If Buffy/Angel was a book series and it got an "adaptation" like Game of Thrones...

[boot_the_grime]

Like so many in the fandom, I've found Game of Thrones season 5 to be terribly disappointing and just terrible overall, both as an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, and in itself. I think that the former would be a legitimate complaint even if the latter were not true, because, you know, it's supposed to be an adaptation of the books and the

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[deird1]

Yep, that sounds about right...

[ever_neutral]

o my god @ those top links. THE SHADE. THE SCATHING CONDEMNATION OF EVERYTHING THAT SHOW CHOOSES TO BE. THE TRUTH BOMBS. *rolls around forever in blog*

But it seems that there are a lot of those, including some professional critics, who seem almost insulted by the idea that book readers may be upset at what the show is doing to the story and characters, and keep going out of their way to disparage book readers as purists who just can't take any change.

Yeah, I know a couple of those. Personally, my hatred of the show has never stemmed from being a book purist -- in fact, it's D&D's relentless fuckery that's raised the books to NEWFOUND HEIGHTS in my esteem. I wouldn't have considered myself a GRRM stan before, but I may just become one out of sheer spite.

- And then Warren locks her up and mind controls her, beats her up and abuses her for an entire season. This will give Alyson Hannigan such great material, she's at her best when she is looking sad and downtrodden.

Seems legit.

[local_max]

I am only on the second book, so I am not quite sure about a lot of this, though I mostly get the gist. I've seen up to season five. Forgive me, and I know that they say that explaining a joke kills it, but I presume --

Angel = Tyrion
Spike = Jaime (Drusilla = Cersei)
Buffy = Brienne -- definitely with respect to Jaime, but also maybe for the Prophesy Girl segment? or is that someone else?
Glory = Cersei? (or Dany, which would be kind of hilarious -- she has dragons like Glory had that snake from "Shadow"!)
Willow = Sansa
Warren = Ramsay
Rack = Baelish
Jonathan = Theon
Katrina = Jeyne
Wesley = Stannis? (I mean, the child-murder for AMBITION suggests this)
Tara = ? (I couldn't quite make that one out)

[boot_the_grime]

Well, it's not about character analogies but the way certain types of storylines are adapted. I'm now risking ruining the joke (as much as it is a joke... sadly, I'm not even exaggerating) by explaining it. I'm referencing storylines from A Feast for Crows and A Dance of Dragons (the fourth and fifth book, running in parallel) that were supposed to be adapted in season 5... except the storylines and the characters in season 5 have very little to do with the books and have been changed in major and rather baffling, or just disappointing ways.
When you read books 4 and 5, the references will be clearer.

But if you don't want the books spoiled (and trust me, there is a lot to spoil even though you've seen all 5 seasons, it's all very different!), don't read any further.

If you don't mind being spoiled, this blog has pretty great essays on the most butchered story arcs in season 5 and most OOC charactersBuffy being made a damsel in distress in the climactic scene that's the culmination of her arc, is a reference to Dany (no, she is

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