While the female characters are great, they also have a bit of virgin/whore split going on...I don't know if that falls under Goodkind's books or if that got exacerbated in the show.
ahahahahaha. Let's just say "it falls under Goodkind's books" and leave it at that. If anything, it probably got toned down from how it was in Goodkind's books, seeing as how I've seen so many people who have high standards for the portrayal of female characters fall in mad love with this show. And the books...uh...don't meet with that approval so much, to put it lightly.
I have not seen the show, but I have read about 7 of the 10 books, unfortunately. They started out okay and then got appallingly bad in so many different ways, which is why I quit reading the series. I'm given to understand that the show doesn't contain most of the things that REALLY turned me off to the books, but I go back and forth on whether I want to give it a try. On the one hand, I like some of the themes and the characters, but on the other hand, I'm afraid it's so tainted by how much I HATED the books that I'm not sure I can give it a fair chance...
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2010-12-15 10:09 pm (UTC)ahahahahaha. Let's just say "it falls under Goodkind's books" and leave it at that. If anything, it probably got toned down from how it was in Goodkind's books, seeing as how I've seen so many people who have high standards for the portrayal of female characters fall in mad love with this show. And the books...uh...don't meet with that approval so much, to put it lightly.
I have not seen the show, but I have read about 7 of the 10 books, unfortunately. They started out okay and then got appallingly bad in so many different ways, which is why I quit reading the series. I'm given to understand that the show doesn't contain most of the things that REALLY turned me off to the books, but I go back and forth on whether I want to give it a try. On the one hand, I like some of the themes and the characters, but on the other hand, I'm afraid it's so tainted by how much I HATED the books that I'm not sure I can give it a fair chance...