I’m good cheers Billy. Relaxed from my trip away and my birthday and have my two cats back home now. Life is GOOD 
PS. I’VE STARTED BODKIN. seems fun so far.
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Buying London. Same format as Selling sunsets but set in London. Compelling reality crap at it’s finest 
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Im enjoying Eric on netflix so far…
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Ah I gave up after two episodes 
I don’t know why, but I hated it and I hated his character and I hated the hybrid crime take. I wanted to really like it as well 
I’m quite enjoying Obituary instead on Netflix. Gentle Irish comedy with a dark side…
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Did u? Im enjoying it and the 80s nostalgia…feels like something a bit different…im not a dark comedy fan…im a bit where i like the 2 separated but not mixed lol
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ill go for,
Banshee
Ray donavan
Mindhunter
Vikings
Yellowstone,couple of spin offs to this aswell which are also good
Mayor of kingstown,new season just started
These should keep you going for a few days!!!
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Anyone else excited for House of Dragons season 2 this month or am I the only one nerding out
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Nah i dont your alone on this.
Yeah not for everyone. Didn’t know there was a new Mayor of Kingstown. Gotta get my paramount+ again! Love that show.
Also was a big fan of mindhunter. It’s crap they stopped it
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Yeah i was devastated myself when they finished mindhunter,v good show,hopefully someone will pick it up sometime
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Youve only missed one of the new series,it only started again a few days ago
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The Wheel of Time
(here in Canada it’s on Amazon Prime)
It’s got great characters, great adventure, great drama, and a lot of magnificent landscapes. It’s really well made; I’ve really enjoyed it.
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Ugh, Matt. You’re bringing out the critic in me now. See, I read the series. Watched the first season and was incredibly conflicted with it. Watched 2 episodes of season two and put it down forever. Can’t stand how they make Moiraine into a main character. Like, look at the photo. She’s the center of it. Rand. Rand is the main character. Where’s he? Side character in the back. Literally every character behind her are more of a main character than her in the books. Argh!!!
Sorry. I’m done.
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Fair enough, but - counterpoint - transposing a tale into a new genre invites development, and this can (and should) bear compelling creative fruit.
The story of Romeo and Juliet dates to decades before its setting on the stage, and over the years, as it migrated from genre to genre (first a novella by Bandello; then a short story by Boaistuau; then a poem by Brooke, which was rewritten in prose by Painter - both Brooke’s poem and Painter’s prose were key sources for Shakespeare), details developed, characters expanded and contracted, and timelines changed:
- the plot in Brooke’s poem takes place over many months; Shakespeare’s play is done in a few days
- the characters of Mercutio and Paris are much more central and more highly developed in Shakespeare’s play than in the earlier works
I would say that presenting an existing story in a new genre requires development and creative license, if the new presentation wants to be more than just a reproduction. There are reasons why Shakespeare’s setting of the tale is so celebrated today, and the earlier names are only mentioned in passing, and one of those reasons is his masterful development and riveting presentation of the tale (including much more central places for Mercutio and Paris, which adds energy and momentum to the play, and which speaks in a more compelling way to its audience in the playhouses of Tudor England).
Is Robert Jordan a more compelling author than Matteo Bandello? I think so. He definitely wrote on a richer, epic scale.
Is the Wheel of Time TV series wrong to change the position or prominence of characters, in the development of the original novels into the TV series genre? No. It’s an act of creation, and it’s the same thing Shakespeare did with Romeo and Juliet. (It remains to be seen if high school students will be analyzing dialogue from this TV series in the classrooms of the future, but it’s way too soon to reach any conclusions about that 
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Ted Lasso, Loudermilk, The Bear
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KILL YOUR TELEVISIONS / STREAMING APPS & DEVICES!! Do it! Do it NOW!
Sorry for the late response. Don’t get on here enough nowadays. I’ll give you that creative license is fine and good. I don’t mind that they changed a bunch of stuff. But, there’s a lot of changes that are 100% unnecessary. Why change them except for some writer’s vanity to say that it’s their baby?
I also understand that to adapt something as massive as WoT to TV, there are an incredible amount of things that would have to change. Too much to unpackage into a TV series. No way could they hope to get approved for 14 seasons either, so they have to merge books together. I just dislike many of the changes that they made, since I saw them as unnecessary. They’re also capitalizing on Rosamund Pike’s fame to drive viewing. That’s understandable, since they need ratings and viewers to get funding for future seasons. Blah blah blah. I’m sure as a stand alone series it would be awesome, but since I’ve read it, I just can’t watch it.
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Makes sense. I felt the same way about what they did to The Hobbit when they metastasized it into 3 feature-length movies. Are you kidding me? Each of the books in The Lord of the Rings gets 1 movie, but The Hobbit gets 3? Cash grab.
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