I've recently been rewatching the show while also reading (binging) the books, and I realized how badly Loras is done in the show. The actor is really good, don't get me wrong, but the writing... Loras is part of the Kingsguard, he has an actual personality beyond his sexuality, whereas in the show its like "oh look, he's gay!", and then... yeah. Nothing, really. They take everything from Loras that makes him a good character in the books.
Even more angry am I about the fact that they took away the friendship between Jaime and Loras. Jaime defended him against Cersei (more than once), and wanted to make him the Lord Commander while he's gone; he even compared Loras to himself (and to Cersei, once, I think).
And all of that is gone in the show, his love for Renly is downplayed to a degree where he screws some other man as soon as he gets to it while in the books he still mourns Renly (and tells Jaime about it, actually).
Loras, in the books, is one of my favorite characters. And then in the show he's just... there? And then he gets captured, and then he's dead. It's so.. disappointing and I wonder why they did it?
Submitted August 29, 2021 at 01:22PM by cornelia_fogwell https://ift.tt/3zuNldQ
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