#but yeah. everything grrm's said is what i've been saying about the drastic changes they made for seemingly no reason at all

[edrurysz]

Reading GRRM's latest blog post and yes, all of that. I agree with every little thing he said. But not only does the complete removal of Maelor effect events in KL's, but for Daeron's storyline as well. He burns Bitterbridge and does not show mercy despite being begged to because of his young nephew's gruesome end there.

In general I feel that changing B&C so drastically undermined Helaena. And for seemingly no reason at all, in some places - why have her offer a mere necklace, when it is already established that she offered herself up to the assassins instead? Which makes far more sense and shows a more self-sacrificing and motherly intention. (To be clear, I do understand the argument that she was panicking and not thinking clearly and not quite all there doing the events. Her eyes roaming around in pure terror, showing whites like a spooked horse - brilliantly performed. I don't mean to imply that show Helaena does not love her children, though we see so little of her. We are left to imply so much about her character and many others because the little screentime we have is spent on - that's another topic but :))))))) ). But since the book already gave us that she had offered herself?????? Ugh.

Yes, she 'chose' in a way by them making her tell which child is the boy, but it really didn't feel the same as the horrific nature of the choice she made between Jaehaerys and Maelor -- and then having it disregarded anyway. Her choice, that horrific, torturous, agonizing choice, made no difference in the end at all.

She also just. Isn't as despondent post B&C as the book makes her out to be? Which, while yes, it didn't go down as it did in the book, what did occur in show is traumatizing as is? So there's no reason she couldn't then still follow that part. But even that seems...not the case here.