8 Biggest Game Of Thrones Criticisms (And Why They're Wrong)
6. It Doesn't Stick To The Books
The Criticism: For fans of George RR Martins A Song of Ice and Fire series, news of HBO picking up the rights to adapt it for TV came as bittersweet. On one hand, the thought of getting to see all of our favourite ASOIAF characters, kingdoms and betrayals brought to life was an exciting one, though on the other hand the worry that they would fail to do the books justice set in immediately. The trouble is, when the shows creators make a change that they deem small for the sake of it working for TV, they do it short-sightedly. What they dont seem to consider is the butterfly effect small changes that lead to the need for considerable changes that lead to the need for huge changes. And, as author George RR Martin himself said of the show on his official blog, we have reached the point where the beat of butterfly wings is stirring up storms. Why Its Wrong While Martin has eluded to the problems caused in the long term by these small changes, he has also said that "there has seldom been any TV series as faithful to its source material, by and large. Its a fact that most book fans find hard to swallow, but these changes are absolutely necessary for the show to work as well as it does. Television and prose are their own separate mediums, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, and to allow a show to be bogged down with excessive amounts of sub-plots doesnt help anybody. Of course the show is going to differ from the text somewhat, but the author has confirmed that they will both end up arriving at the same place, despite taking different roads to get there, and if hes okay with that theres no reason we all shouldnt be.
