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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That jives with what I'm seeing too. He's very polite, and will stay until the last fan's last books are signed, but I don't get the feeling he's really "in love" with his own work, to tell the truth. In a very recent interview about the show, he indicated that one of the reasons that the collaboration between himself and the show writers/runners went so smoothly was that, "I wrote the book 30 years ago and have since let go of it." Continuity issues in later books lead me to believe that he's not really all that up to speed on his own canon, either. Statements in recent show interviews confirm that (for me anyway).
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Hm... so I wasn't the only one. I've just finished Dark Legacy of Shannara, and the one thing that struck me was that they were talking about the "Third Druid Council" all the time. That can't be right.
We have had these high druids:
1. Galaphile
2. Athabasca (First King of Shannara)
3. Allanon
4. Walker Boh
5. Grianne Ohmsford
6. Khyber Elessedil
(7. Aphenglow Elessedil in The Defenders of Shannara? Don't know yet.)
The only way to talk about a 3rd druid council is when you're talking about the ones after Allanon and disregard the earlier ones.
Also, the high druids are dying younger and younger. Galaphile was hundreds of years old. Athabasca was killed, but Bremen (the should-have-been-High Druid druid) was hundreds of years old. Cogline was even older. He was there, at the time of Galaphile, and he was still around to instruct Walker Boh as a mentor. Allanon also went on to become over 700 years, but with Walker Boh, Druid lifespans suddenly dropped to sub-150, and in the latest books, there were statements that "Druids that old couldn't stand up to the forces of evil anymore."
And that's only one of the things; sometimes I encounter mentions of "X centuries before", where I thought it should have been something like X + 3 or so if I got my counting right.
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Since the show's announcement, hardcore fans of Terry's books have worried that MTV would butcher it. We were assured (through statements from Terry himself or his online surrogate) that Terry was working diligently to make sure that didn't happen. That he retained, and used, creative veto rights. That he read and approved of every scene of every episode. That the story remained intact. "Trust in Terry" was the mantra that was used for over a year.
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And people believed it. How long has he been busy getting Shannara to be adapted; 15 years or so? Shawn Speakman ("Webdruid") also said on the forums that Terry would only sell the rights if he was 100% sure that the story would be faithfully adapted. Seeing negotiations break down and rights expire for a few times, I (and other fans as well, probably) believed it.
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Apparently that was all horse-puckey. (...)
We got played. Congrats on a great game Mr. Brooks.
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I think it's disrespectful, even.
Just as it is disrespectful (IMHO) to take a well-loved book (Elfstones), add some stuff from other books (High Druid in the Forbidding), with a tiny bit of sauce (search for the missing Elfstones), and then stretch it out over three books. Dark Legacy is just a rehash of many things that were done before.
Not badly written per se, but if you have been reading Brooks since the beginning, you have already seen everything that comes along in Dark Legacy.