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As I was reading Stephen King's Under The Dome, I thought I could check out the television show that premiered last year over on CBS and was filled with bad reviews - so first things first, the book is more than enjoyable. As soon as you start, you want to keep going and that's all I ask in a book. However the pilot episode did have some changes and a completely different tone and pace from the book which annoyed me of course, because, the adaptation was done poorly and I sincerely don't want to keep watching it.
I was reading the director view on Under The Dome TV Show, and he said that his goal was to follow The Walking Dead footsteps as in having a story and make some changes and be free to use your creativity in that said world. In that same quote he pretty much knocked HBO for pretty much following every step of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones.
So what is your view on book adaptations for television or movies? Would you rather have it following the original story or you really want a set of new plots and new ideas to evolve the same characters?
I for one am all for following the original books as I feel that the creator point of view is usually the best one. Also while Game of Thrones has been one of the best television shows of its kind to most, shows like Walking Dead have been losing a lot of steam and quality. In movies you also have Shawshank Redemption from Stephen King, which I've read after I watched the movie and the difference between it's secondary, most like the adaptations of Harry Potter - which means, small things that are interesting but not that important to the development of the story are left out, while some other characteristics gain for focus than they originally had, but still not being really important.
Example: In HP he doesn't know what are the Horcruxes before-hand, instead he dreams with them by entering Voldemort's mind and hearing the Horcruxes kind of buzzing. So discuss.
I was reading the director view on Under The Dome TV Show, and he said that his goal was to follow The Walking Dead footsteps as in having a story and make some changes and be free to use your creativity in that said world. In that same quote he pretty much knocked HBO for pretty much following every step of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones.
So what is your view on book adaptations for television or movies? Would you rather have it following the original story or you really want a set of new plots and new ideas to evolve the same characters?
I for one am all for following the original books as I feel that the creator point of view is usually the best one. Also while Game of Thrones has been one of the best television shows of its kind to most, shows like Walking Dead have been losing a lot of steam and quality. In movies you also have Shawshank Redemption from Stephen King, which I've read after I watched the movie and the difference between it's secondary, most like the adaptations of Harry Potter - which means, small things that are interesting but not that important to the development of the story are left out, while some other characteristics gain for focus than they originally had, but still not being really important.
Example: In HP he doesn't know what are the Horcruxes before-hand, instead he dreams with them by entering Voldemort's mind and hearing the Horcruxes kind of buzzing. So discuss.