5 Worst Differences Between The Books And The Tv Show Of "Game Of Thrones"

With only one episode left to air, the show that rose to the pedestal of being a cultural phenomenon might just prove to be the biggest TV bummer of all time.

The 'A song of ice and fire’ saga nerds aka the 'book fans’ have been showing critical disappointment in the series since season 5.

Now, with Daenerys' vilification, Jaime's redemption debunking and the Night king's underwhelming death, no one knows where the show is going.

Anyway, here are 5 of the worst deviations from the books that are way too strong to be forgotten:

5. Euron Greyjoy's personality and the Kingsmoot:

In the books, Euron is one of the most mysterious characters in the entire continent of Westeros. He has travelled past the narrow sea, been to old Valyria, sailed through the smoking sea and survived ! Above all, he has the magic horn in possession that can control dragons. His ship “Silence” cuts through the sea so stealthily that the victims remain clueless of their fate. In the show, however, he is portrayed as a cartoonish, perverted and an unimpressive character that the viewers despise whereas his book counterpart is extremely cruel and strikes fear with just one glance. Also, the Kingsmoot at the iron islands was one of the worst written parallels from the books. The character of Euron in the show is honestly very disappointing.

4. The entire Dorne storyline:

Speaking of disappointments, the Dorne arc holds an entirely different level of poor rapport.

The plot with the Sand snakes, a vengeful Ellaria Sand and the nonviolent prince, the show messed up completely with one of the fan favorite houses from the show. In the books however, the overthrowing plot by the Sandsnakes existed but they failed and Ellaria Sand, unlike the show, was an extremely rational woman who understands that Oberyn Martell died because of his own choice. Also, Prince Doran had an extensively elaborate masterplan of a marriage between House Martell and House Targaryen in the books which we never get the chance to hear of in the show.

3. The warging abilities of the Stark children:

In the books, it's not only Bran who has the power to warg into animals. Robb, Arya, Rickon, Sansa and even Jon can warg into their respective direwolves. In the books, Jon has continuous dreams where he smells what his direwolf Ghost smells, tastes what he tastes and sees through his eyes. Arya has an even stronger warging ability because she uses it to warg into a cat and fight miraculously by seeing through its’ eyes when she is blinded during her Braavos arc.

In the show, none of it is shown to happen nor the idea of them being capable wargs is introduced. All of this was done because according to the writers and producers, ‘it would have been very expensive to film’.

2. Removal of Young griff aka Aegon Targaryen VI:

In the books, Lord Varys, along with Illyrio Mopatis have conspired a grand plan of restoring a Targaryen back on the Iron Throne. The son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell,that is to say, Aegon Targaryen is still alive because he was switched with another random baby during Robert's rebellion in the books and is being raised by them until he becomes of age. This, very evidently, satisfies the audience with the fact as to why Varys is always determined to remove the current monarch. Contrary to it, in the show, Varys’ reason of “serving the realm” is blatantly vague and does not really justify his actions. In the books, as a matter of fact, Varys is not such a good guy at all because he is the one who kills GrandMaester Pycelle and Kevan Lannister only because he thought they will be a problem in his plan's execution.

1.Absence of Lady Stoneheart:

In the books, after the heart wrenching murders at the Red wedding, Catelyn Stark's body was thrown in the river near the Twins. The body was found three days later by the brotherhood without banners and Beric Dondarrion gave her the “last kiss of R'hllor” which, long story short, transferred his life energy into her dead body. After the resurrection, Catelyn did not speak a word, for her throat was sliced very deep and came to be known as Lady Stoneheart who was a strongly determined murderous zombie aiming to kill anyone even slightly connected to the Red wedding. It was even heard that Martin himself asked the show-writers to include her in the show but they refused. To deprive us of watching the other side of the forgiving Catelyn is unforgivable and will haunt us for a lifetime.

The list concludes here and so does our expectations.
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