Did the people that made the show bother to read the books?

[Zarathustra]

I stumbled across this show on Amazon (well, the large banners helped a bit) and I was excited at first, but then I watched the first three episodes.  Giant Moraine is something that I can ignore due to it being a somewhat trivial change, but there are other issues that are difficult to ignore.

 

Why did they choose to ignore Jordan's purposefully crafted world (with geographically separated races and cultures)?  He was a student of history and meticulosly crafted what quickly becomes a very diverse world.  It's a very strong component of the foundation upon which his narrative was built.

 

Why are there 4 possible candidates for the DR (5 if you listen to the DF tavern wench)?

 

Why are the AS suddenly ignorant of the lore associated with the heroes bound to the wheel (and the fact that they always are "respun" into almost identical versions of themselves)?  In the books, they all knew that the DR had to be a man.

 

Why is Mat now a degenerate son of a degenerate drunken gambler that abandoned his family?

 

If you all like the show;  then I'm happy for you.  However, does it bother anyone else that they gave this the Shannara treatment (which was worse than the Dark Tower film) instead of the efforts that went into GoT?

 

The dance magic deserves a scathing review of its own.

 

[Arie]

Thank you for the thread, and while I won't comment on the content, I will direct you to any number of our current threads that have covered all of this in multiple discussions. Feel free to read through and participate in any of those.