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HELENSLOAN
Game of Thrones
The third season of Game of Thrones is over, and looking back over the last ten episode, it wasn't just the strongest season of the show so far; it was a season that managed to take the impressive source material of the novels and actually improve upon it.
Yes, George R. R. Martin is the J. R. R. Tolkien of our age, a deft, a once-in-a-generation fantasy writer with spectacular world-building skill. But he and his stories aren’t without their blind spots, and while translating complex narratives between media is tricky business – and something is almost always lost in translation – Game of Thrones is one of the rare instances where the adaptation has not only faithfully maintained the spirit of the original, but turned many of its weaknesses into strengths.
