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Steve2911 posted:Coincidentally the book's next on my to-read list. Are the first few episodes of this any good? (Is Amazon's stuff in general any good? I never hear anything about it other than it exists). While I don't know how the rest of Amazon's original stuff is, this series is really great. The best parts are all the worldbuilding they do. Little minor things like comments about how the hospitals burn their infirm every week/month. As for episode 2: Holy poo poo.  I don't have anything else to say. They've done a really amazing job adapting the book into a tv series.
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Sleeveless posted:I never read the book but I wasn't expecting what appears to be parallel universes and communication/travel between them to be a thing in the show, let alone featured so prominently and as it has been with the film reel from our world being the focal point of everything that has happened so far. This is probably the biggest difference between the book and the series so far. In the book, the McGuffin is a book, not a film, and there's not really any implied parallel universes or anything. It's just a work of speculative fiction that some guy in the neutral zone wrote. In the Amazon series, the film reel comes across as a full on parallel universe artifact, especially given how nearly impossible it would be to fake a film in the 60s. Of course, if they had kept it as a book in the Amazon series, it wouldn't work as well. I'm interested in seeing the explanation for the origin of the film reel.
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