primeideal

• ( The Hills of Tanchico )

Edit because I forgot some things:

• ( more random asides )

Okay so I said this was close to, but not quite, my id, based on what I'd osmosed, so it was like "keep me posted but I'm not actually going to get out of my way to get access." And then it came to a streaming service I had access to already, so it's like...yeah, might as well try. And I do think that "close to, but not quite, my id" is fair. Like, I don't super care about the flashbacks/awkward romance/delusions of grandeur type stuff. And I was worried about sameface issues, however, I was able to mostly tell apart the main characters successfully so could be worse. That said, when it came to keeping track of the minor characters, that's harder. (RIP, Old Guy Who Gave Book About Ancient Greeks to Young Guy He Likes.) Medium-adaptation wise, this is the kind of thing where with a book you could pause, flip over to a map, compare the place names then in use to contemporary ones. Here it's like...are we near Canada yet? Is this still Greenland? IDK.

( Content note--Christianity applies for Episode 10 )

This is going to be mostly spoiler-free, but there are some lines I highlight because they're foreshadowy, so if you're completely spoiler-averse, avoid. Otherwise, it doesn't rely on book-only knowledge to make sense, it's just mostly squeeing about "YAY THIS BOOK PERSON!"

( Episode 5: Different Destinations )( Episode 6: Eat Me )

Aaaaand at the start of the new month this disappeared from Amazon Prime, gotta love the modern streaming system /o\ I'll probably cancel Prime until Wheel of Time comes back. I am a youngster who doesn't own any more permanent archival takes (I could afford them financially, just not a priority), so I'm probably going to put the blog on hiatus until further notice/I decide to invest in a new stream platform. Don't worry, I have lots more bad hot takes from book media etc. ;)