Game Of Thrones: 10 Moments The Show Could Have Done Better
6. The House Of The Undying
The House of the Undying sequence is the most surreal moment of the books so far. It is a labyrinth of uncertainty and dread where Daenerys encounters confusing sights and sounds evoking moments from the past, present, and future. George R.R. Martin took this opportunity to drop as many hints as possible, many of which are still discussed to this day. Despite the opportunity for the show to go nuts with this sequence, it threw out all of that. All of the prophecy building, the peaks into the past, and hints towards the future were removed. Sure, an argument could be made that the show didnt want to risk spoiling certain plot points, but if that was really the case, then this could have been a chance to get visually creative. Film has its own advantages over text, so they could have presented the same information but in a different way. The House of the Undying gave the reader a sense of greater things happening behind the scenes, but the show has removed most of this subtext for some reason. What we ended up getting was decent, and the brief return of Khal Drogo made for a great emotional scene, but that isnt enough to make up for all the great stuff that, had they been kept in, would have been so wild and different. It would have sparked discussion within the viewer base in the same way it did book readers over a decade ago.
