Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones."Television and movie adaptations of popular books are often heavily scrutinized for changes made to the original source material. So when showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss took on the task of adapting George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series ' which totals nearly 5,000 pages ' they had their work cut out for them.Certain changes have resulted in major backlash from critics,but other additions to our favorite storylines have resulted in an added level of depth and entertainment.Scroll down for a look at the best scenes in the series that weren't in the books.Arya serving as Tywin's cupbearer at Harrenhal.In season two, Arya is captured and brought to Harrenhal. While this happened in the books, the lord she winds up serving isRoose Bolton, not Tywin Lannister. Book readers were pleasantly surprised to watch the budding relationship between Tywin and Arya instead. In episode seven, one scene in particular served to both humanize Tywin and reveal Arya's sharp intelligence and survival instincts.Tywin cleverly instructs Arya to eat his hot meal a gentle gesture that can be interpreted as himactually having her test his food for poison. Arya, who is posing as a lowborn, asks Tywin questions about war and in turn he tells her stories about old rulers. Tywinseems to know Arya isn't who she says, but is strangely affectionate toward her instead of suspicious. Instead of punishing her for lying, Tywin appears to be both impressed and amused by the young girl.Catelyn Stark telling Talisa a story about Jon getting sick when he was a boy.In season three, after Catelyn learns that Winterfell was attacked and her sons Bran and Rickon are missing, she tells Robb's wife Talisa a story that was never included in the books. Catelyn explains how much she hated Jon as a baby, and how she prayed to the gods for him to die.Then, Jon fell ill and actually almost died. Catelynfilled with remorsemade an internal promise to the gods. She swore she would love Jon and ask Ned to make him a true Stark if he lived.But when he got better, she went right back to hating him, and broke her promises. And now, years later, Catelyn blames herself for all the misfortune fallen upon her family. "I couldn't keep my promise," she says. "Everything that's happened since then, all this horror that's come to my family, it's all because I couldn't love a motherless child." This scene was both moving and character building, as Catelyn's complex relationship with her family is brought to the forefront.That time Podrick is a revealed to be a sex god.Not every added scene is completely depressing or serious, though. The showrunners opted to include a small but highly amusing side story about Podrick in season three. Tyrion takes Podrick to a brothel and gives him a bag of gold to spend as a way of thanking him for saving his life. But when Podrick returns, he gives the gold back to Tyrion, explaining that the prostitutes refused the money.Bronn and Tyrion eventually come to understand that Podrick was apparently so skilled in bed that the women refused to accept payment. Podrick, a meek and sometimes clumsy boy, being a secretly talented sex god proved to bea hilarious and endearingaddition to the series.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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