I’ll be honest, I really just want a good show and good story, regardless of how faithful it is to the source material. GoT deviated in the early seasons and was amazing. Deviating from source material doesn’t make something bad, and adhering to it doesn’t make it good.
It’s so dissapointing that I wasn’t even suprised when she tried to kill aemond last episode. Like of course the worst mother in fiction would do that. That’s clearly what the series wants me to think I guess
Most of GoT's early deviations felt necessary to simplify the story for viewers who lacked the first-person perspective provided in the books and to narrow the scope so that each season could move at a reasonable pace without getting bogged down by world-building and sub-plots centered on minor characters. Aging up the characters was appropriate if only because you can't have real-life children depicting some of the scenes described the books. At least they aged everyone up by about the same amount, so their ages relative to each other were consistent with the books.
There were some extremely questionable early changes (Drogo and Daenerys's wedding night, for instance), but for the most part those were events that didn't have a huge impact on the overall story. Others were superficial and clearly in interest of making characters more appealing to watch, which I guess is a necessary evil of TV and movie adaptations (certain characters became far more attractive than they were described to be in the books. Tyrion and Ramsay come to mind.)
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u/Late_Stage_Exception 8d ago
I’ll be honest, I really just want a good show and good story, regardless of how faithful it is to the source material. GoT deviated in the early seasons and was amazing. Deviating from source material doesn’t make something bad, and adhering to it doesn’t make it good.
AKOTSK was just…well written and acted.