Game Of Thrones: 10 Times Fans Totally Overreacted To Book Changes

Earlier this season, Jon really stepped up as a leader when he executed Janos Slynt, who has been a pretty defiant jerk for quite a while. It's a great moment that calls back to Ned Stark's quote that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

This was a memorable scene in the books, too, with fans pointing to it as a cathartic moment of someone finally getting what's coming to them and of Jon really coming into his own as a commander. But like with "Your sister" and "The Lannisters send their regards," book readers again got upset about a change to a line of dialogue.

In the books, the moment when readers fully realize Jon is about to go through with this is when he says, "Edd, fetch me a block." It's one of the best Jon lines in A Dance With Dragons, but in the show, that was altered to "Olly, bring me my sword." 

A bunch of book fans were angry about this, but again, changing the line really doesn't impact the scene in any major way, and they both have the exact same effect. If the moment was any less satisfying, that would be worth complaining about, but the showrunners absolutely did justice to the book scene here, simply rewriting one line to maybe a little less confusing.