“See, in the books, Robb Stark is this kid in his early teens who gets swept up in the “Game of Thrones”, and is a brilliant tactician, but makes some immature mistakes because he’s pretty much just a freshman in high school. On the show, Robb Stark is a hot guy of sex-able age who wears his shirt open a lot so we can see his chest. Do you understand the difference? One of them is a 14 year old kid playing war games and the other one is someone a 20 something woman could have sex with. It’s a subtle difference, but it’s there.”

—Meghan O’Keefe

I feel like this accurately sums up how HBO adapts A Song of Ice and Fire.