I am forever bitter about Eragon…
The fucking Dark Tower.
What a complete waste of a great cast.
It wasn’t necessarily ‘bad’, but I think they could have done better with Ender’s Game.
As soon as I heard about the movie I knew they were gonna milk the laser fight scenes for far more than they were worth.
I know this is a total pipe dream that never would’ve happened, but I wish they either just focused on Bean or just made a philosophical epic out of Speaker for the Dead/Xenocide instead.
Eragon never got a movie.
Atla never got a movie
These things are true.
Eragon was not a great book. It was a decent premise, the characters and story had potential. Given it was written by a teenager, it’s very impressive.
But Mr Paolini must look back on it and cringe so bad. I’d actually like him to go back and reboot it now as a mature author.
I mean are you judging it as the target market?
It was a young adult book. I refer to it as baby’s first high fantasy.
Do 8-12 year old boys that will love super long high fantasy later in life probably still love it? I would bet money.
But of course as adults we look down on the young adult book. Basically all young adult books seem not well made as adults.
I know a handful of exceptions, but they stand out in my head as remarkable because they were exceptions.
World War Z The movie only shares a name with the book. Everything else is bullshit.
The audiobook is really excellent and I sometimes get frustrated that they didn’t just add a camera and call it a TV show.
Wheel of Time is currently getting fanfic-ed into oblivion by the showrunners. I’m watching it anyway to see the characters come alive but some of it hurts.
I’m only on book 3 of WoT but decided to check out the first few episodes of the show anyways – I think some of the changes were wild and out of left field and some were very reasonable. Like skipping the first few towns of the journey makes sense, and introducing Tom at a slightly later point cause he’s kinda useless before that.
I did stop watching and had an existential crisis when they showed Waygates just being basically Minecraft Nether Portals haha Oh and channeling looks SO GOOFY in the show!
It’s tragic really, I actually quite like everything apart from the script. I knew from the get that they would have to cut a lot of stuff and merge some books - which to be honest is fine, plenty of stuff that doesn’t need to go in - but I don’t understand their need to manufacture melodrama. It feels like every episode nothing happens but we’re still flying through the plot.
Just a complete failure to match the tone/cadence of the books. So much time should be spent traveling and exploring the world, but the show chooses to sit around and have overdramatic unexplained scenes that won’t make any sense to someone who hasn’t read the books. I’m still not sure who the target audience is.
I gave up halfway through the Shadar Logoth episode (near the beginning of season 1).
I could overlook the individual annoying little details, such as Lan complaining that his bath’s not hot enough, but the big issue I have is the tone. The books have an air of romantic optimism which, on the screen, ought to play out much more like Lord of the Rings than Game of Thrones. The series just discards that, going modern grimdark grittiness, and as a consequence something essential seems to be lost.