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Vader999 In reply to Miss-Crane [2016-04-06 07:39:37 +0000 UTC]

More than a hot mess. It screwed up many parts of the books that I REALLY wanted to see on television.......

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Miss-Crane In reply to Vader999 [2016-04-10 00:55:43 +0000 UTC]

Yeah it was the worst... I mean cutting Arianne ?? In favor of the Sand Snakes ?? (or sand fakes as they're called in the anti-show fandom )

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Vader999 In reply to Miss-Crane [2016-04-10 04:25:40 +0000 UTC]

The Sand Snakes? They're like female Team Rocket knockoffs whose highlight was that one fight and the whole "poisoning Bronn" thing. The whole trip to Dorne was akin to a big waste of time. Not to mention that Arianne seemed more interesting than some chick with a Kill Bill attitude whose dead boyfriend was PROUD of the fact that Dorne doesn't kill kids. Had Oberyn lived to see what Ellaria would do, he would have strangled the bitch himself. One of the big things about Oberyn was that he was proud of the fact that Dorne was principled enough not to have lynched the Lannister girl among their midst. 

Not to mention the death of Myrcella, which I see as another clumsy come-on for shock value. It is just like the way they killed Shireen Baratheon in a scene so out-of-character with her father Stannis, who practically invented a cure for the seemingly-incurable Greyscale disease just to save his daughter. The son of a gun invented a cure for their version of AIDS or Cancer just to save his daughter-ignoring all calls to kill her to save everyone else from Greyscale contact. If killing his daughter for duty was something Stannis did, he would have killed her in her earlier years when she got greyscale in the first place. Stannis was also famous for holding a fort while starving to death while his enemies dined in luxury outside his walls. The last thing on earth he would do is kill his daughter to alleviate some bad conditions for his army. That sounds like something his wife would do, considering that she considers Shireen to be a weakness and she's the one who really bought into the whole "Lord of Light" religion.

And the worst part about it.....no Lady Stoneheart. She would've been epic in the show. Imagine if Stannis' men were starving, then she shows up to save them so she can use Stannis to save Sansa? Also, Brienne acts like a real idiot at Winterfell. What with her saying that Renly is the "rightful king" of the Seven Kingdoms while abandoning Sansa? "Rightful king" my balls........

We couldn't just have a good ending where Stannis saves Sansa and throws the Starks a bone, giving them back their kingdom and creating a counterbalance to the Lannisters. We couldn't just have an ending where Jaime and his daughter share their love. No, we have to have more stupid deaths and out-of-character actions for fucking shock value and because the makers of the show hate Stannis. We have to get Sansa to become the victim again instead of her seducing Ramsay and turning him against his father, the way Littlefinger advised her to do, despite the fact that she bore witness to the two having tensions in front of her during dinner.

Link me to some of these anti-show fandom blogs. I forsee that I will have more than a few things in common with them.........

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Azad-Injejikian In reply to Lemniskate [2015-05-26 01:41:16 +0000 UTC]

It's a general complaint some fans have about Loras' portrayal on the show. On the one hand, there is more gay representation and visibility on GoT than some other shows. However, almost all of it is sex scenes, and offer no other character development or purpose.
Loras in the books is a Kingsguard knight that teaches Tommen to joust, volunteers for a suicide mission and carries a torch for Renly.  No, they can't include everything, but the result is a kind of clichéd depiction

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Vader999 In reply to Azad-Injejikian [2016-04-06 07:32:58 +0000 UTC]

That's what happens when gender politics makes it into television and media. Remember what they did to Renly? And this isn't restricted to shows on television.

I mean, back in Mass Effect 1, for example, you had to do a bit of digging to find out that one of your crew was a lesbian. Then in Mass Effect 3 they shove a gay male shuttle pilot in your face the moment you step into the Normandy's shuttle bay/armory.

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Lemniskate In reply to Azad-Injejikian [2015-05-26 13:57:45 +0000 UTC]

You're right, he DOES do more stuff in the books...

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