I don't understand why TV can't reproduce the books. You know True Blood was very good at doing that in the first few seasons. Of course it diverged as time went on, which is understandable. But why change things up so much when it's not necessary?
Let's see. It makes no sense that Manfred and Fiji couldn't be romantically involved. In the books they are close but no sense of romance because she's so much older than him. She becomes like a big sister. But here they make her younger and him older.
Manfred should be early twenties, not early thirties, and he should be all about tattoos and piercings. I was looking forward to seeing what he'd look like.
Creek should be much younger too, late teens not late twenties. Plus why do they ratchet up the romance? I liked the crush from a distance and slow wooing by Manfred in the books.
Fiji should be bigger, she's a big, beautiful woman with lots of curves who doesn't realize she's beautiful. Meanwhile her love interest, Bobo, should be model handsome. Here he's just the same good looking person as everyone else.
Lemuel is an albino. Why make him Black?
The Rev should be a lot older and a lot thinner.
Why the playing down of Chuy? In the books Chuy is an angel too.
Where were Teacher and Grady? (Madonna's family.)
Then there's Mr. Snuggles. The book makes it very, very clear when he finally shows he can talk, that his voice sounds like a cat's voice except instead of meow he says a few words. But instead they make him have a middle aged male voice dripping with snarkiness. I was afraid they'd do that, but it still was disappointing. He's not a smarter cat with a human mind like in Hocus Pocus- he's a cat with a cat's mind and a cat's thinking who expresses himself in words... rarely.
Also, why do they change up Manfred's abilities? Why do they import a plot development from the middle of the 3rd book in the first episode with the something beneath the town story? Why can't they just do the first book for the first season? It's almost like they want to fast forward through the three books' plots so they can just do their own thing right away.
I was so looking forward to this and it has been a disappointment. I'll keep watching hoping it will be worth it.
Let's see. It makes no sense that Manfred and Fiji couldn't be romantically involved. In the books they are close but no sense of romance because she's so much older than him. She becomes like a big sister. But here they make her younger and him older.
Manfred should be early twenties, not early thirties, and he should be all about tattoos and piercings. I was looking forward to seeing what he'd look like.
Creek should be much younger too, late teens not late twenties. Plus why do they ratchet up the romance? I liked the crush from a distance and slow wooing by Manfred in the books.
Fiji should be bigger, she's a big, beautiful woman with lots of curves who doesn't realize she's beautiful. Meanwhile her love interest, Bobo, should be model handsome. Here he's just the same good looking person as everyone else.
Lemuel is an albino. Why make him Black?
The Rev should be a lot older and a lot thinner.
Why the playing down of Chuy? In the books Chuy is an angel too.
Where were Teacher and Grady? (Madonna's family.)
Then there's Mr. Snuggles. The book makes it very, very clear when he finally shows he can talk, that his voice sounds like a cat's voice except instead of meow he says a few words. But instead they make him have a middle aged male voice dripping with snarkiness. I was afraid they'd do that, but it still was disappointing. He's not a smarter cat with a human mind like in Hocus Pocus- he's a cat with a cat's mind and a cat's thinking who expresses himself in words... rarely.
Also, why do they change up Manfred's abilities? Why do they import a plot development from the middle of the 3rd book in the first episode with the something beneath the town story? Why can't they just do the first book for the first season? It's almost like they want to fast forward through the three books' plots so they can just do their own thing right away.
I was so looking forward to this and it has been a disappointment. I'll keep watching hoping it will be worth it.
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