The books sold millions of copies and were best sellers TWENTY YEARS AGO lol. Theyre popular for a reason. I like what happens, how it flows, how the characters develop. So when you take what I like and change the formula and all these things above I'm going to say something, especially when you take best seller writing and substitute shit tier writing instead
Is it any coincidence all the best scenes are basically direct translations from the book, and the shit tier scenes are all made up? Ramsay and whatever they changed asha greyjoys name to somehow abandoning her ironborn ways, trudging across land to try and rescue theon then that whole awful fight scene then asha warping back to the boat when the dogs got loose lol. Plus the brienne fight, hotpie magically being In the very first inn she visits and pointing her exactly to where arya is, a bunch of other awful shit
My point is when they stick to the books everybody's happy and its a great show, and every time they deviate its been fuckin awful and looks so bad