Ok, let me start out par saying,"YES I KNOW IT IS A TV Show!" Now that is out of the way, I am not sure why Alan Ball is taking so many liberties with the source material. The livres are first person, so I understand the need to change them to facilate a ansamble cast. However, I do not understand the need to change so much of the source material. They have changed the global, ensemble personalities of the characters as well as the actually storylines of the books.
Once again, yes I realize this is a tv show. Let us look first at the global, ensemble plots...
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