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I'll go the wasn't great/wasn't bad crowd. The actors and charactes all show potential to be interesting, but the writing left something to be desired. I understand in a series pilot you need to introduce all the new characters, but a lot of it seemed very forced, like "you need to know this about them, so we're going to interrupt the flow of a scene to put it in there and repeat it a few more times.". I agree with meklixx, they need to keep things a touch more grounded in reality. Overall I'd say I'll watch a few weeks, see how it goes, new series often have a rough beginning and it does have potential.

I never knew it was based on a book series though. That could account for some of the issues with keeping it real, and since I have no knowledge of the books, I'll let that slide for now.

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