What would you cut?

[jacob Raver, sinTempter]

1- If you don't take enough time for the audience to live in Cov's shoes before the rape (Lena)...well, nuff said

2- If you don't take enough time for the audience to love the Land before the rape (Wraiths)...well, nuff said

3- If you don't take enought time for the audience to care about the people in the Land before the rape (Burning Woodhelvin)...well, nuff said

4- If you don't take enough time for the audience to love the Giants, through FF's exposition alone, before the rape (in IW)...well, nuff said

5- If you don't take enough time for the audience to understand who Damelon is and what his prophecy entails, and care at all, before the rape (in IW)...well, nuff said

6- If you don't take enough time for the audience to understand who Loric is before the rape (in PTP when the gem turned green)...well, nuff said

7- If you don't take enough time for the audience to care about/understand: Kevin, Berek, Creator, Foul, Ravers, Lore, Lords, Haruchai, Ranyhyn/Ra,en,etc.

ugg.

A serious question here though:

Why does everyone want to hurry through the first part of LFB? Isn't it really, psychologically what the whole trilogy is about? I would think there's as much opportunity to split LFB into two and do the first half as a character study. Get to know Cov, then the people of the Land, then the Land, so that when the Wraiths get raped, we care, and when the people get raped, we care, and then we have the time in the second installment to do FF right, so that when the Giants are raped, we care, and on.

[Dilly the Willy-Nilly]

And THIS is exactly why I have always been the "Read The Book" geeky type. In my wee little head I just canNOT see these books being adapted well without losing so much. Sure, I suppose it can be done, and for those that have never read the books it could probably be done really well.
However, for those of us that have been reading and re-reading these books for 20 years, sorry, I don't see it.

PLEASE don't flame me as I cower behind my "nooB" status- merely MY opinion.

[jacob Raver, sinTempter]

Welcome, Dilly my Nilly. How many times you read the Chrons?

And don't worry, I hate flamers, either way. You're post was pretty...honest.

And to be honest, I've only recently come back to the Watch in the last two weeks, been gone for year and a half.

[Dilly the Willy-Nilly]

Hey jacob Raver, how many times? Reading the Chrons of course!
Honestly I have no idea. I think I'm correct on how many times I've replaced the books though.
I only by accident found out about the "Final" group of books, of which 2 are available at this point, as you probably know.
1978 is when I picked up LFB, I was a Senior in HS and I believe the second book had just become available in my school library. I read the back or inside cover and saw that it was a planned "trilogy" so I asked for LFB. That got me hooked. After I read the first, I bought 1 and 2 in hardback and anxiouxly awaited #3. I'm sure I said most of this somewhere here before!
As the years went on, I wanted my friends to get excited about these stories too, I loaned them out...you may know how that goes sometimes.
At this point, I think I've replaced the 1st chrons 4 times and the 2nd chrons 3 times. Like I said, I recently found out that there is a continuation of a sort, I've just read Runes and FR one time so far.
I think the different sections here (on the Watch) look fascinating but I want to give myself a little bit of distance, read something else meantime (yep, you may find my comments elsewhere on the Watch) and then I'll read the Runes and FR again and jump into the fray- if there is one. Already I want to say ALOT of stupid stuff but I'm trying to THINK and get a grip. Believe me, nothing that I've read (I've always been quite the eclectic reader) has ever affected my "thinker" as Stephen Donaldson has.
So jacob Raver, as you asked a very simple question that somehow became a session of SHRINK to me, that is so wholly uncalled for, I will (un)gracefully bow OUT and hope that not too many Watchers noticed.
SHHHHH!

[jacob Raver, sinTempter]

It wasn't me, it was SRD...his writing and all the associative memories can do that to you.

You are not alone. Dooweeoohweeooh.