I'm the guy who usually tells people who say, 'it wasn't like the book', that the book and the movie(or in this case, the series) are 'two different things'...writing this, this seems obvious, but...i guess what i'm trying to say is that i don't mind changes that are made as long as they're as good or, at those rare instances, BETter than the source material...
i am reading the book in tandem with watching the series...some of the changes made really don't make much of a difference...but some of the changes made in THIS episode were so deleterious to the potential power of the story that i felt i needed to comment on it here...
what bothers me most about this is how easily, without much added expense OR time taken, it COULD have been done the way it is in the book...i'm not into spoilers, so i won't comment on specifics...but...if you like the series then get copies of the books and read them...you'll be so much more satisfied...