Interview with Lee Child.

[heisenberg]

I don't enjoy seeing my paper heroes on screen usually, Reacher was definitely one of those. I found the series one very bland and gave up after the second episode. I dislike Cruise so avoid anything he shows up in. Interestingly though, having devoured the books from first edition to unfinished last, I really fell in love with Game of Thrones, partly because the distance in time between that first immersion in the books and the on screen version was so long, and partly because they were completely different creative works. The books were so much bigger, so much more happened, so many more sub plots, but in the screen version the characters had the players nuances underpinning their written personalities. Differences, clever clever differences.

Sadly, the same did not happen for me with Wheel of Time, the screen production did Robert Jordan no favours. The books were so much better...

Might've been the actors. Might've been the money.

But then blockbusters in either genre are rare and wonderful things.

Vikings is a good watch along with The Last Kingdom