If you enjoy the series, do NOT read the books. It will forever taint the fondness you have for the adaptation.
If you read the books, be prepared to be disappointed. They've made so much detrimental and unnecessary changes to the source materials often at the spirit and core of the books.
They've truncated a lot of the main characters by merging several characters into one. Naturally, we have the usual hollywood race and gender swap. Some of the roles and plots doesn't appear until the later books all got mashed together in one season and one character.
The worst transgression is: The trilogy was always about the bigger picture and have equal focus on the science and the characters. This adaptation put way too much emphasis on the characters as if it was GOT or the walking dead when it's a completely different theme and scope.
There are already enough complexity in the plot with the science, but they thought it was a good idea to unnecessary add teenage high school like drama to the adaptation.
Take for example, Salazar. One of the worst written character in recent history. Always emotional, to the point of threatening physical violence to one of her friend's jabs. And she was supposed to be a brilliant scientist, just watch her and ask yourself when is the last time you see ANY female scientist irl talk like her and as emotionally unstable as her?
After watching this series I'm convinced D&D is incapable of writing anything good by themselves and only get carried by the works of others with genuine brilliance.
If you read the books, be prepared to be disappointed. They've made so much detrimental and unnecessary changes to the source materials often at the spirit and core of the books.
They've truncated a lot of the main characters by merging several characters into one. Naturally, we have the usual hollywood race and gender swap. Some of the roles and plots doesn't appear until the later books all got mashed together in one season and one character.
The worst transgression is: The trilogy was always about the bigger picture and have equal focus on the science and the characters. This adaptation put way too much emphasis on the characters as if it was GOT or the walking dead when it's a completely different theme and scope.
There are already enough complexity in the plot with the science, but they thought it was a good idea to unnecessary add teenage high school like drama to the adaptation.
Take for example, Salazar. One of the worst written character in recent history. Always emotional, to the point of threatening physical violence to one of her friend's jabs. And she was supposed to be a brilliant scientist, just watch her and ask yourself when is the last time you see ANY female scientist irl talk like her and as emotionally unstable as her?
After watching this series I'm convinced D&D is incapable of writing anything good by themselves and only get carried by the works of others with genuine brilliance.
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