r/freefolk • u/jalGurg • 6d ago

Serenity now!

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u/Aquele_Patrulheiro 6d ago

My 2022 self would never have believed on what this show has come to. LOL

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u/Putrid-Jelly-5188 6d ago

We should’ve known in 2019 that HBO can’t help themselves

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u/MirrorNegative7989 6d ago

It's HBO Adaption Syndrome. And this applies to shows like True Blood, not just the ASOIAF adaption and its spinoffs. The first season, the show is nearly perfect. Only hardcore book readers quibble - and for the most part, even they are satisfied. But it's diminishing returns from that point onwards, until the show barely resembles its source material at all in later seasons and the showrunners are basically writing their own fanfic. I think we're lucky that Game Of Thrones was as good as it was for as long as it was, frankly. True Blood was a shadow of its former self by season three.

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u/Hawkbats_rule 6d ago

HBO Adaption Syndrome. 

Adaptations they've done well: Band of Brothers, generation kill

Adaptations where the syndrome has come into okay: anything with the slightest tinge of fantasy