I'm sure many of you have read a book and thought,
this would make a cool movie (or show).
However, many moons later, or maybe not so many moons later, a trailer for said novel pops up somewhere and you think to yourself,
oh great, how stupid is this going to be? Especially for the lovers of the venerated YA genre.
Right out of the gate there was a huge setback with the
Twilight Saga. Let's face it,
Twilight sucked the biggest egg in egg history for this generation of novel pop culture. And although each movie gradually, and I mean in a painful way, got better, it still left a sulfur stench in the air.
Sadly,
Twilight isn't the only casualty to this onslaught of literature war.
Vampire Academy came in at a rump-bumping second. When I have to cover my eyes because I'm embarrassed to be watching it - and I'm by myself so who do I have to hide from, it's not a good adaptation. And that is frustrating as all get-out.
The Mortal Instruments and
Beautiful Creatures were entertaining movies and followed their novel counterparts almost perfectly with a side of cheese but I still found myself cringing during some eye-rolling moments.
Since then though, I can see a rise of YA books being churned into big screen adaptations and the money behind it making sure the movie projects is what the author intended and superior than the one made before it.
Hunger Games,
Divergent,
Fault of Our Stars, and much much more. And these also some of my favorites.
Which actually bring me to my main point *transition*
About six months ago... no wait let me check so to make sure... brb...
My bad, nine months ago, I read
The 100 by Kass Morgan (still need to read
Day 21) and it turned out to be an alright space-come-to-earth kind of book. Adventurous and exciting. Multiple points of view and each view was kept on point and never confusing. And, I had one of those moments when the thought of it becoming a movie or TV series would be great. Well low-and-behold, it was. March of this year on the CW network premiered the first season.
At this point you are probably wondering if I started watching it? No, unfortunately I didn't. I thought it looked cheesy and a little too dramatic, in the girly sense, for me. Well, let me just say... I stand corrected! Not on the girly part, it has plenty of touchy-feely but it has just as much in the heated action department. I had some down time this week (which I totally should have been writing) but I decided to give this show a try, and it turned out to be pretty amazing and I instantly became hooked. In four days I back-watched the first season on Netflix and caught up on the first three episodes of the second on the CW app. And now I am rip-roaring and ready to go for next weeks episode!
Has anyone else watched The 100? What do you think?
Have you read the book(s)? How do you compare the two?
