As far as adaptations go, Game of Thrones is without a doubt one of the best. Its first season was remarkably faithful to the first book in George R.R. Martins A Song of Ice and Fire series. However, as the show has gone on it has progressively played looser with the material, adding new bits here and there while subtracting others. Despite this, it continues to hit the same dramatic beats within the core story Martin established while growing into its own thing. Of course, these various changes can be for better or worse. Many of the changes actually improve on the source material; othersnot so much. For the most part Game of Thrones does a great job adapting all the big moments punctuating A Song of Ice and Fire. But changes, great and small, can sometimes lead to these moments not living up to their literary counterparts. Those who only watch Game of Thrones are blessed with not having anything to compare it to, but avid readers of the books cant help but make the comparison. In doing so they can be disappointed when a moment doesnt play out as well as they felt it should. These are some of those moments; big dramatic moments where the show didn't quite do justice to what was on the page.
