Lack of Direwolves
One is clearly a harmless dog and the other a fcking direwolf
“Your children meant to have these wolves” was mentioned more than once in the book. The six wolves for the corresponding six Stark children proved in interesting dynamic as they went to the separate ends of Westeros. In the television series, the direwolf of most notability is Ghost who runs with Jon Snow. But my favorite from the book is probably Robb’s Grey Wind who seems to be the most battle seasoned, blood thirsty, and bad ass. And the direwolf the television show really didn’t explain the importance was Bran’s Summer. The craziest scene I wish the direwolves were involved in was the wildling attack on Bran. I think it is important to show how fierce these direwolves were. And they mainly used Siberian Huskies to act as the wolves, but the book clearly states over and over again how much bigger, fiercer, and scarier they were to dogs. And from clips of trailers so far, it finally looks like they’re trading in the pups for bigger and fiercer CGI wolves. A good move.
Bran’s Dream Sequences
Speaking of Bran and his direwolf Summer, the dream sequences for Bran were understandably short-handed in terms of time and resources. His falling sequences and talking crows telling him to fly made extremely colorful and visual moments. When they were shortened to the archer and the crow with 3 eye segments, they didn’t all make sense to me. It was only after reading the book did I find the meanings of the three eyed crows and the messages they were trying to send Bran.
Sandor Clegane’s History
So far, Sandor Clegane, aka the Hound, is a very interesting character. I found him mildly interesting in the series, but he had relatively few lines and fewer actions. I had heard Peter Baelish tell his story in the series and I thought it weird that he would tell her for no good reason. But as I read in the book, Joffrey commanded him to take Sansa safely back to the keep. It was here, when he was drunk, that he told Sansa his story. It made a humongously more powerful image and scene and characterized him better in this conversation than the entire television series did.
Stark and Lannister War Campaigns
The war in the first book/season is mainly between Robb Stark and Tywin Lannister. However, neither of these are narrators in the book. We’re able to read some of Robb’s campaign through Catelyn and Robb and we only get to see Tywin’s campaign when Tyrion returns to Lannister camp. I liked the movies were able to display the personalities of both leaders that weren’t necessarily shown in the book. And while the main battle was cut out for budgetary reasons, apparently the producers and George R.R. Martin can’t do that again for season 2. So we’ll definitely be seeing a much better campaign.
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Some people are dubbing it Game of Ros, actually. Ros is rocking sexposition with that Littlefinger scene as he relays his childhood story in Riverrun involving Catelyn Tully, Brandon Stark and Ned Stark. It would all be boring, I guess if we have to hear their voices narrating this and that while the story progresses. Hence, the fansservice giving us insight on the back story while making everybody watching it together, awkward and uncomfortable because we had to learn that whole distracted with the lesbian scene. :))
The big difference with Littlefinger telling Sansa the Hound’s story vs he telling her himself is that it shows the character’s sense of closeness with Sansa. He obviously feels something towards her, something that is close to nonexistent in the series (aside from the look he gives her as she contemplates jumping from the castle walls). It creates a different dynamic in their relationship from the outset. The series just doesn’t do that as well.