, and sometimes for different reasons. I guess instead of thinking about why the differences are there, I am always thinking about the very fact that there are differences that could easily not be differences.
I do understand the change from Jeyne to Talisa. Jeyne was a tertiary character at best and I would bet we'd never hear from her again anyhow. Changing that character probably had zero effect on the storyline, and did add to the massive heartbreak of the Red Wedding.
Maybe what rankled me was the fact that the character could have very well been Jeyne Westerling, with the same story. But it doesn't really matter, in the end.
I never minded the downplay of the Tysha story. It was a casualty of the sheer number of storylines, even if it was quite important. They made up for it with the onscreen relationship between Tyrion and Shae, and the trial scene brought all of the emotion that was necessary to convey that point.
I agree with the Capn that Stannis is greatly improved over the book version. And I had forgotten about Patchface! Patchface is the poops! ("Here we eat fish, under the sea, the fish eat us. I know. I know...") <---That guy's got some hidden intelligence!
I do think that some of the more developed characters might speak to a greater role in future episodes than we might expect.
I do understand the change from Jeyne to Talisa. Jeyne was a tertiary character at best and I would bet we'd never hear from her again anyhow. Changing that character probably had zero effect on the storyline, and did add to the massive heartbreak of the Red Wedding.
Maybe what rankled me was the fact that the character could have very well been Jeyne Westerling, with the same story. But it doesn't really matter, in the end.
I never minded the downplay of the Tysha story. It was a casualty of the sheer number of storylines, even if it was quite important. They made up for it with the onscreen relationship between Tyrion and Shae, and the trial scene brought all of the emotion that was necessary to convey that point.
I agree with the Capn that Stannis is greatly improved over the book version. And I had forgotten about Patchface! Patchface is the poops! ("Here we eat fish, under the sea, the fish eat us. I know. I know...") <---That guy's got some hidden intelligence!
I do think that some of the more developed characters might speak to a greater role in future episodes than we might expect.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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