![]() When I was a kid, my local public library had a poster of a castle, three-quarters of which was submerged underwater. The most significant of these deviations? Netflix's Shadow and Bone changes Alina Starkov's (Jessie Mei Li) story, and her metamorphosis is an example of how TV can sometimes tell a better story than what's on the page. Shadow and Bone's creators recognized where improvements could be made to the story and thus transformed the source material to meet the cultural moment. But unlike GoT, Shadow and Bone doesn't have that same exacting faithfulness to its source material that the HBO show was praised for - and that's a good thing. They're both fantasy series based on best-selling novels with intricate world builds they even debuted the same week (just 10 years apart). ![]() From the moment it was announced, Netflix's Shadow and Bone drew comparisons to HBO's Game of Thrones. ![]()
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