'Game of Thrones': 17 Biggest Changes from 책 to TV 

The first and most vital change showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff made to George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire saga? The books take place 14 years after Ned and Robert’s rebellion against the Targaryen dynasty; the show, however, takes place 17 years later. This in turn allowed Benioff and Weiss to age each of the story’s young characters by two or three years—a shift that makes all of their engagements, literal or otherwise, a little easier to swallow. (In the show, Daenerys is 16 rather than 13 when she’s married off to Khal Drogo, for example.) Even Martin has admitted that aging up Dany, the Starks, and the Baratheons leads to more story possibilities; he’s said himself that he initially intended his child characters to grow more during the book series, only to discover that his plot moved too quickly to allow for the type of growth he wanted.

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