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[mhip]

Did you finish the season?

Overall, it's a pretty big disappointment.
Casting sucks, most of the acting is real mediocre, script is real mediocre.
It's pretty to look at ( sets/landscape, not the women ), and I wanted to see it brought to the screen.
The bish of it is, apparently the show runner is a psychotic fan of the books, yet he's completely effed it all up.

 

[venividivicibj]

The bish of it is, apparently the show runner is a psychotic fan of the books, yet he's completely effed it all up.

Showrunner doesn't have any influence over the writer apparently. Moiraine stilled? Nynaeve dies and Egwene revives her? lolol

 

[mhip]

Showrunner doesn't have any influence over the writer apparently.

In interviews with him, he sure talks like he has total control.
And what was with Ishmael looking like Cyrus the Great?

 

[venividivicibj]

In interviews with him, he sure talks like he has total control.

I meant it more tongue in cheek, as the plot sometimes goes totally against the books (Mat goes back to Shadar Logoth?)

Have to give them props for Lan though - absolutely perfect casting (Moiraine is solid too)

 

[mhip]

I meant it more tongue in cheek, as the plot sometimes goes totally against the books (Mat goes back to Shadar Logoth?)

Have to give them props for Lan though - absolutely perfect casting (Moiraine is solid too)

Moiraine was great casting, given that they went with an older cast top to bottom.
Lan I like on the show, but to me in the books he's a big granite faced He-Man kind of guy, not a Samurai type. But I really have no problem there.
Perrin and Rand are some of the most wooden actors I've ever seen. The best of the three was Matt, and he's gone.
I think the guy from the Witcher they're bringing in will be good though. He'll definitely bring more of Matt's book-smart assy humor in.

 

[venividivicibj]

Moiraine was great casting, given that they went with an older cast top to bottom.
Lan I like on the show, but to me in the books he's a big granite faced He-Man kind of guy, not a Samurai type. But I really have no problem there.
Perrin and Rand are some of the most wooden actors I've ever seen. The best of the three was Matt, and he's gone.
I think the guy from the Witcher they're bringing in will be good though. He'll definitely bring more of Matt's book-smart assy humor in.

Perrin is...not good.

Looks like they started filming S2 in the summer.... so too early to make any changes from viewer feedback. RIP

 

[CDFS]

Perrin is...not good.

Looks like they started filming S2 in the summer.... so too early to make any changes from viewer feedback. RIP

I agree, but he's got nothing to work with. The script is....not good. The changes in the story seem arbitrary at best. There seems to be little rhyme or reason, unless it's grrrl power.

Why is the dragon reborn?

 

[venividivicibj]

I agree, but he's got nothing to work with. The script is....not good. The changes in the story seem arbitrary at best. There seems to be little rhyme or reason, unless it's grrrl power.

I’d understand if they were basing it off a short story/not much source material, but even the first book is ~600 pages long. There’s no reason to be making up random stuff

 

[mhip]

I’d understand if they were basing it off a short story/not much source material, but even the first book is ~600 pages long. There’s no reason to be making up random stuff

Exactly...
I understand you have to cut some stuff going to tv, but there's no reason to make wholesale changes to the story when you have an established road map that sold like a billion books.
It's the whole reason the series was green-lit. Because the books were so popular.

dicks

 

[Gibonius]

Exactly...
I understand you have to cut some stuff going to tv, but there's no reason to make wholesale changes to the story when you have an established road map that sold like a billion books.
It's the whole reason the series was green-lit. Because the books were so popular.

dicks

Well. No reason to make wholesale changes to the early books. The later ones got so messy that Sanderson basically had to spend 800 pages killing off characters so that he wouldn't have to resolve those plotlines lol.

 

[Gibonius]

Anyone watching Witcher season 2?

I'm a couple episodes in and enjoying it more than Season 1. The narrative isn't needlessly confusing like Season 1.

 

[VaderDave]

Anyone watching Witcher season 2?

I'm a couple episodes in and enjoying it more than Season 1. The narrative isn't needlessly confusing like Season 1.

We finished watching it last week. I thought it was really enjoyable. I liked how the show acknowledged the confusing multiple timelines in the first season in the conversation between Jaskier and that guard on the dock (critiquing Jaskier's songwriting but really talking about Season 1).

 

[NorCal]

Exactly...
I understand you have to cut some stuff going to tv, but there's no reason to make wholesale changes to the story when you have an established road map that sold like a billion books.
It's the whole reason the series was green-lit. Because the books were so popular.

dicks

I will never, ever, understand why this happens so often in book adaptations.

 

[Gibonius]

I will never, ever, understand why this happens so often in book adaptations.

Screenwriters be like "Look daddy, I'm a real writer now!"

 

[mhip]

The later ones got so messy that Sanderson basically had to spend 800 pages killing off characters so that he wouldn't have to resolve those plotlines lol.