Legend of the Seeker vs. Wizard's First Rule

[fanaticreader]

Ok, so I watched the show before I read the books. This is entirely out of character for me because I usually go the other route, assuming that the books would naturally be better than the television/movie adaption. Problem was I saw a clip from the show featuring Cara in her red leather glory and became a very shallow and hormonal teenager once

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[fanaticreader]

He is definitely very methodical with his world. But I think it disrupts the flow rather badly. These long pauses where Zedd lectures or Richard deduces things at great length are so artificial... I mean it could be that Richard understands a small part of something, then slowly learns about it.... no. He gets his "Eureka!" face and then rambles on about it forever. It kills me!

I actually like the character changes on the show because they upped Kahlan's badassery and toned down Richard's superiority complex (for someone who denies being so damned special in spite of all evidence to the contrary, he's so full of himself and sure of his rightness it makes me want to strangle him lol). Im not entirely sure how Zedd has changed... And yeah, generally everyone's personality flip was a good thing for me, sans Denna, who was more epic in the book.

While it was definitely clever of him (how Richard just happened to figure out the Confessor issue while reciting an oath to Darken Rahl), and it was a good ending to the book (though Rahl took forever to die and managed to have himself a wonderful chat with Zed in the process lol), the way the solution for the Confessor problem was revealed on the show was a lot more dramatic and intense.