Game of Thrones

[A Robot Bit Me]

There's no correlation between the quality of a show and its loyalty to its source, though. Good writing in the original source doesn't guarantee anything, no matter how faithfully it's recreated. Watch Psycho (1998) or your local high school's straight-faced adaptation of Hamlet if you don't believe me.

I just don't understand why people want the same damn thing twice and soil themselves with rage when they don't get it.

[MechDeus]

The best thing to happen to many adaptations is to be different than the source material. I quite enjoyed Kubrick's The Shining.

[YellerDog]

Based on the "accurate" Shining miniseries that came later, yes absolutely. Adaptations should adapt, slavishly following the source does no one any good.

[Anthony]

There's no correlation between the quality of a show and its loyalty to its source, though. Good writing in the original source doesn't guarantee anything, no matter how faithfully it's recreated. Watch Psycho (1998) or your local high school's straight-faced adaptation of Hamlet if you don't believe me.

I just don't understand why people want the same damn thing twice and soil themselves with rage when they don't get it.

Of course good writing in the original source doesn't guarantee it will be good, but it gives it a much better shot. I haven't read the books, so maybe I'm in a different boat. The only thing I am sure about is things are getting way less interesting this season and from what everyone is saying it is straying far from the books now. Perhaps the writers of this show are less able to come up with their own interesting storylines than they are able to adapt other's.

[sedition]

that's not it at all.

The writers of the show are trying to take two books where hardly anything happens and make them more streamlined and interesting.

[Anthony]

that's not it at all.

The writers of the show are trying to take two books where hardly anything happens and make them more streamlined and interesting.

Oh ok. Well if this season is the more interesting version of those books, they must have been something...

[Diff-chan]

LOTR movies = good adaptations. Hobbit = bad adaptations. For example.

Of course good writing in the original source doesn't guarantee it will be good, but it gives it a much better shot. I haven't read the books, so maybe I'm in a different boat. The only thing I am sure about is things are getting way less interesting this season and from what everyone is saying it is straying far from the books now. Perhaps the writers of this show are less able to come up with their own interesting storylines than they are able to adapt other's.

I feel like a lot of times the show has faltered when it deviated from the source material. That's a judgement on the quality of the show's writers I guess, but it doesn't mean the solution is just to stay very close to the books.

Because the fourth and fifth books are not very good, and are unfilmable unless they want to do 27 seasons anyway.

[Calliander]

LOTR movies = good adaptations. Hobbit = bad adaptations. For example.

I feel like a lot of times the show has faltered when it deviated from the source material. That's a judgement on the quality of the show's writers I guess, but it doesn't mean the solution is just to stay very close to the books.

Very good example about adaptations, and I am inclined to agree about the quality of the show's writers with regard to deviations.

That said, I am actually liking the Littlefinger/Sansa/Winterfell thing. Not because of any feelings I might have about whatever Sansa is doing in the books, but because I'm invested in Sansa. I obviously felt sorry for fArya in the books, and didn't want her to suffer at Ramsay's hands but the depth of feeling wasn't there. The reaction of, "Oh god damn it, he's going to torture Sansa," is the right path for them to take. It makes Theon's role better and it makes whatever happens to Ramsay that much sweeter.

Also: 3 episodes, 3 executions. Next week Loras, for being gay, after Cersei informs Sparrow, being the second of the four "still alive in the books" deaths?

[Jed]

Another shite episode, imagine that. The only redemption was seeing the Mountain thrashing under Maester Qyburn's sheet.

[FuryFox]

I love when characters are complaining (Tyrion) or perplexed (Arya) about how uninteresting their situation is...yeah, WE know.