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by Audley Strange » Tue Apr 23, 2013 2:16 pm
I've read all the books and while I enjoyed them. I personally think the T.V. show is in many ways a less bloated and indulgent adaptation. The way they have went from an episodic format to speedy vignettes over the last two weeks will totally bewilder casual viewers, but by fuck are they moving it on quickly. There has been some interesting tweaks to the plotline which I've heard people complain about (Margary Tyrell being so conniving from the word go, for example) which isn't in the books, but the producers are working with perfect hindsight and thus can install motivations and actions from the later novels and make them explicit early on.
I cannot wait for episode nine. Those who got pissed at Ned Stark's fate in season one might need trauma counsellors, if all goes according to plan.
"What started as a legitimate effort by the townspeople of Salem to identify, capture and kill those who did Satan's bidding quickly deteriorated into a witch hunt" Army Man