It’s pretty damn awesome. My neighborhood is a 15 minute community. I can easily walk to a couple of grocery stores, a library, three parks, a couple of haircut places, several bars and restaurants, and some general stores.

I can go weeks without needing to drive.

I’m still hoping they were impacted more by COVID than just bad plotting and they’ll pull it out in season three.

But, I agree with you. Season 2 felt like the highlights, but it’s missing world building it needed to better bridge the seasons.

Very true and having reread the whole thing not that long ago, I can immediately foresee some likely changes to Flora, and many of the female characters to bring them along from the 1970s-80s, at a minimum. The production is still so far away at this point that I’m going to choose to be warily optimistic that it will get the full 60-100 episodes required and with a sufficient budget to do it right. Or, at least they’ll make it Corwin’s story.

In the worst case scenario, we’ll get The Witcher or Wheel of Time treatment and we’ll wish it never happened. Best case, we get LOTR or The Expanse.

While agreeing you’re probably right to be doubtful here, there are two things that give me hope.

The Chronicles of Amber are a complete story, so whatever gets made can follow from beginning to end.

Stephen Colbert is a huge nerd and, based on his LOTR fandom, is likely to push the production to follow the original story instead of just making shit up and calling it Amber.

I stand by the idea that god was The Machine from Person of Interest, and that the whole show is an extension of PoI.

(But officially, it ends without explicitly showing the answer.)

I think so. You’ll miss out on the character and background exposition that happens in S1, but you should be able to pick things up with much issue.

Having just finished Dead Lions, the book S2 is based on, it’s >!going to be really obvious in the finale why they left him alive.!<

Also, I wish they had gone more in line with the book then River being an idiot and getting taken out.

Controlled Drive Into Terrain.