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I just finished the books. They are *fine* but not my favorite. Does the show elevate the material? I like the premise, but the characters in the books feel a little hollow. Would this show work for me?
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81sidewinder posted:I just finished the books. They are *fine* but not my favorite. Does the show elevate the material? I like the premise, but the characters in the books feel a little hollow. Would this show work for me? Also just finished the books, which I started after I finished the show. I believe that you will have an enjoyable experience of the show.
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Apr 23, 2024 22:47
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81sidewinder posted:I just finished the books. They are *fine* but not my favorite. Does the show elevate the material? I like the premise, but the characters in the books feel a little hollow. Would this show work for me? I did the show first so it's not quite the same but yeah, the books (I'm half-way through #2) were good but don't exactly sing, but I really liked the TV show.
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Apr 23, 2024 23:27
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81sidewinder posted:I just finished the books. They are *fine* but not my favorite. Does the show elevate the material? I like the premise, but the characters in the books feel a little hollow. Would this show work for me? Gonna say no, the show changes a bunch of stuff but it's basically first episode, a season of filler episodes, last episode
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Apr 24, 2024 00:28
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81sidewinder posted:I just finished the books. They are *fine* but not my favorite. Does the show elevate the material? I like the premise, but the characters in the books feel a little hollow. Would this show work for me? I thought the show did so much to elevate the book's characters and worldbuilding.
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Apr 24, 2024 00:33
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The show turns the first half of the first book into ten hours of TV. It fleshes out and recontextualizes a lot of the book’s material, and adds a bunch of secondary stuff that does a good job of expanding on the setting. It changes the core conspiracy somewhat, but in a way that adds a lot of room for more drama and intrigue. I liked it much better than the book, to the point where when I tried reading the book, I legit considered putting it down and waiting for the show to catch up. (I did not do this because I am impatient.)
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Apr 24, 2024 02:06
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These new posts today got me excited that there was a new season or something.
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Apr 24, 2024 02:14
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blastron posted:The show turns the first half of the first book into ten hours of TV. It fleshes out and recontextualizes a lot of the book’s material, and adds a bunch of secondary stuff that does a good job of expanding on the setting. It changes the core conspiracy somewhat, but in a way that adds a lot of room for more drama and intrigue. I mean to be fair, the first episode is the first two chapters of the book, the next 9 and a half episodes are the following two pages.
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Apr 24, 2024 02:40
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The books are essentially beach/airplane reading. I think the show has a better pacing (in parts) where they've clearly taken time to add some padding.
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Apr 24, 2024 02:50
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My cynical take is that I wish I hadn't read the books, so I would be more excited about season 2. The books just aren't very good. To the point that I just read a recap of number 3 on wiki.
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Apr 24, 2024 07:27
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I'm about halfway through the second book now as well. I haven't listened to anymore in weeks now. I've been meaning to finish it, but also, meh. I enjoyed the show a lot more. I was actually really disappointed upon reading the books to learn that the show only covers half of the first book. Part of the initial appeal was the assumption that since this was based on a finish trilogy, it would be a solid three seasons and done. No time to meander, and an actual decent chance of finishing on it's own terms instead of being unceremoniously cancelled. Now I'm not sure what they're going to do instead.
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Apr 24, 2024 07:41
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counterfeitsaint posted:I'm about halfway through the second book now as well. I haven't listened to anymore in weeks now. I've been meaning to finish it, but also, meh. I enjoyed the show a lot more. The rumour I'm hearing is four seasons, with the plan floated to shoot seasons three and four back to back.
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Apr 24, 2024 07:49
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The books were written fairly early in Howley’s career, who is an ok writer at best anyhow. He usually creates a unique world (he’s good at that) and sets up characters within that framework, but actually doing something interesting with them, aside from solving the main problem, is not something he excelled at at that point. Silo the TV series does a good job of fleshing out the societies, relationships and just adding more humanity to the story. Four seasons should be perfect to strike a balance between those aspects.
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Apr 24, 2024 09:13
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angerbot posted:The books are essentially beach/airplane reading. I think the show has a better pacing (in parts) where they've clearly taken time to add some padding. Open Source Idiom posted:I thought the show did so much to elevate the book's characters and worldbuilding. Mokotow posted:The books were written fairly early in Howley’s career, who is an ok writer at best anyhow. He usually creates a unique world (he’s good at that) and sets up characters within that framework, but actually doing something interesting with them, aside from solving the main problem, is not something he excelled at at that point. Silo the TV series does a good job of fleshing out the societies, relationships and just adding more humanity to the story. Four seasons should be perfect to strike a balance between those aspects. These are exactly the answers I was hoping for, thank you. Books are pretty thin in parts, but offer a cool skeleton that could be built on.
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