I’m currently reading the books for the first time, just finished callibans war. I was wondering, should I watch the serie along with reading the books? Does each season represent a book?

  • Magnor
    53·
    9 months ago

    They follow quite closely, as the authors were also show runners.

    Each season is not exactly one book: season 1 is 2/3 of book 1, season two goes from there to half of book 2, season 3 wraps books 2 and 3. Seasons 4 to 6 are one book each.

    Season 3 condenses book 3 quite a lot so you should expect differences here. As is usual in adaptation, characters and plot points are merged/moved around at diverse moments. A huge change is made at the end of season 5 due to one actor being outed as a perv piece of crap.

    Books 7 to 9 were not adapted.

    In the end, both mediums are great experiences and you should definitely enjoy both.

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      21·
      9 months ago

      A huge change is made at the end of season 5 due to one actor being outed as a perv piece of crap.

      Wait, what?!

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
          111·
          9 months ago

          But did the team at Alcon go back and revise the ending of this latest episode?

          “The truth is,” franchise co-creator Ty Franck says, “it’s kind of a meaningless question in television, because as an on-set producer, I have literally walked off the set, climbed the stairs to my office, and rewritten a scene we’re about to shoot. And Naren has done the same. Daniel has done the same. I mean, that is part of the television process. So there is no sort of ‘once the story is set’ when you’re in the TV realm.”

          In other words, they definitely did rewrite him out of the show, they’re just trying to pass it off by saying that rewriting is common anyway.

        • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          9 months ago

          That was years ago. Has there been any progress in the investigation? Or is it still just allegations?

          • Magnor
            73·
            9 months ago

            Two years is a short time for such an investigation. A third party was supposed to investigate those but no news has emerged as far as I know.

        • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          It’s very weird to me that they wrote him out of the show, filmed an end to that character, and then fired him. Often when an actor abruptly exits a show they just vanish and you find out how they died offstage somehow. This guy had to participate in his own ejection from the show. His character kind of dies a hero, too, which makes it even weirder. I guess they were trying to jettison the actor without harming the character.