How well does it follow the book or books, is it 100% faithful to the source material?
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footnotegirl — 9 years ago(December 15, 2016 09:11 AM)
Because the visual medium and the textual medium are two very different ways of getting information across. You can express things in text (such as interior thoughts) that are not really possible in a movie or TV show too much narration quickly bores and/or annoys viewers. Also, the amount of activity in a single book, if everything were included, would often take several seasons to fully cover.
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alphabase17 — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 08:36 AM)
Logically it is impossible because the moment someone decides to render the written word visually s/he imposes their own subjective vision on the viewers. What will seem exactly true to some viewers will not be accepted as such by others.
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Ranguvar18 — 9 years ago(December 13, 2016 06:01 PM)
First, read the book, it's great.
Second, from the little footage we have and from other news sources, it looks like it's going to be pretty darn close. There are a few changes to reflect the time(a certain character is portrayed much different in the show than in the book to reflect how times have changed since the book was written in 2001), but other than that it should be very close to the book.
And there's onecertain scene that the showrunners have promised will appear. Those who have read the book will know which scene I mean.
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tom24601-84-418324 — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 06:39 AM)
I certainly hope not. I mean each to their own and all but I couldn't even finish the book. It was like it was written by a 12 year old who based his ideas on adult behavior on the worst soap operas he could find. Predictable at every turn and utterly puerile. Of course that's only my opinion other people appear to love the book. I'll give the show a shot because I think the concept has potential and hopefully the execution of the concept will be done better on the screen.