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pokoko on 11 July 2015
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AbbathTheGrim said:
Barkley said:
While the production quality looks amazing the young main characters and cast puts me off.....

As long as the character don't end up being like The Chronicles of Narnia then I will have no problem. I dislike the Narnia films and their teenage characters. I expect Mtv to have their teenage appealing characters but there are ways to portray teenage characters and then there are way to portray teengae characters. It could work if done with care and honesty and without staying in superficiality.

Those who know the books may have an idea of what's coming, if the writing guys don't change it enough to make it different.

binary solo said:
Fitting that a LOTR knock-off gets filmed in New Zealand. I will probably check this out, even though I couldn't get through the first book. Production values look very good, and perhaps the story will translate well to screen.

This is more like the Legend of the Seeker type fantasy adaptation than GoT though, so if people are expecting a GoT-like series they will be sorely disappointed.

I am looking for something more akin LOTR. I expect these teenage characters to talk and have the sense of humor of those scenes with the hobbits. And the occassional solemn and serious scene. The series follows that path and I will be more than satisfied.

Naum said:

I hope not... I'm tired of sseing so many "main" characters die.. fun at first but after 5 seasons it's starting to wear off.

I have close to zero problems with GOT. Some people criticize the last season and I don't understand them. To me the series have been riding a straight arrow of quality. To each his own, but the others a non-factor to how I see things.

In the case of Shannara, attractive, "young" looking characters make all the sense in the world.  Lots of Elven characters and human characters with Elven blood.  If I remember right, some Elven blood is required to use the relics of Shannara (and thus be a protagonist).

Shannara is very LOTR.  Pretty much every early book is about the protagonist and his party undertaking a quest to do something to stop evil while the demon host, which is trying to re-enter the world from another dimension, attempts to stop them.  The books are held together by Allanon, a mysterious druid who appears when things are bad, very like Gandalf.  The inspiration in the first novel is obvious, though the series does come into its own in later books.  People should keep in mind that these were written in a time when popular "fantasy" basically followed a standard formula of good versus evil.

A Game of Thrones, which I read about the time it came out, pretty much breathed new life into the genre.  There were other books that were gritty but you had to go to science fiction if you wanted unpredictable.  The Thomas Covenant novels were about the only thing that was really out of left field and they were never going to be mainstream, not when the main character rapes is a leper who believes the fantasy world he finds himself in is nothing but a delusion.