the Dalaverse

Winter Season Three is coming here! Since I finished A Storm of Swords a couple weeks ago, I had just enough space between it and "Valar Morghulis" to have some thoughts on how it's being adapted (I read the first book after seeing S1 and the second basically concurrently with S2).

First off, my general take on film adaptations of books is that I'm not a purist and I don't expect a direct translation. Even when filmmakers change an element drastically, it doesn't wipe the original from existence; sometimes I prefer the change, and sometimes I merely appreciate that it's its own story and it has to meet different conventions from a novel. Like, I don't hate the HP movies just because they got a lot of shit wrong. For example, Sirius in OotP is far less unhinged than book!Sirius, and I like both choices equally because I feel they're each suited to their medium. The only time I get really upset is when it's a truly grievous mistake/change, such as what the studio made Chris Columbus do to the end of "The Golden Compass" (FOREVER BITTER). But usually, I am content to have both version existing in the world.

And now: spoilers for the show so far and the books up until about 200 pages into A Feast for Crows which is where I am right now.

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