05-20-2016, 04:11 PM
(05-20-2016, 02:13 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: I thought I read that RR admitted the whole Arya/Sansa thing was a mistake and how they handled it in the show was a correction coming from RR himself.trying to figure out what the show is doing is a lot of work lol. Its weird that RR would be against dany being fireproof maybe Targs have believed that in the past and burned for it. so its very possible she is not but she did survive drogo's(her husbands) funeral pyre so she can survive fire.
Interesting though that RR has been pretty clearly Dany is not actually fireproof...so it would appear he'll handle that whole deal much differently. To me that is the first potentially dramatic departure from the books - most of what people seem to complain about appear to be mostly small deviations that don't significantly impact the overall story. But if the books were to have Drogon rescue Dany, for instance, then that would wipe out a huge part of her new army.
But being a Targ doesn't make that so as the books reference many targs that killed themselves believing they were fireproof or could summon a dragon. The tragedy of summerhall being a prime example. So it was never a save assumstion jon wouldn't burn but given danny had survived he had a shot.
as far as missing details. The show has rolled multiple roles into one character handing lines from Character X to say littlefinger and Character X no longer appearing at all or till much later. Its the little things moving in the background that make the story so intriguing. the books had over 1000 named characters and they all played their small or large part thru the tail. While you can still get the general story arch across it loses a little magic in my mind not seeing or hearing about all the pieces it took to move it. or all the little things that happened that lead to X happening.
Like littlefingers plans to marry sansa to the heir of the erie. and use the erie to unite the north and reclaim it for the starks (and littlefinger....) now its littlefinger marrying sansa to the bastard of Bolton. where they had one of sansa handmaids and claiming she was Arya in the books.
its small details. But now it disconnects the erie and the north from having blood ties. thru the marriage. And while the north might rally to sansa stark why would the erie
The story they seemed to change the least was dannys even in this extremely boring time.
There was the whole Quintin martell being removed from the show and while his role was small he was the one the freed the dragons from the pit. while tryion was in a side show circus.
some areas the show has past the books and others its lagging way behind.
where is stoneheart. hanging all the freys?
