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The Wheel of Time (2021)
Just Don't Read the Books if You Plan to Watch the Series
So I saw this series was coming up on Prime, as I am want to do I decided to read the books, to get a background of what was happening. It was a fairly well written adventure although a couple to many volumes. Then I set to watch the series with fairly high expectations. After about 3 minutes of episode 1 I realized reading the novels had been a mistake. Except for the names of some of the characters nothing much was true to the written volumes. I was so dissapointed. None of the changes of the script added to enjoyment of the shows and the character casting was just horrendous..And the Ogiers and Trolloks --- yeesh.
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010)
Over the top
Started out not to bad, the sex and violence bearable. I can stand a rational amount of swearing but what I don't get is why the writers of these shows think that the people of this era had a word like fxxx and all its derivative forms. They have dialogue that is supposed to be roman or Gaul or Syrian or whatever but they always have to throw in f this f-ing f-er and f his wife and children to death. I mean seriously. I had to stop watching after the 3rd episode of the second season (the prequel) because the dialogue seemed more concerned about swearing than telling me a story. Some have compared it to 300 but this could not be further from the truth 300 told a story this show just swears and swears with a little gladiator stuff to fill in.