I’ve seen the first three episodes. I’ve only read the first book thus far but I’m also confused at some of the discrepancies. The book portrayed the adventure much more as a coming of age story while the cast of the four seem much more mature already in the show, which is kind of odd. I guess they wanted to draw people in more with some sex? Idk. It also feels like they’re going at a pretty fast pace, where I feel like part of the success of the book is it really took its time on all the story beats.
I’m definitely glad that we’re getting stuff like this. As a fantasy fan it’s pretty awesome. Just some of the decisions made are odd.