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Originally Posted by thedinergetsby
Just because of the Ros thing? I dunno, for all the ros hate, think of how awesome bronn is? Both are sort of combined/made up characters, and bronn is the ****ing ****, and Ros has, at the very least, laid the framework for littlefinger being unflinchly in it for himself in that one scene
Bronn isn't really a combination of characters or made up, though. His story is in the books.
But what really, I think bothered me was them pointing out how the women from the books have been changed (for the worse) and how that sort of flies in the face of what Martin did with typical fantasy tropes.
One thing that really, REALLY bothered me was something along the lines of "With these whores [Ros and Daisy] you get the same sort of story as you do with Sansa, they're coming to the big city and expecting grand things but then it's not what they thought it would be." And when you look at the time that Ros and Daisy got on screen compared to Sansa it's like... the ****? Hey how about you ACTUALLY tell Sansa's story and then you wouldn't need the whores representing "little girl in a mean world" trope.
Or what they did with Robb's story which is sort of character assassination. They didn't handle it completely terribly on the show, especially with that last scene with Cat, but... like, "Good guy falls for the good girl and chooses love above all else" is like, the archetypal fantasy trope it's not even funny, and it makes no sense for Robb to do who comes from a family where duty and honor are above all else. At least in the book, you understand that Robb is stuck between trying to figure out what is "honorable" and "right" as a young guy forced to grow up really quickly. But in the show? "Nah, screw my honor and mom you can't tell me what to do because you screwed up!!"
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Originally Posted by New Kid
I was gonna ask the other day, what made you mad about the finale? (Is it anything a layman who hasn't gotten around to reading the books would understand?)
In the book the house of undying scene is way different and is more psychedelic than they presented it. I'm sure they'll put in the important stuff that they left out later, but it was one of the more interesting things to happen in the book(s) for me.