I am unfamiliar with this series but since I gave up on the Star Wars franchise after the 3rd movie, I wonder if this critique might have been applied to those prequels as well?

I enjoy reading your reviews, which have been notably missing as of late.  I hope you will resume them.  Or maybe you are having too much fun under the palm trees...

After a long time, I have decided to revisit the "Thomas Covenant" series, have never read the last series and have decided to start from the beginning. Wish me luck

Luck.

I read the first Chronicles, all the while not understanding or believing the motivation of "our hero" . I had no sympathy for him from the beginning, and even less as time went on. Once I got over this dislike, I enjoyed the story (although the rape still leaves a bad taste, even all these years later), and some of the world-building was brilliant (although depressing and derivative), but I hated the main protagonist. I thought that in general the story overcame his hero, and the ending tied everything up nicely.

Then the second Chronicles, and the new hero(ine) was as bad as the first and (although I didn't think it possible) this lot was much more depressing than the first lot. Donaldson's writing quirks were just as noticeable and consistent, but after a dodgy start I got into these books and quite enjoyed most of the read.

All around I don't think that Donaldson should be allowed to write heroes, as he hasn't a clue how to do them. I think that he is of the opinion that all heroes have feet of clay, if not feet, legs, torsos and necks of clay, and it is his job to show us that they aren't worth the paper they are printed on: except that he relies on them eventually coming good and saving everyone. (Unbelievably The Gap Cycle is even worse: his continual use of rape as a weapon - and as motivation/ justification in those books - is even worse than in the Covenant books, and just appalling, in my opinion)

After twenty years I picked up the first book of the last Chronicles and just couldn't get into it at all. Donaldson sets a very depressing scene quite believably, but I really couldn't force myself to spend any time in that bleak/ bleaker/ bleakest environment. The Last Chronicles are therefore sitting unread on the top of my wardrobe, and there they shall remain.

As I say, I wish you luck - let us know how you get on!

So far. Morals of story:
1)  It pays to be an engineer.
2)  Never trust politicians.
3)   The future is not bright.

I had to watch the second half of season 1 of The Silo before I could figure out what was going on with season 2.  Now it makes more sense but we'll see if it gets better.  The music is particularly oppressive.

They should have "Filmed in Bleak O Vision" in the opening credits.

I don't have an opinion on the film itself, as I haven't seen it and I am unlikely to.

But I have a question - Why? I cannot for the life of me see the point of "live-action" remakes (which actually means "differently animated, possibly with a few live actors") of cartoons.

... and an observation - If we grant Snow White's existence as a story, how on earth can a film be made of it without upsetting the vast majority of the planet? It has:

a wicked witch (which is bound to upset those that see witches as symbolic of institutionalised misogyny)
dwarves (whose very existence is bound to upset the stature challenged - and their supporters/ defenders in one way or another)
... each of whom are challenged in one way or another (leading to trouble due to a variety of -isms)
miners (obviously making a social comment about manual labourers)
... who have their house stolen by
a white heroine (racism)
a damsel in distress (more misogyny)
a (white saviour) prince that saves the princess (male supremacist) (more racism)
... by kissing her without permission (sexual assault)

There is categorically no way that these obstacles can be overcome, because if the story remains as-is then it demonstrates "dated attitudes" (to pretty much everything), but if anything at all is changed for modern sensibilities then it is "a woke catastrophe".

I think Disney was doomed from the get-go, but I don't have much sympathy because the original movie is still there, and doesn't need a remake.

I laughed when I read this.  Yep.  It's a veritable mine field for the PC.  I'd give it a wide berth.

As the horrorshow in the Oval Office continues, we are not sending aid to Myanmar, while other prosperous countries are stepping up, and the promised $2m has no way to get there since Trump dismantled USAID.  Oh, and more fun isolationism via our 19th c. President McKinley, the Voice of America is now basically a test pattern with music.  It's maddening to watch someone destroy a great nation from within while one can only sit and watch helplessly.