Isis Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 13 hours ago, kairparavel said: I enjoyed the books but I think Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom is actually the better of the two series. Leigh Bardugo did a great job with the heist concept and the characters are better developed. But it's just my opinion. All that said, the trailer knocked my socks off and I'm so very impatient to see it all come alive and how the two stories are brought together. No mourners, no funerals. Same. I liked the sort of 'Locke Lamora' vibe from the heist series and I enjoyed that one more than the Grisha (I gave up on the latter series). I will be giving the series a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 So is this another chosen one / secret hidden royalty thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady narcissa Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 13 hours ago, john said: Ben Barnes as the Darkling? I’m aware he’s an ancient being or something, but he is a hell of a lot older looking than my mental image, especially when they’re casting Alina with a believably teenage actor. Otherwise, excellent trailer, the sun summoning looks fantastic. In my mind Barnes is still 20 and frozen in Narnia but I looked him up and apparently he is 39 in real years. In Hollywood years I think he could pass for 30. The actress playing Alina is actually 25. So I suspect they have purposely aged them up for the tv series and are going for 20 somethings instead of teenagers. I think this makes sense, it will probably have broader tv viewing appeal this way. kairparavel and john 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ran Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Amazon's Wheel of Time series must be sweating a little bit on the VFX side of things. This show seems to have spared little expense on its elemental-ish magic effects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 On 3/30/2021 at 8:20 PM, Ran said: Amazon's Wheel of Time series must be sweating a little bit on the VFX side of things. This show seems to have spared little expense on its elemental-ish magic effects. WoT has between half again and twice the budget of this show, so in theory they should have no trouble at least matching this quality (which is solid more than spectacular). Given the extremely elongated post-production timeframe, I'm hoping for something reasonably impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Shadow and Bone | Building The World Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 (edited) Reviews are starting to come in and look pretty positive. There was one funny one that called it the next Game of Thrones, minus incest, nudity, and swearing... and, uh, that's not Game of Thrones then, is it? Heh. Edited April 21, 2021 by Ran Ser Scot A Ellison and Soylent Brown 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Anyone here started watching this yet? Good adaptation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divica Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 One qestion. The only person with special abilities is the woman that appears in the traillers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 (edited) 25 minutes ago, AncalagonTheBlack said: Anyone here started watching this yet? Good adaptation? Just saw the first episode. I've not read any of Bardugo's books, Linda has read all of them. It seems fine but was not a barn-burner of a first episode, to be honest. I do like the actors well enough from what little we've seen. Oh, I also thought its score was overly-forward and in your face to a distracting degree at times. Linda did not care for the pacing which she says is due to the mixing together of the two series. It did get a bit clumsy towards the end when they had the two stories tie up together a bit. 22 minutes ago, divica said: One qestion. The only person with special abilities is the woman that appears in the traillers? No. She just has extra-special abilities. In the setting, the nation she belongs to has an entire army made up of magic-users called Grisha, led by a General Kerrigan who is himself extra-special. Edited April 23, 2021 by Ran divica and AncalagonTheBlack 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Is it YA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Spockydog said: Is it YA? I mean, the books are. This.... I guess? I mean, it feels a lot like Hunger Games (the films, I've never read the books, though Linda nodded agreement and said that the show really does have some affinity to the Hunger Games films in a way that the novel series did not have) in terms of character relationships and the presence of sex and so on. Edited April 23, 2021 by Ran Spockydog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divica Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 5 minutes ago, Ran said: Just saw the first episode. I've not read any of Bardugo's books, Linda has read all of them. It seems fine but was not a barn-burner of a first episode, to be honest. I do like the actors well enough from what little we've seen. Oh, I also thought its score was overly-forward and in your face to a distracting degree at times. Linda did not care for the pacing which she says is due to the mixing together of the two series. It did get a bit clumsy towards the end when they had the two stories tie up together a bit. No. She just has extra-special abilities. In the setting, the nation she belongs to has an entire army made up of magic-users called Grisha, led by a General Kerrigan who is himself extra-special. Then I might watch it. From the traillers I thought only the woman had powers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filippa Eilhart Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 2 minutes ago, divica said: Then I might watch it. From the traillers I thought only the woman had powers. so what is your magic user/ non-user ratio which makes a series worth watching? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divica Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 2 minutes ago, Filippa Eilhart said: so what is your magic user/ non-user ratio which makes a series worth watching? If there are magic users then there must be a community of magic users. Some good and some bad so that the story doesn t look like a jerk fest about 1 character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 (edited) All your questions answered in a series of pieces on Vulture. Links to the others follow, usually, the bottom of the pieces. v Yes, indeed, it is YA. https://www.vulture.com/2021/04/shadow-and-bone-what-to-know-about-the-grishaverse.html https://www.vulture.com/2021/04/review-shadow-and-bone-almost-gets-lost-in-the-dark.html Recaps of each episode too, as recapper watches them, and then, writes. Edited April 23, 2021 by Zorral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Part way into the 2nd episode and man, they really just went way too big and "EPIC" with the score. There's a moment where it just swells and booms and... they just haven't earned that, and the moment is too damned quiet for it anyways. Weird, weird scoring decisions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kairparavel Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 3 episodes in and it's not perfect but I'm enjoying it. The Crows are fantastic! Excellent casting all around there. Kaz especially has walked right off the page. On the Grisha side, the cast is also very good. Ben Barnes as the Darkling works so well. The Apparat is appropriately creepy though he looks nothing like his book description (which is fine really). My only real complaint is how much they are cramming in to each episode to create the story of what The Crows were doing during this Alina timeline. Too many characters/locations/politics to keep track of for someone who hasn't read the books. Was also pretty happy when I saw Leigh Bardugo in her scene. I can't imagine what it's like to see it all come to life, though her smile in that scene said a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 My Daughter is 6 episodes in. She said she was confused by the incorporation of “Six of Crows” into the plot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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