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As someone who has not read the books (started but never finished book 1), I'm enjoying not having to worry about how the show is "ruining" the books.
The first season was clearly a bit clumsy, but also completely drew me into the world ... I'm definitely going to want to check out season 2!
But also ... to all the book-readers ... my sympathies.
Thank you. The show was a colossal disappointment for me. I couldn't even finish the season. It was so boring, and had a very different tone than the books.
I'm a huge book fan, and I have to say that book purists are the worst.
The show has made some changes that I don't love, and some of the characters aren't portrayed as I imagined, but for the most part it has been wonderful to see one of my favorite fantasy series brought to life, and to be able to enjoy this world with new fans. I always expect screen adaptions to make creative changes, since things that work in a book just don't work on screen sometimes, and I'd say the changes and presentations have been pretty sensible for the most part.
For every change I dislike there's at least one I appreciate, and all of the actors are killing it (with what they are given at least, looking at you weird Lan funeral scene). I'm looking forward to how they handle the story going forward!
I hate all the instant hate and the martyrs out there crying about the changes they made. I feel like most of them were necessary. The actors are killing it. And book two onwards will have a far better story than the first book which in my opinion is one of the worst ones. Very excited for this season
Book purists in general are at least the definition of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. I think my "favorite" group is Halo fans. For some of them, you'd think their multiplayer centric FPS franchise and work-for-hire pulp tie-in novels were some glorious combination of Frank Herbert and James Joyce. The show was a bit silly and the plotline on the desert planet took WAY too long to say only a little, but it's a perfectly acceptable space opera show that took the aesthetics and basic setting of Halo and kept it completely recognizable.
Halo tv show was terrible, even as a non halo show.
But comparing it with the games and the book, it shits on any established elements, making every character unrecognisable, rewriting everything including well established lore and so on. The moment I saw "Reach city" I knew the rest of it was going to be terrible and yeah it really was terrible.
It was a poorly written irrelevant TV show, not really based on anything established in the franchise, and only using Halo as set dressing.
Only good thing about it was that the armours looked really nice.
They thought showing master cheeks would distract us from simply taking his helmet off. I guess they weren't wrong?
Knowing it's different from the books is a selling point. The books are bad.