Legend of the Seeker stays true to The Sword of Truth books.

" I don't think that this argument can be fully resolved since season 2 doesn't air until next week but judging by what I have seen in the season 2 promotional trailers, it seems that Richard will indeed be taking up the mantle of Lord Rahl. In the show, it appears that Darken Rahl and Richard are brothers. To me that is not a major change from the books at all. As long as Richard has the blood of a Rahl pulsing through his veins he can still become the next Lord Rahl." This ignores the reason I brought it up. I did not seek to impugn the chances that the show will still allow for him to be Lord Rahl-- rather, I used the Lord Rahl authority as an example of great power in the books that resulted in no corruption for Richard, contrary to the show's worldview "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." :I concede to this point. Well played. Maybe I posted this debate prematurely. However, it does not mean that it is a morally different universe. Since the show only seems to be just beginning whose to say that the Power of Orden won't show up again. This is not particularly a response to what I said there either. :As I said, whose to say the power of Orden won't show up again later? If the show is to have a semblance of truth to the books, Richard never masters his war wizardry, except temporarily by borrowed knowledge in the Temple of the Winds (Mastery of a peculiar point of use of Orden is insufficient to establish mastery to the point of being able to create the boxes, and even that only occurs at the end of the series) -- and thus cannot recreate Orden. Since Orden clearly requires a wizrard gifted with both additive and subtractive magic (The latter of which was banished to the Temple, the sole exception being Richard by a specific action of Baracus), no one else can either. The only way to explain it would thus be something along the lines of "It's all a dream" in response to their being destroyed, which is thematically inconsistent with Chainfire and is the literature version of the kind art Richard DESPISED having to make in Faith of the Fallen :P. :can agree and fully sympathize with the disappointment of Richard and Kahlan still being unable to be together. But that doesn't say that it wont happen later on. This,again, is not what I was talking about. They are quite able to be together, with either the niced-- up version the show has of James the artist or with Rachel's later capacity for the same art-magc, at any time the show's makers choose to. The inconsistency is not "they cannot be together" but the nature of love and how it interacts with its counterfeit. "However in the season 1 finale, the "people are stupid" scenario is indeed used. Richard convinces Shota to go to Darken Rahl's son. Though she becomes a victim of his confession powers, it was Richard's plan for her to. Darken Rahl's son is fooled into believing that he had the solution to his problem but only ended up paying for it." Using "People are stupid" on some spoiled brat from far in the future is not nearly so relevant to the story as using it on the major villain of the here and now. "The plot of season 1 is the same as the book." That's just it. It isn't. Was there anything in the book about time travel? :P