The same reason why Reek was cut and the Unsullied have no idea what the fuck happened at Winterfell. Because it’s different than the book. See?
Well, I was wondering about that too. Some things are cut to streamline the plot but the Bran/Rickon thing wouldn’t have taken up that much time. I do remember Theon wanting to send a message out and the maester reminding him that he’d killed all the ravens. Maybe they needed all the ravens to be dead for that part of the plot to work.
I understand perfectly why Reek was cut off, that and a lot of other things can be explained away with “because the book way wouldn’t work on a TV show”. But i can’t think of any reason for the other change.
I think it undercuts some of the sadness and brutality of the RW too.
D&D did say that they wanted Robb’s marriage to be a deliberate decision of picking love over his word. I disagree with their decision in going that direction, but they apparently had that reason.
I’m certain they will find out before the RW though, Bolton’s Bastard has to send them a report now even if its mostly lies it is sure to mention that Theon had Bran and Rickon killed.
Yeah, for Catelyn it’ll be every bit as brutal, but I don’t think that’s true of Robb. I suppose it doesn’t really matter to any of the characters why he breaks his vow, but Robb is far far more sympathetic to me if he’s trying to do the honorable thing after a moment of weakness rather than thinking with his dick.
Well, I can’t find the posts I need to quote, but I came to say I was totally effing wrong about the “Bran eats humans” discussion. I just re-read that bit last night. (It’s about 65 pages in to Dragons.)
I can only think that I must have put the book down, and then picked it back up skipping a paragraph or two the first time round. Either that or I just blocked it out.
Because, hoo boy! Yuck! As God is my witness, I thought Cold Hands had butchered a sow.
Hiding the rest in case you are eating.
[spoiler] Bran does indeed tear into some humans while warging. It’s in the same spot where he does in SixSkins (as one-eye) and takes his pack. Furthermore, when he comes back to his body, Hodor is tearing into some lovely charred flesh himself, and Meera informs Bran that Cold Hands has brought them some meat from a sow he killed. Meera has another chunk of flesh on her frog fork, roasting it. It’s unclear whether Jojen has eaten already or not, but he seems to be the only one who picks up on what’s happening as Bran confronts Cold Hands about the dead being not only human but nights watch as well.
It’s also unclear whether Bran or Meera eat at that point. But Meera definitely cooked some, and Hodor, at least, innocently tucked in.
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I’ve been thinking about how they will portray Shae’s betrayal of Tyrion. Since they’re clearly showing a stronger love between the couple in the show, they might play the jealousy angle when Tyrion marries Sansa. She could interpret some of the affection Tyrion shows Sansa as budding love.
It’s not really betrayal though. Shae’s a whore and she’s doing what he pays her for. Then Tyrion is arrested and a better deal comes along. That’s what Shae is and Tyrion reminds himself of it often, albeit not often enough.
I think that scene is going to be pretty fucking brutal though. And then killing Tywin right after?! Holy shit, hurry up seasons 3 and 4!
I’m extremely surprised that people see it as a betrayal. Shae is a survivor, who does what she has to do under the circumstances. What she does is no different than Sansa insisting that her Father and Brother were traitors and she is loyal to her beloved Joffrey.
It was still a betrayal. Forget that Tyrion genuinely cared about her. He lifted her up from lowly camp follower to royal courtesan, and plans to arrange her marriage to a promising knight. She pretty much hit the whore lottery with Tyrion. And in repayment, she didn’t just sleep with Tywin; she bore false witness against Tyrion at his trial.
Still, it’s less about the betrayal than it is heartbreak for Tyrion, who knows better, but just couldn’t help himself this one time. I could almost picture Tyrion shouting like Sam Kinison in pain and anger when he found her in Tywin’s bed. “Sleep with my dad?!! OW, OWWWWWWWWW!”
But TV Shae is doing more than what a whore would do, and more than what Book Shae did. TV Tyrion seems convinced that Shae truly loves him but Book Tyrion was always skeptical. Because she seems sincere and because Tyrion seems to really love and trust her, the writers need to do something like what Wolverine suggests or her betrayal will seem contrived. We need more than Shae doing what whores do.
I understand Shae being with Tywin not because she’s a whore, but because she wants to survive.
You like Tyrion and want to see him happy, therefore he’s not living a lie with the hooker he fell in love with like an idiot. Really, what had she done? She’s talked and fucked, that’s it. Well, and demanded things way above her station while being really annoying, but Tyrion has no reason to think she’s doing anything but her job except he’d like it if she did.
She offered to run away with him with nothing but the clothes on their back, that’s a bit above and beyond normal whoring.
Well, one thing she did was try to convince Tyrion that they should leave King’s Landing. She’s willing to go with him to a place where they can live openly together, in a place where Tyrion (presumably) has no authority or power. A whore wouldn’t do that.
ETA: I type too slowly.
They’re back on page 5 of this thread. No one disputed whether Bran in wolf form had eaten human flesh, the real issue was whether he’d eaten Jojen Reed - which your quote doesn’t resolve.
I forgot that part. Touché.
I did, thus the mea culpa.
Good point, but the “Did wolf-Bran eat Jojen?” question is still unresolved.
George R.R. Martin please write like the wind!
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