I am a Queen, not a butcher.

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Despite my feelings about the show, the trailers continue to make it far more appealing. Kudos to the editing, the music, the focusing of Dany and the dragons. It entices me more than what will probably come out from the season itself.

I will admit to being mildly curious as what they're intending on doing with certain storylines since they're going ahead of the books (not that it means much considering the choices they've made previously with other things). Honestly, I'm more curious about Dany's storyline with her meeting up with Tyrion (which hasn't happened yet), what will happen with Jorah (most speculate he will die) and what will be included from A Dance With Dragons, and whether she will be riding Drogon by the end of the season or not. He has grown much bigger, almost Smaug-size. I'm just hoping they don't include Aegon. If they're not including major players like Lady Stoneheart or Arianne Martell into the show they shouldn't include him, either, otherwise I'm going to be even more bitterly pissed.

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I am more lenient when it comes to adaptions knowing how impossible it is to include everything in such a different medium, especially with something as monstrous as the world of ASOIAF in such a limited amount of episodes and seasons. I'm not opposed to them deviating from the source material in order to make it work for a television audience. However, my disappointment is less about that surprise factor and more about how the material is being presented. Never mind that I have issues with D&D and their decisions regarding the show.

But I'm totally confused about the omittance of Arianne Martell, especially when GRRM has said she is an important player later on....

Exactly, and it's not like they're taking out that storyline altogether. They still have her storyline, they're just giving it to someone else, which misses the entire point of Arianne's role in the story and the importance of a woman being heir to Dorne.

It's really confusing because the show has killed off characters who never died in the books, some who will eventually have bigger roles in future books, or have completely neglected major characters altogether. I know GRRM has mentioned that the "show is the show, and the books are the books", but I think it's rather flimsy of D&D to make these decisions with no real thought put into it. True, there are so many characters on the show, but I would rather have these characters still be part of it than endless prostitute/rape/exploitation scenes that serve no purpose to the plot.