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Originally Posted by HarryT
I imagine it'll be available on DVD. Most TV shows are.
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I know; but then again, I dislike buying into series (books or TV) if they are not finished, because I want to be able to read/watch everything from beginning to end, without having to wait 6 months or a year (or 5-6 years in the case of George RR Martin) for the next installment.
By the way: It seems 10 episodes of 42 minutes are planned. That's a 7 hour runtime, which should be enough for an adequate depiction of Elfstones. The series is called "Shannara Chronicles", however. Has anything been said about creating other seasons based on the other books?
If so, they'll have to rearrange some things, because starting with Elfstones obviously shifts stuff around in the timeline. For example, Wil Ohmsford is the grandson of Shea Ohmsford. If they are doing Sword after Elfstones, there are several possibilities:
- They tell Sword as a flashback to Shea's time.
- They make a timeline and family structure for the Chronicles that is different from the books, making Shea a son/grandson of Wil Ohmsford, for example.
- A completely different character will be the protagonist of Sword.
- Shea will be the protagonist of Sword at his current age, but he would be at least 50, which I can't really believe they'd do.
It could actually be that they do new stuff that is not in the books. They did that in 1995, with the computer game "Shannara" (which I've owned since its release, as I played a lot of point-and-click adventures back then). As Wil is Shea's grandson, there's a gap there. The Shannara game casts Jack Ohmsford and Shella Leah as the son and daughter of Shea and Menion, fitting the game exactly in between Sword and Elfstones. Some people are of the opinion the game is canon in the Shannara world, others think it's not.
They might do something like that in the series as well.