[quote=@Ace of Hearts]
Who's ready for Game of Thrones to utterly ruin the course of the show farther, to adapt the material in the worst possible way, and to assassinate even more characters, both literally and figuratively? 

D&D are fucking hack writers.
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I for one am kind of glad it wasn't a total adaption. That book scene of Dany groaning and shitting wasn't something that would be much fun to watch in show form. 

Hardhome was a pretty brilliant part that was different from the books, in the books Jon didn't even go there. In the show he does, we get to see how it goes down and it ends up being one of if not the best episodes in the entire series. 

If it makes you feel better, ASOIAF and GoT are different canonically, there's show canon and book canon. You can go on ignoring the show as it's not relevant to the books. [url=http://iceandfire.wikia.com/wiki/Canon]The wiki actually explains this pretty well.[/url]

[quote]Game of Thrones: the TV series is a separate continuity and canon from the books. Though they share many elements, the TV series is not considered canonical for the books and vice versa. This includes the map of Essos on the HBO Viewer's Guide website, which has been rendered non-canonical for the books by the publication of The Lands of Ice and Fire (though it may remain canonical for the TV series).[/quote]

Straight from it. Don't let the show bug you too much, I hate the film adaption of V for Vendetta but I consider it completely separate from the graphic novel. I can read the comic over and over while ignoring the film. Might be a bit harder to do that with ASOIAF considering there's still two books left in the series and maybe we'll get Winds of Winter before 2018.