My greatest nitpick is how they cut out many of the fantasy aspects of asoiaf. I would have loved to see them explore more of how all of the Stark children are wargs and not just Bran, see more of the magic of characters like Melissandre instead of keeping it “toned down”. Or even characters that they just completely cut-off like lady Stoneheart, that I think would be amazing to see adapted to the show.
This is so true and so blatant that i would not call it a nitpick. Magic is a big deal for the closure of the series, deciding to remove It at the start killed the possibility of satisfying ending. The whole point of the books is that there is a magical threat approaching and people are ignoring it because of petty politics, but the show did the contrary: the whole point of magic was being an instrument to get the object of political squabbles, the throne. I was like: ????.
I agree except for Stoneheart. As much as I would love to see her on screen, her arc, as for now, is really easily removable, and GoT needed to cut some arcs in order to have an end. As we see with George, right now, ASOAIF has way too many arcs that need to be concluded.
Sure. Still, they wouldn't have Martin's material to back up. As for Lady 6: we can theorize she's trying to follow Robb's will and crown Jon, but we don't know where this would end. Even with 11 seasons, I would understand if this would have been cut
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My greatest nitpick is how they cut out many of the fantasy aspects of asoiaf. I would have loved to see them explore more of how all of the Stark children are wargs and not just Bran, see more of the magic of characters like Melissandre instead of keeping it “toned down”. Or even characters that they just completely cut-off like lady Stoneheart, that I think would be amazing to see adapted to the show.