Sword of Shannara...the TV show

GTFO.

Awesome! I haven't watched the Lord of the Rings movies in a couple of years so this will seem fresh.

Hauntingly fresh.

Unless the get the Brothers Hildebrandt to do all the conceptual work it just won't be right.

the = they

I Can't Believe It's Not Bilbo

haha wtf

i read the first couple shannara books before lotr

dude just changed the directions on the map, huh

Totally. I had read Lord of the Rings before I stumbled onto Sword, but hadn't gone backwards to The Silmarillion and Lost Tales and such by the time Elfstones came out so I didn't know he was mining them too.

"Those aren't silmarils! Those are elfstones."

dude just changed the directions on the map, huh

A perfect summary.

when will there be a wheel of time series?

I think once the books wrap next year it'll come right along. Especially when they realize that if you cut out all the internal monologues you've got just enough plot for a 2 1/2 hour movie.

The next Legend of the Seeker.

There are few things as delightful as Ned's blinding hatred for Terry Brooks

It is endearing.

Is Terry Brooks or the other guy, Goodkind, I think, has all the bizarro political ideologies that he decided to start cramming into his later books?

Are one of them nutters? I thought the only big name crazy was Card.

Yup, Goodkind.

http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2007/12/interview-with-terry-goodkind.html

Terry Goodkind: Ayn Rand is the inventor of the objectivist philosophy. I consider her the greatest thinker since Aristotle. She made advances in the world of philosophy that no one since Aristotle has made....

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YhrLAYLQ8So/R16yX7qpu-I/AAAAAAAABk0/8RwYfmDAnDM/s400/Terry+Goodkind.jpg

And he goes on from there

Happy to say I made it about 50 pages into his first book before it made me want to gouge out my eyes.

even as a twelve year old fantasy nerd i knew these books were straight garbage.
THAT SAID, i love shitty fantasy tv shows.

not gonna lie, I loved the first two Shannara books

I wouldn't read them again, mind you

Yeah, as a 12-yr-old fantasy nerd I dug them on a sort of "I wish I had more LOTR books to read" basis. I think I read the first three and by then I was not into it anymore. I remember absolutely nothing about them. Like, not even the names of any of the characters.

the best book Brooks ever wrote was Magic Kingdom For Sale, anyway

I haven't read these books but I will watch the shit out of this

heads up: it will be terrible

i had no idea these books were set in the future. i used to listen to the album of the first book at the library when i was a kid.

http://www.thesoundtracktoyourlife.co.uk/files/t_8013.jpg

idk if this is fair to judge but christ look at these

http://sonarent.com/titles/
http://www.farahfilms.com/about

xpost -- Hahah lord, I remember that.

okay this is going to be transcendently bad

one can only hope that Kevin Sorbo is in this

Oh my god. How in the world had I not figured out that there would be YouTube clips of people reading favorite literature of theirs. The 'acoustic guitar bedroom cover version' of the lit world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c8wZCSqJXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxf8Wfkt5j4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUMLtav89o

oh no, it is happening

one can only hope that Kevin Sorbo is in this

― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:49 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'll give it a chance (stoned) since i assumed 'game of thrones' would suck and was happy to be wrong

IT'S HAPPENING

http://io9.com/game-of-thrones-meets-teen-wolf-mtv-is-really-putting-1603676840

As we reported last year, the pilot is being written by former Smallville showrunners Miles Millar and Al Gough. Jon Favreau was signed up to direct, but is now just producing, due to a scheduling conflict. Instead, the first two episodes will be directed by Jonathan Liebesman (Battle: Los Angeles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).

It's sort of interesting that they're skipping over the first novel and adapting the second instead — but the second book is less obviously beholden to Lord of the Rings, and lets the show have an intense plot about the elves' magic failing and the evil Dagda Mor trying to return to the world. It'll be interesting to see MTV try to do something with the scale and ambition of Game of Thrones, but the youth-oriented snark of Smallville and MTV's own Teen Wolf.

It's tonight! *crickets*

http://www.mtv.com/shows/shannara

Okay this is totally hilair.

It's like Roswell with elves and things that just happen for no reason.

the crickets were wrong, tim f is right -- another friend described it as "shitmazing" and this is even more correct

I think shitmazing works well. I can't say it was at all good but I binged on it and enjoyed it more than the last 4 years of Game of Thrones.

Me too! Idk how it happened but I dug my Shannara Chronicles experience.

I love how it will keep garbaging along...on Spike!

http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/trailers/882579-the-shannara-chronicles-season-2-trailer-is-here

Yay!

Well this was deservedly the only Shannara thread in general. And guess what we talked about today!

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/61