Martinis calling out film and TV adaptations of books that dont live up to their source material.
If anything, things have gotten worse, Martinwrote.
It does not seem to matter whether the source material was written by.
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Tolkien, Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, and Jane Austen.
Then they make the story their own.
They never make it better, though.
Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse, he said.
I am glad they did, though.
The newShogunis superb, he said.
Better than Chamberlains version, you ask?
Hmmm, I dont know.
I have not watched the 1980 miniseries since, well, 1980.
That one was great too.
I think the author would have been pleased.
