Stormlight 5 Finished!🎉 George R.R. Martin Shades Hollywood😎 Tom Bombadil First Look🧙~FN~ 

I was like why is Nerd of the rings on the fantasy news, I must watch

He's hurting himself for his Goblin Lord XD

I think this was my favorite guest host so far!

@@covi_reads7398 You are too kind! :)

Love this collaboration so much!!

I hope that lore is true because it would be really funny

i am pretty sure he has no idea even when fantasy news drops.

@@gentleslice6489 I mean Brandon had admitted to messing with booktubers before. I watched a video where he admits he intentionally puts the word “undulate” in his books to mess with Merphy Napier.

It’s revenge from Daniel referring to him as Buggitybop Skibbitibibble in that Sunlit Man review, I’m calling it now

And believable

The only reason a writer would have to make someone else's story their own is if they're not good enough to write their own story in the first place, and it shows.

I don't even think it's always that. Part of it is as a writer, you DO want to put something of yourself into your work. The other part of it is that there's this thought in Hollywood/writer's rooms/show runners that you have to develop some kind of hook, or character progression, or force a story into a traditional film/theater 3 act format. I think the terrible WoT show's first season is a good example of that. They wanted to try and force the story into a 'Mystery' of who might the Dragon Reborn be out of our 5 characters. Which is dumb, because everyone already knows... Or in the RoP they wanted to give Galadriel a more active back story and landed on the fact that a lot of her family died at the hands of Sauron, wouldn't that make you angry and mad. And how did she go from that to the Galadriel we see later on? TLDR: Lots of people have their hands in the adaptation. I think people make fundamental decisions early on in the process at a fairly high level, give that to the writers and say, 'we need you to get from here to there in 10 hours of television'.

It seems like Hollywood writers don't understand what an adaptation is. Your supposed to tell the story in a different medium. Sure there are changes that have to be made, but that doesn't mean make it your own. Too many writers view these stories as entities that just exist as if they had no author.

Nice! I honestly haven’t checked out Fallout (games or show) yet. lol.

OP live action had the same heart as the manga.

Oh man, if we’re doing games gotta bring up Arcane. I didn’t play LoL but there’s no way it was better than the show. But also, completely different mediums

The Lovely Bones. While not everyone's favourite movie, it gets rid of a really weird sexual storyline from the book and Tucci's version of the villain is top notch.

Thanks so much!😊

Haha! Thanks! It was my Comic Con cosplay last year. :)

This is amazing! But I would regularly throw them off the shelf because I have terrible eye-everything coordination xD

Sigh, I guess I'll be that guy. *They're

@@christina_1313 it'll get them used to battle 😂

We were told that exact thing by our health visitor - our books up high, toys/childrens books at their height. Guess she doesn’t know about funkopops 😂

Furice is a mockery

Ffffthice is made up

Quintice is a threat

I'm not sure if this is a Ranger's Apprentice reference, but if it is I'd be happy.

@@rutgerniemeijer It is not, but I'd gladly play along.

After watching the first movie, it became my personal headcannon that the Hiccup in the movie is the OG Hiccup Horendous Haddock teaching vikings to train dragons for the first time and the books are about Hiccup Horendous Haddock the Third, long after training dragons is an established practice. I haven't watched future movies, and I've only read about 2/3s of the books, but it works well enough from what I've seen/read, lol

@@georgeevans9044 that’s such a cool theory, I love it. You should definitely watch the rest of the trilogy too, they’re all incredible. The books are also good but in a different way (and don’t worry about book spoilers in the movies, I don’t think there are any lol)

Thanks so much! I’ll admit, I was a bit nervous about it. Lol

@@NerdoftheRings I'm sure you were but it really didn't show. You seemed to be enjoying it and I was laughing and smiling the whole time!

Wow. Fax

Thank you for opening my eyes on this

Gaiman has really good adaptations. My answer is Stardust.

@@jaredpoulter6762 I didn't like Sandman that much 🤷, but that's just me.

@@klulu-kun I haven't read the comic, so I can't speak to its quality as an adaptation. I liked the show well enough though.

"Someone" = Jack Black?

@@Steve_Stowers Jack Black would be perfect for this

@@Steve_Stowers YES!!!

This is a million dollar idea, right here.

I think they have where you can make custom Funko Pops now. 👀

Have not read HtTYD, but HAVE read Howl. . .absolutely correct statement.

Haven't read Howl, but have read HtTYD, and I second that it is absolutely a correct statement

Man Carrying Hobbits?

Man carrying ring

Man carrying tune

Man Carrying Goldberry

Man Carry-a ding, ding a ring dillo!

Exactly. I'm not watching an adaptation of *insert book here* because I want some Hollywood take on it. I'm watching because I want a visual representation of the literal book. I want them to take the actual words on the page and put them in a visual format.

@@elise85391 Do you dislike movies like Blade Runner, The Shining, Starship Troopers, Jojo Rabbit, Howl's Moving Castle, Jurassic Park, etc. then?

@@SirStrangefolk Gonna be honest I haven't seen a single one of these, or read any of the books. I've seen parts of Jurassic Park, but never the whole movie, and I just found out very recently that they were books first. Editing to add: A couple of these adaptations are older, and Hollywood has beaten the adaptation horse to death since some of these came out. There are definitely some good adaptations, most of the recent ones though, are not that.

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TSA5 Might be more hyped

Sanderson is still only big in fantasy circles. He still isn’t really know by your average audience member.

@YourBlackLocal I meant more hyped then the last book of wot

@@yorgo2255 I wasn’t talking to you…

Possibly, but I mean since the final book in WOT there hasn't been a super novel around. Dance with Dragons got published before, and the other sagas aren't as popular as Stormlight. No competition really for SA until Winds or Doors of Stone come out

100% is not even a competition

I was thinking of this one too! But remember that author William Goldman was also a professional screenwriter and wrote the movie script himself - he was involved in the adaption in a way that most authors are not, and had the relevant industry experience to make that involvement much smoother for everyone

@@kathrynrowland5165 woah, TIL! That makes so much sense. TPB really is the gold standard for book-to-movie adaptations!

Came here to say this, I was surprised by how much I did not care for the book

The author spent something like 50 pages describing Buttercups wardrobe. The book is boring as hell, the movie is 10/10. (Although if you are looking for some lulz go listen to the song that plays over the end credits. Good god the lyrics are amazingly bad. If it came out today I would be 100% sure they were written by AI)

I would argue they are good in different ways. The movie is more humorous and magical in upfront ways. The book is like if you meet a guy, he starts telling you a story, and you start to question if he is telling the truth or fucking with you. It's an added layer that wouldn't have translated well to the screen. For instance, William Goldman had 2 daughters and no son. And there is no sequel. I have a really fancy copy with nice pictures.

I agree with that.

It has Ryan Gosling, it's at least gonna be 7/10

Yeah, I'd like more TV series to be made for adaptations of long books. But now they're just making movie adaptations of Broadway musicals that are already based on books/movies. Like, who asked for this???

it was mediocre like all movies and tv series nowadays.

@@paulwoodford1984nah you trippin.

​@@paulwoodford1984 Wow, what a defensible and completely reasonable statement.

I think the advantage Fallout has it that it's not a single story, it's a setting. So the writers and producers can still make a story that their own, while still making it recognisably Fallout.

They did make it their own a bit. They completely changed how ghouls work.

Whoa, really? That's wild! I gotta check it out for sure.

Oooo. I do love the How to Train Your Dragon movies. So great!

I don't think this is a crazy take at all. The films are among the greatest ever made and, like you said, I think a huge part of that is they aren't setting out to "improve" the story. They realized what they needed to do for dramatic tension, condensing the runtime, etc - but they clearly made great efforts to keep as much Tolkien as possible.

@@NerdoftheRings It doesn't hurt that Philippa Boyens is a pretty clear superfan of the mythos.

The movies are so well liked,it's a hotter take to claim "Jackson is a hack!"

Thanks!! I basically just had the topics list and was kinda winging it from there. I did know ahead of time that I wanted to do something with the Funko Pop news though. haha.

Have I not told you, Higgy? I’m currently launching into Mistborn!

@@NerdoftheRings No, you did NOT tell me this! I fully expect reaction details the whole way through!

I think it mostly works. I am wondering how they're going to reconcile Dune Messiah with the ending of Dune Part 2. It strikes me as incompatible unless he's going to completely rewrite the story of Messiah.

​@@drewtheunspoken3988 or make Chani do a 180 so hard It'll break all the "empowerment" he supposedly gave her and/or make Paul look like an abusive spouse

@per-c8229 yeah, I get what he was going for but it doesn't really work with what Frank Herbert was going for.

@@drewtheunspoken3988 completely agree! I'm worried about how he's going to pull it off, he already unexisted the 1st Letto II and made Jessica cookoo for cocoa puff, and the gomjabar kust kink play for Fayd-Rauta

The HP movies even vary by movie. I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I thought the 5th movie was a terrible adaptation. It's the longest book, yes has the second shortest run time behind Deathly Hallows 2 (which almost doesn't count, cause it's half of a 2 part movie).

​@@elise85391Yes, although The Order was my least favorite book of the series, so I kinda was ok with a shorter movie...but the lack of time with Sirius and the oversimplification of some plots were not a great decision, I agree.

I have only seen Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter out of those. And they are great movies, really well made with good attention to detail and great casts. But they aren’t great adaptations of the books, which in my opinion have better stories and characters most of the time, especially in Harry potters case. For Lord of the Rings they basically just changed a lot to make it more palatable for a general audience. Which is fair enough. Basically they add a lot of character drama that didn’t exist in the books(e.g. Faramir and Theoden acting like idiots in The Two Towers, which didn’t happen in the books, Frodo telling Sam to leave in Return of the King which also didn’t happen in the books) , change some characters character arcs(Aragorn who wants to be king and try to save the West(though worries more about whether he lead the fellowship sufficiently) from the books -> Reluctant hero Aragorn of the films) and they add a lot of over the top action(e.g. Legolas in general, the giant mega invincible ghost army, it couldn’t actually kill anyone in the books and it was just used to steal the pirate ships and fill them with Aragorn’s men, the cavalry charge down the really steep hill at helms deep, in the books it was men on foot from a previous battle that the Rohirrim lost who regrouped under Gandalf and etc…). Gimli also gets used as comic relief often, when he’s much more serious in the books. These are understandable changes as they no doubt make the films more watchable for people who haven’t read the books, I just feel that they lose some of the sense of mythology and seriousness of the books. Great movies though, some of my favourites, brilliant cast as well. As for Harry Potter they are again great movies but the writer just made some strange decisions. Overall the movies follow the basic story of the books well, and of course they can’t fit all of the little moments from the books in. But they just make some weird characterisation decisions that in my opinion are just worse than the books. Basically Hermione has much more personality in the books and is maybe made a bit too powerful and unfazed by everything in the films and is given too many actions of other characters. I find the book version more likeable, she has better relationships with the other characters(except it’s possible that her friendship with Harry is a bit overdone in the films in some ways, it’s a bit different to the book) and more personality. Ron gets absolutely character assassinated, he gets turned into a bit of an idiot for no real reason. He comes off as more intelligent, competent and eloquent in the books, as well as having a much better relationship with both Hermione and Harry in the books. There are times in the films where they have him insult Hermione for no reason when in the books he defended her and etc… they turned some of his braver moments into comic relief(I.e. the spider forest), and often use his character as comic relief. Ginny has absolutely no personality in the films but has a lot more personality in the books. In line with this the romantic subplots of the books get utterly ignored, so lots of people who have only seen the movies question them as not making sense. Which is understandable because 90% of the time Ron and Hermione don’t seem to like each other thaaaat much in the films and there were loads of moments from the books they could’ve added to show their development and how close those two were, but they didn’t, again even making him a bit of a dick to her when in the book the opposite occurred(film/book 3 when snape insults Hermione for answering a question). And Ginny just doesn’t have much personality in the films, basically never being developed beyond her film 2 personality. Not really that important to the overall plot but they stand out because they are important to the characters and people like love stories, and frankly they are mostly not very well written in the films, certainly much worse written that in the book. And I guess you could say that they don’t really include enough of Voldemorts backstory and tone down some of the scenes, like the book 5 ending fight or book 7 in general, but that’s understandable to keep the ratings down. Overall they are also great movies and I’m honestly a fan of the cast because they did really well in the movies, really well made. It’s just the writing of the characters is weird and in my opinion kind of annoying at times, the books had more likeable and better written characters. But yeah great movies regardless. Probably the two best adaptations for fantasy book series, it’s just they do make some big changes at times, so they definitely arent better.