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kazh t1_jc8tu3j wrote

Reply to comment by rkd2999 in Which show led you to read the books? by IsawaAwasi

Season one was my favorite. The sets felt more lived in and it had that kind of real life people vibe from the books. Around the time I think in season two when they dropped the muffled hull sounds for the space action and started using the usual sound in space is where the show began to feel different. It kind of turned into the usual on screen space opera and the sets started to feel more like anything out of Marvel.

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res30stupid t1_jc8totb wrote

Reply to Which show led you to read the books? by IsawaAwasi

Agatha Christie's Poirot by ITV. I started checking out the books after watching the show, starting with an audiobook of Murder On The Orient Express, narrated by Kenneth Branagh.

Not exactly related to television, but you can tell that Branagh incorporated a lot more of the book into the movie than is immediately apparent, which I have to give the man credit for. Hearing his reading the book sounds almost like an early concept sketch for the entire film, from how he does a deep and gravelly voice for Ratchett to how near-identically he sounds to Josh Gad's MacQueen. They even manage to sneak in a reference to how Poirot managed to get onto the train as well and made it into an extra reference to Poirot loving Charles Dickens (if you didn't catch it, he >!caught onto the existence of a fake extra passenger because Hector MacQueen unknowingly referenced a Charles Dickens story; in the story he references, Mrs Harris isn't a real person but someone constantly referenced by another person so they can tell tall tales!<).

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thekellwithit t1_jc8ndve wrote

Reply to Which show led you to read the books? by IsawaAwasi

I enjoyed Lockwood and Co so much. I actually recently recommended it to someone. I had no idea it was based on book, but of course it is.

I didn’t know Queen’s Gambit was a book either. But again, so obvious. Will get that too!

I finally read Watchmen after the Lindelof series. And Handmaid’s Tale. Appreciated both especially since I found them unappealing before the shows.

My favorites are The Magicians series. True Blood way back in the day was fluffy ludicrous fun, at least the first few.

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thekellwithit t1_jc8jiby wrote

Reply to comment by TheSwissArmy in Which show led you to read the books? by IsawaAwasi

This is on my list. The first book was not easy to get through, because Q is somehow even less likable in the book, but I love them more as they go on, and I think the ending is gorgeous. I also love the show and think they interpreted the author’s intention with his series e find with the controversial S4 finale.

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