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

[Valarya]

Time to take it back on track...

GoT re-read spoiler

these beings have gone on in the re-read, skipping around a bit because story in that book is too familiar after watching the HBO show roughly 1.5 times.

There was one interesting difference from the show to the book concerning Jon snow and Samwell tarly and their advancement to black brothers. In the show, both were immediately and inexplicably advanced, whereas in the book, samwell was originally not advanced until after Jon showed his wisdom to the maester. This wisdom shows why Jon was chosen as Mormont's heir.

Yep, 'thul beings. I feel like I know these stories by heart (I hosted forums for discussion 8-9 years ago), so when I watched the HBO series I was upset at how many small details were left out.

I understand why they had to do SOME of it.. but then you see a scene where it takes 3 minutes of the character staring in to the sky and you wonder "could they not have shortened that a BIT and put in this tiny awesome detail?"