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

[bluedreaming]

That makes perfect sense! I saw the movie before I read the book, so they slotted into different categories in my brain 👍
But I never watched the Disney movies as a kid so learning that (at least supposedly) the Aladdin movie is inspired by/based on (?) the second Howl & Sophie book definitely made me even less interested in the movie.

[soc_puppet]

Lol, I'd buy that 😂 That said, Aladdin has about as much in common with Castle in the Air as Frozen does with The Snow Queen! I did watch Aladdin when it first came out (it was one of my earliest theater movies, if not the earliest), and didn't read any DWJ books until years later, so I definitely noticed some similarities; some similar plot beats and so forth. I think I did manage the "different categories" trick in this case, but they are also very different stories, and I think it helps that Aladdin isn't even really pretending to be Castle in the Air.