Indeed.

Agreed, and I specifically hope they learned from what worked best this season (and what didn’t), and lean into it even harder. I am not sure this series will ever become as big a deal as GOT (which is a very high bar), but I could see a further improved version being consistently popular for Amazon, say at least what…

Yeah, I find this part of the online conversation fascinating. Some book fans are speaking on behalf of non-book-readers and suggesting they must be confused by the lack of explanation of various things. But a lot of non-book-readers at least have the impression they are following along just fine. And to the extent…

So in the TV show, Egwene and Nynaeve are also ta’veren. And Egwene is being set up as the heroic leader of the group (in the sense she is the one who typically first sees what is the right thing to do, and inspires the others to follow—and Nynaeve explicitly said that in the finale). Nynaeve is potentially the most…

In certain online discussions your view might seem like a minority, but to me it looks like overall it is at least a pretty solid majority view. Meaning although not everyone who tried it liked it, it looks like a significant majority did.

I actually really liked that graphic demonstration of just how much more raw power Egwene and Nynaeve had during the joining scene, and also that it then killed the other three to use it that way.

I think part of the explanation for the anticlimatic finale is that for good or ill, this is a key part of the overall narrative—Moiraine THINKS she is taking the Dragon Reborn for a decisive confrontation with the Dark One at the Eye, but it turns out she is wrong. And that is a revelation we are supposed to be OK…

As typically used in a film/TV context, an adaption is definitely not limited to the source work being a novel, or a writing in general. As you point out, you can adapt a tv show into a film, or a film into a TV show, and also games into film/TV, even a song into film/TV, and so on.

A lot of viewers, including me, apparently loved that episode.  Maybe it didn’t work for you, but I think an episode which is basically half the length of a feature film is not inherently too little time in which to set up that sequence.  Of course they are not falling in love, they are in love already, and we are…

So we’ve seen the last Dragon now, and we know what he decided to do ruined a technologically-advanced civilization and caused all sorts of misery by allowing the Dark One to corrupt his side of the Source. We also saw even just a False Dragon conquer an apparently powerful kingdom, even while barely containing his…

Again, I think you should be suspecting by now that in terms of the TV show, Rand may be the most magically powerful character, but not necessarily the most important character in terms of the story the show will tell.

The usual definition of a film adaptation allows for the filmed work to be based in whole OR in part on the non-film work. In copyright law, it is a type of licensed derivative work, and you very much could not legally produce this show without the contractual right to do a film adaptation of the novels,…

The show definitely seems to have adopted the structure that Rand is not necessarily a main protagonist simply because he is the Dragon, and instead him being the Dragon is more something the show’s actual protagonists (Moiraine, Egwene, and Nynaeve) have to figure out how to deal with. In some sense I think the books…

I agree the changes would predictably turn off some book readers and yet were very likely necessary to appeal to a wide modern audience mostly made up of non-book-readers.

So obviously it is fine for any given individual to not like any particular content, but apparently this was a massive hit for Amazon, including in terms of completions (so it was not like the live action Cowboy Bebop, say, where apparently a lot of people started it and then quit). So at a minimum, it raises the…

My favorite character/performance all along was Kate O’Flynn’s DC Lancing. And I was resigned for most of this episode to being disappointed. Obviously the role of the investigator is naturally deemphasized once we get to the trial phase of the Law & Order formula. But even in Susan’s Western fantasy, they are…

That’s the action on Crait. Bricken is referring to the setting, which is quite different from Hoth.

My personal favorite example of this is Cardiff in the Torchwood series. Pretty sure it would have emptied out once people realized it had something like 1000 times the normal per capita rate of unexplained violent deaths.

So even assuming Lucas was intentionally writing the dialogue in the prequels to sound like pulp fiction, that was an obvious, horrible mistake.

My issue is that it doesn’t really make sense for an expansive criminal enterprise to be HQed on a lame backwater planet. Like any big employer, in fact, criminal enterprises generally need to be based somewhere that they can recruit the necessary talent. For that matter, part of the point of being a criminal boss is…