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> Dull, pretentions stories where nothing makes sense, and characters that are dull speaking boxes walking around saying script lines.

That seems...faithful.

Maybe a good screenwriter could have fixed that, who knows?

> That's what I saw until falling asleep halfway through Episode 3. Perhaps it got better. Perhaps it's not "for me". But that's what I saw.

I have to skip some scenes because they become too boring: flirting, romance, sex? skip. Emotional scene that adds nothing to the plot? skip. Maybe I lost some important bit among that, but seeing the sluggish pace, I doubt it.

> characters that are dull speaking boxes walking around saying script lines.

You need to re-read the books. While the overall ideas and plot is good, the details and dialogue are terrible.

> Dull, pretentions stories where nothing makes sense...

That seems like a problem with you, not the story.