I think my big complaint for the entire season is that they cut some of the good characters for characters with TITS. Tits are good, but fuck we can look at tits on the internet all day.
I'm not usually one of those "lol they just insert nudity everywhere" people and I think most of the nudity is justifiable (nothing wrong with seeing Bron singing with hookers before the battle, for exmaple) but there was one sex scene I had a problem with: Joffrey torturing the prostitutes. Not that I'm opposed to them including sexual violence, I'm fine with that! But it felt like they almost had a checklist of different sex scens to get through and they reached "sexual violence" and thought "let's invent a Joffrey scene!"
The scene itself was fine, but it just felt like a waste of time. The same episode had Joffrey torturing Sansa by stripping her in front of the court, a scene that was in the book and was very effective. Why did they need another sexual tortue type scene with Joffrey directly after it? Did it add anything? Did we learn anything about Joffrey we didn't really know? It was the only scene that really felt like them just inserting nudity for the sake of it (well, maybe Ros showing her tits to Varys, but I liked that scene.)
IN THE BOOK, Joffrey shoots protesters with his crossbow (or tries to anyway) and has Stannis supporters thrown out of the city by catapult. I'd have rather have seen either of those things than the torture Ros scene.
I'd like to hear about the differences too. Especially about the House of the Undying. They could have at least had her entering it last week, instead of just a couple of scenes of her deliberating whether too.
The whole Qarth story was quite different in the book. Xaro Xhoan Daxos was gay, kept asking Dany to marry him so he could get one of her dragons, and weaped every time she refused (which would probably have looked silly.) The dragons weren't stolen and Dany went into the House of the Undying to learn from the warlocks. She saw many confusing visions that showed future events in the books (many have come true as of book five.) It was a whole load of foreshadowing and prophecy and I guess they thought tv viwers wouldn't like that, but I missed the carzy surrealness of it. I don't want to list all the prophecies because it's hard to write them down without giving spoilers, I guess...
The Warlocks then tried to feed off her energy or something but Drogon (the black dragon) burned the house down and Dany had to flee Qarth and encoutered another character who hopefully will be introduced next season...