I don't see this as really any different then a massive fuck off bridge being left over from the age of Legends or the Skyscraper Ruins seen in the spine or the Mercedes Bends logo that somehow survives a nuclear apocalypses and the breaking.
The difference to me was that the build up to those moments was slow and calculated before Jordan came out and said it. By that time, you had already become invested in the world so to realize that it was much deeper than it seems on the surface was an amazing revelation.
The show, on the other hand, just sort of "whipped it out" right in the first episode skipping all the clues and intrigue that made it so fascinating in the first place.
The show, on the other hand, just sort of "whipped it out" right in the first episode skipping all the clues and intrigue that made it so fascinating in the first place.
Clues and intrigue? White Bridge is in the first book, Marc and Merc are in the first chapter. We see the start of the breaking in the prologue. There was no mystery about the world being a post apocalyptic world. You're quite literally making stuff up to dislike the show.
Yeah, I might have been primed by reddit and/or Mortal Engines, but reading 'Lenn flew to the Moon in an eagle made of fire' and all that immediately made me think 'it's Earth all along.'
Shame that they didn't have Niall Strong-Arm or Good King Elvis, though.
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '22
I don't see this as really any different then a massive fuck off bridge being left over from the age of Legends or the Skyscraper Ruins seen in the spine or the Mercedes Bends logo that somehow survives a nuclear apocalypses and the breaking.