I remember when liberals were absolutely fawning over the book and saying it was an allegory for the China-US relations (so of course they claim the genocidal aliens looking to displace entire populations and leave them to die for their own benefit are a metaphor for China and not the US), Disney were even looking to buy the licensing rights to make films which I was pretty hyped.
Then Liu Cixin stated his support for the CPC and that there was no genocide of Uyghur muslims and all the libs immediately pretended he didn't exist.
Speed edit: it turns out it was Netflix looking to do the adaptation and that it was actually five republican senators who wrote an open letter to Netflix accusing them of supporting genocide - literal fucking top-down mcarthyism
Wait did they actually cancel it? I was looking forward to the adaptation, it was supposed to be done with the game of thrones show runners and I never watched GoT but every one talked like it was the best show on TV until towards the end, and that was because they departed significantly from the books, but this is a trilogy that’s already fully published and would have had cooperation of the author. I do remember some lawmakers throwing a fit because the author didn’t toe the American line on Xinjiang lol
You can google how much the messed up the show if you're interested, there's countless videos and articles out there. But the short of it is that they had the full backing of HBO where pretty much everyone around the two showrunners and head writers were top notch, from costuming to acting to directors. And they were able to follow the first 3 books pretty close to the source material, mostly using book dialogue and with a lot of writing assistance from the novel series author, GRRM. The success went to their heads and they refused to listen to anyone's heads but their own, and GRRM never finished the last two books so they ran out of source material to adapt starting around s5. As they started deviating from source material even as early as s2 and 3, the show got proggressively worse. Generally scenes based closely to the source material was top tier, and scenes or plotlines that deviated or went ahead of the published material had mediocre or crappy writing. The last two seasons were some awful writing with terrible implications (i.e. a girl saying her sexual assaulters made her strong), and the final season is pretty universally hailed as awful, by the main actors as well. The effects were always pretty, but their decisions for plot and dialogue revealed them as hacks.
Wow that wasn't very short, sorry I did that to you.
I remember when liberals were absolutely fawning over the book and saying it was an allegory for the China-US relations (so of course they claim the genocidal aliens looking to displace entire populations and leave them to die for their own benefit are a metaphor for China and not the US), Disney were even looking to buy the licensing rights to make films which I was pretty hyped.
Then Liu Cixin stated his support for the CPC and that there was no genocide of Uyghur muslims and all the libs immediately pretended he didn't exist.
Speed edit: it turns out it was Netflix looking to do the adaptation and that it was actually five republican senators who wrote an open letter to Netflix accusing them of supporting genocide - literal fucking top-down mcarthyism
Wait did they actually cancel it? I was looking forward to the adaptation, it was supposed to be done with the game of thrones show runners and I never watched GoT but every one talked like it was the best show on TV until towards the end, and that was because they departed significantly from the books, but this is a trilogy that’s already fully published and would have had cooperation of the author. I do remember some lawmakers throwing a fit because the author didn’t toe the American line on Xinjiang lol
Please god no, David Benioff and Dan Weiss are failson morons who shouldn't be allowed to run any film project outside of a home movie.
Like I said I never actually watched any of GoT and I don’t really know their work
You can google how much the messed up the show if you're interested, there's countless videos and articles out there. But the short of it is that they had the full backing of HBO where pretty much everyone around the two showrunners and head writers were top notch, from costuming to acting to directors. And they were able to follow the first 3 books pretty close to the source material, mostly using book dialogue and with a lot of writing assistance from the novel series author, GRRM. The success went to their heads and they refused to listen to anyone's heads but their own, and GRRM never finished the last two books so they ran out of source material to adapt starting around s5. As they started deviating from source material even as early as s2 and 3, the show got proggressively worse. Generally scenes based closely to the source material was top tier, and scenes or plotlines that deviated or went ahead of the published material had mediocre or crappy writing. The last two seasons were some awful writing with terrible implications (i.e. a girl saying her sexual assaulters made her strong), and the final season is pretty universally hailed as awful, by the main actors as well. The effects were always pretty, but their decisions for plot and dialogue revealed them as hacks.
Wow that wasn't very short, sorry I did that to you.
I mean, when they were working off source material they kind of did a great job.
I just checked to make sure and it seems that they didn't actually cancel it.