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virphen wrote:Both book and series are bloody good. Some of the changes grate a little at first, but given the amount of things that do have to change in transforming a mega-complicated narrative structure into something that works at all on film, and more often than not they seem to have chosen sensibly. The sexual idealism is the thing that often greats the most (wildlings with perfectly dilapidated bodies, a starved, filthy and mutilated Reek who still has the body of a male model, the bullshit with the virgin whore pleasurer extraordinaite). Changes that fit with the world or are obviously more necessary because of the different media, less so.

I'm finding it quite interesting in the case of a TV adaptation of a still running book series that is likely to catch up and overtake the books with a year or two left on its run quite interesting. Part of the fun is the speculating on what's happened in the books,in the areas that are specifically set up (or seem to be) as mysteries and how the TV going in different direction affects those possibilities.