I agree with you on The Expanse. I LOVED Season 2 and it really made me invested in the show. It is just as complex as something like Game of Thrones but IN SPAAAAACE.
Yes, there's something of that about it, though have to say for the most part I like the characters more than the GoT ones.
The books are supposed to be well done too, so they have plenty of source material to keep it going.
I'd quite like to read the books, but I'm now so invested in the TV series that I'm a little concerned they would spoil it for me. ;)
My theory is that Amazon saw that Netflix picked up the rights to the Witcher series and wants in on the high fantasy action.
Well, they definitely want their own GoT-style series, but I honestly don't see how this is going to work. The books were written in the 1940s and in many ways are of their time. How can a series set in that 'verse include any casting diversity (which, IMO, there's no excuse not to have these days) when it's well established in both books and films that all the non-white humans in Middle Earth are under Sauron's thrall?
Yet if they do, I dunno, cast a POC actor as an elf or whatever, they're going to have the purists down on them like a ton of bricks. I just don't see how it's going to work without being either offensive or looking like it's just ticking boxes.
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Date: 2017-11-15 04:39 pm (UTC)Yes, there's something of that about it, though have to say for the most part I like the characters more than the GoT ones.
The books are supposed to be well done too, so they have plenty of source material to keep it going.
I'd quite like to read the books, but I'm now so invested in the TV series that I'm a little concerned they would spoil it for me. ;)
My theory is that Amazon saw that Netflix picked up the rights to the Witcher series and wants in on the high fantasy action.
Well, they definitely want their own GoT-style series, but I honestly don't see how this is going to work. The books were written in the 1940s and in many ways are of their time. How can a series set in that 'verse include any casting diversity (which, IMO, there's no excuse not to have these days) when it's well established in both books and films that all the non-white humans in Middle Earth are under Sauron's thrall?
Yet if they do, I dunno, cast a POC actor as an elf or whatever, they're going to have the purists down on them like a ton of bricks. I just don't see how it's going to work without being either offensive or looking like it's just ticking boxes.