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I didn't read this series when I was a kid, but I finally got around to reading Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.

Given it's an older series, I wasn't sure how much I'd like it (some of those older series age horribly), but it was actually REALLY good still, and the few minor things that'd aged too much wouldn't be hard to update for a modern audience.

But the concept of Amber is fantastic, Corwin's behavior and arc perfect, and I think a TV series could do it justice nowadays. Man, some CGI artists could do some beautiful work depicting a hellride through shadow.

I also would really, really love to see Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern adapted...but there's a few parts that have aged pretty badly, so it'd need careful handling of things like Lessa and F'lar's relationship and such. And maybe, you know, keep Jaxom the hell away from Corana.

But I think the whole idea of threadfall, and Impressing dragons, could be done beautifully on the screen. I think a run from Dragonflight to All The Weyrs of Pern (including the Harper Hall Trilogy) could be done. (Then leave the later books out, they don't really add much, lol.)

The series would need a top-notch composer scoring it, though. I'd vote for Natalie Holt. She did wonderfully with Loki, and it'd be a nice touch having a woman score the series that'd have the Harper Hall Trilogy included in it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"The Sword of Truth" series by Terry Goodmind. But better than they did before, like, actually follow the books.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Are you sure about that? Wizard's First Rule was great, and they slowly (then quickly) started to unravel.

Richard being a white savior showing the mud people how to make tile roofs seems like it'd be nigh-unfilmable/unwatchable if it were rendered book-accurately cuz boy is it chock-full of veiled racism!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Disagree. There's far too many rapes and weird sex shit in those. There's the whole BDSM torture in the first book, the MC is a product of rape, the second book has some form of demon beastiality ritual. The way kalan loses her virginity (thinks it's her bf evil brother and she is really not into it at all and her bf is offended at her because she thought she was being rapes be his brother)

Then there's big bad conqueror who forces a woman to suck his dick while in a meeting, then there's kalans sister who's a queen who gets literally thrown into a pit with a dozen men who proceed to rape her to the point that she's permanently traumatized.