Top 10 Differences Between The Game of Thrones TV Series and Books // Subscribe
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The Game of Thrones TV show doesn’t strictly adapt the books, it takes a few artistic liberties and makes changes to make the source material work for the medium of television. This list looks at the 10 most significant differences.
01:11 #10. Book Shireen Lives
02:28 #9. Book Shae Uses Tyrion
03:51 #8. Book Mance Rayder Escapes Execution
04:58 #7. Book Ygritte Is Killed Anonymously, Everybody Stabs Jon Snow
06:06 #6. Book The Sand Snake’s Plans are Foiled
07:15 #5. Book Robb Stark Marries Jeyne, Jeyne Lives
08:34 #4. Book Ser Barristan Selmy Does Not Die
09:54 #3, #2 and #1 ???
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What about all the Stark children being wargs?
The Mance Rayder part in the book would've been better.
The Sand Snakes need to fuck off, Oberyn killed himself when he didn't finish off the mountain so fuck off with your garbage revenge narrative.
It's so gratifying when Tyrion slaps Joffrey around. I would have welcomed a tad more of that.
Berusle.
dorne storyline in the show is so retarded
7:23
Is that guy From Harry Potter and his pet is cat
One big difference the show has from the books that bugs me is that they made Jon and Dany related. In the books Jon really is the half-brother of Sansa, Rickon, Bran, Arya, and Rob.
TL:DR
TV: EVERYONE DIES
BOOKS: NOBODY DIES
i think i prefer shaea from the novel. the tv version is just annoying n dumb.
TV: Tyrion's first wife was a whore.
Book: Tyrion's first wife was a peasant girl.
Forgot the story about his first wife with Bronn and Shae?
Well, after Jamie releases him from jail he apologizes, and then tells him the truth, they actually did rescue her from an attempted rape…
Jojen paste anyone?
TV: Ser Barristan Dies
Book: Yea fucking right….he's the greatest living swordsman now that Jaime is maimed. "Even now I could cut through the five of you like carving a cake!"
I agree. Biggest difference was the Sansa thing.
I never read the books but I can tell you I am seriously disappointed there was never a Lady Stoneheart. Like how can you take that out?
the biggest difference is that everyone who ever existed watches the TV series, and no one read the books
Show character Talisa is NOT of more "humble origins" than book character Jeyne Wesyerling. Like Jeyne, Talisa is the daughter of a nobleman – though a Volantene rather than a Westerosi. But she is the equivalent of a Lady in Westerosi hierarchy even though she rejected her assigned role in life. The biggest difference in the characters is their attitudes – Jeyne is a shy mousy wouldn't-say-boo-to-a-goose young girl where Talisa is a determined young woman who will talk to a king in the same tone as she would talk to a common soldier. Correction: Talisa would likely speak more kindly to the common soldier.
Book : Dorne is good :))
One thing that really pisses me is the exclusion of many lords and knights which are talked about a lot in the books. There's a fucking appendix in the books for a reason
Tyrion meets both Aegon Targaryan and Jon Connington, after it was revealed Aegon did not die to the Mountain and was switched with a body double as an infant (He still raped Elia Martell and killed her daughter and an unknown baby). Aegon was essentially the backup of Daenerys if she ended up being a copy of the Mad King, even if Aegon had more claim to the Iron Throne than Dany did. Tyrion meets them on their barge when heading to Mereen, it was Jon Connington who contracted the grayscale when the barge was attacked by stone men, not Jorah Mormont but Tyrion was still kidnapped by Jorah, but not before Tyrion convinces Aegon to go to Westeros first, which he does at the end of Book 7, basically doing what Dany did at the start of Season 7, only it wasn't Dragonstone they conquered, but Jon Connington's castle: Griffin's Roost.
Do you think you will ever be able to do a top 10 differences between books and movie adaptation, not of one series but just in general? Like different endings or whole plots being dropped, stuff like that.
The Dorne story is a total joke in the TV series. You can skip it entirely and the show would remain the same, with the exception of Oberyn of course..
What about the Tyrell's sons all be one? 2nd son was the one who did all the nice things for Sansa in the book, and the first was great friends with the Viper/Reason the family hated Martell's. Honestly only thing the last son had going for him was the fact he was gay, and ok fighter Unlike his 2nd brother who trained fighting 5 guys at once, or his older brother WHO ran their whole family from training/breeding horses to warfare. Taken them out sucked would have liked to see them. Battle of Blackwater the 2nd brother was wearing the Deer armor of their king as he road in on Stannis Army.
It's always the right time to include the scene of Joffrey being slapped by Tyrion
Lady Stoneheart and Patchface. Plus Danys bodyguard is a huge Tyrosh guy. Not just Selmy
Fuck that little cunt Olly.
I'm so glad Lady Stoneheart wasn't in the show. She had a good story arc in the book series, but it just wouldn't have worked for the TV show and would have undermined the brutality of the red wedding, to the point in which it may have even killed the show and made it's plot ridiculous.
Also the bandwagon of hate for the sand snakes is silly, they were only done better in the books in the context of their story arc in the books.
the book story arc wouldn't even make slight sense in the show, house martell who have repeatedly suffered at the hands of house lannister being perfectly fine with house lannister, and the sand snakes failing to kill myrcella was an already questionable plot hole in the books that undermined both the valonqar prophecy and the reoccurring theme of revenge.
Can you start the fucking video? Like wtf
Even the fight at Hardhome which happens in the tv show season 5 episode 8 did not happen in the books.
Why did the series decice to kill much more from the books?
God starting Shireens death at number 10 put a bad taste in my mouth. Such a fucked up scene, makes me feel sick. Season 5 was really dark jesus
I feel like this should have been at least an honourable mention:Tv: Karl drogo rapes khallessiseBook: he asks concent
Technically Shae never loved Tryion in the end…she betrayed him with his father…if she loved him she would have died for him
"That's what I do. I drink, and I know things."
GOLD
Number 1: Where the fuck is Lady Stoneheart?
Robb didn't really love Jeyne. He slept with her after she nursed his wounds and he was grieving because he had just heard that Rickon and Bran were "dead". To protect her honor, he married her because he slept with her.
It's a really wonderful scene in the books because it shows that Robb has the same weakness of his father. He'll make bad decisions and ruin alliances out of "honor" and, like his father, it ultimately gets him killed.
In the show, he's just a horny dumbass who breaks marriage vows for no other reason than "cuz he wanted to."
And, by the way, he left Jeyne at home when he went to the Freys in the books because only an idiot breaks a marriage pact and then flaunts the broken marriage in the person's face that he's trying to make up with.
Show Robb is fucking idiot. Book Robb at least was only trying to right the wrongs he had made in the way that makes him quintessentially a Stark
The real #1:
Show: Aegon VI is murdered by Sir Gregor
Book: Aegon VI is smuggled out, raised by Lord Griffin as 'Young Griff', and later invades Westeros with the Golden Company. He is also well aware of his Aunt Danerys but is convinced to go to Westeros early by Tyrion, who met him
And my #2:
Show: Jorah Mormont contracts Greyscale from Stone Men in Valyria
Book: Jorah Mormont is MIA. Tyrion instead meets Griff, aka Lord Griffin, who has had Greyscale for quite a while and keeps it in check with wine baths.
Ser Barristan's death was so lame. The greatest living swordsman in Westeros, feared by both Eddard and Jaime… killed by a bunch of nobodies. Such a waste to ruin a character like that.
Reek is theon in the book
I literally screamed at the screen when Ramsay Married Sansa. I was furious.
Why does the last honourable mention say Tyrion loses his nose in the TV.
I mean everybody still stabbed Jon Snow… Olly just happened to give the final blow. I really hate that people give Olly sole credit for that one.
The real reason behind Tyrion murdering Tywin. While freeing Tyrion, Jaime tells him the truth about Tysha (Tyrion's first wife) that's why he went seeking answer to Tywin and then saw Shae bla bla bla… and Tyrion tells Jaime about Cersei fucking Lancel, Osney Kettleblack etc and thus beginning Jaime's disgust for Cersei and in a fit of anger Tyrion also admits killing Joeffrey to Jaime.