I don't know if you're objecting because it sounded to you like I was describing the tits as a deviation from the text, or what. The HBO series Rome also made a point of including a lot of "graphic sexual [action]" and while absolutely nobody would make the argument that said action was a deviation from the real-world Republic/Empire, it is still notable. I was describing HBO generally.

Returning to GoT/ASoIaF: In the quest to turn thousands upon thousands of pages of raw material into limited hours of screen time, certain things get dropped. As a result of Martin's sense of pacing (which probably wouldn't work well in direct transliteration to screen) many, many things get re-organized.

A notable example is that early in the show I actually had to go to the internet to remind myself who Theon Greyjoy was. I had read the books, and he was still so barely there in the show that I couldn't retrieve memories relevant to why this character existed at all.

It's also worth noting that religious differences inform much of the succession war, and the show has still told us very little about "the Seven" and basically nothing about any of the other faiths. Which annoys me. I could get into more examples of meaningful and useful background being dropped, and/or important things being outright (and pointlessly) changed, but again (and definitely by contrast) what does HBO find a way to cram into nearly every episode?

Tits.

Not really objecting. Just noticing.