Decent closure sounds about right, but there's a feeling it could have been so much more. They had the balls to change up a lot of elements of the book in an interesting way and expand on some elements to try and give it more emotional weight, but it kind of falls short in trying to merge that change into book ending. I was hoping they would go all the way and change the ending to fit the changes to Reis character, but now there's just feeling left that the ending in the book has much more sense than this. Too bad, Reis entrance to the show was totally badass, but ultimately her character dragged the show down.
Neverthless, I applaud authors for audacity to not just make straight adaptation. I loved the expansion of envoy angle, loved Poe (even though they were forced to make a change from Hendrix because of the rights). In the end, I even loved Ortega, even though the actress didn't feel nowhere near book version, both physically or characterly. All the changes made it interesting for me even though I read the novel (which I recommend everyone to do, it's phenomenal).
In any case, there's a lot of talent behind the scenes here and I have high hopes that season 2 might be good.
Review by ChronosusBlockedParentSpoilers2019-12-16T09:56:52Z
Decent closure sounds about right, but there's a feeling it could have been so much more. They had the balls to change up a lot of elements of the book in an interesting way and expand on some elements to try and give it more emotional weight, but it kind of falls short in trying to merge that change into book ending. I was hoping they would go all the way and change the ending to fit the changes to Reis character, but now there's just feeling left that the ending in the book has much more sense than this. Too bad, Reis entrance to the show was totally badass, but ultimately her character dragged the show down.
Neverthless, I applaud authors for audacity to not just make straight adaptation. I loved the expansion of envoy angle, loved Poe (even though they were forced to make a change from Hendrix because of the rights). In the end, I even loved Ortega, even though the actress didn't feel nowhere near book version, both physically or characterly. All the changes made it interesting for me even though I read the novel (which I recommend everyone to do, it's phenomenal).
In any case, there's a lot of talent behind the scenes here and I have high hopes that season 2 might be good.