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I've heard nothing but bad things about Amazon Prime's "Wheel of Time" adaptation.
Imagine taking a beloved classic fantasy series and handing the material off to the CW for adaptation and you've got the gist of Amazon's WoT series. It's pretty, it's vapid and there's a whole pile of extra teenage soap opera drama thrown into season 1 for no real reason.
Same thing that happened with the Shannara TV show. MTV wanted a kid friendly fantasy romance competitor to GoT, so they butchered a series that's basically none of those things. They also started with book 2 for whatever reason.
I imagine they couldn’t get the rights to The Lord of the Rings in order to adapt book 1 of Shannara.
What? No it's totally different, our Gandalf is named Allanon and he's a Druid, not a Wizard. Druids get a d8. And the Warlock Lord's Skull Bearers are definitely not Nazgul, they fly with wings not horses.
The first episode was enough for me.
I've hate-watched all of it. It's not good, some things are wrenching departures the books, but there's also been parts of it they adapted well I think.
I think anyone who has never read the books would enjoy it.
I watched the first season, loved it, read the books, watched the show again and was a bit disappointed by some of the changes. I’ll watch the whole series though and think of it as a different turn of the wheel. It’s a decent series imho it just isn’t a one to one translation.
yeah I find I can enjoy it if I just try not to think about the series. The big issue is the way gender worked in the universe (fictional universe for anyone who is going to get triggered) with magic. By having her search for boys and girls it discounts a pretty large plot point later. Not sure how they are going to deal with it when it comes up other than gloss over it.
How far did they take the teen drama aspect of it?
I almost hear nothing good about the books themselves these days. Everyone liked them when I first got into them... 😥
Braid tugging and poorly written female characters aside, a very large number of the interpersonal problems in those books could be solved in anybody ever talked to each other. The nobody ever trusts anybody or talks about an issue gets kind of irritating. Even if he was going for realism it is pretty over the top.
Kind of like how a large number of Seinfeld episodes would be over in five minutes if they had cell phones.
I actually find one of the interesting parts of the books being the kind of way that misinformation can spread across the country.
Like a character does one thing and that action gets attributed to a whole bunch of different people by different characters.
But yea, I'm on book 9 now and definitely a bit frustrated with nobody just talking about things.
I really like the second season. And did like the book series. I think a TV show has to move faster, it's an adaptation not a recreation. So it's a different story but it works. Not the first season, that was not good but the next one I enjoyed so much.