I wonder how I'm going to like this. The book deals with 16/17-ish-year olds, while the actors here at least look a bit older. Poppy Drayton (Amberle) is 24. Let's hope she'll get to play a 24-year old Amberle instead of a 16-year old one.
I'm sure people here remember one or two of my rants of how I dislike unrealistically young children doing epic saving-the-world things. At the moment I'm reading the Axis Trilogy (by Sara Douglass), and one of the reasons why I like it so much is that the people that matter in this story are at least 18, mostly 20-25, with the main protagonist being 29. Finally a fantasy story I can 'believe' in. (You know what I mean
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To make this a success, I think the producers have to pull the Shannara characters more into their mid to late twenties and make the story quite hard and gritty (Elfstones actually is, most of the time), or this series will never catch on with most of the adults that now like Game of Thrones.