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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8976938" data-attributes="member: 18">Those were good changes.So you're arguing a very subjective opinion, which is pretty pointless. I don't think either change detracted from the story or characters. Bear in mind easily 90%+ of the audience will not have read the books in any event, so only stuff that actually damages the story is bad.And the WoT TV series did the opposite to that - it combined stuff, added stuff in, clarified stuff in a way that improved the telling of the story, and particularly improved its accessibility to broad audience. I know some people hated the "it could be any of the kids" rather than "it could be any of the male kids", but it was part of making it work for TV.If anything, it told the story of WoT rather better than I'd expected. Hewing closer to the book would have made it worse.Yes, and this has been done countless times - many book series which were "beloved" but slightly questionable in their writing have turned into much better TV shows, and even some which were well-written had changes made which made them work better - sometimes with the author (if still alive) actually recommending or applauding those changes. Hell even with movies that can happen - Steven King himself said of The Mist that the ending of the movie (which I know upset a lot of people lol but was great) was just better than his ending and he wished he'd thought of it.The original War of the Lance books, whilst beloved, are not masterpieces. Honestly, all they really have totally nail for me to approve is Caramon/Raistlin.Of course this presumes they're actually doing it, which I'll believe when I see something official, not CBR talking smack as usual.Sure, but that's the alt-Dragonlance that WotC is doing, and it's a single piece of art, so I doubt anyone making a TV show will feel in any way bound by it. Hell I doubt WotC feel bound by it.</blockquote>

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