The character screwed over the most by the book-to-screen transition and pov lost is undoubtedly Ned
Yes! Ned was my biggest disappointment on the show. (Well, Jaime, but that was more because they didn't make him as complicated as Cersei rather than actually that they departed much from his book characterization.) But I really like Ned in the book and Show!Ned just was not only naive he was also self-righteous and utterly humorless and just ... I mostly itched to slap him until he was in the dungeon.
I have to say that I think the wedding night comes off as totally unbelievable in the book, because of how Drogo acts towards Dany aferwards for a long time. I think that a viewing audience would have gotten whiplash from a kind Drogo > rapey Drogo who comes in every night and hurts Dany on top of her horse-riding blisters to the point where she actually thinks about suicide > Dany takes action and learns to be in charge of her own fate > Dany loves Drogo was a less straight-line trajectory than what they showed on the show by eliminating step one. But I agree that because it's Dany's perspective on the Dothraki in the books, their alienness and scariness until she learns their customs is more about her than it is about how they are automatically savages. That translated less well onscreen, perhaps because of the constraints of time.
So, you have not read ... which books? Storm and Feast?
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Yes! Ned was my biggest disappointment on the show. (Well, Jaime, but that was more because they didn't make him as complicated as Cersei rather than actually that they departed much from his book characterization.) But I really like Ned in the book and Show!Ned just was not only naive he was also self-righteous and utterly humorless and just ... I mostly itched to slap him until he was in the dungeon.
I have to say that I think the wedding night comes off as totally unbelievable in the book, because of how Drogo acts towards Dany aferwards for a long time. I think that a viewing audience would have gotten whiplash from a kind Drogo > rapey Drogo who comes in every night and hurts Dany on top of her horse-riding blisters to the point where she actually thinks about suicide > Dany takes action and learns to be in charge of her own fate > Dany loves Drogo was a less straight-line trajectory than what they showed on the show by eliminating step one. But I agree that because it's Dany's perspective on the Dothraki in the books, their alienness and scariness until she learns their customs is more about her than it is about how they are automatically savages. That translated less well onscreen, perhaps because of the constraints of time.
So, you have not read ... which books? Storm and Feast?