I’m glad your list of likes is longer than the dislikes. Maybe I am just being a big curmudgeon about it but…
It feels like a lot of the streamlining that they are doing here is because they expect to have to wrap this thing up in 4-5 seasons. If that is the case they are likely to be tempted to grab things from much later books and skip them forward. In order to do that they are going to start amputating plotlines. Between the amputations and the cauterisation of what is kept so it doesn’t rely on the missing tissue… I think it’s going to get a whole lot more distressing for book fans.
I’m glad your list of likes is longer than the dislikes. Maybe I am just being a big curmudgeon about it but…
It feels like a lot of the streamlining that they are doing here is because they expect to have to wrap this thing up in 4-5 seasons. If that is the case they are likely to be tempted to grab things from much later books and skip them forward. In order to do that they are going to start amputating plotlines. Between the amputations and the cauterisation of what is kept so it doesn’t rely on the missing tissue… I think it’s going to get a whole lot more distressing for book fans.