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To be honest, I am getting a bit sick of both the TV Series and the book series. The TV Series started off excellently, and I think they've cast some excellent

To be honest, I am getting a bit sick of both the TV Series and the book series. The TV Series started off excellently, and I think they've cast some excellent actors. Unfortunately, some of them just grate on my nerves. I'm just not convinced by Steven Strait's performance - the character he plays (Holden) is supposed to be a shortsighted idiot a lot, but Strait comes across as more of an emo kid. The changes in the storyline, while I can understand some changes needed to be made due to the different medium, the whole current storyline in the season is just confused and the motivations of most of the players are unconvincing at best. With the book series, I think I'm one or two full books behind, because I just lost interest. The Philipe+Father storyline could've been interesting, but instead it was boring. Instead of focussing on a few main aspects, it's fragmented into dozens of storylines about all sorts of inconsequential and otherwise unimportant characters, and I feel like I need to carry a reference guide with each character's backstory to-date on me to be able to follow everything. While I'll be sad to see the TV Series die, this will be mainly be because I doubt I'll see Shohreh Aghdashloo or Wes Chatham play roles quite like those again.

tomatocracy 8y ago
I felt the books started off quite well but rapidly ran out of pace - there was just a lack of big picture development. It had a lot of potential. I gave up after book 5 (I think) but I only really enjoyed books 1 and 2 (and parts of book 3) and couldn't face another few hundred pages of "will anything interesting actually happen any time soon?". The characterisation got dry very rapidly (almost all of the characters are unsympathetic and boring) but that wasn't so much of a problem in the first couple of books because plot and world building drove them much more. By book 3, the world building was pretty much done and the plot seemed to become much more formulaic and the "big picture" development just got frozen it seemed. The series turned into something different which I didn't want to read. I tried watching the TV series but gave up much earlier as I didn't think it translated properly - in TV characterisation is much more important because it's what drives shows so the flaws showed much earlier. It didn't help that the acting was pretty bad too (who knows whether because of actors or script - probably both).

tomatocracy 8y ago

I felt the books started off quite well but rapidly ran out of pace - there was just a lack of big picture development. It had a lot of potential. I gave up after book 5 (I think) but I only really enjoyed books 1 and 2 (and parts of book 3) and couldn't face another few hundred pages of "will anything interesting actually happen any time soon?". The characterisation got dry very rapidly (almost all of the characters are unsympathetic and boring) but that wasn't so much of a problem in the first couple of books because plot and world building drove them much more. By book 3, the world building was pretty much done and the plot seemed to become much more formulaic and the "big picture" development just got frozen it seemed. The series turned into something different which I didn't want to read. I tried watching the TV series but gave up much earlier as I didn't think it translated properly - in TV characterisation is much more important because it's what drives shows so the flaws showed much earlier. It didn't help that the acting was pretty bad too (who knows whether because of actors or script - probably both).