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[โ€“] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (16 children)

The Wheel of Time. I waited for reviews before watching it, so glad I never wasted a second of my life watching that piece of blasphemous garbage. Just stick to the source material, how fucking hard is it??? Apparently too hard for modern directors, they have to "fix" everything and make it appealing for a "modern audience." Bitch, I am the modern audience, and fuck you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I liked it, as long as I looked it at as an interpretation rather than an exact translation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah it's a popcorn show. You watch it to relax your brain. It's entertaining as a Xena episode, and the production feels as cheap as Xena's.

But if you've read the books you're wondering what the hell is happening. And it doesn't make you want to read them. That's the lamest part. A show based on books should make you want to read them at some point. I mean, if you adapt them to screen, they must have been loved by a lot of people...

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