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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :

Sam Raimi, how could you?

Richard looks ALL WRONG.

I have no idea how they will mangle to story to make the Mord-Sith palatable. Or the whole "seduce and murder young children so they can take you to the underworld" thing. Or heck, any of it.

BAD IDEA.

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

Meh. It's a bad idea, but what the hell. They can only improve on that awful series.

That story could use some good mangling.

Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :

Mmmmm, from the makes of Hercules and Xena, I wondered what happened to them

Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :

Well, there is that, Icarus. Though the first book wasn't too bad.

Mucus, they went off and made Spiderman. Guess that's done with for now.

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

Spiderman and Boogeyman and The Grudge and all sorts of other movies.

Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Eaquae Legit:
Sam Raimi, how could you?

Richard looks ALL WRONG.

Not to me. I'm so totally psyched to see this now. I was looking forward to it anyway, but that trailer was cool.

quote:
Originally posted by Eaquae Legit:
I have no idea how they will mangle to story to make the Mord-Sith palatable. Or the whole "seduce and murder young children so they can take you to the underworld" thing. Or heck, any of it.

BAD IDEA.

Why? Obviously they're going to find a way to tame some of the nasty sexual and torture stuff, but that's normal for TV. This is going to be wonderful.

Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :

Cool photo of Richard and Kahlan: Link. I wonder how they'll pronounce Kahlan. KAY-lin? I'm used to transliterations from Hebrew, so I've always thought of her as KAH-lahn, but I don't know how Goodkind intended it to be pronounced.

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Icarus:
Spiderman and Boogeyman and The Grudge and all sorts of other movies.

Fanboy!

Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Icarus:
Meh. It's a bad idea, but what the hell. They can only improve on that awful series.

Don't tempt fate, Joe.

Though judging by the trailer, it looks like they've opted for the third way: making it so boring and generic that only the most diehard fans will watch it.