2014-09-17, 10:59 AM
Polantaris Wrote:Expecting a video adaptation of any originally written material to be identical is setting your expectations way too high, especially multi-volume books.
Identical? That's not even in the same scope as what I'm talking about, I would be perfectly fine with 70-80% similarity, and I think the LotR movies were great so fantasy novels can be done correctly even if they aren't the exact, but this isn't even close. Half the scheming that goes on in this series is in internal monologue, and you can't portray that in a movie or TV series, at least not well, even if that was the only problem this had it would still be barely salvageable, but, compounded with all the other problems/cut scenes/complete changes in character story/age/location/etc, it just isn't a very good thing to try and sell as the same series as the books. It's not a BAD series, it's just not ASoIaF, the feeling is entirely different. You can capture some aspects better on screen, but for a series like this, it just completely throws off the message of the books; I'd be willing to guess that a lot of people have picked up the books after watching this and hated them, which, I don't blame them for, they would have been expecting something entirely different, the books sometimes spend entire chapters just describing the scenery or people with no overt plot advancement whatsoever, and that kind of thing is not for everyone. Hell, there are multiple chapters in a row where the person is just staring out over an encampment/fortress/the sea/a library or some books/a cabin door and thinking about pomegranate, nothing else.