What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you?
What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you?
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Murderbot - The main character is nothing like the book and the Preservation team are made out to be idiots. It's really disappointing.
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Foundation. I am a big fan of Asimov's books and the series is rare, slow and in my opinion does not understand the material of origin or the themes it deals with
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Without making any specific judgments on the quality of the Foundation TV series, for what it's worth, I think it's always best to view adaptations as disconnected products that are separate and incomparable to the source material they're based on.
The Lord of the Rings movies had the same problems. Much of the book content was cut or altered to make it easier for a film series, characters were consolidated or changed based on plot relevance and screen presence, and the changes upset a lot of fans of the books. However, the end result worked much better as films than an attempt to directly adapt the source material would have, and I think that is fine.
I think it's an exercise in futility to try to make something 100% faithful to a work in another medium, because the inherent differences between mediums means that there will always be something that doesn't translate. If someone wants to make an adaptation in another medium, may as well try to do different things with it that play better to the medium's strengths.
Now, after having said all that, I can't help but find it a little bit funny (maybe not funny, but interesting, I guess) that the best parts of the Foundation TV series are the original-to-show story threads that are the furthest removed from anything to do with the books. I found all of the content involving the clones of Emperor Cleon to be interesting, and couldn't care less about what was happening with the Foundation itself. Had me wondering why not just write an original series focusing on the genetic dynasty.
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I don't understand why they would take a story and then adapt it into a TV series that says the exact opposite.
I see this happen a lot with TV shows where the people who are making the show genuinely don't seem to give a shit about what was in the original work.
I get the impression that people who buy intellectual property rights to existing works actually hate those works and their fans and would like to remove the themes, motifs, and messages of the original work from the common culture altogether.
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Because the books as is are practically unfilmable.
It’s just men around a table smoking cigars and drinking whiskey congratulating themselves how excellently their plans went.
Time skip. GOTO 10. Riveting stuff.
Asimov and his peers were 100% world building 0% characters and character development.
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2nd season of Harry’s Law absolutely butchered any interest we had following season one. I think we only made it 2 episodes in before completely giving up?
i think it was a complete change of character for S1’s antagonist to join the team in S2 - but I could be misremembering…
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Second season of Altered Carbon. I don't even want to explain.
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I understand changing bodies is part of the universe, but I was extremely bummed the main character was "recast" for season 2.
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The wheel of time. I'm a huge fan of the books and wanted the show to be good so badly. They took a lot of liberties with the casting ethnicity wise, which was controversial (not for me, but you can imagine the type of people that things like that matter to.) From the start I said as long as the writing, acting, set/costumes were good I didn't really care who played what. But none of those things ended up being good at all. The sets and costumes looked like something purchased at Spirit Halloween. The acting was mediocre at best, I don't mean that as a jab at the actors, even great actors need good directors and writers. Which brings me to the writing. They threw out large parts of the story to make room for new plot lines, and the stuff they added was just God awful. In the end the show got cancelled, so we didn't even get to see any of the cool late book stuff.
/End of rant
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I’ll never forgive them for not making it to Dumai’s Wells at least.
Sometimes I wonder about the timeline where HBO and those game of thrones assholes did wheel of time instead…
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"Spirit Halloween", died. 🤣
Josha Stradowski should get a razzi for the worst acting ever performed on screen. Wooden. The problem I had overall was that it seemed like the writers were really drawing out the material. I was so bored at times, and I am a HUGE fantasy genre fan. The fact it didn't get a proper ending (mostly because it took so long to progress) was another knifing. It deserved to die, sadly.
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My huge issue was basically doubling the age of the main characters. Perrin had a wife already and accidentally murders her?! What the fuck were they thinking. Let's just skip all the journey and growing part of their early teen years through adult hood, I guess.
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The Watch.
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Second season of The Last of Us. Never played the second game so I went in blind after really liking the first season. The writing and dialogue were godawful and I just could not give less of a shit about the direction it was headed. I get that the show is more about interpersonal relations in the face of extreme hardship than killing zombies and cool action scenes, but the second season was just so slow in advancing the plot that it left me completely disengaged.
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I LOVED season one, absolutely loved it. Accidentally found out the massive spoiler for part 2, didn't like it, read more about the game and made a heart rending decision to not watch s2. The plot just doesn't interest me, Joel and Ellie were the heart of it and the plot isn't credible to me. Looking at reviews, I'm glad I missed it
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Oh yeah absolutely. Without Joel, the series suffers so much because of how well Pedro Pascal nailed the role imo. It really, really wanted you to care about Ellie's relationship but I just couldn't because her character was so wildly unlikable. I didn't feel that the way the second game/season was written advanced the overarching theme of the series.
For that reason, I'm probably going to end up skipping the upcoming season. You'd be better off exploring similar themes in different media lol
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The second season of True Detective. Didn't even make it to the third episode.
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Inside Job
The premise had a ton of potential, and it wasted basically all of that to make a tepid screwball workplace comedy. This is the shadow government we're talking about. I get the "everyone has their flaws and hangups" angle, but why did everyone have to be so incompetent? You can make flawed characters without them being idiot-plot machines.
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Silo . Three episodes in and I realized I was just watching a lower-energy version of Fallout and stopped.
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Ditto. I found the writing janky, just didn't work for me
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Swamp Thing was pretty far from what I had hoped for and I think they can do more with those stories
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Sword of truth. It deviated from critical book storyline within minutes of the first episode
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Sword of Shannara
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Andor.
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