What I liked about the early seasons of GoT is that they didn't force every main character into every episode just to give them screen time

i remember being so confused by the scene establishing stannis. the cerci/joff scene i think was my fav of the episode.

Members thank you for your patience, this video took 4 different edits to get up, so show it some love. I am appealing the last version as it has more usage of clips where this one is heavily reliant of frame holds (Stills from the clips) If this gets taken down it is because the original video was allowed to be published by HBO, or hopefully not that HBO was delayed and blocked this video as well.

Massive respect for not giving up in your efforts to get these videos published.
Hope the next ones are less stressful. Really excited, as season has a lot of personal highlights of mine, even besides Blackwater.

I know many dislike Joffrey, and I despise him for several reasons as well. But in general, I gotta confess, Joffrey was to me in many scenes this and the next season pure comedy gold.

The King's Landing scenes generally are among the very best in the season to me. Tyrion, Cersei, Joffrey, Baelish, Varys, later Bronn and Podrick as well, all amazing. (About Shae though, yeah, she gave me a little headache in some scenes)

Liked the Stannis introduction as well, despite being very brief compared to the book and structured weirdly. Also Ser Davos, the goat.

This feels so nostalgic going back to season 2!

Yes do all the episodes these r awesome

Just starting. I always go back and forth if 2 or 4 is the better season. I just love the War of the Five kings scenes throughout this whole thing. And Blackwater is my favorite episode.

Thank you very much Grease for keeping talking about GoT book vs show! Your long videos is my favourite format, can’t wait for the next episodes ❤ looking forward to your thoughts about Talisa plot 😂 because to me that was the most annoying adaptation, nearly a 30 year old guy ‘falls in love’ randomly and screws up his whole war campaign versus what we got in the books with Tywin secretly plotting behind the scenes.

loved this, so underrated!!!

Great video. I never even thought about the possible expansion of the Cressen/Stannis/Davos/Melisandre storyline until you suggested it, and I couldn't agree more.

Osha in the books also said the comet means dragons

“Say mayne, Tyrion out thurr sending people to the wall and shii…he be short tho”

-Janos Slynt, A Clash of Kings

I understand the point of dany and jon in the beginning but in my view there is this idea in books of everyone dealing with the political consequences of AGOT while their challenge is more about nature itself and harsh environments. I think would be interesting point to focus more in the first episode.

Season 2's mistakes also indirectly made season 3 worse. They did not introduce Jojen and Meera so their introduction in season 3 feels clunky. Shireen feels a bit like Daeron in HOTD, they tried to cut her but then decided they needed her but she is not even mentioned in season 2. No Edric Storm so we have to make a convoluted plot point with Gendry. They removed the Dontos/Sansa godswood plot point so they hastily re-introduce it in season 4. They tried to take some big shortcuts in season 2 and some came to haunt them in later seasons, almost like some toxic butterfly effect or something.

I think that season two is where the cracks really start to show, and some of them are huge. I respect and appreciate the show for introducing me to this world, but the books are so much better. I've got 3 major issues with season 2 in retrospect. Talisa is introduced this season. While i think the Talisa storyline is fine, it's a huge deviation from the source material. In the show Rob just has that dog in him. He's just a teenager undressing Talisa on sight. In the book Rob broke faith with the Freys in the lowest moment of his life. He was recovering from battle wounds, still mourning his losses(remember Arya is presumed dead), and then he is consumed by even more grief when he receives the bogus news that his brothers are dead. Later in season three they slashed the will and i think killing Talisa at the wedding was for added shock value(literally gutted the pregnant woman to drive the knife extra deep and rub salt in the wound) and this doubles as an excuse to confidently and completely drop all Rob plotlines goi g forward. Whereas in the books Rob still matters, the story didn't kinda forget about him. The North remembers.
They also bungled this plotline with Caitlyn. She released Jaime on a whim because of tension in the camp. In the books this is again her lowest moment. She is grieving for her dying father, Ned, Arya, and now Bran and Rickon as well. She frees Jaime in a desperate attempt to save Sansa because she's so afraid of everyone dying. This is evidence that D&D makes dumb changes to the story without consideration for wider impact on the story and themes.
Aside from those changes, which i hate with a burning passion, the show also slashes most of the characters in Pyke and the plots with them. This is foreshadowing for Dorne and i think evidence that D&D don't care about the "filler" and feel confident in cutting a lot of material.

would put s4 bellow s1 and s3 just for the way they ruin tyrion storyline to make shae death self defense

I remember after listening to Danny's chapter's in ACOK Way  after the show ended an was shocked at how much they changed or just left out an tbey just kept butchering her character arch storyline

I feel if they had kept the Theon and Ramsay storyline in this season accurate to the book, then we wouldn’t have needed to see Theon’s torture. Thus giving more room to plot points they missed out in season 3 ( like Robb legitimatising Jon before the red wedding)
Season 3 and 4 I consider perfect seasons because some of the changes they did make to the plots were great. But the last ep of season 4 really dropped the ball with leaving out the reveal of Tyrion’s first wife and Jayne Poole is really what screwed over season 5 and future seasons.

Definetly great catches. For me, the first time I really went "huh that kinda came out of nowhere" was Season 4 with Tyrion killing Tywin and Brienne fighting the hound.

The beginning of Robb’s terrible decision making starts here 🤦‍♂️💀☠️