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CoolHand [soylentnews.org] writes:

It looks like MTV will be ruining a fantasy favorite [thedailybeast.com] for many of us:

Back in my day, when I was an adolescent nerdling escaping into the pages of Terry Brooks' Shannara fantasy lit series, the Tolkien-esque escapades of elves, druids, dwarves, and humans were engrossingly epic affairs tinted with somber urgency.

[..]So epic was the high fantasy world of Shannara—set in the fictional Four Lands long after nuclear war laid waste to Earth and paved the way for magic and monsters to overrun the land—that the prolific Brooks has churned out 25 separate Shannara novels to date, nearly one per year, for the last three decades. He's still writing more.

Shannara, in other words, was serious sword and sorcery business. Fast-forward to 2016 and brace for a not-so-shocking shocker in the age of repurposed nostalgia: Shannara has now gone full MTV, thanks to Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the show runners who re-envisioned Superman's high school days into the hit show Smallville and have another new fantasy action series, Into the Badlands, blending genres over at AMC.

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