I was impressed by the visual richness of the show - the settings were great, and cinematography excellent, and for the most part the actors they found were pretty much as I had pictured the characters. However, I felt that the show lost connection with the really interesting question underlying the books (which, I have to admit, I may be entirely reading in, and it may not have been part of your intention at all) which was turning over what social groups did, why various people were or weren't able to fit in them, and what they were willing to do to obtain or hold a place in that group.
At times, that group was a whole-society thing, like whether or not vampires and werewolves could be 'tolerated', but at other times was at the level of family, or local community.
In many ways, how we share a place with people who have different values from our own and amongst whom there are those who would hurt us is an age-old but immediately relevant question: whilst I wouldn't think any direct parallel would be intended and it's much more complicated than that in some ways your attitude to whether you can live alongside vampires is almost like whether or not you can live alongside those with a different religion, or different cultural practices (which is where it's an advantage if people will generally obey the law!). Vampires would be a bit of an extreme example - clearly they are inherently dangerous, whereas common ground can usually be found with other cultures. Anyway, any book which enables a bit of thinking at the same time as being engrossingly entertaining (other things got neglected each time a new book came out) deserves a faithful rendering.
I was impressed by the visual richness of the show - the settings were great, and cinematography excellent, and for the most part the actors they found were pretty much as I had pictured the characters.
However, I felt that the show lost connection with the really interesting question underlying the books (which, I have to admit, I may be entirely reading in, and it may not have been part of your intention at all) which was turning over what social groups did, why various people were or weren't able to fit in them, and what they were willing to do to obtain or hold a place in that group.
At times, that group was a whole-society thing, like whether or not vampires and werewolves could be 'tolerated', but at other times was at the level of family, or local community.
In many ways, how we share a place with people who have different values from our own and amongst whom there are those who would hurt us is an age-old but immediately relevant question: whilst I wouldn't think any direct parallel would be intended and it's much more complicated than that in some ways your attitude to whether you can live alongside vampires is almost like whether or not you can live alongside those with a different religion, or different cultural practices (which is where it's an advantage if people will generally obey the law!). Vampires would be a bit of an extreme example - clearly they are inherently dangerous, whereas common ground can usually be found with other cultures.
Anyway, any book which enables a bit of thinking at the same time as being engrossingly entertaining (other things got neglected each time a new book came out) deserves a faithful rendering.