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What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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TV adaptation of Wheel of Time was just fucking awful. Like every stupid character change and story change was done literally as stupidly as possible and seemingly with a view to ruin the actual story as it was written.
I genuinely think the showrunners hadn't read the series to the end by most of the changes they made and canned it when they caught up and realised how much they had fucked the story that was still to come.

So many stupid changes made for no conceivable reason. Not little things to make a character easier to write for TV or more relatable, but sweeping giant story changes that make great chunks of the original canon impossible.
I genuinely implore anyone who even got the slightest amount of joy out of the show to read the books. Learn the original and really very good story, and experience Jordan's writing, rather than Judkins' made-up-as-they-went-along shit erroneously accepted as passable work.
- I read the books and liked the TV version. They were just different things. I am not sure I'd even enjoy a very faithful TV adaptation.
  
  Well it got canceled due to poor viewership so they failed and made it even less likely a fair adaptation ever gets made. Everybody loses.
  
  True enough. I do not like their Tolkien fantasy series, it's clunky in some way, or the actors are not right, something is off. WOT, I quite liked most of the casting, loved the sets and landscapes and costuming and took the edits in stride, thought of it as an "inspired by".
  My hope would be an animated series.
  And as a William Gibson fan, oh I am used to disappointment.
  
  And they did the right thing by calling it Rings of Power and treading new ground instead of warping old stories.
  That's what they should have done with WOT.
  "Another Turn of the Wheel" where we see a group of young people mentored by a grizzled Moridin(see where I am going here) after their village is raided by Trollocs that haven't been seen for 500 years.
  I would watch that even after seeing what they did to WOT.
- Just finished reading the books. But i started book one and season 1 together and quickly saw they were completely different. But i watched the show first and it cemented how characters looked which is what i wanted before i read it.
  After finishing all 14 and now on new spring im glad the show gave me direction to imagine a lot of them.
  
  Yeah the casting and costuming was pretty good for the most part with the very slight exception that I felt Rosamund Pike was a bit tall for the diminutive Moiraine. Apart from that I loved how faithful they were to the characters' descriptions even if they did go wildly off the rails with the story.
  
  Well i never knew the audio book was done by moiraine herself. But i do ageee, especially after just finishing new spring tonight everyone mentioned how short she was and i never thought to much of that difference while reading the books. I guess when she got her ageless face no one spoke to much of it.
  
  I watched the Dresden files tv show before reading the books, and the Karen Murphy from the site is the one I hear in my head.

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