{"id":179,"date":"2014-07-28T23:39:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T23:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2014-07-28T23:39:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T23:39:25","slug":"shannara-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Shannara Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-197\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/elfstones.jpg\" alt=\"elfstones\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" \/>I see MTV is moving forward with a <a href=\"http:\/\/screenrant.com\/shannara-series-mtv-jon-favreau-pilot\">Shannara TV series<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;d feel bad for old Terry Brooks, sort of riding George Martin&#8217;s coattails on the whole &#8220;make a TV series out of a fantasy novel series&#8221; thing.\u00a0 They both started writing around the same time, but Brooks published the first book in his big ol&#8217; fantasy series <em>way<\/em> before Martin.\u00a0 I bet ol&#8217; Terry gets quite a ribbing at the writer barbeques.<\/p>\n<p>But at least the MTV series is starting with Book 2, <em>Elfstones of Shannara<\/em>.\u00a0 Because let&#8217;s face it, if they&#8217;d done a <em>Sword of Shannara<\/em> movie, he would have looked even more coat-tailish, since it would have been a acene-by-scene remake of a movie someone else made not long ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-194\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-movie-poster.jpg\" alt=\"lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-movie-poster\" width=\"854\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-movie-poster.jpg 854w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-movie-poster-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Shannara series currently consists of like twenty or thirty books, so there is little risk of George Martin-esque issues of outrunning the books.\u00a0 I think Brooks may occasionally write another Shannara book by accident, actually.\u00a0 Sure, they may run together a bit by book three, from what I recall, but that&#8217;s what script doctors are for.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see MTV is moving forward with a Shannara TV series.\u00a0 I&#8217;d feel bad for old Terry Brooks, sort of riding George Martin&#8217;s coattails on the whole &#8220;make a TV series out of a fantasy novel series&#8221; 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