So the pilot for this aired last night. I haven't gotten around to reading the books, but I've got them all on my kindle. I've heard some high praise for this series. Any fans here?
Oh shit, didn't know about this, will def check it out. I loved those books way back in the day, even though I never finished the series and left off somewhere on book 9
No problem, just don't expect much. From what I hear, this was pumped out randomly by Universal late last night in an effort to keep the rights from reverting back to the dead authors estate. Jordans wife and company are apparently pretty pissed, since the rights were supposed to revert back tomorrow (Feb 11).
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The books start out pretty decent but then turn into a tedious, mind-numbing mess full of whiny, self-pitying characters interacting with total bitches. I heard Brandon Sanderson did a pretty good job bringing the series to a close after Robert Jordan died but by then I'd long since lost interest. Pity, because just like The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind it had a lot of potential before it was absolutely ruined. Hopefully they do a better job adapting it than they did with The Sword of Truth or The Shannara Chronicles (another series I couldn't be bothered to finish).
There is only one adaptation I am looking forward to because I think it's going to be effing brilliant: The Dark Tower by Stephen King.
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I think I made it to 6 or 7 out of a growing horrified fascination, like watching gangrene slowly spread up your leg towards your groin and realising you either amputate your leg or lose something a lot more important to you.
I remember having to really do a lot of searching just to find the PC game for this. Which is pretty cool IMO, came out in the late 90s and is a FPS type game. You get magic and weapons and stuff.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
Awesome and not surprising this is going forward, considering how huge the Game of Thrones tv series has become I imagine studios are looking for epic fantasy series to produce shows off of.
Now they only need not **** it up, capture all the good from the books while cutting out the shit.
Can't see this working out to well as a live action television series. GoT works because the fantasy aspects of the series are usually kept to a minimum so they don't have to spend massive amounts of money on effects. But WoT is all about the flashy magic.
"We don't know... if he (the Dragon) was reborn as a girl or a boy."
Clearly the showrunners have no clue what they are doing nor do they have even a basic understanding of the series. This is major change to the very foundation of the books. Yes, it's all but certain that the Dragon will remain the same character as in the series. But the mere fact that Moiraine thinks the Dragon could be a girl is a huge issue. Not only does it contradict the cosmology of the series, but the reason people are scared shitless of the Dragon Reborn, the prophesized chosen one, is because he will be a male channeler and all the issues that come with that. Heck, many people even think the Dragon Reborn will be a villain because of it. Even the main characters at the beginning of the series joke that the evil being hunting them may be the dragon. Like this is a core aspect of the series and now it's gone...
Yeah, that's a very stupid change/comment even when the final outcome is the same as the books. The Dragon being a male and therefore already tainted is a driving point of the story, as you mentioned.
They probably put that line in to try and soften the blow because the Male Rights Activists who know nothing of the books this series is based on are about to go full blown "REEEeeeeee!!!!" when they hear about a show where women are in control and men who show magic potential (ie Chads) are effectively neutered by the matriarchy.
Personally, I wouldn't have done it if it were my show. I would have kept it like the books.
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Feb 10th, 2015 07:21 PM
Thanks Scribble!
