I feel like the biggest difference with departing from the book is that the story has gotten waaay leaner. No meandering, straight to the point. Their have been some benefits to that approach moving the story along, but now the biggest issue is they are moving too fast which is as much a function of running out of episodes as anything else.



>They've always changed things up from about season 2 on
>(season 1 was very close to the books), and it's always been
>clear that their deviations were not as well written as what
>GRRM had done. But now that they don't have any of GRRM's
>books to lean on the writing has really gotten sloopy. Really
>sloppy.


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