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it is essentially just becoming a new story.
I disagree. I think they are taking a more direct route to the conclusion. Yes, Barristan is alive in the books, but I bet he dies in the Battle of Slaver's Bay.
When the show and books are all completed (in 2017 and 2073, respectively), I bet the consensus will be "same story, less meandering."
The end will likely be very similar or the same but there is no doubt it is a different story at this point. I am ok with it, I'm actually looking at it from the perspective of "what if this had happened instead" but I think it cheapens the books to say that just because the primary conclusion is similar that it is the same story.
Agree the Sand Snakes are looking a bit cheesy and way too much "Fox Force 5". We will see though. I am lost on the Sansa diversion because it is pretty sloppy. LF still seems to know nothing about Ramsay and yet he wants the marriage to happen. Then he thinks Stannis will win but then Stannis will just pardon Sansa for marrying by choice someone he sees as a traitor, of course this will happen after Ramsay and Roose are killed theoretically. Then LF is heading to KL to meet with Cersei and she will now know that LF hid Sansa all this time and married her off to Ramsay? The leaps of logic are pretty big there.
I liked the Tyrion/Jorah interaction. The Loras/Cersei/Tommen stuff is interesting but a pretty significant change. Not sure why they went out of their way to have Melisandre convince Stannis she should go with him when that goes against the whole arc in the books where she sees Jon as AA and stays with him at the Wall. The "You know nothing Jon Snow" line was awesome but I'm still trying to figure out where they are going with all that. The Jaime/Bronn stuff is fun but it's hard to see how it will work out.