They screwed Jon over BIG TIME in season two. They took out all of his great ranging experiences with The Halfhand and the rest of the OGs. Instead we got a dozen scenes of him being sexually harassed. Season 2 was really bad, man. I mean, just look at the House of the Undying. Season 3 has been quite pleasant though.
When I was reading Clash of Kings I never dreamed I'd actually ever be able to see it acted out. The Battle for King's Landing with the wildfire though? That was a grand slam to me, knocked it right out of the park. That whole part was handled so darn well, I can overlook not having scene after scene of Jon doing the ranger thing. I certainly don't think Jon Snow has been marginalized at all in the series.
I always keep in mind that George RR Martin is on hand when they are doing the series and a lot of the changes are made with his approval/input, based on the hindsight of having seen how things played out on screen in Season 1, etc.
Before the series started, I could've made a list of my top moments in the books: Dany's birth of the dragons, the King's Landing wildfire, Melisandre's freaky shadow demon birth, Dany backstabbing to get the Unsullied, etc. They've just nailed all of these.
I've got some things I wish they put in, one of my favorite parts got left out, but I don't want to be like someone saying the Peter Jackson LotR series is s--t because they left out Tom Bombadil.
What I'm curious to see is how they'll handle Season 4. Will they do as Books 4 and 5 did and split everyone up? It is already at the point where you can go an entire episode without seeing one of the major characters.
