[wojciii]

I'm sure it will be a huge success.

I like reading books. So I prefer to see movies close to my mental representation of the book .. which almost newer works.

Altered Carbon was such a huge disappointment that I'm going to skip this one.

[saidnooneever]

skipping it too. these things never translate well from books. havent really seen any good scifi novels turned to movies which were then also good movies. (understandably,.you lose a lot of detail).

maybe its just not my medium.

[jambalaya8]

I was hoping for a Snow Crash series (like a multi-season upfront commitment to one, not something with a possibility of not showing an ending. Two seasons or three maybe) for years, but that book now seems so quaint that I doubt it would even make sense as a television series now. Neuromancer seems like such a cold, relatively emotionless book to adapt. I might give the first episode a go.

Replying because it seems we both look for books we have read to sort of match up with our mental representations of filmed versions them.

Was myself grossly disappointed with the Wheel of Time series.

[warpspin]

I liked Altered Carbon, at least season 1.

What I fear is another Foundation.

[lsaferite]

Having not watched Foundation, what was the issue there?

I loved Altered Carbon Season 1, but couldn't get into Season 2 and never finished it. I never read the book(s?), so the storyline was standalone for me.

[warpspin]

My personal issue with Foundation was, that at its core in the books, it was about ordinary humans solving problems. There of course were people with special abilities, but that was, well, special, and so special that e.g. in the case of the Mule, it completely trashed all plans everyone had due to its extraordinariness.

In the TV series, everybody seems to have superpowers. A rather pacifist politician from the book is suddenly, in the series, a gunslinging person with mental superpowers.

I liked that the original was about more or less competent people making decisions, and seeing those decisions play out. I admit, I like competence porn. Almost everyone having superpowers feels like a betrayal of the values of the books.

Best part about the TV series are the three emperors. It's the one addition which really added something to the story... and which did not betray the values of the original book series, but was just a nice addition.

[wojciii]

The books are loaded with statements against powerhungry politicans.. the TV series are not. It's like the people adapting the books for TV tried to make it palatable for everyone.

[jambalaya8]

Maybe they just want it to be more difficult to sniff out who actually read the books versus saw the movies. :)