re: Middle Grounders: GoT vs. ASOIAF through 3 books/4seasons

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Roz doesn't even exist, so we don't get to see him kill her with the crossbow, either

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when this happened ,as a reader, this made me like Joff a bit. Seeing joff "day to day" makes you hate him much more. The actor that played Joffrey was on point.

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Keeping the Red Wedding a brutal surprise

- The Red Wedding gets a lot of foreshadow upon a rewatch of the series, but it's nothing compared to the books. Keep in mind that 90% of Robb's storyline is told from Lady Cat's perspective, (which came as a shock to me that one of the major characters in the series so far never had his own chapter of narration), so we see her constantly fretting about the Freys inside her head. There's also the chapter where Dany visits the House of the Undying, where she literally sees in a "vision" the aftermath of a massacre at a feast, complete with a dead king on the throne with a wolf's head on his body. Maybe it's because I knew it was coming anyway, but there was nothing subtle about that at all. Factor that in with Lord Bolton's traitorous behavior, and by the time Robb gets killed it actually makes more sense than it would if he had survived.

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This, sure there are a ton of hits but denial isn't just a river in Egypt

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- The show really took some liberties with the Theon/Ramsay storyline from what I can tell. That being said, The Bastard of Bolton is probably the most vicious character in the books, and I haven't even gotten to the torture scenes yet - assuming they even exist. That guy is a complete psychopath, by Lord Bolton's own admission.

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yes/no, you see it rather than hear. Much like Joff

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- Jaime is just a fantastic character on every level. Reading his thoughts in the third book was awesome.

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word up

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m not completely convinced through 3 books and 4 seasons that Dany's storyline is enhancing the series. It might be an unpopular opinion, and there's certainly aspects of it that are entertaining as hell - but very few of them have anything to do with her. Barristan Selmy and the Rhaegar references are the most interesting things so far. It's not that it isn't a good story, it just very rarely relates to everything else that's going on in the GoT universe. The storylines overlapping and affecting each other is what makes everything so great, and Dany's arc just doesn't do that too often. I'm sure it will improve in the future.

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just wait