moj je dojam da se tek iz serije lijepo vide svi nedostaci knjiga
fakat je rijetkost da ekranizacija ispadne skoro pa upotrebljivija od knjiga
In 1996, Martin published the first book, A Game of Thrones, the first in what was then supposed to be a trilogy, to critical acclaim. In 1998 came the second volume, A Clash of Kings, and lo, it was even better. The year 2000 saw the third book, A Storm of Swords, which was perhaps one of the most densely layered and consistently surprising tomes I've read in any genre. It took the HBO show two seasons to do justice to this book.
And then? Martin spun his words, and his characters spun their wheels. He sat in his home in New Mexico typing out page after page, introducing new character after new character into his world of Westeros but not really advancing any of their storylines –- and certainly not at his previous speed. A Feast for Crows came out in 2005, and it only contained half of the characters we’d become familiar with. No Daenerys. No Jaime Lannister. We knew nothing about Jon Snow.
In the introduction to A Feast for Crows, Martin admitted that the second half of his narrative had spun out of his control, and would hopefully be released the next year under the title A Dance With Dragons. In fact, it wouldn’t be released for another five years.
When it arrived, Dragons was filled with many of the same problems as Crows –- too many new characters, not enough continuity. In the words of one Amazon reviewer, "this 'Song' is becoming a noodling free jam."
We were introduced to a long list of names in Dorne, on the Iron Islands, at the Citadel, on the road to Mereen, and a whole host of other places, without being given much reason to care about them. Martin took exactly the wrong lesson from the success of the first three books: That we'd be interested in anyone that had anything to do with anywhere in Westeros.
Wrong. We're interested in anything that has to do with the characters we've fallen in love with, or love to hate. We want to know if they live or die; we want to know who will win the game of thrones and survive the winter that's coming.
The showrunners, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, have been far less self-indulgent. (And for good reason — if a book is only bought a million times, it's still a huge hit for the publishers. But if a show drops down to a million viewers, it's a disaster.)
Benioff and Weiss have taken different approaches to the books before. They've conflated characters and shortened stories; they've made inspired changes such as making Arya Stark the cupbearer to Tywin Lannister, rather than Roose Bolton, in season 2. But on the whole, they've been beholden to Martin's overall plot arc.
No longer. Now, instead of having a fake Mance Rayder burned at the stake while a real one suddenly agrees to become a spying bard in Winterfell, they simply burned Mance Rayder at the stake. His death matters now.
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http://mashable.com/2015/04/22/game-of-thrones-beats-the-books/#JAsO9sbkliqi
