User blog comment:The Dragon Demands/Worst changes made by the TV series/@comment-108.225.220.57-20141212151844/@comment-5014364-20141212175639

No. Read between the lines. "Well, they're just different" is Martin's tacit way of saying "screw you D&D" to the major changes which he found utterly bizarre, particularly his comments about Talisa at ChiCon.

...how the hell can you possibly...okay, I said "a few of the characters weren't allowed to have the dark moments they had in the books, specifically Tyrion, Catelyn, and Cersei"....NONE of these three characters ever raped someone in the books!

The same characters I'm saying "don't get their dark moments" aren't ones who suddenly raped someone. Tyrion would ruthlessly have people killed but he never raped someone in the Red Keep.

My complaint is that they're resorting to rape as a gratuitous lowest common denominator with Craster's Keep....by just showing a MONTAGE of it. It was lazy. Why not just do what they did in Season 1, with Ned being TOLD about Gregor and his men burning out villages and raping women by the dozen?

I'm not sure what "not being enough feminism" means exactly. I'm more annoyed that they were unwilling to show Tyrion kill out of questionable motivations, and unwilling to show that even Catelyn can be a harsh but effective political leader.