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What book needs a TV series / film adaptation? (feddit.uk)
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[–] 30 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I'm still disappointed they botched the Wheel of Time. Like, right from the very beginning, that started making really questionable choices. I wish they'd do it animated because one, that'd make the magic way cheaper, and two, it'd make it feasible to grapple with the sheer size of the series.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago

    I honestly don't think it was this bad (coming from someone that has read it three times). Some decisions were weird. The focus on Alanna was a bit high. I also unserstood from the beginning that it can't possibly be 1:1, so I went in with the mindset that it was a new turning of the wheel, which might've helped. The first season was thoroughly fucked by covid, ans the second season had to handle the fallout of that. By the third season I thought it really was starting to come together, and I was actually getting excited for its future. I was really bummed out by the cancelation.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It's crazy how badly they fucked up everything about that show from top to bottom.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Yeah... If you can decouple it from the books, it's a fairly entertaining show, but as a Wheel of Time adaptation, it was just not very good.

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  • [–] 0 points 13 hours ago

    I kind of cant even agree with that. I tried to enjoy it as a WOT adaptation, I tried to enjoy it as just high budget fantasy TV. for me, the writing was a disaster, it was very clear they were ther to tell the BIG story over 10 episodes but really over many many seasons, they were fully committed to this grand fantasy but they forgot that an episode of TV needs to stand on its own. Each episode was just like a 1 hour clip of a 10 hour movie, there was no narrative or structure to individual epsodes.

    Outside of that, the CGI is bad, the effects in general were very bad. Set design and costumes were pretty decent mainly but the show looked cheap despite being the most expensive ever made.

    There are a lot of other criticisms I have of the show but I don't think ther is a lot of point going on.

    For what its worth, I thought season 3 was actually somehow decently made and written, it was just so late at that point that it meant nothing.

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