User blog comment:Meganhassler/Did the Sci-Fi Channel drop the ball?/@comment-98.93.0.6-20120822175405

I don't think its possible to every make a tv show as good as the book, the television is just too limiting. I think a greater divergence from the books would have helped. It would have been better to build a tv show set in the same world as the books, but with new characters and a new plot. As it is I feel like the writers and production crew spend too much energy trying to stay similar to the books, but not the same, and the whole thing suffers.