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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 9239022" data-attributes="member: 6801286">Oh, if we're nitpicking Game of Thrones, I have a very specific one that really grinds my gears. In the very episode that introduces Melisandre (this was probably episode 1 of season 3), there's a scene where Maester Cressen tries to poison Melisandre. But in a baffling choice, the creators changed a minor detail here that makes the scene weaker than the same scene in the book (Clash of Kings, at the end of the prologue, if you're curious).So in the book, Maester Cressen offers poisoned wine to Melisandre. She 'knows' it is poisoned, but looks him dead in the eyes, drinks it, and hands it back to him. "...And now you." -she says. Cressen can't admit that he tried to poison her, and he can't really decline either or it would be very suspicious. So he has to drink, and dies while she looks down on him and the jewel around her neck glows red.In the show, for whatever reason, they turned the order in which they drink around. Cressen drinks first, and then Melisandre. Why change it? It makes the scene nonsensical.[MEDIA=youtube]htK-gdE02ow:112[/MEDIA]</blockquote>