Hopefully Into the Badlands actually get officially confirmed for season 2, which hasn't happened yet at this point (which means it's still a ways off even if it does officially get that season).
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The Shannara Chronicles (MTV)
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Many of the changes were made to make for 'good TV'. That part is really debatable, as it didn't make the show better, but detracted from a really great story.
They say if they do Season 2, it'll be 'The Wishsong of Shannara'. The problem is, they're planning on using the same actors. They're doing away with the generational aspect of it and having the mains do the story for years to come. They say people get attached to characters and tune in to watch them. Personally, I think if they do that, the book lovers will be even more harsh than they are now.
It's going to get a lot worse if it continues.
They say if they do Season 2, it'll be 'The Wishsong of Shannara'. The problem is, they're planning on using the same actors. They're doing away with the generational aspect of it and having the mains do the story for years to come. They say people get attached to characters and tune in to watch them. Personally, I think if they do that, the book lovers will be even more harsh than they are now.
It's going to get a lot worse if it continues.
Many of the changes were made to make for 'good TV'. That part is really debatable, as it didn't make the show better, but detracted from a really great story.
They say if they do Season 2, it'll be 'The Wishsong of Shannara'. The problem is, they're planning on using the same actors. They're doing away with the generational aspect of it and having the mains do the story for years to come. They say people get attached to characters and tune in to watch them. Personally, I think if they do that, the book lovers will be even more harsh than they are now.
It's going to get a lot worse if it continues.
What a perfectly dreadful, in fact, quite a terrible, idea.
The whole point of the dramatic tension in the Wishsong of Shannara was not actually the quest, but the unwitting realisation that Wil's reluctant but necessary actions in Elfstones - when he invoked the power of the Elfstones - had - as a consequence - caused his bloodline to become cursed, or blessed, with raw but mutated Elven power.
Thus, the most interesting part of that story was how his children dealt with this, how they struggled with it (or not), how they adapted to it - or it adapted to them - and how they learned to control this unexpected legacy - or, how it almost came to control them.
Having the same actors (do TV studios think their audiences are complete cretins?) misses that point completely.
Yep, I agree wholeheartedly. I think the whole adaptation was really a good idea gone horribly wrong.
Sadly I have to concur with this. At this point, I wish I had never started watching the series. But now, I can't stop watching because I'm afraid it actually might (through some miracle) start getting good.
While I did not watch it, one of my favorite books was the Swords of Shannara. Just did a quick search of how many books there were and holy smokes there are a boat load of them!
I quite liked The Sword of Shannara - it had a properly epic feel, and a nicely told narrative arc, although I think Elfstones the better book by far. As a character, I much preferred Flick, and would have liked to have seen a lot more of him, rather than the unusually colourless character of Shea.
As per a lot of the earlier works by other writers in the field, the female characters were weak and clichéd, but this was an area where Brooks improved enormously over subsequent decades.