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Originally Posted by Gravedigger
Posts from before mentioned how the inner monologue in the books made certain events seem more impactful because you got to see what the person was thinking in words not in glances or looks. I'm sure if this is the ending, and if Dany becomes the Mad Queen and burns Kings Landing to the ground, the books will show the slow slip into madness better than the show ever could. I was thinking last night that when Jon tells Arya and Sansa about his lineage that I really wanted to see their reactions in real time, but they didn't fit it into the episodes so that was a bit of a disappointment.
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Martin did a truly spectacular job with Cersei in that regard.
When I re-read the books, I realized that you can literally read the cheese slipping off her cracker. She has some POV chapters in Feast and I think Dance and in those you can get in her mind. Martin does an amazing job of making it seem reasonable to her in her own head while making those 'reasonable' justifications look relatively batshit to outside observers. He makes her paranoia shine through as well.
Martin uses the POV structure to do a really nice job of demonstrating someones descent into the maelstrom and that's not an avenue available to the showrunners here.