The Legend of the Seeker

[Fayathon]

Haha this kind of rage is the best kind of rage.

I've never read the book and the TV show is cool. I think if the TV show was called "The sword of truth" then it wouldn't have any excuse to be so different, but seeing as its only "based" on, I feel that it has the right to differ a bit. How about stepping back and accepting that they are two different mediums and two different styles of entertainment.

Plus Bridget Regan is stunningly good looking. That helps too.

Spoiler

Well just in case you like the show "DRAKEN IS RICHARDS FATHER" .

There you go, plot done. Also it felt to me like it was a really bad version of Xena, which was already a cheesy show.

You too! Use the spoiler tags! Even if you're trying to make a point don't screw the books up for people that want to read them.

 

[Darius Brogan]

A reason that the show may seem like Xena, or possibly Hercules, is because Sam Raimi is executive producer...

 

[zen5887]

Haha this kind of rage is the best kind of rage.

I've never read the book and the TV show is cool. I think if the TV show was called "The sword of truth" then it wouldn't have any excuse to be so different, but seeing as its only "based" on, I feel that it has the right to differ a bit. How about stepping back and accepting that they are two different mediums and two different styles of entertainment.

Plus Bridget Regan is stunningly good looking. That helps too.

Well just in case you like the show "DRAKEN IS RICHARDS FATHER" . There you go, plot done. Also it felt to me like it was a really bad version of Xena, which was already a cheesy show.

Thanks for that you arsehole.

"He likes something I don't so I'm going to ruin it for him!"

There should be a special part of hell reserved for people who spoil things.

 

[Eponet]

Spoiler

Word for word? Yeah, I realize a series cant be taken word for word by the book.. But bloody hell this misses more things than a blind archer! First, Denee, shes seen at the start the tv show. In the book, you only find out about her around halfway through

Zedd, in the book Richard is his best friend. In the show, doesnt know him at all.

The Boundary/Quad. The Quad never followed Kahlan 'directly' through the boundary.

Richards father. He's still bloody alive! He's not alive in the book.

The book of Counted Shadows. In the series, Kahlan has said book. in the actual books, Richards father made him learn it by heart.

Those are all the holes I've managed to gather after watching just 20 minutes of it!

Dude, spoilers for those that haven't read the books. I have mind you, and I've been steered clear of LotS by every person that I know that's read the books. I'm not even curious as to how bad it is when everyone tells me it's bad.

Those hardly count; they're pretty much background information that's covered in the first couple of chapters anyway.

 

[Saargston]

You'd only consider the series to be a Cypher if your expectations of it are too high. Some things that happen in the book just D'haran't suited for TV. The chapters where Richard gets trapped by Denna, for example, are mostly about Richard's psychological changes through the ordeal, and you just can't show that on screen (Plus, an exact translation would be too gory for any TV station to show at primetime) There's just no way a network would have the balls to show Rahl kill a kid, chop off his nads, tear out his heart, eyes, (and anything else I cut out), and grind them into a paste and eat them. (Plus, they would be hard-pressed to show how horrible it tasted)

If you take it for what it is and don't expect it to be a perfect translation of the book, you're mord than likely to see that barring a few episodes, it's a good show.

 

[Rasputin1]

Spoiler

Word for word? Yeah, I realize a series cant be taken word for word by the book.. But bloody hell this misses more things than a blind archer! First, Denee, shes seen at the start the tv show. In the book, you only find out about her around halfway through

Zedd, in the book Richard is his best friend. In the show, doesnt know him at all.

The Boundary/Quad. The Quad never followed Kahlan 'directly' through the boundary.

Richards father. He's still bloody alive! He's not alive in the book.

The book of Counted Shadows. In the series, Kahlan has said book. in the actual books, Richards father made him learn it by heart.

Those are all the holes I've managed to gather after watching just 20 minutes of it!

Dude, spoilers for those that haven't read the books. I have mind you, and I've been steered clear of LotS by every person that I know that's read the books. I'm not even curious as to how bad it is when everyone tells me it's bad.

Those hardly count; they're pretty much background information that's covered in the first couple of chapters anyway.

Well sorry, I didn't watch the show long enough to find out what other things they missed.

 

[Fayathon]

Spoiler

Word for word? Yeah, I realize a series cant be taken word for word by the book.. But bloody hell this misses more things than a blind archer! First, Denee, shes seen at the start the tv show. In the book, you only find out about her around halfway through

Zedd, in the book Richard is his best friend. In the show, doesnt know him at all.

The Boundary/Quad. The Quad never followed Kahlan 'directly' through the boundary.

Richards father. He's still bloody alive! He's not alive in the book.

The book of Counted Shadows. In the series, Kahlan has said book. in the actual books, Richards father made him learn it by heart.

Those are all the holes I've managed to gather after watching just 20 minutes of it!

Dude, spoilers for those that haven't read the books. I have mind you, and I've been steered clear of LotS by every person that I know that's read the books. I'm not even curious as to how bad it is when everyone tells me it's bad.

Those hardly count; they're pretty much background information that's covered in the first couple of chapters anyway.

There are a few that aren't covered until the end of the first book, besides it's better to get into the habit of being more cautious of spoilers than accidentally ruining something for someone who was earnestly looking forward to enjoy the subject matter, be it game, movie or book.

 

[Eponet]

Spoiler

Word for word? Yeah, I realize a series cant be taken word for word by the book.. But bloody hell this misses more things than a blind archer! First, Denee, shes seen at the start the tv show. In the book, you only find out about her around halfway through

Zedd, in the book Richard is his best friend. In the show, doesnt know him at all.

The Boundary/Quad. The Quad never followed Kahlan 'directly' through the boundary.

Richards father. He's still bloody alive! He's not alive in the book.

The book of Counted Shadows. In the series, Kahlan has said book. in the actual books, Richards father made him learn it by heart.

Those are all the holes I've managed to gather after watching just 20 minutes of it!

Dude, spoilers for those that haven't read the books. I have mind you, and I've been steered clear of LotS by every person that I know that's read the books. I'm not even curious as to how bad it is when everyone tells me it's bad.

Those hardly count; they're pretty much background information that's covered in the first couple of chapters anyway.

Well sorry, I didn't watch the show long enough to find out what other things they missed.

I meant they hardly count as spoiler material. Messed up background information is terrible.

 

[Alfie]

It barely follows the original story. The only thing they got right is the characters names.quote]

It never matter's if it follows the books or not "based on a book" dosent mean "copy from book" ofc there are exceptions.

You cant make cliffhangers if you allready know whats gona happen. In the end its just a show take it for what it is, 42 mins whit some half serious entertainment.

The show itself thou follows the same old fantasy generee, witch means teenager heroes, old wizzards etc. Just be thankfull they skipped the elfs and dwarfs..

Watch spartacus instead, blood, tits, and fun!

 

[kingcom]

Haha this kind of rage is the best kind of rage.

I've never read the book and the TV show is cool. I think if the TV show was called "The sword of truth" then it wouldn't have any excuse to be so different, but seeing as its only "based" on, I feel that it has the right to differ a bit. How about stepping back and accepting that they are two different mediums and two different styles of entertainment.

Plus Bridget Regan is stunningly good looking. That helps too.

Well just in case you like the show "DRAKEN IS RICHARDS FATHER" . There you go, plot done. Also it felt to me like it was a really bad version of Xena, which was already a cheesy show.

Thanks for that you arsehole.

"He likes something I don't so I'm going to ruin it for him!"

There should be a special part of hell reserved for people who spoil things.

Oh dont worry the series will probably never get up to that point and it probably will have nothing to do with the show, theres that much which is different that its completely and utterly unrelated. I mean geez the confessor cant just touch control people, richard seems to be devoid of actually going for the boxes of orden (you know, the complete focus of the first book) and I have yet to see Chase appear. CHASE, the epitomy of badass in ranger/woodsman form.

Hell, even if you liked the books you must admit the series gets really wierd when the author starts writing an entire book on an anti-communism rant.

 

[bloodychimp]

I've never even seen LoTS, I've only read a couple of the plot synopsis, but I HAVE read the Sword of Truth series... the whole thing... first book included (obviously) and I have never in my entire life found an adaptation that SUCKED SO MUCH. Seriously speaking, it is a giant pile of random shit with the same character names to mask the fact that it is entirely different.
Denee is DEAD for one, you never meet her, quads are made up of only FOUR people, not four and a leader, just four, The Book is gone, ashes, dust, memories in Richards head, Richards hometown is NOT Brennidon, the is no "magic map maker" that is hired to track him, ect, ect, ect...

Sorry, you've invalidated your opinion. The splash screen says "Based off Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth" not "A faithful recreation of Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth".

I've never read the books (they look good, but I don't really have a lot of time to read a long series like that), but the TV show is a lot of fun. The stories are well written, and its a good thing they aren't taken from the book because things that are fun to read and things that are fun to watch are completely different. People need to settle down over this whole "they made my favorite book into a movie/tv show/video game, and it's not how I imagined it and I'm the fucking center of the universe so no one else should enjoy it" shit.

/rant

 

[Rasputin1]

Haha this kind of rage is the best kind of rage.

I've never read the book and the TV show is cool. I think if the TV show was called "The sword of truth" then it wouldn't have any excuse to be so different, but seeing as its only "based" on, I feel that it has the right to differ a bit. How about stepping back and accepting that they are two different mediums and two different styles of entertainment.

Plus Bridget Regan is stunningly good looking. That helps too.

Well just in case you like the show "DRAKEN IS RICHARDS FATHER" . There you go, plot done. Also it felt to me like it was a really bad version of Xena, which was already a cheesy show.

Thanks for that you arsehole.

"He likes something I don't so I'm going to ruin it for him!"

There should be a special part of hell reserved for people who spoil things.

Oh dont worry the series will probably never get up to that point and it probably will have nothing to do with the show, theres that much which is different that its completely and utterly unrelated. I mean geez the confessor cant just touch control people, richard seems to be devoid of actually going for the boxes of orden (you know, the complete focus of the first book) and I have yet to see Chase appear. CHASE, the epitomy of badass in ranger/woodsman form.

You didnt see Chase? I barely watched any of it and even I saw chase.

 

[Sark]

I have read the first three books. I found them to be horribly written with a distinct lack of interesting characters. As such I have given no attention to this spinoff TV series.

 

[kingcom]

It barely follows the original story. The only thing they got right is the characters names.quote]

It never matter's if it follows the books or not "based on a book" dosent mean "copy from book" ofc there are exceptions.

You cant make cliffhangers if you allready know whats gona happen. In the end its just a show take it for what it is, 42 mins whit some half serious entertainment.

The show itself thou follows the same old fantasy generee, witch means teenager heroes, old wizzards etc. Just be thankfull they skipped the elfs and dwarfs..

Watch spartacus instead, blood, tits, and fun!

Problem is, the Lord of Rings movies were based on the books, they were not "copy from the book", and were radically different but still had similiar ideas. What i find funny is that the villains of the sword of truth series (first two books anyway) are middle eastern and its sort of completely overlooked that...

 

[kingcom]

Haha this kind of rage is the best kind of rage.

I've never read the book and the TV show is cool. I think if the TV show was called "The sword of truth" then it wouldn't have any excuse to be so different, but seeing as its only "based" on, I feel that it has the right to differ a bit. How about stepping back and accepting that they are two different mediums and two different styles of entertainment.

Plus Bridget Regan is stunningly good looking. That helps too.

Well just in case you like the show "DRAKEN IS RICHARDS FATHER" . There you go, plot done. Also it felt to me like it was a really bad version of Xena, which was already a cheesy show.

Thanks for that you arsehole.

"He likes something I don't so I'm going to ruin it for him!"

There should be a special part of hell reserved for people who spoil things.

Oh dont worry the series will probably never get up to that point and it probably will have nothing to do with the show, theres that much which is different that its completely and utterly unrelated. I mean geez the confessor cant just touch control people, richard seems to be devoid of actually going for the boxes of orden (you know, the complete focus of the first book) and I have yet to see Chase appear. CHASE, the epitomy of badass in ranger/woodsman form.

You didnt see Chase? I barely watched any of it and even I saw chase.

Really? Ive watched about 9 episodes, when does he show up?

 

[Rasputin1]

Haha this kind of rage is the best kind of rage.

I've never read the book and the TV show is cool. I think if the TV show was called "The sword of truth" then it wouldn't have any excuse to be so different, but seeing as its only "based" on, I feel that it has the right to differ a bit. How about stepping back and accepting that they are two different mediums and two different styles of entertainment.

Plus Bridget Regan is stunningly good looking. That helps too.

Well just in case you like the show "DRAKEN IS RICHARDS FATHER" . There you go, plot done. Also it felt to me like it was a really bad version of Xena, which was already a cheesy show.

Thanks for that you arsehole.

"He likes something I don't so I'm going to ruin it for him!"

There should be a special part of hell reserved for people who spoil things.

Oh dont worry the series will probably never get up to that point and it probably will have nothing to do with the show, theres that much which is different that its completely and utterly unrelated. I mean geez the confessor cant just touch control people, richard seems to be devoid of actually going for the boxes of orden (you know, the complete focus of the first book) and I have yet to see Chase appear. CHASE, the epitomy of badass in ranger/woodsman form.

You didnt see Chase? I barely watched any of it and even I saw chase.

Really? Ive watched about 9 episodes, when does he show up?

I'm fairly sure he's the guy who confronts the person alive after the so called "quad" attacks Kahlan. I could be wrong though.

EDIT: By "the guy alive" I'm referring to the so-called Captain fellow. The one who grabs the tooth from Richards neck.

 

[kingcom]

I'm fairly sure he's the guy who confronts the person alive after the so called "quad" attacks Kahlan. I could be wrong though.

That was chase? I seem to remember they even called that guy something different and until they said his name i thought he was chase, except with his crossbow absent.