GoT had AN ending, but it's so bad that unless someone is a hardcore fan of the books or epic gritty fantasy it could make them decide not to even start the show. Haven't seen most of the others on this list but His Dark Materials is AMAZING. Thank goodness BBC was the main company behind it, because I love how they decided to be true to the book material while filling in what we didn't know certain characters were doing. That's what happens when an author is deeply involved in the adaptation--you get a great adaptation. Those studios who want to adapt any other epic fantasy series, especially when the author is dead, 100% need to adapt the material without changing anything that isn't absolutely necessary to bring it to a visual medium. That was what Amazon failed to do with a beloved IP; they believed they could write better than Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson and that their own political/social beliefs were more important than bringing to life characters that are beloved as is.

I was overjoyed when I read that it was cancelled, and I am glad no one is shopping it around to other companies. It needs to STAY dead.

Now, hopefully, a company with an amazing animation group--whether it leans toward the Japanese animation style or toward the American comic book TV series style--will pick it up and animate the characters exactly as described in the books. I think that would be the easiest way to get the full plot of the books and all of the characters in there, along with the ageless look the Aes Sedai are supposed to have, plus there could be some really cool animation for the different weaves of the Power. Then they could get great voice actors who fit those characters and who won't age out from being able to play those characters since the voice actors wouldn't be seen in animation. Plus regular 2D animation would be cheaper than rendering 3D animation required by live action.

Yup, definitely agree with Matthew on this one. That whole scene of her apparently bringing Nynaeve back from the dead in season 1 was the epitome of stupid. If they had to show someone being brought back from the BRINK of death--what the show had was of someone 100% dead, not almost dead--then Nynaeve Healing Egwene would have made more sense. As is, that moment in the show got the biggest eye role and facepalm/headdesk of everything from that season from me. There were a lot of other stupid things, but none of them could hold a candle to the stupidity of those women to attempt to destroy the Trollocs with their crappy abilities (since most of them were women who had very little ability/potential to use the Power while Egwene and Nynaeve, though they the potential for strength in the Power had no abilities yet/were very untrained).

Dude, these brothers don't know if they are orphans or not because their mother is dead and they have absolutely no idea whether their father is still alive or not. Why do they need constant conflict between the two of them when they have shared trauma? As others here have said, there is some conflict a bit later on, but thankfully it gets resolved. There is enough OUTER conflict between the brothers and the government/powers-that-be, their environment, etc, they don't need conflict between the two of them as well--that would have made the later parts of the series too complicated. Honestly, I feel like the conflict that does happen between them really shouldn't have even been a thing, but the manga author had it in there, so that's why it's also in the anime 🤷🏻‍♀.

Yes sister! You are 100% right! As soon as I read that sentence about the "other four ta'veren" I was immediately like "only the three dudes are ta'veren!!!!" I will always love the books. I would love for the show to be cancelled already.

I have never heard of fans who like the movies and books laughing at the big battle scene. Anyone who read the books first were pretty confused why there was the big battle scene when seeing the movie for the first time, but once everyone understood it was what Aro saw from Alice's ability, everyone I know of was super cool with it. I also don't really know of anyone who thinks the werewolves' CGI sucked. The "uncanny valley" baby Renesmee is the only thing you mention that I know every fan would love to be fixed. Maybe others who are fans like me can chime in with their own take, but just saying that none of the fans in my friend group really had issues with anything else VFX wise.

This was actually a fairly good article compared to most of those I read on here about the Greta Gerwig adaptations. Yes, they should 100% stay away from giving the Pevensies any romantic storylines unless they are adapting The Horse and His Boy, then they can do a smidge of that with Susan being "courted" by the Prince of Calormen when she's an adult since it was straight up in the book. I also agree that the addition of the rivalry between Peter and Caspian in the movie was 100% unnecessary and actually took away from the characters. Peter knew from the beginning that Caspian was supposed to be the rightful ruler of Narnia at that point in Narnia's history and that Peter's role was to help Caspian become that ruler, not be king himself for a second time.

I would love it if Greta would decide to be very faithful to the books like the BBC miniseries were back in 1988-1990, I would just like to see it all done with a bigger budget for those things that do require CG; they just need to build in plenty of time to make sure that none of that CG sticks out like a sore thumb. That was one good thing about the movies--most of the visual effects, especially for the talking animals and mythical beasts, looked pretty good. I would just like to see that applied to a more faithful adaptation than Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader movies were.

I don't need a reboot because the original 24 episode season and the three OVAs were already perfect as is. I just need it to continue from where it left off, so a season 2 and so on. If they don't want to risk catching up to the manga before it finishes they can just have some short breaks in between each medium length season.

If they want something similar to The Chronicles of Narnia they need to create something "original" which is "inspired by" Narnia--change every character name, location, and event to be in the horror genre. I won't have a problem with it being made but don't market it as the "horror version of Narnia." Let other people come to that conclusion on their own. I still won't watch it just because I would rather watch something from the already twisted mind of Stephen King if I want horror. Leave my beloved children's stories alone, thank you very much.

They don't ever need to be turned into a horror story for anyone who loves the books.

In of this specific article, it's this fascination people have with taking something and twisting it to be evil/horrific--like taking the idea of a good alien like Clark Kent/Superman who regularly helps people and fights evil and instead turning him into the evil entity like in the movie Brightburn, but at least in that movie they changed the character's name to Brandon Breyer and he isn't from Krypton. Although I'm not really a comics reader, I think there have been a bunch of times where writers have decided to take their heroes in a super dark direction and basically turned them into villains. I don't have any objections to having characters with flaws and who occasionally do something wrong because of those flaws, but this new fascination with taking beloved children's stories and turning them into straight up horror movies is definitely not for me, so I have not and will not watch the "Twisted Childhood Universe" movies (the Winnie the Pooh horror movies started it off), and will not watch any attempt to turn the Narnia books into horror flicks either.

If you want a dark take on Peter Pan you should watch season 3 of One Upon a Time--the Neverland arc is set up toward the end of season 2 though. That's as dark as I wanna go.

Yeah, there are history classes they have to take, but they are all wizarding world history classes which don't mention anything about muggle history. I do agree that reading, writing, and math are at least somewhat built into most classes since they have to as you said read instructions, they also have to write a bunch of reports (like the one Snape assigned about werewolves in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class he'd taken over from Lupin in book three), and as you said measure things which definitely goes under math but lower level math. I would say that the closest they get to what we think of science is probably Potions which can fairly closely resemble Chemistry.

Here, here! I salute your idea. I wish more adaptations would be like that: change as little as possible going from the page to screen to make a movie/TV show. I always point to The Hunger Games series, especially Catching Fire and Mockingjay, as good examples of this.

I don't think these people ever read the books in a series that they want to write an article about. They are always talking out their butts about things that would be obvious to someone who's read the books as a fan possibly multiple times and not relied on a movie or TV show adaptation. They might refer to a wikipedia page but that's probably about it. OR if they have read the books they read them so long ago that they forgot most of what they read and are going purely by the 10% of it they that had some details left out of an adaptation.

Wow. First comment. I guess anyone else who saw this article just shook their head and moved on without leaving anything...

First off, people like me don't see stuff like Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey--we'd rather not see our childhood ruined by someone turning a beloved kids' story into some demonic version of it. Do I absolutely hate all dark stuff? No, otherwise I would not enjoy reading/watching Stephen King stories/movies as much as I do. But those are his original stories based on his own imagination with possibly some influence from older horror stories such as Dracula ( for 'Salem's Lot) or zombie movies (for Pet Sematary) and thus are already meant to be horror stories and not meant for children.

The Chronicles of Narnia was written FOR CHILDREN, though even as an adult I still love reading them as-is and have done so fairly often over my adult life. Why would I want something that I loved as a child and still love as an adult to be made into something horrific?

I know fairy tale stories have been made into straight up horror movies, but guess what? I don't watch them. If they want to create movies based on those fairy stories and stay true to the darkness in the original stories without turning them into straight horror movies that's fine and I would be okay with watching that--my favorite longer series by Hallmark, The 10th Kingdom, actually does a really good job of balancing the dark elements from the original fairy tales and the humorous elements in their modern retelling/amalgamation of those stories. Yes Hallmark actually made something that isn't a super cheesy romance story. They actually made quite a few fantasy movies and miniseries back in the 90s and 00s, as well as some dramedies such as What the Deaf Man Heard, and the fantasy ones can be surprisingly dark, which most people would not associate with the Hallmark of today.

All-in-all, I think you'll find that most people are like me and think that your idea is garbage.

I get it, nuanced villains are great--heck the whole Infinity Saga is definitely where a large percent of the best MCU movies are with a few exceptions here and there and most of those villains are definitely nuanced--but every once in a while I like to see a movie where the bad guy is just a bad guy, like Tolkien's version of Sauron (not the crap that Amazon has in Rings of Power) or Jadis the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia. Sometimes I need there to be an Ultimate Evil like The Wheel of Time's Shai'tan/Dark Lord/Dark One that the hero must fight against. Sure, there are very nuanced characters in that series in the Hero camp and the Villain camp, but I like that ultimately the heroes are fighting the Ultimate Evil being of their universe for their universe's survival. That's also one of the great things about classic Disney villains--they are just bad guys doing bad things because they are bad, like Maleficent or Cruella de Vil, no redeeming qualities in the cartoon versions which I prefer.

I'd read that she was gonna start with The Magician's Nephew elsewhere, and if she is that would be great. One thing she has to do show Aslan creating Narnia through music. That part of the story was always so beautiful to me and I can't see it being done any other way and have the same effect. One complaint I had about the 2000s version of the Witch played quite well by Tilda Swinton (though a bit too calm at times) was the fact they took away the black hair and the red lips. There was a very very important reason for the red lips and very pale skin that is shown in The Magician's Nephew (they did do the pale skin pretty well in the 2000s version but it would have looked even paler when compared to black hair and red lips, and at least they did have the Witch's hair be long). If Greta does it well, she can get any woman who has the acting chops to play the Witch and they can use a wig for the long black hair if they need to and use makeup for the pale to very pale skin tones and red lips. Those last two things are two physical features that the Witch has that must be on the screen by the end of the season/episodes covering The Magician's Nephew to be the true Witch in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Tilda Swinton is pretty tall at 5'11'' and she had the commanding presence required to pull off the character, and there's all sorts of techniques they can use now to make someone look taller than they really are, so height's not really a big deal for me. Some people might say that only the illustrations of Jadis in the books have her with black hair and the hair color is never mentioned in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (which was the first one published and thus the first one illustrated), but CS Lewis okayed those illustrations and he would have had the illustrator change it if he didn't like it. When in doubt, go with the author's opinion of a physical feature.

The whole "the Dragon Reborn could be any of 5 different people including the girls" thing in the TV series is one of the many reasons I hated season 1 so badly (that plus absolutely crappy dialogue being another). The fact that the books clearly stated that souls have an innate gender that doesn't change depending on the body it happens to be in is a HUGE plot point that will forever be lost to the TV show. I absolutely hate that these show runners think they are better writers than the authors of these IPs like The Wheel of Time and Middle Earth and decided they just had to have identity politics and modern ideas of gender fluidity inserted into the show. They also regularly throw our male characters under the bus and take away their moments to shine--that is NOT feminism, that is misandry (hatred for men), and I cannot stand it when they decide to elevate the female characters at the expense of the male characters, and the women in the show are horribly written where all of their worst traits are magnified and are either just super unlikeable or downright evil--seriously, Siuan is a really cool character in the books but what she does in the show is ridiculous, case in point what she does to Logain after they capture him and "gentle" him. I understand that some things have to be tweaked when adapting a book to the screen (like I was pretty okay with the most of the slight changes made in first 5 seasons of Game of Thrones from the book material), but when you change an entire character's special characteristics or go completely against the rules set up by the author of a fantasy realm like the Wheel of Time and its magic system then you've lost me as a potential fan. Another good book-to-TV-show adaptation was His Dark Materials, which was an HBO/BBC co-production, and they were amazingly faithful to the books; I wish more studios would go that route instead.

Excuse me, but the series isn't called The Pevensie Chronicles; it wasn't written to follow all of them throughout their lives. It's called The Chronicles of Narnia, meaning it's about Narnia from its creation to its last days. Sure the Pevensies were some of the main characters and they got to see a lot of the most important events, but none of them are THE main character, Aslan is--this is part of why I was so disappointed with the Walden/Disney adaptation of Price Caspian where Aslan is absent for most of the movie🙄. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader wasn't much better...all I have to say is, I don't really hold much hope for Greta Gerwig's adaptation to be respectful of C.S. Lewis's very obvious Christian message😮‍💨 unless Hollywood wakes up to the fact that we want authors to be respected. If she/Netflix want fans who love the book series as-is to be happy with her adaptation, then she needs to change as little as possible to bring it to the medium of film/cinema. She needs to take a page from the BBC's miniseries adaptations which even with the low budget effects and such are to me the definitive versions because they respected the author enough to not change one bit of C S. Lewis's message. Did they adapt everything from Prince Caspian? No, but that was more due to budget and technological limitations of the time period than wanting to cut some themes of the book.

If I want something less grounded in Christianity I can watch/read The Lord of the Rings. Still has good triumphing over evil, just like The Wheel of Time book series, which is even farther removed from Christianity (includes some Buddhist and Hindu influences) but is still amazing. Don't even get me started on how badly Amazon has screwed up Tolkien's and Robert Jordan's legacies😤. Seriously, the first season of Rings of Power had me rooting for Sauron, and that's really bad👎.