Too controversial for Tumblr

[soc_puppet]

Today, in "Things I am absolutely not going to post to Tumblr because I will be eaten alive":

storywonker posted a new curse:

may your favourite fantasy book series be adapted into a hit TV show

What I Said in a reblog:

In 99% of cases, I’ll take it. Even if I have to retreat into a tiny corner of fandom that only acknowledges the original books when the TV show ends up being a terrible adaptation that completely undermines the original themes, it still means the author is that much closer to financial independence and able to keep writing as much as they want.

Still, there are always exceptions…

What I did not say in a reblog:

Too late, the movie version of Howl's Moving Castle already exists.

(I like Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki! They do good work! And I can respect that a lot of people really love the movie! I just don't know that it's possible for Howl's Moving Castle to be adapted into anything that's less than three hours long and still satisfy me, let alone any number of other changes that were made.)

Comments

[redsixwing]

Ahahaha very fair.

I reblogged the original post out of spite, because every remake thing I've seen in the last decade has just been increasingly bad (I am, as has been noted, allergic to JJ Abrams and imitators.)

But yeah. Separation between book and various TV/movie incarnations isn't a bad thing.

[soc_puppet]

Yeah, the soulless, capitalism-driven remakes are. Not inspiring, to say the least. And again, while I don't care for the Howl's Moving Castle adaptation, at least it has heart.

There are maybe a small handful of things that I would prefer not be adapted rather than adapted badly, if only because a bad adaptation would be bad on multiple levels, but mostly I'm following Seanan McGuire's take on it: If it's a good adaptation, great! If it's a bad adaptation, it should still mean the author made bank off of the rights and is now in a more financially comfortable position, possibly even to write more books!