Game Of Thrones Television series *may contain spoilers*
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toffeejack
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how has the little lanister girl aged about 8 years since we last saw her, but the stark girls are still the same age?
USABlue
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recast haha
toffeejack
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i was wondering if it was re-cast or that it was part of the storyline that she'd grown so much in age
USABlue
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yeah it's defo a different actress but they mave have recast due to the storyline for this season (trystane wanting to marry her now)
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Sapie88
Hi @Donald Twain
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This whole season has been a bit of a let-down, mainly because they have deliberately chosen to dispense with the source material and heavily re-write major plot lines - in doing so, they have discovered that they can't write plot lines anywhere near as well as GRRM can.
The bit that baffles me is the reasoning behind this approach. The show producers are worried about the snail's pace at which GRRM is writing the next book, there being a real risk that the show might overtake the books.... but they have gone and cut out five, possibly six major story lines (Kingsmoot; Jamie in the Riverlands; Gendry, Stoneheart and the Brotherhood; old Griff and young Griff; the Martells in Mereen; Sam's journey away from the Wall) and severely truncated several more (Jon taking command of the Night's Watch; Sansa in the Vale; Tyrion's journey to Daenerys; Brienne searching for Starks; The Boltons ruling the north; The Sand Snakes; power struggles in Kings Landing; the rebellion in Mereen and Yunkai).
By cutting and truncating as they have done, they have basically removed two thirds of the content of AFFC and ADWD. This leave them with a bunch of problems relating to how to develop characters and story arcs, so they've made up a series of set-piece fight scenes and are just lurching from one to the next. This has destroyed the pace of the story and the end result is going to be: catching up with the books by the end of this season. IMHO this is a mistake, and they should have spread all the plotlines from AFFC and ADWD over two, possibly even three seasons. This would give us a better show to watch and buy GRRM more time to write the remaining books.
Don't get me wrong, the show is enjoyable in its own right; some of the casting has been superb, and for every awful chunk of dialogue there has also been some excellent stuff - mainly Bronn, Stannis, Arya and the Boltons. But it is not even close to as good as the books. Killing off Barristan Selmy was the low point for me.
The bit that baffles me is the reasoning behind this approach. The show producers are worried about the snail's pace at which GRRM is writing the next book, there being a real risk that the show might overtake the books.... but they have gone and cut out five, possibly six major story lines (Kingsmoot; Jamie in the Riverlands; Gendry, Stoneheart and the Brotherhood; old Griff and young Griff; the Martells in Mereen; Sam's journey away from the Wall) and severely truncated several more (Jon taking command of the Night's Watch; Sansa in the Vale; Tyrion's journey to Daenerys; Brienne searching for Starks; The Boltons ruling the north; The Sand Snakes; power struggles in Kings Landing; the rebellion in Mereen and Yunkai).
By cutting and truncating as they have done, they have basically removed two thirds of the content of AFFC and ADWD. This leave them with a bunch of problems relating to how to develop characters and story arcs, so they've made up a series of set-piece fight scenes and are just lurching from one to the next. This has destroyed the pace of the story and the end result is going to be: catching up with the books by the end of this season. IMHO this is a mistake, and they should have spread all the plotlines from AFFC and ADWD over two, possibly even three seasons. This would give us a better show to watch and buy GRRM more time to write the remaining books.
Don't get me wrong, the show is enjoyable in its own right; some of the casting has been superb, and for every awful chunk of dialogue there has also been some excellent stuff - mainly Bronn, Stannis, Arya and the Boltons. But it is not even close to as good as the books. Killing off Barristan Selmy was the low point for me.
USABlue
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great post. bolded was same for me. agree with the bit about the casting as there has been some great acting. Stephen Dillane has been fantastic and Ian glen has done well with Jorah's character
Donald Twain
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Well said Ser! You can rule the Riverlands for that.
Heard it's a bit good this
Have series 1 on DVD
Will give it a watch when I have some free time
Heard Sean Bean is in it. I can guess what happens to him
Have series 1 on DVD
Will give it a watch when I have some free time
Heard Sean Bean is in it. I can guess what happens to him
Sapie88
Hi @Donald Twain
He lives happily ever after.
Along with Alec Trevelyan and Boramir
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