You went about this in the most pedantically nitpicky way. Why do you keep saying "should've?" instead of just saying "in the books" and contrast that with the screen interpretation? You made it seem as if the show owes it to the books to stick to their looks. Disliked video.
Arya is a left handed girl in the books, that's why Maisie insisted to train and use her left hand, despite being right handed irl, in order to be more faithful to her character! she went full perfect
the only time i saw her use her right hand was 'talker in the pub' scene. she had no choice to reach for sandor's sword when she thought polliver recognized her. she didn't have to use it though.
As handsome as Peter Dinklage is, I can’t imagine Tyrion being played by anyone but himself. I’d say out of all the wonderful actors and actresses on the show he’s easily the best at portraying his character. He pulls off that highly intelligent drunken smart ass attitude so well.
Honestly even after seeing what they were “supposed” to look like, the only thing I really wish they had kept were the purple eyes of Daenerys and Viserys.
I seen a few people say that they did try purple contacts but they were hurting Emilia too much, so then...why didn't they just do CGI? I mean I'm fine with how she looks but it would of been nice
Isaochy but that could’ve easily been explained away as being due to lighting. All eye colors have a range of shades in different lighting environments.
@@cosmicriptid Fair enough, but if that argument was valid, we should never have supernatural or non-human characters cause it's a hassle for the actors. I mean building a bridge isn't easy but people do it. Being a surgeon isn't easy but people do it. Working in a mine isn't easy but people do it. That's why it's called a JOB, not that thing you do as long as it's not bothersome.
In all fairness to a Alfie Allen, actor who played Theon, he did lose a lot of weight for Reek. Pay attention to his appearance in season 1 and compare it to when he was prisoner to Ramsey.
Lol... I thought the character description and casting were straight on, minus the teeth. Rose, in interviews has a beautiful personality, though. Just lovely. Did you know she and Kit H. grew up rich (posh)?
No one seems to notice that Joffrey also looked notably different in the books; he's described by Jon as looking much more feminine, with pouty lips and long, curly hair, but also being taller than Jon himself.
The single biggest error to me in the series was the stark children actually looked like Starks. Lady Catelyns hate for Jon was amplified because he looked more like a stark than her own children, she couldn't give Ned, the man she loved, a Son that looked like him as much as Jon did. And that hurt her. Personally, I think that's the only major issue with appearance, because their appearance is part of the story. Jon is perfect as he is. But the rest should have looked more like a Tully than a stark. Like Rob, Auburn hair, blue eyes.
You forgot to mention how Joffrey was supposed to be, at age 12, as tall as Robb Stark was at age 14. Also, he was described with long and curly blonde hair, just like Jamie. He looks nothing like the actor.
Joffrey is supposed to look like a young Prince Charming, which is part of the irony and why Sansa falls for him in book 1. But I really don’t care Jack Gleason doesn’t match cus he’s a phenomenal actor and portrayed Joffrey perfectly
@The Chad King Aegon VI I dont remember whose POV it was but they kept describing Joffrey's lips as a pair of sausages on top of each other, or like worms moving when he talks 😂.
Emelia Clarke tried wearing contacts in the beginning but they were so uncomfortable that it affected her performance so the showrunners decided to omit them. Also, the main reason they aged up Missandei's character wasn't to introduce a romance between her and Grey Worm but to have an actress who could skillfully speak MANY different languages in the show.
@@jibrilnoflugel1702 right but fluently in a short period of time? i dont think a kid would go through all that and it was prolly in their benefit to have an older character who already knew those languages
the actress who plays the red priestess is stunning Bjornsson is perfect as the mountain. he actually DOES weigh 400lbs, so if you made him 8 feet tall, he would get thinner, not bigger. and the guy's arms are 20+inches around! sounds pretty 'tree-trunk' to me
I had to check, wow he is 400lbs+ and hes 6 feet 9. Good luck finding anyone bigger than him that can move as well as Hafthor, he moves like a man half his wight.
The Hound's scars are actually on his right side in the books but when it's e.g. Sansa's POV and she talks about them, OF COURSE they're on HER left side.
I almost cried when she was knighted. You could see the pride, the wonder, the gratitude in her face. She was a knight years before she was knighted in my eyes.
I actually loved how Iwan Rheon portrayed Ramsay. He has a cute babyface, which makes all the evil shit that he does seem that much worse. In the book, he's your typical hideous villian, but the show makes you want to love him (at least initially) until you realize what a monster he actually is.
Couldn't agree more. He is so good looking when he is not talking, specially when he meets Sansa for the first time, that you don't expect him to be evil and depraved.
i mean, i think he sported a beard for 2 main reasons: looking fierce to his allies and because in war you don't have the time to shave often. the fact that he shave at an event means it is the way he wants to look for me. not everybody in the world of ice and fire shaves for events, most of the time they have a beard as a peculiar charachteristic. anyway we're talking about unimportant things, the only things that annoys me a little is that almost everyone in the show has a beard because of nowadays fashion....
Well then describing his arms as being "as thick as tree trunks" is arbitrary and means nothing. When someone says something is the size of a tree trunk what image does that evoke? A bonsai tree? More realistically it evokes an Oaktree or Elm or some such tree common in the west. Also awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Plants#Trees It's likely one of those.
With Bran, the actor was 11 when the show started. So while it's not accurate to the books, they most likely didn't want to die his hair and even grown actors have trouble with contacts. And even as he got older, it would just be plain odd for him to all of a sudden change hair and eye color in the show. Also, it is tough to fake a missing ear of a person that appears very often. Also, I think I speak for all fans, of any series, that we would rather have GOOD actors who can accurately portray various characters but don't entirely look like them, rather than actors who look EXACTLY like the characters but aren't able to portray them at all.
If we going to be that nit-picky, then Cersei and Jamie are suppose to have golden blond hair and were identical twins until post puberty, and Jon Snow should look like a younger version of Ned Stark.
@@yourmum69_420 You’re right. It should read that they ‘were twins, identical until puberty’. They were probably Fraternal twins. Thanks for the correction.
@Mike Oxmaul In the books, he looks like a younger Ned Stark. Which is part of the reason for Catelyn’s animosity towards him. Assuming he’s still going to be a Targaryen in the books, you could rationalize this as the dominate Stark phenotype overriding the recessive Targaryen traits. A gene comprises of two alleles, for a simplistic chart example, brown eyes could be represented by either; B B or B b, While recessive violet eyes could be represented as; b b. So, you’ll have a 75% chance per offspring that the child will be born with brown eyes.
@Jba 99 There are many talented actors in GOT; especially if they can make audiences cry by the thousands, like (*SPOILER ALERT*)the death of Hodor or Princess Shireen. Especially since they're secondary characters, imagine the requirement of talent for the primary characters.
My biggest problem with Brienne is that I expected her to be waaay more muscular in the show. She's described overpowering strong male soldiers, and is capable of winning a brawl in full plate armor. Some weight training and putting on 15-20 pounds would have made a huge positive difference
10:19 Baratheons have jet black hair and blue eyes, not "brown locks." It's an integral part of the story that sparked the controversy that everyone is currently fighting over. How could THAT be the detail you missed?
That shows how much "Grunge" cares about the franchise. 7 years late, half-assed profiles with inaccurate descriptions & lacking key details for major characters. They have probably never watched a single full episode or read as much as a prologue. They probably compiled their information from watching similar videos until they had a shitty composite for themselves.
1. They tried to wear purple contacts for the Targaryens but it influenced how they saw and how they acted so they cut it. 2. They tried to green screen Tyrion’s nose out by putting something green on Peter Dinklage’s nose but once again it affected how he acted and it bothered instead of helped.
People take this as criticism because of lines like "I guess wigs were not in the budget either" and so on. It shows that the narrator/creator/writer of the video has an issue with this. Thus the video no longer is an objective summary and showcase of differences but just a whine piece.
It would be almost impossible for the show to get some of these adaptations right because these people simply do not exist. While Game of Thrones definitely has its flaws, I've always thought that the casting had been next to none and the actors portray their individual characters excellently, even if they do not look exactly alike, which is almost impossible to accomplish anyway. Also the look of a lot of Martins characters just would not have translated to the screen.
The casting is no biggie to me, I just see this as a fun video. But if they really wanted, changing things like hair color would not have been a big deal.
Joe Young "It would be almost impossible for the show to get some of these adaptations right because these people simply do not exist" Sorry dude no offense but what you said is completely bullshit... Those people exist and they call themselves "actors" and of course they can match the book characters. You know the Show directors could demand the actors to shave their heads, grow muscle/use prosthetics or use lens to change eye color right? See, it isnt so dificult. Its an actor Job.
@@panzerrjcb And honestly fuck having a blue beard and weird shit like how jaqen h'gar is described in the books. They honestly would just look dumb and out of place.
Some are just plain wrong in adaptation, they turned Stanis into a villain, Dany is too bubbly, Ramsey was a cartoon character in the show... list go on
A lot of the criticism here is directed at incorrect eye color, but that's actually because it's the correct thing to do. The issue with contacts is that you can't see someone's pupils shrinking/growing very well through them - but our eyes are so well trained to read other people's eyes for their emotions and body language - that it's actually awkward to have an emotional conversation with somebody in colored contacts. In effect, if all these actors were wearing colored contacts - something would feel off about every single emotional scene they are in - which would potentially ruin a show like Game of Thrones: where the quality of acting is so critical to the show's success.
Yvaelle I agree, I like the original, natural colors to their eyes. However, if they really did wanted to change that without contacts I'm sure they could had done something with special effects?
She is one of very few talented actresses in hollywood who can even come close to Brienne's body build and she has blonde hair and blue eyes like Brienne
Personally I think that the differences aren't a giant problem. Yes I realize that the book readers will imagine the characters and get disappointed seeing them in the show and not being the same. Don't get me wrong I was. But I do think that the people playing the parts are just perfect and I wouldn't want it any other way. They really bring the characters to life
It's not just that though. Features like hair and eye color are actually very important parts of the plotline in the books, because with those features it is that they identified the bloodline of a person. That's why all this shit started, actually. Ned Stark noticed that the Lannister children were all blonde and with green eyes, when if they were Baratheon children they would have Baratheon features, because the Baratheon seed is stronger than the Lannister's. That's one of the things that lead him to figure out Cersei and Jaime's incest, that's what Jon Arryn figured out, what got him killed, what brought the Starks to King's Landing and started all this crap... It's also important foe the Targaryens because people with Targaryen features were Valyrian and considered above regular men. It's a BIT more complicated than nitpick, haha
I have not watched the series - only a few select clips. And a relatively small change that actually bothered me quite a lot was the fact that Daenerys' hair didn't burn after she herself was burnt. It made it much more impactful that everything on her burnt, except the skin itself, and the fact that she was bold/short haired for some time was quite powerful for everyone who saw it, because it reminded them all of the fact that she had indeed been devoured by flames and survived.
This is how Euron should have looked like awoiaf.westeros.org/images/4/41/Euron_Greyjoy.jpg Instead we have the retarded uncle that tells dick jokes, what a fuckin joke. Euron is the only man that has a complete set of Valyrian steel armor. He has a brilliant mind, handsome and he's a fuckin psycho, my favorite character, and they transform him into complete shit. Very disappointed.
Totally agree with you but I think hair and eyes are easily-fixed things that shouldn't be wrong... the Targeryen violet eye colour would have been awesome to put on Dany and Viserys, yet they left that out... -_- it adds to the fantasy element of the story and is pretty much as important as the hair colour to be honest so I wanna know why it isn't there
That guy is literally one of the strongest men who ever lived. Finding a bigger, stronger man is pretty much impossible, also all chapters in the book are POV, maybe the people of Westeros describe the mountain as a bit bigger than he actualy is, at least that is something I imagine to keep the story more realistic for myself ;D
Tachibana Shana It’s basically a coincidence that she turned out to be tall, considering she was casted as a child. She was clearly made for the role (aside from the hair color lol).
the way the revised "truer to the books" versions of the characters was done it looks like a mullet every time short hair is lengthened. So now I just imagine that all these characters should really be rocking mullets.
They had purple contacts for her but they made her vision too blurry and affected her vision after she took them out. No job in the world is worth losing your sight over, happy they had her normal color eyes.
I don't think people realize how big and tall Conan Stevens the original actor to portray the Mountain was. He was the best actor to portray him. He's a little bit taller than the current actor and just as big. More importantly, he's older and looked older than The Hound. There is no reason for The Mountain to look younger than The Hound. That's my biggest beef with the current actor. He's a big dude, but despite the beard, he's got a baby face. Conan Stevens definitely had the menacing look down needed to portray The Mountain.
How could you forget Joffrey in this video? I remember being so dissapointed by his looks the first season (the awesome acting made me forget it soon after though!). He is described as tall with long blonde curly hair and really full lips. Basically the exact opposite😁
and almost everyone was like 10 years younger in the books. it wouldnt have been a great picture when a 16 years old would sleep with a 7 years old boy. or a 13 years old girl with a man thats over 20.
They were 4 years younger in the books - it's specifically said on the show that it's been 17 years since Robert's Rebellion while on the books it's been 13
I think it would be cool if the stark children looked like Tullys but it makes sense that they all look like Starks because it suggests the Stark gene is very strong, which explains why Jon snow has dark hair and eyes instead of the blonde Targarean gene.
Yara(Asha) in the books is a hotty. Daario - in the books is prettier, more of a badass and the firs actor looked more like him. Mads Mikkelsen is Euron Greyjoy (especially the Valhalla Rising Mads Mikkelsen). Lancel did aged, as he was young to begin with, he started to look much older than he should have. The Baratheons are better looking in the books, Robert was made to appear taller then most others(TV magic). Ned - should have had grey temples . Bjornsen does wight 400lb, his face is too kind though. The Laninsters aren't blond enough - true. The actor that plays littlefinger is way too tall. The show aged most actors in order to remain legal.
Stannis I Baratheon Yeh. It even makes it more uncomfortably once you realize - it was common back in the day. Even worse - it is still common in some places in the world.
Elivasfq virtue signal more buddy. Truth is, those societies might have a lot of bad things but allowing child bearing girls to get married isn't one of them. At least these countries don't have to use the term jailbait to describe what any heterosexual really finds attractive. Also, I highly doubt the author of the books wrote underage characters purely out of shock value or "historical" accuracy. He understands that our society is screwed up and this is another way to point that out.
darthclide JRR Martin is a history buff and based a lot of his works on ancient history, myth, and, massively, upon the middle ages. Did he had another something to tell about society? I don't know. Forcefully marrying anyone, and especially 12 years old girls is nuts. Leave it at that.
really the only time jaime was unkempt was when he was captive. after he got to kings landing he pretty much instantly cut his hair down to a shorter length than it was in season 1.
So basically the book character description are scary and ugly. I also think that for most of the casting they picked the best actors/actresses other people that auditioned for the role were probably not as good even if they had the book features.
They could have made Euron right i mean wear a eye patch isn't that big of a deal especially considering he has like 10 minutes of screen time total and give some some blue koolaid powder or whatever that candy is that kids always get everywhere
Addy Tee This. Prime example is Tyrion. Warwick Davis is a much better fit in physical appearance, but no way he has the acting chops of Peter Dinklage.
I'm not the kind of person who makes a big deal out of little details. Still I think they should have stuck to the book with the Tullies and Baratheon hair. Eye color seems silly to complain about since its something i don't even notice. Overall I'm glad the series didn't completely follow the book. Those details in the book sounds exaggerated and unneeded to me.
I agree with everything except how the Targaryens are portrayed. Lilac is a pretty distinguishing trait that they should have tried to work with. I'd read that Emilia Clarke experienced discomfort with the contacts, but think maybe they should have tried to find something more comfortable for her that still kept true to the Targaryens. They should have fixed her damn eye brows too.
@@daemonwulfe The eyes' colour bring absolutely nothing to the Targaryens. Their silver blond wigs are more than enough to show their Targaryen lineage and how different they are from other peoples/families... The eyes wouldn't bring anything more. And their only options would be to change the colour with editing (waste of money since it's not important, can be long, also it might not always look perfect) or lenses, which are often an issue in acting (actors can't support them or can't play well with them). I also love the violet-ish eyes the Targaryens have, but it's not a big deal if they're missing them.
I did like the line in the tv when Cersei says something like, 'could have been worse, you could have lost half your nose', making a reference to what happened in the books. I'm not sure a modern tv audience would have tolerated Martin's versions of characters, there's too much emphasis on beauty. It's easier to forget what a character looks like whilst you're reading a book, than seeing them all the time on tv.
The older age of the characters in the show vs. the books was intentional by GRRM. When he first started the books he intended for a 5 year time skip to happen, but then realized he would have to write too many flashback scenes to make up for it. For that reason he started the characters at a young age, intending to make them older but then wasn't able too. In the show, he wanted all the characters to start off older so it was more believable that someone like Jon Snow could be the Night Commander in his early 20's vs being about 17 at that point in the books. Some things will never transfer from a book to the screen well. Barriston the Bold, in the books, is described as a man with a long white beard name "White Bread' later in the books. Since the reader can't actually "see" him it becomes a surprise when you find out it was Barriston the Bold the whole time. It would never work in a TV show because as soon as you see the actors face you would know it's the same guy. Additionally, in real life, actors have contracts that won't allow them to make certain changes to their hair so they can still play other roles. Which is why in Superman v. Batman Henry Cavill had to keep his mustache and have it removed with CGI. A lot of these actors aren't going to shave there heads for a couple of months of filming and now have short hair for the rest of the year. Especially characters who are in 1 or 2 episodes and only filmed their parts for 1 week.
@@sgeetha7350 probably just forgot about them. Jojen and Meera, like most crannogmen, are supposed to be really short. Bran is taller than Jojen despite being like three years younger
That's right. In the books, Coldhands is the Night's King, the 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and he works for Bloodraven. To the show watchers who don't know anything : The Night King (White Walker King) =/= The Night's King.
+Konstantin Lungstraß It's not a personal theory if the clues are in the books and pretty damn clear to everyone: - Was a brother of the Night's Watch. Wears black, and calls Sam "brother". - He is not a white walker. He is a wight (reanimated corpse), but is more agile and shows intelligence and can speak, meaning he's a special case. - Leaf says "they killed (Coldhands) a long time ago" while Benjen has only been missing for two years. Either the Night's Watch killed the Night's King and the white walkers he used to consort with revived him, or the white walkers killed him and 3-eyed crow revived him. ... Of course you can disregard all this by looking at the manuscript where GRRM declared that Benjen is not Coldhands.
Agreed, the only thing they could find wrong with her was her race. And the book never states an exact race! This isn't our world, so they can't make cultural assumptions. They seem to think dragons are more realistic than a non-asian peaceful community? It is honestly ridiculous.
@@Ikuto1313 If anything I feel the casting on GoT is actually quite nice, Naath is close to the dark skinned Sunset Isles so it's likely they're descended from the same original immigrated peoples that sailed to the islands ages ago.
@@mckinseytighe8593 In some respects I can agree. But mostly because of all the sexual scenes that our modern culture would not be able to accept. Reality though is that in that sort of time period "kids" became "adults" much much sooner than we think of a kid becoming an adult. A 16 year old parent in our time is considered scandalously young, but a 16 year old unmarried without kids in the sort of time period GoT is set in would have people questioning what is wrong with them and why they cant find a partner or have kids. It's largely our perception of what is old enough that has changed and caused us to view and treat "kids" as less capable then they could be, which in turn stunts their mental maturity and growth.
Michelle T. I’m assuming they would have been against contacts because it affects the actors’ performances. It was mentioned, I think on one of the season one commentaries, that Emilia Clarke had originally been given violet contacts but it obscured the emotion in her eyes in some way so they decided to just use her natural colour.
They don't usually do cast simply on hair color or eye color. If it's important to the story and the plot of the movie/series then they will either use momentarily dyes or wigs to make it fit.
Really? I can watch the show a hundred times and will still understand Robb's choice. The magic of Oona Chaplin's body helps, but she also seemed really cool, funny, playful, smart, and kind. Even Ned didn't marry a commoner so after all his family duty, Robb following his heart is pretty unique family trait.
Except being aged up Sophie Turner is just like Sansa Stark is described in the books: beautiful, tall, slender, fair skin, long auburn hair and blue eyes. Her hair is dyed black when she is at the Vale, and that also sorta happened in the series. Joffrey is also a bit younger in the books, and is described as handsome and having Lannister blonde hair. I don't remember exactly but I believe he also has the Lannister green eyes in the book (which none of the Lannister have in the series, so I guess him having blue eyes in the series is acceptable when you consider he should have same eyes as his mother/aunt and father/uncle). One thing I do remember is that Sansa later describes Joffrey's lips as "worms, red and soft". This description happens following the execution of her father, when she stops seeing him as handsome and starts to see him as a disgusting creature. And this is actually funny because being son of two of the most beautiful people in the story (both Cersei and Jaime are described as being stunning), Joffrey is positevely handsome, but after what he does to her father Sansa starts to see him as ugly and disgusting. But anyway, overall I think the actors do look like the part, especially Sansa. I think Sophie is honestly pretty much Sansa from the books, if you don't consider the fact that Sansa is a bit younger. (Fun fact, Sophie Turner is actually blonde. She had to dye her hair and wear wigs for the part, so that's something the producers really got right).
@@AyeshaLuc I don't think him looking as attractive as his parents would make any sense considering incest can mess up your looks (and mind).. I could be wrong though. Targaryens are described as good looking despite the incest I guess
@@catya lol yeah, but in Westeros incest doesn't seem to come with uglyness, only occasional madness. And I think Joffrey is described as handsome as Jaime, just like Myrcella is said to look like a young Cersei. I don't recall Tommen's description, aside having the Lannister golden hair and green eyes, but I believe someone says that he would also look handsome once he grew out of childhood.
@@catya Incest and inbreeding don't necessarily result in children with serious flaws, physical or otherwise. It just increases the chances of recessive family traits (good and bad) showing up. This is how the Targaryen's kept the whole violet eyes and white hair thing going for so long.
Robb Stark had red whiskers growing in on the second book maaan, screw that clean shaven face. He had the blue eyes of the Tully's as well, but kept neds stern features
Some of these changes I completely understand, but knowing that Euron could've looked like a proper crazy arse pirate... too bad... And you're totally right about Edmure too, if they made his hair auburn maybe people wouldn't have constantly forgotten that he's Cat's brother!!!
Edmure in the series has overall diminished to some background character you hardly recognize at all (I recognized him only because he is played by Brutus from the Rome series)
Honeymoon Pastels It is burnt off again when she has a stand-off with Drogon. I have a sticky in that page because I love it so much. Anyway Drogon showers her with fire and she feels it burning. She still is able to order Drogon to submit though.
12:36 "400 pounds of pure muscle" They got that part right. Hafthor is 400 pounds and the world's strongest man in real life. It's also impossible to get someone who's 8 feet tall since very few people who ever lived were that tall
Andre the Giant was 7,5 feet and weighed over 500 pounds so GRRM probably didn't think the numbers through, someone 8 feet tall and only 400 pounds would look skinnier than how the Mountain is described.
That's what every movie and TV show does, they cast attractive people. People can call it what they want, but at the end of the day, everyone prefers to look pretty people over average-looking and ugly people.
I just imagine every character, Joffrey especially, with a full on 80's metal band permed mullet. Cersei to me is the Showgirls Elizabeth Berkeley aesthetic with Lena Headey's spot-on frown and demeanor.
the casting crew did amazing and the best they could. imagine all these changes being made? that would add time onto makeup and costumes , dragging out the shooting process.
Euron not wearing an eyepatch is understandable. Anything that obstructs an actor’s vision will make it harder for the actor to hit their marks in a scene. This translates to more takes, which increases the cost. That’s why you seldom see eyepatches, at least on main characters.
For those who may not know this, the actress Emilia Clarke who played Daenerys Targaryen was actually prepared to shave/cut her hair for the part, but the producers decided against it. At least that is what I have heard.
The biggest difference to the book is of course the aging of almost all child and teenager characters in the book. Like Sansa is 11 at the beginning, Arya 9, Bran 7 and Rickon only 3 years old. Tommen is Bran's contemporary, Joffrey a Sansa's year older, whereas Jon and Robb are both 14, but Theon is 5 years older and almost 20. But the most stunning is that Daenerys is only 13 and Viserys is 9 years older! p.s. and Missandei is of Arya's age
How'd we do? Did we leave any descriptions out?
Sophie Turner...
Grunge You should have mentioned the book ages of all the characters that were children in the books.
You went about this in the most pedantically nitpicky way. Why do you keep saying "should've?" instead of just saying "in the books" and contrast that with the screen interpretation?
You made it seem as if the show owes it to the books to stick to their looks. Disliked video.
Michael Uy true. Same. I'll drop a dislike too.
the dude who plays the mountain wieghs 420 pounds, i think you are just dont realize how big he already is
Arya is a left handed girl in the books, that's why Maisie insisted to train and use her left hand, despite being right handed irl, in order to be more faithful to her character! she went full perfect
I'm left handed and this makes me happy.
the only time i saw her use her right hand was 'talker in the pub' scene. she had no choice to reach for sandor's sword when she thought polliver recognized her. she didn't have to use it though.
Ya Maisie was a really perfect match for Arya.
@@FrauMey Same.
Doesn't Arya say that she's 8 in the first season?
As handsome as Peter Dinklage is, I can’t imagine Tyrion being played by anyone but himself. I’d say out of all the wonderful actors and actresses on the show he’s easily the best at portraying his character. He pulls off that highly intelligent drunken smart ass attitude so well.
And joffs actor
actually puts on a great British accent as well
Handsome? Decent looking yeah bur he's not handsome
@Carole J ... Peter Dinklage is very handsome... It seems most people agree ...
@Carole J ..Peter Dinklage is a very handsome man... Most people agree... He is just short... but his face is handsone
Honestly even after seeing what they were “supposed” to look like, the only thing I really wish they had kept were the purple eyes of Daenerys and Viserys.
Emilia looks good with purple eyes
I seen a few people say that they did try purple contacts but they were hurting Emilia too much, so then...why didn't they just do CGI? I mean I'm fine with how she looks but it would of been nice
Logan Burnette I feel like then they would’ve accidentally kept messing up what shade of purple her eyes were though
Isaochy but that could’ve easily been explained away as being due to lighting. All eye colors have a range of shades in different lighting environments.
@@cosmicriptid Fair enough, but if that argument was valid, we should never have supernatural or non-human characters cause it's a hassle for the actors. I mean building a bridge isn't easy but people do it. Being a surgeon isn't easy but people do it. Working in a mine isn't easy but people do it. That's why it's called a JOB, not that thing you do as long as it's not bothersome.
In all fairness to a Alfie Allen, actor who played Theon, he did lose a lot of weight for Reek. Pay attention to his appearance in season 1 and compare it to when he was prisoner to Ramsey.
Bella Luna There's definitely only so much you can expect from actors
Bella Luna agreed, Alfie was almost skeletal for the role, the photo that they have used in this video is from a much earlier season!
I agree he actually lost quite a bit of weight at the end
Well considering Theon isn’t tortured as much in the show, he doesn’t really need to be 40 pounds thinner and have white hair
@@jaimelannister1797 it's still very much appreciated that he tried
they did Ygritte dirty 😂😂😂 you got her looking like Sid from ice age
sandra gonzalez ummm, her description waa pretty perfect actually but her personality nakes her a freaking gem
😂😂😂😂
Lol... I thought the character description and casting were straight on, minus the teeth. Rose, in interviews has a beautiful personality, though. Just lovely. Did you know she and Kit H. grew up rich (posh)?
I watched this video two days ago but had to come back to say how much I've been laughing at your comment. On and off. FOR TWO DAYS.
fuck XD best comment I've ever read
No one seems to notice that Joffrey also looked notably different in the books; he's described by Jon as looking much more feminine, with pouty lips and long, curly hair, but also being taller than Jon himself.
In addition, Tommen was also a cute chubby kid in the books.
so basically he's griffith from berserk
Dude, he is feminine.
Sounds like Griffith.
@@syedsameer1103 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The single biggest error to me in the series was the stark children actually looked like Starks.
Lady Catelyns hate for Jon was amplified because he looked more like a stark than her own children, she couldn't give Ned, the man she loved, a Son that looked like him as much as Jon did. And that hurt her. Personally, I think that's the only major issue with appearance, because their appearance is part of the story. Jon is perfect as he is. But the rest should have looked more like a Tully than a stark. Like Rob, Auburn hair, blue eyes.
Only sansa made the cut in the tv series lol she is the only one with auburnish hair
Robb also came close tho. Richard Madden has stunning blue eyes just like described in the books, but with black hair. So it was close enough.
No, Arya is supposed to look more Stark than Tully too
True they should all have the Tully look except for Arya. She and Jon were the only 2 who looked like Stark.
@@AverageAlien i did say she couldn't give Ned a SON that looked like a stark. I'm pretty sure Arya isn't a son.
You forgot to mention how Joffrey was supposed to be, at age 12, as tall as Robb Stark was at age 14. Also, he was described with long and curly blonde hair, just like Jamie. He looks nothing like the actor.
Ug the actor of joffrey had that horrible tiny mouth. It was so distracting in the show, it was far too tiny for his face.
Joffrey is supposed to look like a young Prince Charming, which is part of the irony and why Sansa falls for him in book 1. But I really don’t care Jack Gleason doesn’t match cus he’s a phenomenal actor and portrayed Joffrey perfectly
And Arya was 9 her little brother 8 . Sansa 11 . Dany 13 . Jon 14 .
@The Chad King Aegon VI I dont remember whose POV it was but they kept describing Joffrey's lips as a pair of sausages on top of each other, or like worms moving when he talks 😂.
@@morisakarleign3014: *Lips like Günter Verheugen* 😁
Emelia Clarke tried wearing contacts in the beginning but they were so uncomfortable that it affected her performance so the showrunners decided to omit them. Also, the main reason they aged up Missandei's character wasn't to introduce a romance between her and Grey Worm but to have an actress who could skillfully speak MANY different languages in the show.
I think they aged up the character so that she could get nude.
little children learn languages (and everything) easier and faster than adults do, but ok
@@jibrilnoflugel1702 right but fluently in a short period of time? i dont think a kid would go through all that and it was prolly in their benefit to have an older character who already knew those languages
the actress who plays the red priestess is stunning
Bjornsson is perfect as the mountain. he actually DOES weigh 400lbs, so if you made him 8 feet tall, he would get thinner, not bigger. and the guy's arms are 20+inches around! sounds pretty 'tree-trunk' to me
Joseph Drummond Rose Leslie's eyes ARE too far apart.
Carice van Houten is the one playing the red priestess (Melisandre!)
Joseph Drummond bjornsson is literally the biggest man in the world so he pretty much had to be chosen lol
Julian well he's "literally" not.. but I get what your saying he's big af
I had to check, wow he is 400lbs+ and hes 6 feet 9. Good luck finding anyone bigger than him that can move as well as Hafthor, he moves like a man half his wight.
The Hound's scars are actually on his right side in the books but when it's e.g. Sansa's POV and she talks about them, OF COURSE they're on HER left side.
The Ramsay's actor is perfect, his head and the way he smile look realy sadistic XD
He isnt perfect. Hes good looking in the show. In the books hes supposed to be ugly
When I heard him say “lady Brienne” I immediately said “SER Brienne” then remembers this video was made a year ago 😆
Brienne is still Lady Brienne in the books.
I almost cried when she was knighted. You could see the pride, the wonder, the gratitude in her face. She was a knight years before she was knighted in my eyes.
Cringe
Well technically even if a lady gets knighted, she is still referred to as lady, not sir, and has title of dame, not a knight
Siri Brienne
Here’s all scenes that starts with “in the book,the characters are...”
Yara Greyjoy 0:45
Bran stark 1:26
Brienne 2:00
Daario Naharis 2:31
Daenerys 3:19
Euron greyjoy 3:51
Sandor clegane 4:18
Jorah mormont 4:52
Ramsay bolton 5:35
Roose bolton 6:08
Theon Greyjoy 6:33
Tyrion 7:07
Tywin 7:51
Robb Stark 8:25
Jaime 8:49
Lancel lannister 9:15
Barristan the bold 9:40
Stannis baratheon 10:19
Melassandra 10:38
Ned Stark 11:06
Robert Baratheon 11:31
Edmure tully 12:00
The mountain 12:33
Syrio forel 13:20
Ygritte 13:49
Cersei 14:11
Samwell 14:40
Littlefinger 15:02
Oberyn martell 15:25
Missandei 15:45
Jon snow 16:33
Arya 17:06
Lysa arryn 17:31
Gilly 18:00
Benjen stark 18:34
If I’m wrong or I forgot someone please correct me😁
Much love 💛 I just wish he included King Joffrey First of His Name, Ruler of The Seven Kingdom, Protector of The Realm, Long Shall He Reign.
King Joffrey also yes
@@PacifyKy 😂😂
If Ramsay looked like he was described in the book then maybe I wouldn't have had an odd and wrong feeling attraction 😂😂😂
Jess Jess i know its so wrong 😂😂
Currently watching Misfits for the first time and being weirded out by his character. Still, incredible acting talent.
Jess Jess BITCH ME TOO TF
Exactly!!!
Cailan Cook GREAT SHOW
i think this video is less a criticism of how the characters were portrayed but more showing the differences between the mediums
I actually loved how Iwan Rheon portrayed Ramsay. He has a cute babyface, which makes all the evil shit that he does seem that much worse. In the book, he's your typical hideous villian, but the show makes you want to love him (at least initially) until you realize what a monster he actually is.
I also feel that Iwan Rheon and Jake Gleeson did an amazing joy portraying villians. Their cast was perfect
Couldn't agree more. He is so good looking when he is not talking, specially when he meets Sansa for the first time, that you don't expect him to be evil and depraved.
The Mountain should be beefier .......
So, you’re asking for Beefier than the worlds strongest man ...? Expecting too much maybe?
2nd strongest
No ..... 1st. Maybe try Googling the most recent ‘Worlds Strongest Man’ competition (which is 2018) ....
It's especially inane considering Thor weighs over 400 lbs in real life and the Mountain is supposed to weigh 400 lbs according to the video.
Hes basically strongest but def not the biggest comparing to mr olympia winners.
So i understand why he needs to bee beefier he doesnt look like a bodybuilder he just literally looks like a fucking mountain
I don't think Robb ever wanted to sit the iron throne. He was king in the north and the riverlands
Yup he just wanted the *REVENGE*
Agreed
Blue haired Daario would have been AWESOME
Littlefinger was bad, but Daario they easily butchered the worst. He reminded me nothing of the books. He was boring, generic, and forgettable.
Robb had a beard. Cat mentions it very often.
thedragonborn yeah he started growing it out when he became king
when she see him before the red wedding, she mention that he looks older and more like a king, with long hair on the shoulders and clean shaven face
He -generally- sports a beard. It was an event, of course he shaved.
ik what you're talking about when he first went into battle he had a clean face but he then started to grow stubble it wasn't very thick tho
i mean, i think he sported a beard for 2 main reasons: looking fierce to his allies and because in war you don't have the time to shave often. the fact that he shave at an event means it is the way he wants to look for me. not everybody in the world of ice and fire shaves for events, most of the time they have a beard as a peculiar charachteristic. anyway we're talking about unimportant things, the only things that annoys me a little is that almost everyone in the show has a beard because of nowadays fashion....
Arms as thick as tree trunks is clearly poetic licence, mate.
LORDUnLuCkY13 Tree trunks can be any size...
Well then describing his arms as being "as thick as tree trunks" is arbitrary and means nothing.
When someone says something is the size of a tree trunk what image does that evoke? A bonsai tree? More realistically it evokes an Oaktree or Elm or some such tree common in the west.
Also awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Plants#Trees
It's likely one of those.
Talent over looks all day any day
sure thats why they got hafthor to play the mountain.....hahaha all the talent of a damp bogroll
With Bran, the actor was 11 when the show started. So while it's not accurate to the books, they most likely didn't want to die his hair and even grown actors have trouble with contacts. And even as he got older, it would just be plain odd for him to all of a sudden change hair and eye color in the show. Also, it is tough to fake a missing ear of a person that appears very often.
Also, I think I speak for all fans, of any series, that we would rather have GOOD actors who can accurately portray various characters but don't entirely look like them, rather than actors who look EXACTLY like the characters but aren't able to portray them at all.
If someone is truly committed to the role and their craft, they’d cut their ear off.
If we going to be that nit-picky, then Cersei and Jamie are suppose to have golden blond hair and were identical twins until post puberty, and Jon Snow should look like a younger version of Ned Stark.
and Cersei and Jaime have emerald green eyes, not blue like in the show.
@@ginae.2462 I think most of them had the wrong eye colors, but casting...
they can't be identical twins if they're opposite genders lol
@@yourmum69_420 You’re right. It should read that they ‘were twins, identical until puberty’.
They were probably Fraternal twins. Thanks for the correction.
@Mike Oxmaul In the books, he looks like a younger Ned Stark. Which is part of the reason for Catelyn’s animosity towards him.
Assuming he’s still going to be a Targaryen in the books, you could rationalize this as the dominate Stark phenotype overriding the recessive Targaryen traits.
A gene comprises of two alleles, for a simplistic chart example, brown eyes could be represented by either; B B or B b, While recessive violet eyes could be represented as; b b. So, you’ll have a 75% chance per offspring that the child will be born with brown eyes.
its almost like the show cares more about the character personalities and the plot more than being exact to the appearance of characters in the book
Why not both?
talented actors.....
Well, it's also not all that accurate to the plot of the book.
@Jba 99 There are many talented actors in GOT; especially if they can make audiences cry by the thousands, like (*SPOILER ALERT*)the death of Hodor or Princess Shireen. Especially since they're secondary characters, imagine the requirement of talent for the primary characters.
Thanks that's exactly what I'm saying.......
Ramsey was also supposed to have greasy skin and hair with boils on his face.
Rheon is beautiful.
My biggest problem with Brienne is that I expected her to be waaay more muscular in the show. She's described overpowering strong male soldiers, and is capable of winning a brawl in full plate armor. Some weight training and putting on 15-20 pounds would have made a huge positive difference
Even just padded clothing would have made the difference.
If I remember correctly she did infact gain muscle for the role?
@@prpl_skies idk, I thought Brienne was fine the way she was lol.
@@bringinthedope5929 I thought she looked plenty strong and sturdy.
10:19 Baratheons have jet black hair and blue eyes, not "brown locks." It's an integral part of the story that sparked the controversy that everyone is currently fighting over. How could THAT be the detail you missed?
Seven Thirty because videos like these are shit, no passion, they just try to get views
Seven Thirty
He also missed how Robb grows a stubble beard. Apparently, Brianne of Tarth has beautiful eyes according to Catelyn.
Why wait literal YEARS after other youtube personalities have done the same thing to try and cash in, though?
That shows how much "Grunge" cares about the franchise. 7 years late, half-assed profiles with inaccurate descriptions & lacking key details for major characters. They have probably never watched a single full episode or read as much as a prologue. They probably compiled their information from watching similar videos until they had a shitty composite for themselves.
GoAndKill12546756845 ?????
1. They tried to wear purple contacts for the Targaryens but it influenced how they saw and how they acted so they cut it.
2. They tried to green screen Tyrion’s nose out by putting something green on Peter Dinklage’s nose but once again it affected how he acted and it bothered instead of helped.
People really should consider that some things that work in bookform don't always translate to the screen.
Why are people acting like this is criticism? It's just discussing some differences between the show and the books, it's not "nit picking"
Wøw! That'sAløtOfBandReferences Show watchers are SO butthurt it seems!
they are trying to forgot they are not book ubermench
Because the video literally says they're nitpicking?
People take this as criticism because of lines like "I guess wigs were not in the budget either" and so on. It shows that the narrator/creator/writer of the video has an issue with this. Thus the video no longer is an objective summary and showcase of differences but just a whine piece.
Sorry but it is nit picking.
Samwell does start fatter but he rapidly loses weight with his night's watch training
And a nights watch lack of food.
So did he actually become a badass in the books like we were supposed to think at the beginning of the show?
It would be almost impossible for the show to get some of these adaptations right because these people simply do not exist. While Game of Thrones definitely has its flaws, I've always thought that the casting had been next to none and the actors portray their individual characters excellently, even if they do not look exactly alike, which is almost impossible to accomplish anyway. Also the look of a lot of Martins characters just would not have translated to the screen.
The casting is no biggie to me, I just see this as a fun video. But if they really wanted, changing things like hair color would not have been a big deal.
Joe Young
"It would be almost impossible for the show to get some of these adaptations right because these people simply do not exist"
Sorry dude no offense but what you said is completely bullshit... Those people exist and they call themselves "actors" and of course they can match the book characters.
You know the Show directors could demand the actors to shave their heads, grow muscle/use prosthetics or use lens to change eye color right? See, it isnt so dificult. Its an actor Job.
@@panzerrjcb And honestly fuck having a blue beard and weird shit like how jaqen h'gar is described in the books. They honestly would just look dumb and out of place.
@@LegacyLoot No true.
Some are just plain wrong in adaptation, they turned Stanis into a villain, Dany is too bubbly, Ramsey was a cartoon character in the show... list go on
how poor to describe Stannis with "far less wrinkles". Fewer!
he corrects someone by saying fewer in the show lmaoo
@@danielatwood2145 That's the joke
Lol never mind.
thank you, master of grammar
You're so smart
A lot of the criticism here is directed at incorrect eye color, but that's actually because it's the correct thing to do. The issue with contacts is that you can't see someone's pupils shrinking/growing very well through them - but our eyes are so well trained to read other people's eyes for their emotions and body language - that it's actually awkward to have an emotional conversation with somebody in colored contacts. In effect, if all these actors were wearing colored contacts - something would feel off about every single emotional scene they are in - which would potentially ruin a show like Game of Thrones: where the quality of acting is so critical to the show's success.
Yvaelle I agree, I like the original, natural colors to their eyes. However, if they really did wanted to change that without contacts I'm sure they could had done something with special effects?
You might have been able to fix it in post yes, I guess it would depend on the quality and effort in post-production they want to do.
Selina I believe they tried to give her violet eyes but the contacts negatively affected Emilia Clarke
Her eyes aren't brown?
The only thing I really can't forgive is Daenerys' eyebrows
Gwendoline Christie is beautiful. Too beautiful for Brienne.
She is one of very few talented actresses in hollywood who can even come close to Brienne's body build and she has blonde hair and blue eyes like Brienne
Nah Emilia is the only hot one maybe Sophie too
Puckered just look at her in interviews and red carpet photos. she’s pretty af
Great actress but she is not attractive to most. Not even a little bit. Just truth. In doubt many men could get a hard on for her
@@puckered6036 Did you miss her body when she took the bath with Jamie? She got it going on under that armor.
Personally I think that the differences aren't a giant problem. Yes I realize that the book readers will imagine the characters and get disappointed seeing them in the show and not being the same. Don't get me wrong I was. But I do think that the people playing the parts are just perfect and I wouldn't want it any other way. They really bring the characters to life
Angela Ziegler me too
the show gets way less perfect if you read the books. It's still good, but just not on the same level whatsoever.
Book reader here. Love both show and books... and love how people look better in the show!
It's not just that though. Features like hair and eye color are actually very important parts of the plotline in the books, because with those features it is that they identified the bloodline of a person. That's why all this shit started, actually. Ned Stark noticed that the Lannister children were all blonde and with green eyes, when if they were Baratheon children they would have Baratheon features, because the Baratheon seed is stronger than the Lannister's. That's one of the things that lead him to figure out Cersei and Jaime's incest, that's what Jon Arryn figured out, what got him killed, what brought the Starks to King's Landing and started all this crap...
It's also important foe the Targaryens because people with Targaryen features were Valyrian and considered above regular men. It's a BIT more complicated than nitpick, haha
still love the show tho
I have not watched the series - only a few select clips. And a relatively small change that actually bothered me quite a lot was the fact that Daenerys' hair didn't burn after she herself was burnt. It made it much more impactful that everything on her burnt, except the skin itself, and the fact that she was bold/short haired for some time was quite powerful for everyone who saw it, because it reminded them all of the fact that she had indeed been devoured by flames and survived.
I'm still totally in love with all these actors. I think they were all perfect for their roles and couldn't imagine GoT without any of them.
Nah Brienne looks perfect, she still has more masculine features then most of the women in the show, but still beautiful!
That's the thing. She is not meant to be beautiful. A quote about Brienne from GRRM is that: ' If Jamie was the beauty, then Brienne was the beast '.
they really fucked up euron,they could of at least gave him an eye patch from the dollar store
Could be, but they are never at the same place and other than the eyepatch nothing matches about their looks.
It would only take a search on the wiki, but people are lazy and stupid(not all,but too many), so they are not far from the truth.
What a bunch of pretentious assholes. It's supposed to be entertainment, not work.
They aren't far from truth judging by the fact that many people call Daenerys "Khaleesi" all the time.
This is how Euron should have looked like
awoiaf.westeros.org/images/4/41/Euron_Greyjoy.jpg
Instead we have the retarded uncle that tells dick jokes, what a fuckin joke. Euron is the only man that has a complete set of Valyrian steel armor. He has a brilliant mind, handsome and he's a fuckin psycho, my favorite character, and they transform him into complete shit. Very disappointed.
well they choose acting skill over looks and it result is great or should we said epic!
Totally agree with you but I think hair and eyes are easily-fixed things that shouldn't be wrong... the Targeryen violet eye colour would have been awesome to put on Dany and Viserys, yet they left that out... -_- it adds to the fantasy element of the story and is pretty much as important as the hair colour to be honest so I wanna know why it isn't there
@@marcshimpar7645 If they can afford to make 100-foot dragons eat people I'm sure they can alter her eye colour post-production
The mountain doesn't need a beefier build considering the guy that plays him already weighs 420lbs.
The Analator always make them beefier!
That guy is literally one of the strongest men who ever lived. Finding a bigger, stronger man is pretty much impossible, also all chapters in the book are POV, maybe the people of Westeros describe the mountain as a bit bigger than he actualy is, at least that is something I imagine to keep the story more realistic for myself ;D
4:18 "the scar is not on the wrong side!"
If you get this quote, you are a legend!
Prince zuko at the ember island play
Zuko
I am so sick of avatar/jojo’s bizarre adventure references
LMAO! Prince Zuko in ember island! That was an awesome reference!
That's rough, buddy
I actually love almost every single actor in the show they were all cast perfectly
Is it just me or did they FORGET the one and only Sansa Stark like huh?!
Cuz they totally nailed it with sansa stark lmao
Sansa has always described as beautiful and tall so no problem with that
Tachibana Shana It’s basically a coincidence that she turned out to be tall, considering she was casted as a child. She was clearly made for the role (aside from the hair color lol).
@@gabrielavictoria2013 She was still tall as hell as a fourteen year old.
Sophie Turner is Sansa in real life.
the way the revised "truer to the books" versions of the characters was done it looks like a mullet every time short hair is lengthened. So now I just imagine that all these characters should really be rocking mullets.
They had purple contacts for her but they made her vision too blurry and affected her vision after she took them out. No job in the world is worth losing your sight over, happy they had her normal color eyes.
I don't think people realize how big and tall Conan Stevens the original actor to portray the Mountain was. He was the best actor to portray him. He's a little bit taller than the current actor and just as big. More importantly, he's older and looked older than The Hound. There is no reason for The Mountain to look younger than The Hound. That's my biggest beef with the current actor. He's a big dude, but despite the beard, he's got a baby face. Conan Stevens definitely had the menacing look down needed to portray The Mountain.
Well, there's a theory that the current Mountain isn't actually Gregor Clegane.
The Mountain's actor is 425 pounds. If anything, he should have been 25 pounds smaller in the show, not larger.
The OG Mountain actor was the best, since the 3rd one, Halfthor Bjornsson, is too "short" and young compared to Rory McCann's Hound
I read that Gregor was supposed to be around 500 pounds, not 400.
No the actor should be even bigger. The mountain is 8 foot 500 pounds
@@petermaguire4825 yeah good luck finding an actual human that Is 8 foot tall and that beefy the closest I can think is a guy called the dutch giant
@@petermaguire4825 then have a nice time finding a human being that is that tall and that big who also is an actor
How could you forget Joffrey in this video? I remember being so dissapointed by his looks the first season (the awesome acting made me forget it soon after though!). He is described as tall with long blonde curly hair and really full lips. Basically the exact opposite😁
Camilla Nyboe Joffrey is supposed to be one of the most handsome characters in the book
2:55 actually dyed beards and hair are common in slavers bay. the show just didn't include any of that.
I like how theres actually a picture of how they should look like in this
and almost everyone was like 10 years younger in the books. it wouldnt have been a great picture when a 16 years old would sleep with a 7 years old boy. or a 13 years old girl with a man thats over 20.
They were 4 years younger in the books - it's specifically said on the show that it's been 17 years since Robert's Rebellion while on the books it's been 13
Exactly. That would make so many ppl uncomfortable, to say the least & Many wouldn't watch it. Including me.
I think it would be cool if the stark children looked like Tullys but it makes sense that they all look like Starks because it suggests the Stark gene is very strong, which explains why Jon snow has dark hair and eyes instead of the blonde Targarean gene.
Regardless of looks being different, Charles Dance absolutely OWNED his role as Tywin.
Yes, true.
I actually think Iwan Rheon being so adorable made his performance even scarier. No one expects someone that cute to be so evil.
All I took away from this is that Alan Rickman should have played roose bolton
or the guy who played Lucius Malfoy
But he is dead. RIP Snape
@@nicolevolcy3511 rip
@@nicolevolcy3511 Maybe he would have had he not died.
Yara(Asha) in the books is a hotty. Daario - in the books is prettier, more of a badass and the firs actor looked more like him. Mads Mikkelsen is Euron Greyjoy (especially the Valhalla Rising Mads Mikkelsen).
Lancel did aged, as he was young to begin with, he started to look much older than he should have.
The Baratheons are better looking in the books, Robert was made to appear taller then most others(TV magic). Ned - should have had grey temples . Bjornsen does wight 400lb, his face is too kind though.
The Laninsters aren't blond enough - true.
The actor that plays littlefinger is way too tall.
The show aged most actors in order to remain legal.
Elivasfq The last bit is so true. I still get uncomfortable reading about a 13 year old fucking a 35 year old horse savage after several rereads.
Stannis I Baratheon Yeh. It even makes it more uncomfortably once you realize - it was common back in the day. Even worse - it is still common in some places in the world.
Elivasfq q
Elivasfq virtue signal more buddy. Truth is, those societies might have a lot of bad things but allowing child bearing girls to get married isn't one of them. At least these countries don't have to use the term jailbait to describe what any heterosexual really finds attractive.
Also, I highly doubt the author of the books wrote underage characters purely out of shock value or "historical" accuracy. He understands that our society is screwed up and this is another way to point that out.
darthclide JRR Martin is a history buff and based a lot of his works on ancient history, myth, and, massively, upon the middle ages. Did he had another something to tell about society? I don't know.
Forcefully marrying anyone, and especially 12 years old girls is nuts. Leave it at that.
Is that not exactly what happened to Jaime through the seasons? He became way more unkept
That's called going from age 39 to age 47 .
Daniel DP it’s salt
Not when he returned to King's Landing again
really the only time jaime was unkempt was when he was captive. after he got to kings landing he pretty much instantly cut his hair down to a shorter length than it was in season 1.
4:17 "The scar is NOT on the wrong side!!" - Zuko
You make me cry! It is brilliant! GoT and Avatar have to be the best combo ever!
It's a good thing they didn't follow the books' descriptions down to a T, we fans need our eye candy lol :P
So basically the book character description are scary and ugly. I also think that for most of the casting they picked the best actors/actresses other people that auditioned for the role were probably not as good even if they had the book features.
They could have made Euron right i mean wear a eye patch isn't that big of a deal especially considering he has like 10 minutes of screen time total and give some some blue koolaid powder or whatever that candy is that kids always get everywhere
they thought people would confuse him with Beric Dondarrion which I 100% agree they would look identical!
Addy Tee
This. Prime example is Tyrion. Warwick Davis is a much better fit in physical appearance, but no way he has the acting chops of Peter Dinklage.
yea, who would have thought that people living in a place like Westeros would look scary and ugly, and not like models. Really surprising
Cersei is hotter in the Book. Same with Renly and Catelyn. But that's also because of all the aging up thing.
Actually, Missandei would most likely be darker skinned. While the "asian races" are out in the far east. WAAY further east than Naath.
stoffni missandei's role by an asian girl could be so cute!
agreed! I always imagined naath people similar in looks to the lady casted, but just much darker
I'm not the kind of person who makes a big deal out of little details. Still I think they should have stuck to the book with the Tullies and Baratheon hair. Eye color seems silly to complain about since its something i don't even notice. Overall I'm glad the series didn't completely follow the book. Those details in the book sounds exaggerated and unneeded to me.
I agree with everything except how the Targaryens are portrayed. Lilac is a pretty distinguishing trait that they should have tried to work with. I'd read that Emilia Clarke experienced discomfort with the contacts, but think maybe they should have tried to find something more comfortable for her that still kept true to the Targaryens. They should have fixed her damn eye brows too.
@@daemonwulfe
The eyes' colour bring absolutely nothing to the Targaryens.
Their silver blond wigs are more than enough to show their Targaryen lineage and how different they are from other peoples/families... The eyes wouldn't bring anything more. And their only options would be to change the colour with editing (waste of money since it's not important, can be long, also it might not always look perfect) or lenses, which are often an issue in acting (actors can't support them or can't play well with them).
I also love the violet-ish eyes the Targaryens have, but it's not a big deal if they're missing them.
I did like the line in the tv when Cersei says something like, 'could have been worse, you could have lost half your nose', making a reference to what happened in the books. I'm not sure a modern tv audience would have tolerated Martin's versions of characters, there's too much emphasis on beauty. It's easier to forget what a character looks like whilst you're reading a book, than seeing them all the time on tv.
Some of this stuff is beyond nitpicking. ‘Gilley doesn’t have buck teeth because it’s not mentioned in the books!!!’ Seriously?
I actually think it's cute. I think shes pretty adorable, but definitely makes no sense to be mad at something that "wasn't in the books" vs was
gilly is a mouth breather
I think he just being nitpicks for fun and to mess around with photoshop, rather than wanting to be an ass.
The older age of the characters in the show vs. the books was intentional by GRRM. When he first started the books he intended for a 5 year time skip to happen, but then realized he would have to write too many flashback scenes to make up for it. For that reason he started the characters at a young age, intending to make them older but then wasn't able too. In the show, he wanted all the characters to start off older so it was more believable that someone like Jon Snow could be the Night Commander in his early 20's vs being about 17 at that point in the books.
Some things will never transfer from a book to the screen well. Barriston the Bold, in the books, is described as a man with a long white beard name "White Bread' later in the books. Since the reader can't actually "see" him it becomes a surprise when you find out it was Barriston the Bold the whole time. It would never work in a TV show because as soon as you see the actors face you would know it's the same guy. Additionally, in real life, actors have contracts that won't allow them to make certain changes to their hair so they can still play other roles. Which is why in Superman v. Batman Henry Cavill had to keep his mustache and have it removed with CGI. A lot of these actors aren't going to shave there heads for a couple of months of filming and now have short hair for the rest of the year. Especially characters who are in 1 or 2 episodes and only filmed their parts for 1 week.
Why are people being so salty over this video lmao
what I'm getting from this is that sophie was perfect for sansa and I'm not about to argue
Didn't mention Jojen and Meera too
@@sgeetha7350 you right you right
@@sgeetha7350 probably just forgot about them. Jojen and Meera, like most crannogmen, are supposed to be really short. Bran is taller than Jojen despite being like three years younger
@@jaimelannister1797 I don't think he forget about Sansa. Sophie Turner is really perfect for Sansa.
GRRM confirmed that Benjen is not Coldhands.
Mathias Eriksson wtf
If that's legit, I'm gonna need a source right now.
That's right.
In the books, Coldhands is the Night's King, the 13th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and he works for Bloodraven.
To the show watchers who don't know anything : The Night King (White Walker King) =/= The Night's King.
But that's only a theory of yours isn't it @John Doe? I think I would remember that...
+Konstantin Lungstraß
It's not a personal theory if the clues are in the books and pretty damn clear to everyone:
- Was a brother of the Night's Watch. Wears black, and calls Sam "brother".
- He is not a white walker. He is a wight (reanimated corpse), but is more agile and shows intelligence and can speak, meaning he's a special case.
- Leaf says "they killed (Coldhands) a long time ago" while Benjen has only been missing for two years.
Either the Night's Watch killed the Night's King and the white walkers he used to consort with revived him, or the white walkers killed him and 3-eyed crow revived him.
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Of course you can disregard all this by looking at the manuscript where GRRM declared that Benjen is not Coldhands.
"The physical description of Missandei...seems to point to a southeast Asian influence."
Then goes to edit the face looking like East Asian
Agreed, the only thing they could find wrong with her was her race. And the book never states an exact race! This isn't our world, so they can't make cultural assumptions. They seem to think dragons are more realistic than a non-asian peaceful community? It is honestly ridiculous.
He also basically says she shouldn't have been aged up, but in the books she's like 10 and 11. which is just absurd
@@Ikuto1313 If anything I feel the casting on GoT is actually quite nice, Naath is close to the dark skinned Sunset Isles so it's likely they're descended from the same original immigrated peoples that sailed to the islands ages ago.
@@mckinseytighe8593 In some respects I can agree. But mostly because of all the sexual scenes that our modern culture would not be able to accept.
Reality though is that in that sort of time period "kids" became "adults" much much sooner than we think of a kid becoming an adult. A 16 year old parent in our time is considered scandalously young, but a 16 year old unmarried without kids in the sort of time period GoT is set in would have people questioning what is wrong with them and why they cant find a partner or have kids. It's largely our perception of what is old enough that has changed and caused us to view and treat "kids" as less capable then they could be, which in turn stunts their mental maturity and growth.
I have to say, this bit of the video bothered me too 😕
I personally love the cast, but how hard is it to find a auburnhaired blue eyed boy-->Bran, or dark and handsome guy --> Theon, etc...
Contacts
Wigs
True point Alice.
Michelle T. I’m assuming they would have been against contacts because it affects the actors’ performances. It was mentioned, I think on one of the season one commentaries, that Emilia Clarke had originally been given violet contacts but it obscured the emotion in her eyes in some way so they decided to just use her natural colour.
They don't usually do cast simply on hair color or eye color. If it's important to the story and the plot of the movie/series then they will either use momentarily dyes or wigs to make it fit.
Robb not just marrying frey's daughter pisses me off 😒
Mhm Bob pissed off cat too
walter frey agrees
Nia. is that dodie tho??????????
Really? I can watch the show a hundred times and will still understand Robb's choice. The magic of Oona Chaplin's body helps, but she also seemed really cool, funny, playful, smart, and kind.
Even Ned didn't marry a commoner so after all his family duty, Robb following his heart is pretty unique family trait.
what good is a "family trait" if half that family is dead for breaking oaths!
U didn’t do Sansa and Joffrey
Sophie Turner resembles Sansa enough IMO, just that she's quite older. Joffrey had much longer hair tho.
Except being aged up Sophie Turner is just like Sansa Stark is described in the books: beautiful, tall, slender, fair skin, long auburn hair and blue eyes. Her hair is dyed black when she is at the Vale, and that also sorta happened in the series. Joffrey is also a bit younger in the books, and is described as handsome and having Lannister blonde hair. I don't remember exactly but I believe he also has the Lannister green eyes in the book (which none of the Lannister have in the series, so I guess him having blue eyes in the series is acceptable when you consider he should have same eyes as his mother/aunt and father/uncle). One thing I do remember is that Sansa later describes Joffrey's lips as "worms, red and soft". This description happens following the execution of her father, when she stops seeing him as handsome and starts to see him as a disgusting creature. And this is actually funny because being son of two of the most beautiful people in the story (both Cersei and Jaime are described as being stunning), Joffrey is positevely handsome, but after what he does to her father Sansa starts to see him as ugly and disgusting. But anyway, overall I think the actors do look like the part, especially Sansa. I think Sophie is honestly pretty much Sansa from the books, if you don't consider the fact that Sansa is a bit younger. (Fun fact, Sophie Turner is actually blonde. She had to dye her hair and wear wigs for the part, so that's something the producers really got right).
@@AyeshaLuc I don't think him looking as attractive as his parents would make any sense considering incest can mess up your looks (and mind).. I could be wrong though. Targaryens are described as good looking despite the incest I guess
@@catya lol yeah, but in Westeros incest doesn't seem to come with uglyness, only occasional madness. And I think Joffrey is described as handsome as Jaime, just like Myrcella is said to look like a young Cersei. I don't recall Tommen's description, aside having the Lannister golden hair and green eyes, but I believe someone says that he would also look handsome once he grew out of childhood.
@@catya Incest and inbreeding don't necessarily result in children with serious flaws, physical or otherwise. It just increases the chances of recessive family traits (good and bad) showing up. This is how the Targaryen's kept the whole violet eyes and white hair thing going for so long.
The way they edited the faces honestly cracked me up so much😂
What about Catelyn?
In the books she's way younger and she is considered a beauty with a fine pair of ...pillows x)
Konstantinos Ag
All the main characters have been aged.
Konstantinos Ag she is beautiful. She couldn't be younger or they'd have to make Ned and all the children younger
as a Percy Jackson fan, we can all shut up about how different they look and there age
Bianca Di Angelo FORREAL THO!! At least GoT the show was fairly close to ASOIAF.
Bianca Di Angelo at least GOT is good! Percy Jackson Films are bad as fck! Sorry in edvanced for my english
Bianca Di Angelo 😂😂
Bianca Di Angelo agreeed 😂
Bianca Di Angelo a Percy Jackson fan huh? I am so sorry for you
Did you just avoid Khal Drogo because it looked too different in the books to actually modify a frame from the show?
How is he described in the books?
what did he look like in the books then?
He was tall and had hair down to his feet and had tiny bells hanging in his hair that tingled when he walked.
he didn't look too different, the show's drogo is just missing the longer hair and the bells hanging on it
@@isadora6092 his ponytail only went to the back of his thighs
Robb Stark had red whiskers growing in on the second book maaan, screw that clean shaven face. He had the blue eyes of the Tully's as well, but kept neds stern features
This video is so damn annoying. All I wan't to see are the before-after pictures. But now i have to watch a 20 minute video. I'd rather not.
Before and after of what? What are you even blabbering about.
he wants to see a comparison between the characters in the book and the show cast you imbecile
And when we do get to see those pictures, it's for about 0.3 seconds before we're on to the next character.
Mobin92 if you had something better to do you wouldn't have been on UA-cam. Just enjoy
My God. Dany with violet eyes and short platinum-blonde hair. Flames: 03:19
Some of these changes I completely understand, but knowing that Euron could've looked like a proper crazy arse pirate... too bad... And you're totally right about Edmure too, if they made his hair auburn maybe people wouldn't have constantly forgotten that he's Cat's brother!!!
Edmure in the series has overall diminished to some background character you hardly recognize at all (I recognized him only because he is played by Brutus from the Rome series)
The casting for this show was done so well, a lot of these are little nitpicks
Dany only has her short hair in the second book since she burnt it off. In Dance of Dragons, her hair IS long.
Dance with Dragons. DoD was the succession war. It's pretty easy to mix up.
Honeymoon Pastels It is burnt off again when she has a stand-off with Drogon. I have a sticky in that page because I love it so much. Anyway Drogon showers her with fire and she feels it burning. She still is able to order Drogon to submit though.
well i get it.... Ugly doesnt sell a show
MrShaun42088 Oh I've seen ugly people on TV
MrShaun42088 idc if there ugly a show sells a show
Or young kids.
I swear to god I've already seen this exact same video somewhere else already.
CadaverJunky looper? it's even the same narrator...
CadaverJunky It's Looper
Lets be real, these characters are all good actors. That makes up for the modifications with their looks
12:36 "400 pounds of pure muscle"
They got that part right. Hafthor is 400 pounds and the world's strongest man in real life. It's also impossible to get someone who's 8 feet tall since very few people who ever lived were that tall
He's the shortest of his brothers, so it would have been possible to find taller men.
And if they did find someone who was 8ft of muscle they would most certainly be more than 400 pounds.
I read he was supposed to be 500.
Andre the Giant was 7,5 feet and weighed over 500 pounds so GRRM probably didn't think the numbers through, someone 8 feet tall and only 400 pounds would look skinnier than how the Mountain is described.
That's what every movie and TV show does, they cast attractive people. People can call it what they want, but at the end of the day, everyone prefers to look pretty people over average-looking and ugly people.
I just imagine every character, Joffrey especially, with a full on 80's metal band permed mullet. Cersei to me is the Showgirls Elizabeth Berkeley aesthetic with Lena Headey's spot-on frown and demeanor.
the casting crew did amazing and the best they could. imagine all these changes being made? that would add time onto makeup and costumes , dragging out the shooting process.
Sounds OK. They had to make all the kids older for the sex scenes. Other than that, they went with the actors they got.
Jaqen H'ghar has the most accurate look so far.
I love this editing, the little quips of the characters taken from the series while describing them, it makes it funny, and just more interesting
Euron not wearing an eyepatch is understandable. Anything that obstructs an actor’s vision will make it harder for the actor to hit their marks in a scene.
This translates to more takes, which increases the cost. That’s why you seldom see eyepatches, at least on main characters.
one of the bannerless brothers literally has an eye patch the whole show.
@@agsmashups Ser Berric
For those who may not know this, the actress Emilia Clarke who played Daenerys Targaryen was actually prepared to shave/cut her hair for the part, but the producers decided against it.
At least that is what I have heard.
Why would she?? She was wearing a wig. They just decided to not get a shorter wig for after the fire
The biggest difference to the book is of course the aging of almost all child and teenager characters in the book. Like Sansa is 11 at the beginning, Arya 9, Bran 7 and Rickon only 3 years old. Tommen is Bran's contemporary, Joffrey a Sansa's year older, whereas Jon and Robb are both 14, but Theon is 5 years older and almost 20. But the most stunning is that Daenerys is only 13 and Viserys is 9 years older!
p.s. and Missandei is of Arya's age
Viseris is only nine ??? .... I really got to read the books....
Ha... nine years older 🙃🙃🙃🙃👍
@@florianguglielmi6741 the ability to read is a nice trait
I try though I promise 🙃
Barristan with longer hair and a big beard would have been so badass.