I didn’t read this series when I was a kid, but I finally got around to reading Roger Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber.
Given it’s an older series, I wasn’t sure how much I’d like it (some of those older series age horribly), but it was actually REALLY good still, and the few minor things that’d aged too much wouldn’t be hard to update for a modern audience.
But the concept of Amber is fantastic, Corwin’s behavior and arc perfect, and I think a TV series could do it justice nowadays. Man, some CGI artists could do some beautiful work depicting a hellride through shadow.
I also would really, really love to see Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern adapted…but there’s a few parts that have aged pretty badly, so it’d need careful handling of things like Lessa and F’lar’s relationship and such. And maybe, you know, keep Jaxom the hell away from Corana.
But I think the whole idea of threadfall, and Impressing dragons, could be done beautifully on the screen. I think a run from Dragonflight to All The Weyrs of Pern (including the Harper Hall Trilogy) could be done. (Then leave the later books out, they don’t really add much, lol.)
The series would need a top-notch composer scoring it, though. I’d vote for Natalie Holt. She did wonderfully with Loki, and it’d be a nice touch having a woman score the series that’d have the Harper Hall Trilogy included in it.
Yeah, sure, horrible me wanting a faithful adaptation without the director pushing whatever agenda they fancy. Don’t we all just love it when adaptations change stuff just because the director feels like they know better than a book that’s beloved by millions?
I don’t particularly care what interests you, but thanks for letting me know.
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Oh, sure, everything has an agenda, I guess, including the books. Might just be that I dislike the director’s one. She had one job - take a beloved story, make it into a TV show and change only what’s necessary to make the story work in a different medium. And she failed spectacularly.
I didn’t really come here to discuss what I consider the director’s agenda, I don’t like arguing in general and when done online, I find it stupid.
I’m pretty sure there are people who love the show and that’s fine, too, it’s not like I was calling for people to demand it’s cancelled, I just dislike how horribly and utterly the showrunner destroyed everything that made The Witcher, well The Witcher, and wish it was never made because it’s a complete mockery.