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Topic	SeabassDebeste ranks the Game of Thrones arcs [spoiler]
SeabassDebeste 03/13/17 9:32:23 AM #385:	Book notes: The biggest thing the show loses from Ned's internal monologue is of course Ned's memories of the Tower of Joy and the veiled hints that R+L=J. Many have commented on the beauty that characterizes his mythic showdown with Sers Arthur Dayne, Gerold Hightower, and Oswell Whent. You can see Ned's influence in all his children; Bran remembers so clearly that Arthur Dayne was the greatest knight that Ned ever knew, and that he would have killed Ned if not for Howland Reed... and that this always made Ned sad. It's impossible for me not to picture Eddard Stark as Sean Bean, but the books' version of Ned is only in his mid-thirties. It's kind of an interesting thought experiment on who would have made a truer actor for the part, but even the books' Ned seems old, with the wisdom of a lifetime upon him. The addition of the show's Ned hearing the sounds battle while watching Arya is very true to the books' Ned, who has been theorized to have PTSD as well. One very slight alteration to the show dialogue that I miss from the books: when describing the throne, Cersei misses the line, 'It was there for the taking.' The show often goes less poetic and more vernacular when adapting dialogue. It's sad when I've read the books first, but of course, the directly translated lines often seem cheesy as hell to me (Tyrion's line about making insults your armor or whatever). Hard to fault them for this very minor change. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:874979620] in SeabassDeb... [t:74374121]...</cite> <quote>Book notes: The biggest thing the show loses from Ned's internal monologue is of course Ned's memories of the Tower of Joy and the veiled hints that R+L=J. Many have commented on the beauty that characterizes his mythic showdown with Sers Arthur Dayne, Gerold Hightower, and Oswell Whent. You can see Ned's influence in all his children; Bran remembers so clearly that Arthur Dayne was the greatest knight that Ned ever knew, and that he would have killed Ned if not for Howland Reed... and that this always made Ned sad. It's impossible for me not to picture Eddard Stark as Sean Bean, but the books' version of Ned is only in his mid-thirties. It's kind of an interesting thought experiment on who would have made a truer actor for the part, but even the books' Ned seems old, with the wisdom of a lifetime upon him. The addition of the show's Ned hearing the sounds battle while watching Arya is very true to the books' Ned, who has been theorized to have PTSD as well. One very slight alteration to the show dialogue that I miss from the books: when describing the throne, Cersei misses the line, 'It was there for the taking.' The show often goes less poetic and more vernacular when adapting dialogue. It's sad when I've read the books first, but of course, the directly translated lines often seem cheesy as hell to me (Tyrion's line about making insults your armor or whatever). Hard to fault them for this very minor change. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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