I think some book fans had dreamed for so long of an adaptation that it was never going to be good enough, but I think what ruined it for me was that it doesn’t seem to want to tell the kind of story that the books were telling.
I remember the first book as this pretty simple coming of age, fantasy adventure, but the vibe I got while watching it was that the writers really wanted it to be more like GoT. And that just felt like such a cynical decision to me, like the point was to sell more by making it more like the insanely popular thing that just ended a couple years ago.
(My relationship to the books is a kinda complicated. I was hooked as a teen, but feel a lot more ambivalent after a re-read because of the constant sexist garbage I spotted when I was more mature. Like, I’m kinda pissed that teen me was tricked into thinking the weird gender essentialism was a normal, healthy way for men and women to think about each other and themselves, and every other female character is a sexist stereotype. But the nostalgia is unfortunately pretty strong so idk, I never soured completely on it like I did with Harry Potter for instance, so it must have had some redeeming qualities.)
My relationship to the books is a kinda complicated. I was hooked as a teen, but feel a lot more ambivalent after a re-read because of the constant sexist garbage I spotted when I was more mature. Like, I’m kinda pissed that teen me was tricked into thinking the weird gender essentialism was a normal, healthy way for men and women to think about each other and themselves, and every other female character is a sexist stereotype.
me irl
imagine writing a 10k word literary critique of that gender essentialism when you were a teen and not once thinking that the essentialism was problematic, but just a faithful re-creation of the source myths. or even once considering the eurocentrist/colonial depictions of the non-whites. couldn’t be me
The only part that really feels GoTsey to me is the White Tower. All that intrigue and power play. The rest feels like a smalltown gang gets wrapped up in epoch-levrl good-and-evil struggles, like LOTR or Star Wars
I think that’s the way its supposed to feel, so that’s good It’s very possible i’m just viewing it unfavourably, or experienced the changes in tone as bigger than they actually were, just because it wasn’t what I personally wanted from the show
It’s so rare for a show or movie to be better than its book. It might well be that the.book delivers on this premise even better than the show does, and I can’t notice because I am unfamiliar with the original
I think some book fans had dreamed for so long of an adaptation that it was never going to be good enough, but I think what ruined it for me was that it doesn’t seem to want to tell the kind of story that the books were telling.
I remember the first book as this pretty simple coming of age, fantasy adventure, but the vibe I got while watching it was that the writers really wanted it to be more like GoT. And that just felt like such a cynical decision to me, like the point was to sell more by making it more like the insanely popular thing that just ended a couple years ago.
(My relationship to the books is a kinda complicated. I was hooked as a teen, but feel a lot more ambivalent after a re-read because of the constant sexist garbage I spotted when I was more mature. Like, I’m kinda pissed that teen me was tricked into thinking the weird gender essentialism was a normal, healthy way for men and women to think about each other and themselves, and every other female character is a sexist stereotype. But the nostalgia is unfortunately pretty strong so idk, I never soured completely on it like I did with Harry Potter for instance, so it must have had some redeeming qualities.)
me irl
imagine writing a 10k word literary critique of that gender essentialism when you were a teen and not once thinking that the essentialism was problematic, but just a faithful re-creation of the source myths. or even once considering the eurocentrist/colonial depictions of the non-whites. couldn’t be me
The only part that really feels GoTsey to me is the White Tower. All that intrigue and power play. The rest feels like a smalltown gang gets wrapped up in epoch-levrl good-and-evil struggles, like LOTR or Star Wars
I think that’s the way its supposed to feel, so that’s good
It’s very possible i’m just viewing it unfavourably, or experienced the changes in tone as bigger than they actually were, just because it wasn’t what I personally wanted from the show
It’s so rare for a show or movie to be better than its book. It might well be that the.book delivers on this premise even better than the show does, and I can’t notice because I am unfamiliar with the original
What is with women always sniffing and tugging their braids? Am I right fellow men? Seinfeld bass line plays