GOT due 4/26

There are definitely pros and cons to the book and the show, but overall I am going to side with the book. My reasoning is simply for personal preference, as I know the show has had major success. When a book is made into a show, most of the time the show loses the detail in the small elements that made the book so good in the first place. In Game of Thrones’ case, I feel as if it didn't fall into that category one bit. The TV show does an amazing job from the very first scene in depicting the details that were brought forward in the book. For example, the freezing temperatures are easily recognized within the first scene of the first episode. Another is the large scale of land in which the book and show take place. The book obviously gives us a good idea as to the scale of land, mountains and buildings, but in the show I think it does a great job as well in giving up an up close visual. One thing that I do not think the show depicted very well we’re the ages in which the children are in the book versus the show. Martin describes the children to be much younger than HBO portrays them. Although the reasons behind the change are probably reasonable, the young age of the children really added significance to the plot of the book. While reading the book I often skipped the passages describing killings. The morbid scenes were often too much for me in the book and were over looked. Obviously watching the show, it was harder for me to avoid the murder scenes. Thus, by watching the show I got a much more violent feel for Game of Thrones all together.