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Originally Posted by keg in kc
I actually remember book Sansa being much more naive than her tv counterpart. She's like the prototypical Disney princess at the start and just continues being monumentally clueless for the longest time. Though not so much as her mother. Giving her Jeyne Poole's storyline (IIRC Ramsay marries her as fake arya) from the book actually allowed them to mature her much more effectively.
IMO the sansa chapters in the books are some of the worst to slog through until she starts to wise up. Even worse than catelyn, and she gives dany a run for her money in terms of 'oh God I have to read another chapter with her??'
On the other hand yes book Cersei is nigh on irredeemable, to the point where Jamie abandons her, though who knows what happens in book 6.
TV Cersei is definitely setting up the Tyrells. I don't think the queen of thorns lasts much longer than Kevan. Don't see Cersei dying this season, and don't see anyone but Arya killing her.
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Agreed.
Book Sansa sucks FAR worse than television Sansa. Book Sansa can just ****ing die already. Her POV chapters are awful and while she's not quite the vapid twat that Catelyn was, she's pretty close (and she'd have easily surpassed Catelyn with time and practice; her natural talent for being an insipid meddler is without peer).
And Book Cersei isn't just less relateable, she's far less intelligent. Having POV chapters for her and letting you inside her head allows Martin to show you that sometimes she's just not nearly as intelligent as she thinks she is. Duncan accurately described book Cersei as the literary embodiment of the Duncan-Kruger effect; it's balls on. The television Cersei seems calculating and cunning and while she occasionally draws bad cards, the show never seems to suggest that sometimes she's simply not very bright.
The book, OTOH, shows you that sometimes she's simply very wrong. It also does a really nice job of showing a slow descent into straight up madness whereas the show seems to actually be leveling her out and making her more and more sane.