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Theres just some things in the books that wouldn't work on screen. Thats something I accept, but I am also a bit disappointed that the scale of the show has become a lot smaller than the scale of the books.
At the same time its best to see the show as a seperate thing now, if you try too hard to compare it to the books, it will never meet that standard. So its best to treat it as its own thing. That being said, what the show does well, it does very well. The characters that they've chosen to focus on have turned out very well.
One character that dissappeared from the books was Bronn, yet they've kept him in the show and given him a bigger part with more story. Thats really good imo. I agree with the OP though, I thought Young Griff would've been a great addition, yet he's clearly not in the show.
