A song of Ice and fire discussion (spoilers incl A Dance with Dragons)

[Luckheart]

I finished season 2 of Game of thrones yesterday. I'm very annoyed with the renaming of Asha, but it's been too long since the books to remember any detail. I had completely forgotten Talisa for instance.

Overall a nice watch, but so far I like it, I don't love it.

The renaming of Asha was ridiculous. They didn't want viewers to be confused with Osha (Tonks! lol)... but Yara (the new Asha) can be easily confused with Arya! So I don't get it.

In regards to Talisa... that's supposed to be Jeyne Westerling. Daughter of one of the Lords-vassal to The Lannisters. Robb ends up getting wounded in the west close to the Westerlings and Jeyne nurses him back to health - and he falls in love with her and marries her. HBO just changed it so she was a nurse from the free cities. /shrug - doesn't really make THAT much of a difference.

I've read all the the GoT books, which I enjoyed thoroughly, and watched the first season of the T.V show - which I have to say I found great and a pleasant surprise considering other good books put to the screen (i.e, Eragon).

I was planning to continue watching it; but I was unaware names were changed!
Are there much more changes? I'm aware name-changing is fairly minor, but it still annoys me hahahaha