By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
walsufnir on 09 June 2015
Edit Thread
Faelco said:
TheDarkShape said:


It already *was* a huge shitstorm on the internet.  In the time after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released, book-purists lost their minds.

Here's the trouble: the impression I get is that y'all don't want good television or good films, you just want staged readings of the books; you (and by you, I mean the movement at large) simply want to watch and not have to read anymore.

I love A Song of Ice and Fire.  I love Game of Thrones.  But the success of one has nothing to do with the success of the other.  Just make the best television you can, fealty to your source material be damned.

Tell me: which is the better movie, Twilight or The Shining?  Because one is an amazingly faithful adaptation, and the other is a bastardization of its source that also happens to be a cinematic masterpiece.

That's why I said that for me, the season 5 is bad, differences or no differences. 

No character developments, no politics at all, just a succession of fight scenes and sex scenes with a few one liners and scandalous scenes in-between. It's not about the game of thrones anymore, just about "what will be the next shocking scene? who will die next?". Pretty uninteresting IMO. 


Exactly this. I think we all can live with the fact that we now have two different stories with some similarities but season 5 is really just worse than the seasons before. That doesn't mean the series is bad but given the high standards they had before, this time there is way less stuff going on but it was quite clear when you consider how fast they moved through the books.

Anyway, I am glad we see more of the north and its mysteries than we got from the books. And I really hope Martin finishes his story before he dies...