I read the mainstream reviews about how the show runners were big fans and wanted to stay true to the source material...
Nope.
I get that we can't have a word for word, line for line reproduction of the original material...I understand that certain elements have to bend in order to accommodate the medium....
But this wholesale rewriting of the material is beyond baffling.
The wholesale revision of characters seems to be more to appease current social sensibilities than to drive the story.
And the "added" character elements serve only to completely invalidate the few character elements that were actually book sourced.
Had I not read the books, maybe I would have liked this.... but I loved the books.
In short...I hate it. But you already knew that bad upon my 1 star rating.
If I could give it a negative rating I would