How Is Waymar Anton Different From The Book

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“Winter is coming” we hear all throughout the series of the Game of Thrones, but what all does winter bring? The opening scenes in the first season of Game of Thrones’ episode exposes viewers to a curious yet gruesome scene. Right away viewers learn that this medieval show has as an ancient and magically theme to its plot. While the both the book and the TV show open with exposing us to the white walkers, they differ in character development and story telling. Beginning with time the men of the night watch range north of the wall in the TV series and the book, the differences begin. In the book, the men have been marching for a few days before they find any trace of the white walkers. However, in the TV show they have been marching for less …show more content…

She is never mentioned in the book, but definitely adds another element of scare for the viewers’ initial interaction with the white walkers. After Will sees the white walker massacre in the TV show he goes out to continue searching for wildings leaving the other two men, Gared and Waymar Royce, for the the white walkers to attack. However, in the book Waymar Royce is really left alone to handle the white walkers. In the TV show, Waymar Royce is killed in an ambush, where as in the books he dies fighting the white walkers before being turned into a Wight. The amount of White Walkers depicted in the TV show (two white walkers) and the book (several white walkers) differs. The difference in the way of death and the amount of white walkers in the episode could be to quicken and simplify the scene. Truthfully, the perception of that scene is not vital to the plot. However, by removing Ser Waymar Royce’s wight transformation the death of Will by Royce’s cannot be portrayed in the TV show. Will, therefore, escapes the clutches of the white walkers and deserts the wall. Gared’s murder by the walkers is added to the TV show. In the book, Gared escapes from the whitewalker scene before being executed for desertion at winter fell. Will brings the viewers attention the affects of the white walkers first. Perhaps in the creators minds, viewers already have an attachment to Will and his fear of the walkers. Therefore, they allowed him to escape instead to again bring focus to how terrifying the white walkers are that he would rather be executed than have to stay and fight against