I had heard he was recast, but I didn't realize that was because he left the show in the middle of season 1. That definitely makes more sense, then.
This show and watching a video about the villains of the books, I am going to give the series and books a re-read attempt. I make no promises.
Middle of the series is the slog, that's where many people get stuck. Might want to find a summary if that happens to you. Last few books are a rush to the finish line.
Some of the voices for a fantasy audio book have got to be really weird. I think I have only ever listened to non-fiction audio.
Best episode yet but I find the character motives and changes to their personalities jarring in comparison to the books. This show needs to embrace the fact its not GOT and add more levity as well. Oh well, I'm certain every book adaptation show has similar complaints like The Expanse which I actually like.
After 6 years, I finally noticed the prob with expanse is that the pacing of the season is mapped to a traditional 350 page novel. Worse off the release schedule isn't all at once for binging! I thought this was three star episode. Some good and bad. It fleshed out the characters more, which is good, but I haven't really warmed up to the dragon candidates, which is bad. The emotional stories were hit and miss. I don't miss Matt though. The whole episode gave me tons of Fellowship of the Ring flashbacks. It might be because I have high standards for a non-book reader, but nothing really lit a fire under me except for maybe the last 10 mins.
I thought that was the strongest part of the episode, makes me want to see more of the Aiel and the maidens in particular.
The whole first book is a tribute to LOTR. The books develop their own style starting with the second book. Heck, some consider the first book as a long prologue to the series.
Yeah... They're advancing through Mordor as if they had eagles lol. Will be interesting to see how the series evolves. Hopefully they address pacing or dialogue while not angering book readers for it's faithfulness. I think it's needed if they want to milk 5-7 75+ million dollar seasons out of this.
Liked the spooky tree forest. That was well done. But another Mount Mordor, not so cool. They did a lot of reveal there without much burn before getting there. We now have a love triangle that I have no idea where that came from, and whoop, we know who the dragon is. So that picked up quick. Not their best episode for those reasons. Plus they did a weird recap of why we should know he is the dragon...another show I can't quite remember right now did a recap with their big reveal too, and it was kinda weird as well. Think it was locke and key. But will keep watching to see why the books got so much buzz on it.
It’s not really a big reveal. There are a couple hundred pages in the series where you don’t know who the dragon is. Then about 5 million pages in the series where you do know. I understand I guess someone not reading the books thinking that is a big deal. For anyone that has its like that character is and of course he is.
Most of the people who read audiobooks have like 2 or 3 quick access accents that they break out sequentially. There's a British guy I listen to has a go-to super thick Transylvanian-sounding accent. Like 10% of the characters in books he reads end up sounding like they're working for Dracula for no reason. He had that and a super thick stock Scottish accent in addition to various English variations and a bad American/Canadian with lots of hard "R"s and pinched vowels. Mostly, the voices are arbitrary to help distinguish dialog between characters more than anything else. I guess they try to match them as appropriately as they can, but they certainly aren't creating new specific accents to match with new characters.
