8 Biggest Game Of Thrones Criticisms (And Why They're Wrong)
2. It Suffers From Bad Casting
The Criticism: Its never easy to accept an actor as a character you have already pictured in your head through thousands of pages over a course of years. That initial description is all you need to form a face and voice in your mind when reading A Song of Ice and Fire, and some of HBOs casting has been called into question by book fans, with a number of the main cast looking decidedly different to how George RR Martin described them. Arya Stark is supposed to closely resemble her father with a horse-face look to her, whereas King Joffrey was supposed to be tall and strapping with blond curls and lips like worms, but the biggest let down is when a character neither looks nor acts the part, an accusation levelled at a number of Game of Thrones stars over the course of the show's five seasons. Why Its Wrong: People are always going to hope that screen adaptations of their favourite characters will turn out to be just how they had always imagined them, though in reality that is rarely the case. That said, while Mance Rayder might not look quite as wild as you would have liked him to, he might look just wild enough to another book reader. How the characters look in the book is a matter of imagination, and while George RR Martins descriptive writing gives you all the pieces of the puzzle, its still up to the individual reader to put the puzzle together. The same can be said for the supposed bad acting on display. Everyone from Littlefinger and his bizarre accent to the monotone Jorah Mormont have had it in the neck from angry book fans, but for me Aidan Gillen does a good job at portraying Littlefinger as untrustworthy and Mormont was always going to be the strong silent type, something Iain Glen pulls off well as far as I am concerned. It's all a matter of opinion, but there isnt one single character that stands out as being the worst acted, and that in itself should be enough to tell you that the cast are collectively doing a good job.
