big kahuna wrote:
RangerGress wrote:
I did the 3 book series on audio a year or two ago. Is a good series by a strong author. Usually if you've read the book already, you'll dislike the movie/TV show, but my reaction's more positive to this. I've watched the first 4 now and I'll probably watch the rest. Most TV I've seen in months.
I think a season of "The Expanse" has just started too. That's based on another great book series. In that case tho, there's complexity that is harder to dumb-down for the screen.
We got through episode 7 last night. It's picked up a lot more steam since the intro episode and the following four after that. I haven't read the book, so I can't compare it, but movie or series adaptations typically always differ in ways from their source material. This was so even in the case of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movie adaptations. It's just the way things are, so people should probably just examine each of the two (book(s) versus movie/TV adaptations) in that light and take them for what they are.
My issue with "the book was much better", isn't about "differences", it's about losing the sublties and complexities that help make decent books interesting and imaginative. One can't take a 25hr audio book and distill it down into a 2hr movie, or a 6hr TV season (36min x 10 shows) without losing a lot of content.
I chose 36min for the length of a show because the TV show of 45min(?) of honest content has to adapt itself for the "first time series watcher" that is going to need enough historical references to have the context necessary to understand the current episode.
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RangerGress: Feb 4, 18 7:51