Game of Thrones - Raines of Castamere...

[shadowkat]

Eh believe it or not, this scene was far gorier in the books. Sort of glad they didn't go there.

But in both cases it upset me, because of Arya mostly...and the fact that Robb and Catlynn had finally grown on me. It also deadened me to anything that could happen afterwards.

Weird that his wife was there and pregnant. She wasn't in the books. But I now know why - to explain why Robb is rendered defenseless and doesn't run.

Forgot the Blackfish was there...thought he wasn't. And they didn't do the scene with Edmund Tully in the bath with his new wife, who warns him when the song begins. Did it here - with Catelynn recognizing the song and seeing Lord Bolton's expression and the closing of the gates.

Oh well at least Theon wasn't on. But I missed the Lannisters quite a bit. Even though it's made clear by Lord Bolton that Tywin Lannister was behind it - when he says, "The Lannisters send their regards" - when he stabs Robb through the back.



ETA:..there be spoilage in the comments thread.

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[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

I do remember someone leaving to take a piss and being upset about it.

Lord Bolton left to use the privy (ostensibly) but actually to fetch his swords and prime his own men to come in and finish off what the Freys started. I LOVE the chapter in the books, I think it is really the best thing Martin wrote with its pervasive sense of dread and wrongness so I remember it really, really well. And there is a terrible moment in the books when the Bolton men come in and Catelyn and the other Northern lords think that they're going to save the day, and then it turns out that they are in cahoots with the Freys instead, and Roose stabs Robb to the heart. SOBSOB!

I think there are more named individuals with personalities who die in the books (and one of the ladies, Dacey Mormont, gets take out with an axe blow to the belly) but honestly, watching Talisa get stabbed in the uterus like a hundred times was a lot gorier than imagining the scene from the books in my head. Meep!