Adapting a book for television is a tricky business, especially when you’re dealing with source material that encompasses several novels that aren’t complete yet.
There is always going to be controversy over which characters get left out.George R. R.
Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire,” adapted into HBO’s mega-hit “Game of Thrones,” has several point-of-view characters and literally hundreds of supporting characters, so it was inevitable that the story would have to be truncated by the showrunners, David Benioff and D.B.
Weiss.
Unfortunately, streamlining the plot meant that the writers ended up cutting corners, removing swathes of story and some of…The post The 13 best Game Of Thrones characters who weren’t in the show appeared first on /Film.
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