MTV Shannara series

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www.mtv.com/shows/shannara

[Cagliostro]

Oh...Shannara getting a show before Covenant. That sucks.

[dANdeLION]

The books certainly sucked.

[Cagliostro]

Anybody watch it? I'm just curious if it is any amount of entertaining at all. I didn't hate the book, but it certainly was no Covenant, and nor was it Lord of the Rings. It made me as interested as the first Wheel of Time book. And I never could get beyond the first couple chapters of the second Shannara book.

[ussusimiel]

I've watched the first couple of episodes and it's bearable. I tried the first book years ago and didn't make it very far. There's plenty of action in the TV series almost from the very start and, a-la-GOT, they have sexed it up a fair bit. It's also quite US-teenage-friendly in the way characters talk (without that necessarily being as bad as it sounds) which is interesting/stange for a mostly generic fantasy setting.

Mildly diverting without adding anything new to the mix.

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[rdhopeca]

IMO, horrible. Like most of MTV content. Allanon is unrecognizable.

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Couldn't get past the first episode.

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[dANdeLION]

So it sucks, just like the book.


That's all I need to know.

[Farm Ur-Ted]

I just started watching this and I'm about eight episodes in. It is trash, but my sort of trash. Elfstones was by far my favorite book in the series (that I read), and I think it was a good decision that they started there, and not with Sword. That said, I read the book right about when it came out, when I was 12-13, so I have wondered if t would hold up for me. I can't say how closely this follows the book, but it is obviously mtv'd up, which is fine. I guess when I read these books, I either missed or completely forgot that the books were set in a post apocalyptic USA. I totally did not know that the characters went to San Francisco, and came across people with guns (lol).

Honestly, now I want to reread Sword and Elfstones just to see what the hell was going on. I guess I may try the word and void books first. It has been 30+ years since I read anything by Brooks, and I really have no recollection what his books are like.

[Skyweir]

Yeah Im not a Brooks fan or Tad Williams for that matter but I enjoyed Shanara the TV show. Fun, nicely cast .. but then I was ok with that Goodkind series that was televised from Wizards First Rule .. well the first season .. also trashy but my kind of trash

[Farm Ur-Ted]

The first season was alright, but I'm about 2 episodes into the second and I may not last much longer. It is bad. I think it's all new material, or maybe a hodge podge of random books. The problem with the trilogy is that it isn't really a trilogy. It's more like three standalone books as I recall, and the characters from Elfstones aren't in any other books (or in them very much). But, the showrunners obviously want to keep the main characters around, and the result is just a mess.

[Skyweir]

I wish I could recall season 2 .. but agree and they the producers did something similar with the Goodkind series. Totally off script .. for I guess similar reasons.