This is the most telling reference, I think.
If THE MAN has no problems with the TV version, how can we, the readers and viewers, do anything other than enjoy?
I had similar issues with what was done with Game of Thrones, it seemed to go off track after the first few episodes. I felt the same way at first, when watching
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But I watched the whole episode and I now agree with all of the favorable comments in this forum.
I realized watching the movie that even Al Templeton's lung cancer was Time resisting his efforts, something that hadn't hit me neither time I read the book. Still, I thought the car crashing through the telephone booth, the fire in the restaurant that scarred Al's arm, the fire in the boarding house, the repetition from so many characters to Jake "you don't belong here" was a bit overkill. And finally I realized this might have been overkill in a book, but in a movie it was just a different device for a different medium.