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    2610 months ago

    There’s still hope for a Tom Bombadil miniseries that resurrects those scenes. Whether it would be good is TBD, but maybe Amazon pulls an Andor and gives somebody the creative freedom to make it that way.

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        “So we decided not to actually read any of the lord of the rings books and instead imagined what a guy named Tom Bombadil would be like and thought up some zany adventures for him to go on. We really think the audience will respond to his soon to be famous punch line, ‘Gabbana doodle muk muk.’ Ahh old Tom ‘Cheddar Cheese’ Bombadil what will you do next? That’s right we gave him the nick name Cheddar Cheese, people are going to love it.”

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          1010 months ago

          ‘Gabbana doodle muk muk.’

          Not too far off from the way he talks in the books, honestly.

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        Amazon has made some decent shows, but has Amazon made any decent adaptations? Rings of Power wouldn’t be completely awful for example if not for the butchering of the pre-existing lore.

        Vox Machina is the closest they have, but that’s kinda cheating, the VAs who originally created and played the characters in DnD are, naturally, the VAs for their characters on the show.

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          710 months ago

          Is The Boys not an adaptation? I’m not a viewer, but I could swear I’ve seen a comic version of it at my local bookstore.

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            310 months ago

            Fair, I forgot about The Boys. That being said, it still has the issue of not following the source material very strictly, it’s just that in this case it benefits from that. As far as “edginess” goes, the show is a dull butter knife and the comic is a freshly sharped sword.

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          210 months ago

          I don’t know if you would call it Amazon’s as it originally started at SyFy, but The Expanse was amazing.

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            510 months ago

            Yeah, people forget there was a whole public begging of the audience for Amazon to save the show since they already had some distribution rights. It was a little desperate for money.

            But the other thing is that Amazon still never really made the show, Alcon still made the show, in house production and payment and then Amazon was just footing the bill by paying for sole distribution rights. It’s not uncommon but it wasn’t Amazon’s show