Posted: Jun 19, 2020 5:36 pm
Fallible wrote:...eg. just leaving out characters, such as Lady Stoneheart and an entire other claimant to the Iron Throne...
Oh my lanta... Victarion was it? I actually don’t remember if he’s totally absent in the show, but... top-5 character for me. The only reason his eclipsing by Euron works in the books is that GRRM managed to write a Euron that’s at least as interesting as Victarion. Deeeeeeeefinitely not in the show, of course. Jfc, that Euron sucks balls by comparison.
But to beat a dead donkey on the broader topic, I do think the show handles the last 3 seasons generally well... part of it must be that it overtakes the books at that point, part of it that there’s very little small stuff happening & the show does the big stuff pretty well, and part of it I suspect is expediency/crunch.