Unless they are stupid though they can’t just kill off characters, there is a very specific linked timeline. Condensing is fine, killing some new characters fine, but the core like Galardriel will stay alive, as she has to.
Doesn’t have to mean killing off characters, could as easily mean the writers decide to concentrate instead on some random elf character they just made up for spurious reasons
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This.
But what if it’s worse 
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The “wokness” in the artistic world annoys me because it reeks of laziness/monetary gain. There have been some outstanding movies/shows over the years that have main characters as gay/transgendered/ethnic etc. the scripts were written that way, and imagination was used. Now you slap a character in an existing book/classic movie to pander to fringe lunatics, just so that you look like a the next messiah. It’s just sad with so much talent out there. It’s going to end up as a bland, generic product without imagination if things continue to progress as they are.
Sylvia Plath : “What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.”
Edit: While I’m on my crusade…… Hit & Miss mini series.
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The invented characters and warrior Galadriel will dominate. Well known fact that JRRT didn’t have enough characters in his books and those he did were poorly defined.
Quad facepalm.
I watched it without reading the synopsis, probably best you do the same.
Sort of. the history of Tolkein’s world is told less as a chronology and more as a collection of stories that when put in chronological order provide the history. The period that this show is covering has fewer stories and told in lesser detail than the other periods, but a well defined timeline has been put together and the key elements told in enough detail that deviations from it will be pretty apparent. It’s basically an opportunity to add enough new material to flesh out a long running tv series, but with plenty of room for them to fuck it up.
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I’m probably being a bit cynical, but I’m still sore about how they fucked up the world of the Witcher in the TV show, made it almost unrecognisable from the source material to the point where despite being a big fan of the universe I gave up on it midway through season 2.
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Not cynical mate, just show runners pandering to the mad cries of modern politics to inject them into every possible scene. I don’t know the source but season one was OK. 2 Was just shit.
Thought both season 1 + 2 were good… But I don’t care about the source material either.
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The Witcher? No, for anyone who’s a fan of the books and games season 2 quickly jumped the shark, then came back and reversed over it several times until there was nothing left but bloody chunks stuck in the propeller.
Characters killed who never died (but who were portrayed so badly they welcomed the sweet release of death), actual plotlines abandoned in favour of shittier ones the showsrunners pulled out of their arse, and so on…
S1 was good because it stuck pretty closely to the first book.
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Still significantly better than anything after season 4 of Game of Thrones at least.
I haven’t read the books, just played Witcher 3 so to me none of that really mattered.
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Wheels of Time was a bit crap, wasn’t it?
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Yeah disappointing…felt rushed all the way
The is my concern with the upcoming Riftwar series, when that eventually gets done.
Who’s seen Cheat on ITV?
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Watching The Gray Man
I don’t know what the fuck the critics expect. It’s the Russo Brothers’ take on a Bourne meets Mission Impossible type movie. And it’s bloody good!
I saw it a while back. It was decent. 
Same here, I’ve been delaying Saul because I haven’t watched Breaking Bad. I finished season 1 of that last week. Didn’t love it enough to keep going, but I’ll definitely continue at some point.
Started watching Ozark instead, binged the first season. Loved that.
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Can’t say I ever recall it being released before I came across it this week.
But dam is Katherine Kelly a sight for sore eyes.