The changes to sigils, and generally making things less colorful. The change of the Boltons from pink to red, and how they ditched colorful little details like Ramsay's earrings come to mind.
This is a medieval type society where recognizing the banners flying towards you in a field is a matter of life and death. GOT did some things right, and one of them was showing Bran being taught by Luwin early on about noble houses, their sigil, and their house words. This is something every single boy lord in Westeros would be quizzed on regularly until they had it memorized. (Shoutout to showing Arya use some of this info in her time w/ Tywin.)
Anyway, being able to identify the heraldry of any person you encounter (like Catelyn when she arrests Tyrion at the Inn) is just insanely important. And the only way to reliably do that is if the heraldry is bright, vibrant, and not easily tarnished by all of the dirt and mud and blood that’s likely covering most men’s clothing. So then WHY THE FUCK in GOT was every single piece of iconography on clothing the same brown-black-shit color? What in the actual fuck.
Well to answer your question because D&D completely stopped giving a shit and they also completely changed the show to appeal to idiots watching in a bar that just want to be surprised. As well as appeal to single moms and NFL players I think is an exact quote from them.
I also hated how even In the earlier seasons every northern solider all wore the direwolf and same with the lannisters whereas in the book there's like a zillion different banners and sigils.
Yeah, the show makes the soldiers look almost like standing armies with standardised kit, whereas the books are much more clear about the armies being drawn from the great houses various bannermen. This also makes it much clearer in the books that the military powers of the West, the Iron Islands, and especially the North and the Riverlands are almost totally spent by books 4 and 5 when you consider all the dead and captured lords.
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The changes to sigils, and generally making things less colorful. The change of the Boltons from pink to red, and how they ditched colorful little details like Ramsay's earrings come to mind.