But to completely ignore all source material and just cobble something unrelated together is unforgivable, especially with a story as fan-driven and notoriously complex as this one. Can't think of a good way to resolve a conflict? Easy-peasy, a gateway or two with strobe lights! I don't expect anyone to take seven books' worth of storyline and pack it into a single movie. Instead, I'll ignore the source material - just like the screenwriters did, apparently - and say the action scenes were rushed, the acting was flatter than flat, and the amount of deus ex machina displayed in every possible scene was breathtakingly arrogant. There are other worlds than these." I could mention the skipping of ALL the books and picking up at the beginning of the end (which isn't an end at all). I could complain about the total change of the dynamic between the last of the line of Eld and the boy who said "Go, then. I could rant and rave about the total lack of Eddie, Susannah, or Oy. Yes, there is a Tower and a villain and a boy. Yes, it has characters named after characters from the books.
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