Absolutely stunning visuals and effects, strong script and acting.
This series is not the novels, even if it's ultimately telling the same story, and that's a good thing. I'm pretty sure most of us have seen movies which try to directly imitate novels, and they're uniformly awful.
Some characters are different, but I very much enjoyed the mystery of trying to figure out where Eto had disappeared to, and how these characters might evolve as the series continues.
Regarding the negative reviews, I can only say that IMDB has long had a huge problem with racist and misogynistic jerks coming here to dump their edgy viewpoints upon the rest of the world. IMDB finally stopped accepting and even started deleting the overtly racist reviews, but the same users now make disparaging use of terms like "sjw (social justice warriors)", "wokeness", and "diversity" to spread their messages of hatred instead. Their reviews have literally nothing to do with the quality of any show they're attacking.
This series is not the novels, even if it's ultimately telling the same story, and that's a good thing. I'm pretty sure most of us have seen movies which try to directly imitate novels, and they're uniformly awful.
Some characters are different, but I very much enjoyed the mystery of trying to figure out where Eto had disappeared to, and how these characters might evolve as the series continues.
Regarding the negative reviews, I can only say that IMDB has long had a huge problem with racist and misogynistic jerks coming here to dump their edgy viewpoints upon the rest of the world. IMDB finally stopped accepting and even started deleting the overtly racist reviews, but the same users now make disparaging use of terms like "sjw (social justice warriors)", "wokeness", and "diversity" to spread their messages of hatred instead. Their reviews have literally nothing to do with the quality of any show they're attacking.