Vlad-Serban Valean

I liked Taika better when he had something to prove. This movie is just a mess.

I really wanted to like it more. I really did. It should get better with every episode, but it doesn't. It feels toothless. There's so much in the book that can be shown, but instead they opted to put in a lot of fluff. The casting is adequate, but not ideal. And I understand some of the changes made to the story, but some just feel forced, for the sake of the woke ideology. Too bad... This could have been a chance for Amazon to rival and maybe surpass Game of Thrones, but they're tripping over their own legs again. Oh, well. We'll still have the books.

As a TV shows, it's pretty good. I would say 7/10. But only if you don't know about the book. Because if you consider the book and how they massacred what was a brilliantly written story, then three rating would fall to 1, maybe 2 stars. There were a lot of good elements that were taken out. Which is normal when you try to put a book like that onto the screen. But then, I saw what they decided to add, and it was bad.

I'll give it 3 stars. Based on its merits alone, as aTV series, I would almost give it a 7/10. It's generic SF mostly, and doesn't bring much new to the table. If I were to judge it in connection to the books, I would give it 2 stars, or at most 4/10. It lost whatever made the books great after the first episode.