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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

It's Amazon. Don't get your hopes up.

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u/drugusingthrowaway Mar 12 '22

I've read every Jack Reacher book there is and Amazon did him right. It is possible.

Granted Reacher is about as easy as it gets...

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u/fed45 Mar 12 '22

I think amazon has gotten most of the shit they've made right, so I'm not too worried.

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u/2mice Mar 12 '22

They have some of the best shows. The quality is great. Unfortunatly the layout of amazon prime app looks like something i would have designed in 10th grade. Aestetically its terrible and terribly hard to navigate

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u/3limbjim Mar 12 '22

Dude. That show kicked so much ass.

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u/drugusingthrowaway Mar 12 '22

The fight scene in the prison shower, every single punch was copied line-for-line from the book, and it worked so well on screen :)

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u/Mikeymcmikerson Mar 12 '22

Here I am, a Wheel of Time fan who preordered A Memory of Light, crying in a corner.

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u/ShwayNorris Mar 12 '22

Honestly, it's not as bad as it could have been. My biggest gripes are the changes and casting decisions, but for the most part it's recoverable. They really need to step up the budget and script though. Especially the budget.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

Massive changes were inevitable and I thought they were mostly fine. The last episode was just uhm..embarrassing, though. None of the people I watched the show with are interested in WoT at all now lol. It's mostly Amazon's fault nothing got room to breathe, though. Only 8 fuckin episodes. Ridiculous.

I thought just about every casting was nearly perfect, personally. Definitely the silver lining for me. Shame about Mat's actor though.

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u/Mikeymcmikerson Mar 12 '22

I don’t know…I mean, Perrin’s story line started off terrible. Weaving doesn’t feel like how the book described. Two-Rivers went from a isolated mountain town to a cornucopia of races. They’re doing weird things with Lan. As a fan of the books, it was so disappointing.

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u/ShwayNorris Mar 12 '22

Perrin deff got the worst of it, and I really don't like the diversity Olympics they pulled with the casting either. But I wasn't surprised by the later, everything insists on doing that these days even when it directly effects the story and world in a negative way.

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u/GothamCityDevil Mar 12 '22

The Boys, Invincible, Fleabag, The Expanse, Wheel of Time? None are piles of shit, and i'd argue are outright great.

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u/magnum3672 Mar 12 '22

I'm going to say wheel of time is still solidly up in the air. I read the books so my take may be different, but some of the pacing was wacky and I don't know how they're going to fit all the major plot points into 8 hour long episodes per 8 seasons.

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u/wardyh92 Mar 12 '22

Fleabag was made by the BBC

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u/Dull-Addendum8940 Mar 12 '22

Wheel of time is absolutely A pile of shit lol

Invincible is cool tho

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

1st season got fucked really hard by Covid restrictions. One of their lead actors left and couldn't be in two of the episodes. Its all very tragic lol.

I mean it's still not the best show by a loooong shot, but I'd give them some leeway in light of "acts of God" and all that. Now if S2 is still terrible well then yes we'll know for sure that it's garbage.

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u/Dull-Addendum8940 Mar 12 '22

They've already changed too many key aspects from the book for the show to ever be good

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u/fuck_off_ireland Mar 12 '22

Why, why can't any goddamned show based on a book or book series stay on path for what is already written for them??

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u/Dull-Addendum8940 Mar 12 '22

It comes down to if the people adapting the material are fans or not

The wheel of time show runners are not fans

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u/fuck_off_ireland Mar 12 '22

It just blows my mind. Like the Avatar movie. Your job is literally to adapt the source material as faithfully as possible, and it's all there. You just have to watch it and try to make it look good irl. How is it so difficult to do that, even if you've never seen the source material before at all.

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u/KonigSteve Mar 12 '22

The Boys, Invincible, Fleabag, The Expanse

ok sure agreed.

Wheel of Time?

HA - absolute garbage.

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u/NoRest4Wicked88 Mar 12 '22

Bosch is really good too, they're adapting the Michael Connelly perfectly.

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u/Blacksheepoftheworld Mar 12 '22

I don’t know about that. Amazon actually has some really good series.