Re: Real men are like wolves, with you for life or alone for it - Part 6
I doubt Bran and Arya will look like adults at the assumed end of the show. Arya looks like a munchkin anyways.
Huh? Maisie will look like a hawt young lady. No matter if she's short or not, she'll develop features and look more adult. She's already 15. Isaac who is supposed to be a year younger is still 13 but is already getting big (there's a huge difference from season 1 and 2 Bran, especially the pilot and season 2). Let's say they use 5 seasons on books 3, 4 and 5, that'll make Maisie 20 and Isaac 18, and that's even excluding the last two books. Assuming the show runs for that many seasons and they don't go back to butchering books to fit them into a single season, they'll be really old by the end of the show compared to the actual timeline that is supposed to be in place.
People were worried about that as well when they released the first Harry Potter movie. In the end, their real age against what they were supposed to look like wasn't a problem to me. Maybe they'll accomplish the same with GoT^^
There's a huge difference. HP was a year to year series, hence the actors getting a few years ahead of the actual characters didn't really matter as they were supposed to go from kids to late teenagers anyway. That a 17 year looks older isn't uncommon either so it wasn't a big deal. In ASOIAF there's only about 3 years that have gone by (book 1 covers about half of that time). The actors are pretty much already at the age they are supposed to be at in the present events (taking into account their "new ages" in the TV show), and that's many seasons away.
In the end I preferred to imagine the characters older. I never imagine Bran as a 10 year old when I'm reading his chapters, so I don't have an issue with them being older than the books portray. They already are in the show. There's nothing they can do about this, but it will be pretty weird seeing a cripple Bran that is 18 years old crawling around when he's supposed to be several years younger. There's a pretty huge difference between the body build of a 13/14 year old and an 18 year old. To not make the situation too awkward the show will have to make the time flow faster in the show's universe than in the book's. An easy factor to bring in is to pretend Westeros and Essos are far larger than in the books. Which will make everything take much longer.
