I'm pretty bummed about it, I always though Erlich was kind of the douchebag nucleus that everything else orbited around.

My tone has softened on this over the years. When I was a teenager and in college, I was insistent that stuff like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter had to be as close to the source material as possible.

I read and loved the book, and I'm very happy with the adaptations made so far.

I really enjoyed this episode last night and honestly thought on my own that it was one of the best of the past five or ten years, and personally felt that it could have easily been seen as an episode from seasons three to seven if the animation were cruder.