Wheel of Time - if you want a faithful adaptaion, then you are intolerant, appaling, disturbing, disgusting etc.
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On the other hand: The only way they could ever do a "faithful" rendition would be a twenty minute GOT-like intro that previews the stitching of every dress that will be worn in the current episode.
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Why do we need an adaptation at all? People cannot read anymore? (Many don't, I know.) Even without the rewriting, cramming 10-15 (or more) chapters into 55-60 minutes is insane. It's like cutting down Fellowship from 178 minutes to 90 minutes or less, and what will happen to the even thicker books? WOT is unfilmable, and that's it.
Agreed, but that's pretty much true of all (decent) books, and quadruplely so in the current clown world. Some books are simple enough they can make the transition. Even LOTR, which was lightning in a bottle never-going-to-happen-again-couldn't-even-get-the-Hobbit-right had a large number of inconsistencies, and we are damn lucky the xena-warrior-Arwen leaked and fan backlash killed in in production.
Had it been current year, they would have called the fan backlash misogynist and hatefull and proceeded to cast half the elves as black and make all the Dwarves gay, while replacing Frodo with Arwen as the main character.
But even what we did get is never going to happen again for any property on earth. GOT almost had it, because the books are so light fantasy as to be practically non-fantasy, and 80% dialogue 20% sex was so braindead easy to translate to the screen it worked up until they got ahead of the author, because only an idiot would start a series based on an unfinished work.
Someone with dollar signs for eyes keeps thinking they are going to replicate those two successes without understanding anything about what actually made them work. Sticking pretty damn close to the source material come hell or high water is what made them successful, until they didn't and it all came crashing down.
Agree.
(The Dirty Dozen is rare exception too, and Tarantino comes to my mind, who said that TDD would be unfilmable today because the lack of masculinity in today's actors.)
(I don't watch barely anything from the last two decades, the movie industry died around LOTR, and tv series = soap operas are just a waste of time.)