I’ve watched the first 3. Will need to watch 4. Looking forward to it.
I’ve watched season 4. It was ok but plods a bit.
I binged the whole lot over a long weekend to reset before watching S4, because I’ve read all the books so am way ahead of the tv series.
Love it, it’s a brilliant adaptation of a brilliant ennealogy of books.
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6 Underground
Proper Saturday night mindless action.
Violent. Funny in parts, and totally Michael Bay.
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the books are superb. I couldn’t put them down. He Just needs to finish the bloody thing now.
Yep. The regularity and brutality of slaughter of central characters is shocking in comparison to most fantasy novels. I doubt there will be much sailing off into the sun done in his final novel.
The Wild Cards books he is involved in are pretty good fun too.
Not just the unpredictability of killing main characters, the perspective of the chapters from characters point of view I thought gave it great depth and got you in to the character which I always find enjoyable,also the scale is epic. Got me back in to fantasy again, except the 4th novel which is a bit of a let down compared to the other 4.
I’ve refused to watch the TV series until I’ve finished the novels so if he wants some more tv royalties he better hurry up and finish the books.
just started the Malazan Book Of the Fallen series and this also looks to be an excellent series.
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Mutters about the feckin’ expense but heads off to check Amacuntz anyway…
Witcher is bad but is at least mildly watchable when Henry Caville isn’t in the scene, WTF does he think he’s doing just grunting every word out. This had the potential to be very good.
Completely unwatchable was ‘6 undeground’ tried last night and lasted about 15 mins before turning it off. Couldn’t understand how in the first scene they are driving across the city in a getaway from doing a surprise attack yet there seems to be baddies popping out of a side streets miles from where they started shooting at them.
Jumbled and unstructured load of old bollox.
I really enjoyed that until …
I gave it up about Book 8 I think. Bit like Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series (I think I got to book 8 of that one too) you get to the pont where plot progress becomes leaden as the writer spins it out, the content of a short story becomes a novel.
A lot of fantasy is becoming like this, Peter V Brett’s Painted Man series should have been 3 books not 5.
On the other side of the coin is the wonderful Patrick Rothfuss ‘Name of the Wind’ seies.
Except it isn’t a series, he wrote the first two and not a peep out of him for 5 years. I heard that the option had been taken on the series by HBO or Netflix and he had been adapting the books, but I wish he would finish the series, one of the best things I have read in the genre
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Some good reading suggestions in the telly thread!!
I’m going to check them out, though I seem to collect books without reading them.
Have to admit we did the same and turned it off the week before as too tired to get my head around the frantic pace.
It never really gets and less bizarre but it does get better and more settled.
It’s still tosh but at the end I did enjoy the ride.
cheers just bought the Name of The Wind.
Is it Jim? 
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Apologies for going all off topic with the books
On topic, finally got round to watching The Irishman, loved it as well, although wish it had been done 20 odd years ago.
The new BBC adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
Very dark, I think Dickens would have approved.
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Oh fuck, I meant to watch that. I’ll have to do the iPlayer thing
It’s good so far Paul, Guy Pearce is really good as Scrooge.
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No laughs and not for the children … Very close to Dickens I think, apart from the heavy swearing in this. I’m looking forward to the rest of it.
VB
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It was totally boss. Loved it. Was gutted when the missus told me it was on over 3 nights.
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