• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Yeah I never read the books or played the games. So when I watched it I thought it was kinda janky because they were trying a little to hard trying to stay true to the books.

    Then I later found out it wasn’t true to the books. Sure sometimes you need to change things to make a story work better for a new medium. But why is it so jank then?

    If they made changes but it worked really well as a TV show because of those changes I can understand. And if the show is janky because they tried to stay too close to the books, I can understand. But they made a janky show that’s not true to the books. I don’t understand!

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      10 months ago

      I’ve heard even that books aren’t that good, basically being medieval James Bond, but somehow even more misogynistic.

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      10 months ago

      Some of the jank is because of the first book for sure. Doing three different converging timelines isn’t easy.