RE: Game of Thrones Season 5 Discussion [SPOILERS WITHIN]
May 20, 2015 at 9:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2015 at 9:13 pm by Saxmoof.)
Apologies if spoiler tags are needed for people planning to read the books after the series ends, I would've put them in just in case but don't know how :
Sansa's storyline is completely off-book
The Dorne story is somewhat off-book - Jaime's in the Riverlands at this point in the books so he doesn't go there with Bronn (Bronn doesn't really do anything in the books after Tyrion's smuggled to Essos, I guess the show writers wanted to find a way to keep a fan favourite around, no bad thing imo) to take back Myrcella, there's still a foiled plot by the sand snakes to take her and provoke war to avenge Oberyn though
Tyrion and Jorah is also somewhat off-book - Jorah doesn't get greyscale, but the kidnapping Tyrion to take him to Daenerys and regain her favour somehow happens. There's also some very significant characters in the books that Tyrion meets before being kidnapped that seem to be totally scrapped, I won't say anymore because they could still feature I suppose
King's Landing seems almost completely in line with the books aside from the usual cutting/amalgamation of some unnecessary characters and shortening of the overall plot, maybe i'm misremembering though
Arya's story is also similar to the books aside from the above
Dany's story is in this category too, although Barristan doesn't die in the books
The wall is completely on-book although I expect what happens to Sam and Gilly in the books to be cut for some reason
Brienne and Pod team up in the books aswell but they're off some other place unsuccessfully searching for Sansa (I think), they don't meet her and then watch over her like in the show
Am I missing anyone/anything? There's also a lot of content from locales and groups that we haven't seen in the show at all that appear to be cut
Sansa's storyline is completely off-book
The Dorne story is somewhat off-book - Jaime's in the Riverlands at this point in the books so he doesn't go there with Bronn (Bronn doesn't really do anything in the books after Tyrion's smuggled to Essos, I guess the show writers wanted to find a way to keep a fan favourite around, no bad thing imo) to take back Myrcella, there's still a foiled plot by the sand snakes to take her and provoke war to avenge Oberyn though
Tyrion and Jorah is also somewhat off-book - Jorah doesn't get greyscale, but the kidnapping Tyrion to take him to Daenerys and regain her favour somehow happens. There's also some very significant characters in the books that Tyrion meets before being kidnapped that seem to be totally scrapped, I won't say anymore because they could still feature I suppose
King's Landing seems almost completely in line with the books aside from the usual cutting/amalgamation of some unnecessary characters and shortening of the overall plot, maybe i'm misremembering though
Arya's story is also similar to the books aside from the above
Dany's story is in this category too, although Barristan doesn't die in the books
The wall is completely on-book although I expect what happens to Sam and Gilly in the books to be cut for some reason
Brienne and Pod team up in the books aswell but they're off some other place unsuccessfully searching for Sansa (I think), they don't meet her and then watch over her like in the show
Am I missing anyone/anything? There's also a lot of content from locales and groups that we haven't seen in the show at all that appear to be cut
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.” - George Carlin
