aelf
Ashen One
It's a new era of adaptations. There are so many these days. And with each new adaptation, millions of voices cry out, and they won't be silenced.
Look, I get it, you love the original. But guess what? It's still there. It's not somehow cheapened or ruined by the adaptation.
And I simply don't understand the prevalent griping about the fact that something which has been adapted to a new medium has been changed slightly. Well, what did you expect? The adaptation needs to draw an audience made up of people who are not just fans of the original. And if something has been depicted in a certain way in text, for example, it doesn't mean it makes sense to do the exact same thing for a different format. If you have specific criticism about a change, I'm all ears, but 95% of the time all I see are simply complaints that something has been changed.
This is perfectly exemplified for me in the whining about a certain series where one of the main characters is married at the start of the show, unlike in the books. But then the wife promptly dies on screen in the first episode anyway. So it makes no real difference to the plot at large, and all it does is help establish the character quicker than a book series that is notorious for being long-winded (which fans have been known to complain about as well).
Oh, and, of course, there are the loony ravings about simple race or gender swaps that make no difference to the story.
I suppose the average consumer of entertainment is probably not very bright, and their views might amount to plain emotivism (i.e., "This thing is bad because I don't like it"). But is there anyone who would like to speak from that corner here? I really don't understand this silliness.
Look, I get it, you love the original. But guess what? It's still there. It's not somehow cheapened or ruined by the adaptation.
And I simply don't understand the prevalent griping about the fact that something which has been adapted to a new medium has been changed slightly. Well, what did you expect? The adaptation needs to draw an audience made up of people who are not just fans of the original. And if something has been depicted in a certain way in text, for example, it doesn't mean it makes sense to do the exact same thing for a different format. If you have specific criticism about a change, I'm all ears, but 95% of the time all I see are simply complaints that something has been changed.
This is perfectly exemplified for me in the whining about a certain series where one of the main characters is married at the start of the show, unlike in the books. But then the wife promptly dies on screen in the first episode anyway. So it makes no real difference to the plot at large, and all it does is help establish the character quicker than a book series that is notorious for being long-winded (which fans have been known to complain about as well).
Oh, and, of course, there are the loony ravings about simple race or gender swaps that make no difference to the story.
I suppose the average consumer of entertainment is probably not very bright, and their views might amount to plain emotivism (i.e., "This thing is bad because I don't like it"). But is there anyone who would like to speak from that corner here? I really don't understand this silliness.