Posted by Vee | July 1, 2009, 12:34 (EST) | 3 Comments
Category: TV Series
The Deadbolt has a feature up on the upcoming Vampire Diaries TV series – not really a review, but an overall look at the show and potential audience. There’s a bit of conjecture about changes from the books and producers’ motivation – hey, I know we’re huuuuge fans of speculation around here, but unless Kevin Williamson or Julie Plec offer up tidbits outright, it remains speculation – and while the article implies that the show will stick to the plot/themes from the original four books, there are a few quotes from CW Network head Dawn Ostroff that contradict that, via IGN (thanks, Lily):
It’s got a lot of romance, a little bit of scares and it’s got some of the mythology that’s very, very dense because the seven books [it's based on] have all the mythology written out. We felt that that would really help in terms of keeping the show different, unique. We know where the show is going. It’s not a guessing game for us.
Although a lot of what you saw today [at the CW upfront - ed.] was set in the high school, [the story] really affects the whole town because the town was a town where vampires originally came and started, so [many] of the vampires start to come back (highlight for spoilers).
The second quote in particular touches on an element introduced in Nightfall. So The Return trilogy – Nightfall, Shadow Souls, and Midnight – may very well be playing a role in the TV series.
RabidDoll.com, part of the BlipNetwork of sites (which includes Alpha Airlock, formerly SyFy Portal), has posted a positive (and, um…adjective-heavy?) review of the pilot.
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5:05 pm on July 1st, 2009
To be honest, I don’t know how I feel about they basing the series on The Return Trilogy. I mean, we all read Nightfall, and can it seriously be made into TV without them changing a LOT of stuff?
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6:08 pm on July 1st, 2009
“The Return trilogy may very well be playing a role in the TV series.”
NOW I get it. It all makes sense. Ok. *headdesk*
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10:06 pm on July 1st, 2009
***CAUTION: Comment is spoilerish for Nightfall. Probably shouldn’t read this if you haven’t read Nightfall.*****
Okay, I just finished Nightfall yesterday, and all I can say is: WTF??? I went into it knowing the rather negative reviews, and I was ok with everything up until the last few chapters. Which… I mean, wings? Random ‘human’ power?? Seriously?
I am loyal enough to LJ Smith that I will still read the upcoming 2 books, but geeze, I sure hope she comes up with better endings that don’t read like she just grasped for every magical/mythical idea she could and threw it in there. I can only tolerate so much Deus ex machina.
Which is all to say, if CW does stick with the 7-book storyline, I hope that they will use their artistic license and do some judicious plot-editing with Nightfall.
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