SPOILERISH-LIKE:

And what about the omission of Jojen and Meera Reed!? I am SO pissed they’ve been left out of Bran’s story. I read somewhere that those two characters definitely do not appear in this season. I can’t imagine how they’d even be integrated into the follow-on seasons, either. Of all the liberties they’ve taken with adapting the series, that is the most unfortunate, IMO.

I just discovered the AV Club’s collection of GoT reviews yesterday. The site features Expert and Novice-level reviews. It helped to illuminate possible cinematic reasons for changes in the story (e.g. Dany’s missing dragons, Theon’s sister’s name, Shadow Baby, etc.)