mytly4 replied to your post: elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey: If amazon tries to...
Of course they’re going to sex it up. I see no way that this show is going to be anything other than a crappy Game of Thrones clone - which is crappy enough by itself already. So prepare for crappiness squared.
See, nothing concerns me more than Game of Thrones’ possible influence in this show (and any other speculative fiction works for that matter, but this show in particular is setting up to be GoT’s horror child). I understand wanting to create “the next Game of Thrones” when it comes to award-winning, audience, penetration in pop culture, etc. But that’s it. That’s as much as anyone should aspire to be “like Game of Thrones”.
Over the past few years Game of Thrones became an absolute mess in terms of storytelling, character “development”, themes, tone, worldbuilding... and yes, in terms of adaptation too. It completely misses the point of A Song of Ice and Fire and occasionally makes the opposite point.
Those same issues applied to Tolkien would make an even bigger mess.
ASOIAF allows more sexposition, tits and ass, gore, grimdark, etc. than Tolkien. Doing it the way GoT did is still very much missing the point of the books, but they could have gotten away with some of it. There’s some pretty dark and frustrating stuff in ASOIAF, there are a lot of sex scenes in the books too, etc.
Not Tolkien. Tolkien isn’t as fluffly and good-vs-evil as people think, but I think it’s still a much more openly hopeful story than ASOIAF and sex simply isn’t there that much. Adding this kind of element that made GoT famous would sound way too much like a “teenage edgelord version of Tolkien”.
(sorry, I got carried away. I clearly have Feels™ on this subject)
