Unpopular opinions

[danieladamsmith]

There are indeed many books that would make excellent movies/series. The biggest problem is the risk of adaption decay...

Where books can focus on thoughts, movies/series have to focus more on the action. That is one side of the common decay.

Books can have worlds that are more complex than anything possible in this world, and distances are often vast. Movies/series often fail to convey these properly and the world is shrunken to something that is no longer the world of that book. (example: Eragon Dwarven city that was 16,000m tall mountain became only about 1-2000m tall.)

SO...what sacred cows should I slay today?

Slay away! I didn't see anything I would disagree with you on. Well said!

I would hate to see a movie adaptation of any RH books...it would be too limiting, like defining the universe in a snapshot of stars.

Farseer as I wrote on another thread. I think a cable TV series is the only way to go with Fantasy, Speculative Fiction etc...40,50,60 hours to tell a story but the problem is that we aren't a big enough audience to drive the stations to invest in. I am still really shocked that HBO is doing Game of Thrones. I hope the ratings are good and some other channels follow suit.