Rewriting Game of Thrones Season 5 (Part 1)

[kappamaki33]

I've had this post sitting on my hard drive for a while. Time to set it free...

I’m a fan of both the A Song of Ice and Fire books and A Game of Thrones TV show. I’m not a book purist, and I think a lot of the choices made in the adaptation from page to the small screen have ranged from acceptable/necessary to perhaps even improvements on the

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[daybreak777]

Ah, Shirreen. I can still hear her shrieks. She reminded me so much of Iphigenia. I still can't believe that happened.

Doesn't Joral have the same disease that Shireen had?

Can't wait to hear how you rewrite Sansa!

[kappamaki33]

Yeah, they pulled Shireen right out of the Greek Tragedy playbook.

Jorah does have the same disease--I think it's called stoneskin. In the books, the explanation is that the disease progresses slowly but is 100% fatal/crazy-making in adults, whereas sometimes children can recover and just have the scarring. Kind of like chicken pox versus shingles, only much worse.

[daybreak777]

Ah, great. Then Joral is going to go crazy-nuts on us sometime soon. As if there weren't enough crazy nuts human-like creatures in that world!

When does GoT start to air again? I feel a bit trapped like I did with BSG. The show goes crazy but as long as Kara and Felix were in that world I had to know what happened to them there. GoT is holding Sansa and Arya hostage (and my watching is sort of the ransom in this example) and I can't stop watching until I see what happens to my girls.