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Peretta Frightens the Demon : Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen

Illustration for Jean de la Fontaine's book, The Devil of Pope-Fig Island

La peretta di Giuseppe Iannozzi Vado in farmacia, ho bisogno di dentifricio e collutorio. La farmacista, che ha un fisico da fare invidia a una top model, sta servendo una signora oltremodo appariscente. Avrà intorno agli ottant’anni, come minimo. Indossa una gonna lunga con lo spacco, una maglietta strettissima e scollata; la canizie è nascosta, almeno in parte, da un cappellino fru fru. Alle…

If I could, I would have edited out some parts of tonight’s episode. Peretta, while an interesting and understandable character, was a bit grating in the beginning. I don’t like the implication that the Overlords made her see her mother. I am okay with what she did in the barn. 

There is something bothering me about the way they shoehorned in how the Overlords serve others. It’s like the show runners were caught between making Karellen scary or staying with the book.

Is this how people who read the Game of Thrones books feel? You go into the show knowing the whole story but the tv show changes the story in a way that messes with the overall themes.