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A member of the Night's Watch and uncle to the Stark children,
Benjen Stark goes missing early on in the series,
only to reappear in a slightly undead form in Season 6, when he saves Bran.
He makes a similar last-second entrance to save the life of Jon Snow
even appearing to sacrifice his life to buy Jon time to escape.
What's the problem then?
Benjen insists Jon take his horse as there isn't time to come with him.
Really? No time? Looks like there's plenty.
Besides, you're telling us they couldn't both fit on the horse?
The Red Priestess Melisandre is a powerful magic user
and fanatically devoted to the Lord of Light.
As it turns out, that devotion has spanned several centuries.
In Season 6, she removes her necklace, revealing her true appearance
to be that of a decrepit, ancient woman, instead of a fiery temptress.
However, the Red Woman was actually previously shown
without her necklace several seasons earlier while taking a bath.
Of course, there are a number of ways to explain the discrepancy
but the most likely is that the showrunners messed up.
Bran's depiction in the books and the television series are vastly different.
For instance, in the most recent book,
he's still in the cave with the Three Eyed Raven
where fans presume he'll stay forever.
But that's not the fail.
The fail is that Bran's characterization in the show
more resembles a zombie than a man.
Like, the first thing you say to your sister after years of separation
is how beautiful she looked on the night she was raped!? REALLY!
This story arc may serve the purposes of the show better
but we still don't get why he has to be so emotionless.
Speaking of suspending our disbelief, few things force us to do it
as often as recasting new actors in character roles.
It can be very distracting while watching a scene to suddenly find
a character address a completely unknown person by a name we recognize.
Actor availability and bigger prominence in the story
are bound to necessitate new roles occasionally
but "Game of Thrones" has featured over a dozen big roles with new actors
such as changing up Daario Naharis.
Some have been changed more than once,
such as the infamous Gregor "the Mountain" Clegane
who as a result keeps getting bigger.
During her training to become one of the Faceless Men assassins in Braavos,
Arya Stark makes an enemy of a fellow trainee, only known as the Waif.
When Arya abandons her training, the Waif volunteers to kill her,
approaching Arya in disguise and stabbing her viciously in the stomach.
Not only does Arya manage to endure a brutal chase through the city
she can kill her opponent in the dark.
We all like seeing our heroes triumph
but not when we have to suspend our disbelief this much!
There is so much wrong with this character.
First, he has no swag.
In the books he's actually a good military tactician,
unlike his depiction in the show, where he's constantly bested.
He's also a lot smarter and his character arc is more interesting.
In the show, he's literally a shadow of a man.
Then, he kills his own daughter
because of bad weather and a hungry crew as if it's no big deal.
Even the actor, Stephen Dillane, felt "disheartened"
by his performance on the show.
Finally, in a cruel twist of fate for an already disappointing character,
he's unceremoniously killed off-screen by Brienne of Tarth
for the murder of Renly. Seriously?
We're getting into the really cringe-worthy stuff now.
While next to their dead son Joffrey's body,
siblings Jaime and Cersei Lannister have intercourse.
As if this wasn't gross enough, it also appears that Jaime rapes Cersei.
In the books, while still incestuous, the sex is completely consensual.
According to statements made by the actors and director,
the scene was not shot or portrayed that way on set,
making it likely to be an editing mistake.
It's never referred to as rape afterwards and the fact that it occurs
in the middle of a redemption arc for Jaime is especially jarring.
Westeros and the world it's part of are vast in scale
although the show doesn't always make them feel that way.
In the show, many characters are seemingly able to travel vast distances.
Littlefinger has been guilty of it so often
that fans have joked that he must have a teleportation device.
While some discrepancies can be explained by the fact
that not all of the events take place simultaneously,
others require us to jump through some logical hoops.
Season 7 especially accelerated the pacing, while shortening travel times.
During Season 7, a large part of the storyline at Winterfell
sees Littlefinger trying to drive a wedge between the two Stark sisters.
This does seem like a fitting thing for Lord Petyr Baelish to do,
given his underhanded behaviour, even if it did seem like
it'd be easily resolved by the sisters communicating better.
There's a bigger issue, though – the show never explains why he does it!
The scene detailing his motives was apparently cut.
Littlefinger likes to keep his enemies in the dark.
"Game of Thrones" has made some controversial storyline changes
but arguably, its most disastrous was the storyline of Dorne.
Westeros' southernmost kingdom, the desert-filled Dorne
features an exciting and complex storyline in the books.
The series loses much of that excitement in the translation.
Instead of the memorable characters,
great action and political intrigue present in the books,
the show substitutes it with illogical motivations
none of the best characters and slapdash fight scenes.
Let's not forget, the Sand Snakes have arguably
some of the stupidest moments in the history of the series,
which is far from their depiction in the novels.
We're just glad it's finished at this point.
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