Am I allowed to be bored by the predictability of hatchett jobs on TV/Movie adaptions.

PlacidCasual · 28 May 2022 at 20:25

So the latest Sandman trailer has dropped and they've sex swapped Lucifer. You know what it doesn't matter to the plot because the angels and fallen angels are basically sexless anyway. I've just grown bored of the predictable an unnecessary sex swaps in every TV adaption whether they're necessary or not.

I'm reading the DMZ comic and enjoying it, I looked at the trialer for the TV show and it's a different story with similar pyjamas on. They're buying intellectual property with the intention of iimediately changing it.

The Boys was a plainly unfilmable comic but they've stolen a single element of the comic and built a new story around it with a few names being the same on pretty much different characters.

The list goes on, I guess its a problem as old as the movie business but I'd begun to get used to TV delivering some moderately faithfull adaptions and now everything seems to be in full retreat the genius's in the production company know more than the original writer they paid handsomely in the first place and can "improve" it.

PlacidCasual · 29 May 2022 at 13:57

@JRS As I said it doesn't really matter in that case it is an androgynous character, and if Neil Gaiman is happy that's fine. For me I saw it and just thought "really again". It's less that specific case than the drip drip of increasingly crappy adaptions.

PlacidCasual · 29 May 2022 at 21:00

I thought Watchmen was pretty good too. I thought it was a fairly faithful extrapolation of what might come after the comic book. I'm not sure it changed that much.

PlacidCasual · 31 May 2022 at 21:11

Shamikebab said:
I love Lucifer too, it's almost completely different to the comics but I love that too.

I don't even think of the TV show as an adaption of the comic. I appreciate it is, with characters like Mazikeen and having the nightclub, but nothing else about it follows the comic. The guy that plays Lucifer is great but he is plainly not playing the same character as the comic. This should definetly fit the mould for hatchett job of an adaption but the TV show has a lot of charm and doesn't detract from the original because it is sooooo different.

edit: so many typos blaming my keyboard