They died in the series “Game of Thrones” but not (yet) in the books

sivertime — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:34:49 +0000

Review of the few survivors of the literary saga of the “Iron Throne” who nevertheless died wrongly in the HBO series (Attention SPOILERS!)
It will not have escaped you that the blockbuster series “Game of Thrones” is adapted from the literary saga “The Throne of Iron” of good old George R. R Martin, who has already written 5 volumes, waiting for the last two. And as dab ‘in this kind of exercise, the showrunners Daniel Weiss and David Benioff took some liberties with the original material, especially regarding the end of some characters . Several deaths of the series are still alive in the books. Well, maybe it’s also a reprieve before George ends them eh.
Jeyne Westerling / Talisa Stark
Talisa is one of the few characters remodeled for the needs of the series. In novels, Robb’s girl is called Jeyne Westerling, and did not meet her half on a battlefield as a nurse. She is a girl of great family (La Maison Westerling). All the scenes of romance between her and the “King of the North” in season 3 were created from scratch . Another difference of size: she was not present the evening of the “Nuptials Purple” , nor even pregnant …
Roose and Walda Bolton
In the series, the Bolton Family is massacred by this bastard of Ramsay, who wants to ensure the lineage solo. He first deals with daron Roose by stabbing him dully, before reserving a horrible punishment to his mother-in-law and his baby brother-in-law, who will end up devoured by the dogs . Crimes absent from books.
Shireen Baratheon
The poor little girl was sent to the stake by her fanatical father and the Red Witch in episode 9 of season 5, who thought that this offering would put the Master of Light on their side. While in books, Shireen stayed at Chateau-Noir with her mother, while Stannis went to the front. But many fans think that the showrunners Daniel Weiss and David Benioff (in consultation with George RR Martin) have just taken a little ahead of the books, and that it is likely to happen the same fate to the girl …
Selyse Baratheon
Logically, Selyse did not fuck in the air after the sacrifice of his daughter, since he has not (yet) arrived. Stannis’s wife waits his turn wisely at Chateau-Noir.
Stannis Baratheon
In the Baratheon family, I ask the nth brother who claims the Iron Throne. This good old Stannis, who has made his daughter blaze for nothing, since he had the face of the tronche by the troops of Ramsay Bolton, before being finished by Brienne. Again, events could happen again in the books, where Stannis was left in a big galley at the end of “A Dance With Dragons” , who was trapped by the blizzard when he counted Take Winterfell out of Bolton’s hands.
Mance Rayder
For having refused to pledge allegiance to King Stannis, Mance Ryder, “The King Beyond the Wall,” is condemned to the stake in the first episode of season 5. His sufferings will still be alleviated by Jon Snow, who Shot an arrow in the heart. The scene of the pyre exists in the novels, but it is learned much later that the victim was not Mance Rayder, but the Lord of the Bones, otherwise called Rattleshirt (he died under the blows of Tormund in the series). The witch Mélisandre made her take on the appearance of Mance …
Barristan Selmy
Fans of Barristan, who despaired of his death in the middle of season 5, can still take refuge in the books. The good man was not massacred by the dissident group of “Sons of the Harpy” . On the contrary, Daenerys ‘s devoted right hand assumes his duties as Queen’s Hand, especially when the latter has disappeared , making him the interim leader of Meereen.
Myrcella Baratheon
In both cases, the biological daughter of Cersei and Jaime Lannister is the victim of plans that have messed up. With a slightly stronger penalty in the series since she died poisoned by Ellaria Sand, who wanted revenge for the death of her brother, Prince Oberyn. While in the tome “A Feast for Crows”, the girl is in the middle of a stratagem of Ariane Martell who aims to put her on the Iron Throne at the death of her brother Joffrey . But the plan will run short when the conspirators are captured: one of them, Gerold Dayne will try to kill Myrcella, who will still escape, but totally disfigured.
Catelyn Stark
“What? She was not dead during the Purple Nouces?” . Technically though, whether in the series or books. But the matriarch Stark did not say his last word. In “The Iron Throne”, she resurrected through the Bannerless Brotherhood in the form of a vengeful soul named Lady Stoneheart . A return to business that seems unlikely in the case of the series, even though his adopted son has already made us the coup in the last season …

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Game of Thrones Season 8: 3 major intrigues that will surely not be seen before the end of the series!

sivertime — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:07:13 +0000

A few months before the release of Season 7 of Game of Thrones, back on major intrigues of books that we will probably never see …
Time passes and slowly but surely brings us closer to the last Game of Thrones season in which we wondered if Daenerys would die to make a prophecy . But before knowing who will not survive the series, we are interested in intrigues and differences with the books of George RR Martin . Watch out for possible spoilers in the sequel. It is known that the adaptation of such a work is complicated and that it necessarily implies some sacrifices with in particular the disappearance of certain intrigues yet crucial in the books . We propose you a little return on three stories that we will probably never see in the series since it remains – theoretically – only 13 episodes.
Lady Stoneheart
This is not the first time we’ve talked about it, and it’s probably not the last one either. As readers know, Catelyn Stark was not supposed to disappear after the Red Wedding. In the books the Purple Nuptials marked the rebirth of Ned’s wife as Lady Stoneheart / Lady Heart of Stone, whose ultimate goal is to avenge the death of her son Robb Stark . However, after several seasons in which hope continued, Catelyn was not to come back from the dead to take the lead of the Brotherhood and hunt down all those who had been involved in the Red Wedding, And that’s a shame. Although this plot does not really affect the other major arcs of the series – and that’s probably why it was cut – Lady Stoneheart remains a key figure that we would have liked to see interacting with Brienne.
Catelyn should have come back.
Aegon VI Targaryen
The series gave no indication that it was going to introduce it, but in the books it is there, the other heir of the Targaryen. Son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell, Aegon reappears when everyone believes him dead, killed by Gregor Clegane during the arrival of the Lannister at King’s Landing . In A Dance with Dragons , we learn that Varys would have exchanged Aegon for another baby before he was killed. The heir of the Targaryen would have been brought up and educated, notably by Jon Connington, before crossing the road to Tyrion Lannister years later and explain to him that he intends to marry Daenerys and take back the Throne Iron with her. A story that promises to be fascinating to follow in books and that will probably not have the pleasure to see adapted to the screen.
Arianne Martell
The third intrigue that we will miss is obviously that of Dorne, cruelly shortened and much less interesting than it should have been. Doranne Martell’s eldest daughter, Arianne is, according to the customs of Dorne, the heiress of Sunspeart and the future princess of Dorne . Yet his story was more or less distributed to the Sand Snakes with their betrayal of Doran and their attempt to take revenge on the Lannister. In books, Arianne wants Myrcella to insist on sitting on the Iron Throne rather than her younger brother Tommen and her plans are thwarted by her father. As we have seen in the series, the death of almost all the Martells as well as that of Myrcella Baratheon makes the adaptation of this intrigue very improbable, and with it that of Gerold Dayne.
That closes our little list of intrigues that we would have liked to see in the series but which will probably never be there. Some have been more or less integrated to different degrees but this does not prevent us from having some regrets. Yet we imagine the difficulty of adapting such a saga and overall it is still an epic series that Dan Weiss and David Benioff offer us every year . Until we know what will happen next, we wondered if at the end of Game of Throne, the White Walkers would win because of Bran Stark. And you, what stories and / or what characters of books you miss in the series?

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They died in the series “Game of Thrones” but not (yet) in the books

Game of Thrones Season 8: 3 major intrigues that will surely not be seen before the end of the series!