A very small issue with the TV series was that the Stark direwolves were of course real dogs and WAY too small. The direwolves are supposed to be uncomfortably large as pups, make people nervous when they're half-grown and be as large as small ponies when full grown. No one in their right mind ever moves against a Stark while their wolf is around. It would be nice if in Season 2 or 3 HBO went with CGI or other special effects to bring out how large these beasts are.
Here are some interpretations that are true to the books.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
