TV / Movies Favourite Fantasy Series?

Eragon. I was in love with dragons as a little kid.

 

I ate up the Harry Potter books, and I love the Golden Sun games (mostly the first two, less so with the third game).

 

I've never heard of Golden Sun before, but I agree with pretty much everything that's been said so far.

Movie-wise, LotR is definitely my favorite. I really want to read the books, but can't actually find them anywhere. I feel like I missed out back in high school. I read nearly the entire fiction section in the library, but I would have had to borrow Lord of the Rings from from a teacher and the size of the books kind dissuaded me from doing so.

The Eragon movie was terrible, but I love the book series. I just reread them recently. I wish there hadn't been such large gaps between their releases though, because it's pretty obvious whenever the author forgot about things. Like Galbatorix's dragon was originally mentioned to be a female, but later was referred to as "he". I wish Angela had been explained more, although I kind of like the mystery at the same time, and so I'm just going to continue on with my theory that she and her old teacher were both actually time lords. There's a weird amount of evidence for that actually.

Harry potter was great as a book series and a movie series, although I highly prefer the books. The movies just cut out so much, which is part of the reason why I want to read Lord of the Rings. With the movies being as great as they were, the books must be pretty good too.

I guess I should actually contribute instead of talking about stuff that's already been mentioned. There was a series I read back in high school that I really liked called Fablehaven. It's about hidden sanctuaries that are kind of like wildlife refuges for magic creatures. It gets pretty crazy, in a good way. The dragons are pretty unique too.

 

Fablehaven is a great series as well. It actually got my brother to read for fun. I never got past the second book personally, but that was mostly due to scheduling conflicts, it came out right as I was wrapping up high school, and I never found time for it.

 

Deltora Quest still remains one of my favorites of all time. The story and character are great. It's a book series originally but there is a tv show from it. It's not very high quality but it at least does a good job following the books.

 

There's a Deltora Quest show!? How did I not know about this?

You know I can't remember ever reading the main series. I might have, but I only remember Shadowlands and Dragons of Deltora. I wonder if my library has it.

 

There is yeah xD It's an anime with 65 episodes.
I've read them all, but I do love the main series the most. I'd recommend looking for those

 

Probably Harry Potter for me/ It just stuck with me the most.

 

Mine would have to be Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia, mostly because they were the nearly the only fantasy books that I was allowed to read. (like I'm not allowed to read Harry Potter)

 

How were you not allowed to read Harry Potter, but Lord of the Rings was okay? I'm genuinely curious about the criteria for what was considered "appropriate."

 

I was told that Harry does things to only get his way and that is why I'm not allowed to read it, but I don't really take that as an answer since everyone that I've talked to says that that isn't true.

 

Yeah that's really not true. I guess it could be interpreted that way if you're Serverus Snape. There are a lot of things he loses or misses out on throughout the books and sometimes he's just like "yeah, I deserved this." Him being added to the quidditch team was kind of ridiculous, but I think that along with a few other rule breaking instances led up to the first major "yeah, I deserve this" moment in the first book. He does make stupid/selfish decisions at times, but I'm pretty sure everyone does. Most of the books are mainly about self-sacrifice and loyalty to friends and things like that.

 

The thing is that she said that out of what she saw from the movies, is there any difference from the books to the movies that may make someone think like that?

 

I just did a quick google search and found a buzzfeed article (yeah...) that kind of gave some reasons. One was that for the majority of the books, a lot of people are risking their own lives to save his instead of the other way around, but come on, he's a kid up until the final book when he does take more responsibility for others. And he does still risk his own life at times, in spite of being a kid, so that reason is just really weird.

It kind of mentions how he treats people badly at times and I guess there were details that were left out of the movie for the sake of time that might have made it seem worse than it really was. Of course arguments with friends, really bad arguments even, were going to happen, they're all children. And it's not all one-sided. And they used this example of when he turned one of his aunts into a balloon which, without some details brought up in the book, sounds really bad. kids who aren't fully trained in magic can sometimes lose control of their powers. It wasn't really his fault and in the book they went into detail about how she had once had her dog chase him up a tree and trap him there until past midnight, in addition to other terrible things, so if he was going to lose his temper around anyone it was probably going to be her.

There was something else about him always wanting to be the center of attention and the example that was used for that one is a little more spoiler intensive, so I'll just say that he kind of misunderstood a situation while under a lot of pressure. He was legitimately trying to save someone's life, not show off.

Essentially, there's a lot of background information and time-skips in the books that get left out in the movies. It doesn't always come off as him putting in legitimate effort (which sometimes spans many months) to do things or having legitimate motivations when he does do bad/stupid things.

I mean, really, do people want a perfect character? That's usually frowned upon.

 

Game of Thrones, Attack on Titan (it counts, right?), and The Owls of Ga'Hoole. The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is amazing too. I really want to read the books someday.