On 6/3/2024 at 10:20 AM, Jake Sykwalker said:

 

Sorry to hear about your vehicle.  It is never fun when that happens.

 

I wouldn't want to speak for others and their enjoyment of media.  We all have things we like and dislike and what we enjoy is a personal thing.  If people enjoy this adaptation that is great.  

 

Having said that for me this is a very poor adaptation.  In my opinion they missed the boat completely and wandered into insulting territory.  It is also fairly poorly written and produced.  Their chief problem is that the writers missed the entire spirit of the books and replaced it with cheap cliches, manufactured drama and their own life experiences.   That seems to be a problem with a LOT of writers nowadays across much of media.

 

Lots of movies, or books have multiple 'remakes' and 'adaptations' with each having their own dedicated following.  Lots of people like to dump on the Bakshi Lord of the Rings movie, but it is what got me interested in the books and the cartoons when I was a kid.  I absolutely loved the LOTR cartoons when I was a kid, but they aren't exactly masterpieces.  They did however have the spirit of the books in them and hit their target of making easy to digest LOTR content for kids.  

I absolutely agree, to me it's unwatchable. And I was sooo excited. When GoT was hot in the 1st 5 seasons I kept telling my family, coworkers, friends if they made a WoT show on HBO like they've done with GoT it would be amazing. 

I thought for sure Rafe is a "huge" fan, Sarah has read the books almost as much as me, of course it will honor the source material, along with RJ and since Amazon wants their own GoT it will follow the blueprint they laid out for success with its first 5 seasons. 

And maybe if it was made in 2017 that might've been true.

Sadly once I heard about the changes and saw the previews I knew that wasn't their plan for WoT. They want to tell their own WoT story set in RJs world. 

Which clearly wasn't meant for me and those like me who wanted to see a faithful adoption of a series we grew up with and love. 

I'm glad some people enjoy it.

12 hours ago, swollymammoth said:

Anyone who can't get emotionally involved with a story because it doesn't features characters of their own identity (race/gender/sexuality etc) is emotionally immature and should not be catered to. 

 

Tons of straight guys had no problem getting invested in Simoun, an anime where nearly all the main characters are lesbians. 

 

I just recently read a book called The Crucible of Time in which all the characters are mantis aliens, and got extremely invested. 

 

My favorite anime of 2020 was Heaven Official's Blessing where everyone is Asian and gay and yet somehow I was able to become emotionally invested in these characters who exhibit none of the characteristics by which I would identify myself. 

 

Fiction is a medium by which we are meant to relate to people different than us through the shared human experience of struggling to achieve our goals. 

Thank you, GoT, arguably the best fantasy show or show ever for 4 seasons, avoided injecting any of our current social or cultural climate into the show.

It was beloved by almost everyone and all groups of people regardless of gender, background or beliefs. 

It is like can one not get into LotR because they are not a hobbit or can only short folk enjoy it because that's how they see themselves?

These fantasy worlds are escapes from reality a break from our current world for 50 mins so we can dream and imagine a different world with different rules and get lost in imagination.

As for the WoT for a lot of people, we have loved and cherished the story, characters and world from childhood to teens and now adults.

For over 30 years they been immersed in it. They just want it to be a faithful adaptation where maybe they can feel that magic again.

Very few people come at this from a place of hate, it is a place of love which is why it is so intense and meaningful.