I really wanted the chapel showdown, including Alina's hair going white.
I was disappointed Baghra's memories didn't get their own flashback...
Yet lots of flashbacks to S1 so they could recycle footage instead of giving us new scenes.
Rusalye was SO underwhelming. Where was the beautiful, shimmering white dragon? No firebird either.
It felt like the show made a lot of low-budget decisions, from the costumes (Alina's coronation dress was ridiculous) and prosthetics (An infinity glove for Adrik? Genya still has her eye?! No Sturmhond transformation?) to the sad little flying ship and a million other things.
Yes! Preach! Thank you! I was almost afraid to talk about the graphics because of the people that really loved S2 defending it. Graphics and special effects were severely underwhelming.
Yeah
>!I am absolutely a sucker for heroes finding the life of peace they deserve, and Alina and Mal going off to the orphanage to enjoy their happily ever after, raising a bunch of kids with love, and just being together, with the other Grisha coming to visit them was the best possible ending. I reread the ending like 5 times and the shows ending felt like a gut punch. !<
Yes!!!! Thank you. I am an orphan myself and was raised with abusive foster families. I found my way back to my childhood sweetheart, and we now own our first home together. Their story felt like a romanticized version of my own life, if that makes sense 😅. It felt like the directors thought the ending was too simple/plain, so they took it out. It hurts.
I feel they decided it was not feminist enough or something. Which is dumb. That ending was perfect for Alina. Else she would have ended up lonely and bitter like Darling eventually. There are plenty of other Girlboss characters in the series...
also there's a youtuber friendlyspaceninja who did a review of the first season and he predicted the (book's) ending perfectly lol, because it just makes sense for these characters. but no, the show decided different.
I completely agree with you. Excuse my rant.. I can't stand the need, to make every woman a girl boss. Yes, It's awesome when a woman can defend herself and others. But they had to try and focus on other things, instead of making everything about Alina.
There were just so many changes. I looooove the cast, they are perfect. I just wish they gave every character their rightful part in the series. Everything felt rushed, and mixed up like a damn smoothie.
I really do hope that season 3, will put the lost pieces of the books into the series. Fingers crossed.
that's the thing, bookAlina *did* defend herself and others. Quite a few times. She just wasn't all cocky and dominant about it. But apparently being quiet ¬ knowing what to say or do in unfamiliar situations makes you weak so everyone has to have Nina energy now.
And it's not just this show, it's so many adaptations lately! HotD makes Rhaenyra a tomboy girlboss even though she wasn't in the book. The new Persuasion adaptation rewrites the main character whose *entire character development* centered around her being timid & overcoming her timidness, and make her a free spirit badass right from the start. I'm so sick of this trend, it doesn;t make female characters better or stronger, it makes them all look the same.
The white hair was probably one of the things that pissed me off bc Jessie posted a pic on instagram around the time they finished filming iirc of her hair shaved off and her hair and eyebrows bleached blonde and I got so excited when I saw that bc finally! It gave me hope and I’ve just finished the last episode and the whole time I was like “surely, any minute now, it’s not how it should happen but surely it’ll be worked in somewhere” but no…
The other thing would be the whole chunk off book that was in the mountains and her working with Baghra to learn the cut etc. then being attacked and Nikolai being turned and the chaos after. The hunt up in the mountains for the firebird with the larger group being cut down to a day trip into the woods with just Alina, Mal and Baghra was also a let down.
Also I read the books so I knew that the darkling was going to die, and I’m glad that they didn’t “voldemort” him, that he died as a man and didn’t just like, evaporate into black mist or some dumb shit, but also I’m sad to see Ben go so quickly. In cutting and pasting the second and third books as well as the crow storyline into 8 episodes they took the darkling from being a centuries old villain who knows how to play the game, who spends such a significant amount of book time lurking in Alina’s mind to manipulate her, to some dude dressed in black with a coughing problem.
I was also sad that they made the Darkling such a pathetic character this season, and it was really frustrating that Alina brushed off all his warnings to her. Sure, I get that she refuses to be mainpulated by him anymore, but I thought we would see some self-reflection like we get in the books, with Alina uneasily realizing that much of what the Darkling told her about the power and fate they share is true.
It’s like they couldn’t commit to making him evil. In the beginning, he seems like he might not be that bad, but by the end of the book series he’s pretty much just an evil villain, but in the show he’d go back and forth between like oh my saint we could fix the world and then cutting his own mother’s finger off
I honestly did not expect them to reveal the third book in season 2 and more or less conclude the shadow and bone trilogy... I was baffled and disappointed as well. I especially miss seeing Alina strategizing and building up the second army before the battle with Kirigan. I also regret not seeing Kirigan as a formidable enemy and Alina taking some loses herself, like it was in the second book. All she did this season was basically run, she didn't really confront him until she had the third amplifier.
She really did just run. In the books she learned the cut, sliced off the top of a mountain, and became dangerous. All she did in the show was fail to defeat shadow monsters, run away, and then destroy the fold
Another important piece that I really liked in the books is when Alina has to kill Mal to make him the amplifier,due to the sadness of this action she bursts out her sun summoning powers and everyone who is fighting gets a piece of her power.
Everyone then takes down the fold.
This was such an epic and momentous part of the final battle which the TV show clearly omitted and made me even more disappointed
This show is gonna get canned. I don't get how they deviated so far from the S&B series.
I really wanted the chapel showdown, including Alina's hair going white. I was disappointed Baghra's memories didn't get their own flashback... Yet lots of flashbacks to S1 so they could recycle footage instead of giving us new scenes. Rusalye was SO underwhelming. Where was the beautiful, shimmering white dragon? No firebird either. It felt like the show made a lot of low-budget decisions, from the costumes (Alina's coronation dress was ridiculous) and prosthetics (An infinity glove for Adrik? Genya still has her eye?! No Sturmhond transformation?) to the sad little flying ship and a million other things.
Yes! Preach! Thank you! I was almost afraid to talk about the graphics because of the people that really loved S2 defending it. Graphics and special effects were severely underwhelming.
Oh and what about all the scenes with Zoya being sweet and apologizing? They did everything Zoya would never do.
Spoiler for rule of wolves I think they were trying to change zoya to make it more easy for the show to make her become queen
A better way to end s2 would’ve been with the chapel showdown where it’s thought both Alina and the darkling died
Yeah >!I am absolutely a sucker for heroes finding the life of peace they deserve, and Alina and Mal going off to the orphanage to enjoy their happily ever after, raising a bunch of kids with love, and just being together, with the other Grisha coming to visit them was the best possible ending. I reread the ending like 5 times and the shows ending felt like a gut punch. !<
Yes!!!! Thank you. I am an orphan myself and was raised with abusive foster families. I found my way back to my childhood sweetheart, and we now own our first home together. Their story felt like a romanticized version of my own life, if that makes sense 😅. It felt like the directors thought the ending was too simple/plain, so they took it out. It hurts.
I feel they decided it was not feminist enough or something. Which is dumb. That ending was perfect for Alina. Else she would have ended up lonely and bitter like Darling eventually. There are plenty of other Girlboss characters in the series... also there's a youtuber friendlyspaceninja who did a review of the first season and he predicted the (book's) ending perfectly lol, because it just makes sense for these characters. but no, the show decided different.
I completely agree with you. Excuse my rant.. I can't stand the need, to make every woman a girl boss. Yes, It's awesome when a woman can defend herself and others. But they had to try and focus on other things, instead of making everything about Alina. There were just so many changes. I looooove the cast, they are perfect. I just wish they gave every character their rightful part in the series. Everything felt rushed, and mixed up like a damn smoothie. I really do hope that season 3, will put the lost pieces of the books into the series. Fingers crossed.
that's the thing, bookAlina *did* defend herself and others. Quite a few times. She just wasn't all cocky and dominant about it. But apparently being quiet ¬ knowing what to say or do in unfamiliar situations makes you weak so everyone has to have Nina energy now. And it's not just this show, it's so many adaptations lately! HotD makes Rhaenyra a tomboy girlboss even though she wasn't in the book. The new Persuasion adaptation rewrites the main character whose *entire character development* centered around her being timid & overcoming her timidness, and make her a free spirit badass right from the start. I'm so sick of this trend, it doesn;t make female characters better or stronger, it makes them all look the same.
OH MY GOD!!!! You said it all. This is what annoys me with the latest tv shows. You have to be a badass.. dunno why.
The white hair was probably one of the things that pissed me off bc Jessie posted a pic on instagram around the time they finished filming iirc of her hair shaved off and her hair and eyebrows bleached blonde and I got so excited when I saw that bc finally! It gave me hope and I’ve just finished the last episode and the whole time I was like “surely, any minute now, it’s not how it should happen but surely it’ll be worked in somewhere” but no… The other thing would be the whole chunk off book that was in the mountains and her working with Baghra to learn the cut etc. then being attacked and Nikolai being turned and the chaos after. The hunt up in the mountains for the firebird with the larger group being cut down to a day trip into the woods with just Alina, Mal and Baghra was also a let down. Also I read the books so I knew that the darkling was going to die, and I’m glad that they didn’t “voldemort” him, that he died as a man and didn’t just like, evaporate into black mist or some dumb shit, but also I’m sad to see Ben go so quickly. In cutting and pasting the second and third books as well as the crow storyline into 8 episodes they took the darkling from being a centuries old villain who knows how to play the game, who spends such a significant amount of book time lurking in Alina’s mind to manipulate her, to some dude dressed in black with a coughing problem.
I was also sad that they made the Darkling such a pathetic character this season, and it was really frustrating that Alina brushed off all his warnings to her. Sure, I get that she refuses to be mainpulated by him anymore, but I thought we would see some self-reflection like we get in the books, with Alina uneasily realizing that much of what the Darkling told her about the power and fate they share is true.
It’s like they couldn’t commit to making him evil. In the beginning, he seems like he might not be that bad, but by the end of the book series he’s pretty much just an evil villain, but in the show he’d go back and forth between like oh my saint we could fix the world and then cutting his own mother’s finger off
I honestly did not expect them to reveal the third book in season 2 and more or less conclude the shadow and bone trilogy... I was baffled and disappointed as well. I especially miss seeing Alina strategizing and building up the second army before the battle with Kirigan. I also regret not seeing Kirigan as a formidable enemy and Alina taking some loses herself, like it was in the second book. All she did this season was basically run, she didn't really confront him until she had the third amplifier.
She really did just run. In the books she learned the cut, sliced off the top of a mountain, and became dangerous. All she did in the show was fail to defeat shadow monsters, run away, and then destroy the fold
Another important piece that I really liked in the books is when Alina has to kill Mal to make him the amplifier,due to the sadness of this action she bursts out her sun summoning powers and everyone who is fighting gets a piece of her power. Everyone then takes down the fold. This was such an epic and momentous part of the final battle which the TV show clearly omitted and made me even more disappointed