Love hearing your thoughts on adaptations Chas! ❤️ So glad to hear you liked His Dark Materials as well (I may be biased though 😂) I personally don’t mind changes, when they are in service of the story / characters (Three Body Problem and even LOTR to some extent). It’s hard when people try to do their own spin on the story, at the expense of taking away the spirit by which the material was created
This was a very fun video to watch. I feel I am easy to please with adaptations. It doesn't bother me if adaptations bring on characters, take some out or change them altogether. I just want a good story with fleshed out characters with motivations that make sense.
Yes I feel the same way for most things. I will say though, I was pisses that they changed Asha to Yara in Game of Thrones. I guess I’m more of a name purist. 🤣🤣
This is exactly my theory. The only thing the screen writer, graphic novelist, director of a remake of an old movie for that matter etc owes the audience is a good story. Everyone has their own tastes adaptations, stories in general are never going to please everyone. The real measure of success is if an adaptation gets new people to read / watch the original.
Love this topic! In my experience... 90% of the time the book is always better... but that doesn't mean adaptations shouldn't be done... I just think we need to adjust our expectations. Turning a long book into a 2 hour movie means not everything is going to get in there. 🤗
I completely agree Kris! A lot of upset comes from unrealistic expectations. I think most books are better too. Glad you enjoyed the topic, and thank you for watching. 😊
I sometimes like watching the adaptation first, then reading the book. I usually enjoy both when I do that. I'm okay with some changes as long as the adaptation stays true to the spirit of the story
Books and films are such different media that significant changes are usually required to make adaptations work. Come to think of it, that's probably one reason why I don't watch very many movies!
More or less with you until you came to Rings of Power (and WoT). 🤣 Firstly thank God they haven't got the rights to The Silmarillion, we were spared that at least. Secondly based on what they had (which is LOTR plus references to Silmarillion on a case by case permission basis) and what they made, it's so far from anything even moderately approximating Tolkien's world and writing! I can take it as fan fiction in a TV medium - then its okay I guess. I chose to not watch after S1 but I followed what they did in S2 and dear me - characters make no sense, timelines make no sense, ordering of events like the forging of the rings make no sense and they tried to do multi-POV which... also makes no sense. I don't have any malice, I'm just amazed that a team of (presumably) creative individuals thought this was good TV (forget the adaptation bit) and are planning to do 3 more seasons! 🤣 It's not about being faithful adaptation or not - that ship never left Valar to reach Middle-Earth.🤣 Coming back to LOTR movies, recently rewatched them, great. Should have cut the prolonged Arwen bits or maybe even Shelob's Lair and done Scouring of the Shire - more essential imo. But other than that, perfect. Hobbit films, I only watched the first and it was too long, the unnecessary non-book scenes and prolonged combat jarred. Shouldn't have been more than one movie. Haven't seen HDM, I'll try that some day then. After seeing the recent approach to adaptations, I am praying that OTT studios leave my favourites alone!
It is also interesting to think that when you reread a book you always find something new. Best wishes.
Oh yes that’s very true, and sometimes the adaptations bring those things out.
Love hearing your thoughts on adaptations Chas! ❤️ So glad to hear you liked His Dark Materials as well (I may be biased though 😂) I personally don’t mind changes, when they are in service of the story / characters (Three Body Problem and even LOTR to some extent). It’s hard when people try to do their own spin on the story, at the expense of taking away the spirit by which the material was created
Yeah it’s a very fine line to walk, and a lot of studios struggle with it. I totally understand your bias. 😉😂
This was a very fun video to watch.
I feel I am easy to please with adaptations. It doesn't bother me if adaptations bring on characters, take some out or change them altogether. I just want a good story with fleshed out characters with motivations that make sense.
Yes I feel the same way for most things. I will say though, I was pisses that they changed Asha to Yara in Game of Thrones. I guess I’m more of a name purist. 🤣🤣
@@BookishChas haha I forgot they did that. It's been a while since I read GOT. I need to get back to it one of these days
@Already-Overbooked yes definitely! It’s my favorite series so far.
This is exactly my theory. The only thing the screen writer, graphic novelist, director of a remake of an old movie for that matter etc owes the audience is a good story. Everyone has their own tastes adaptations, stories in general are never going to please everyone. The real measure of success is if an adaptation gets new people to read / watch the original.
@@davidcashin1894 100%!! If you don't like the adaptation don't watch it. The end; the problem is fixed haha
Love this topic! In my experience... 90% of the time the book is always better... but that doesn't mean adaptations shouldn't be done... I just think we need to adjust our expectations. Turning a long book into a 2 hour movie means not everything is going to get in there. 🤗
I completely agree Kris! A lot of upset comes from unrealistic expectations. I think most books are better too. Glad you enjoyed the topic, and thank you for watching. 😊
I sometimes like watching the adaptation first, then reading the book. I usually enjoy both when I do that. I'm okay with some changes as long as the adaptation stays true to the spirit of the story
Yeah I sometimes enjoy watching the adaptation first too. Seems like we’re aligned in our feelings on the subject. 🙂
Books and films are such different media that significant changes are usually required to make adaptations work. Come to think of it, that's probably one reason why I don't watch very many movies!
Oh ok that makes sense Josh! If you never watch it, you never have to stress over it lol. That’s a good approach too.
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Thank you so much! 😊
More or less with you until you came to Rings of Power (and WoT). 🤣
Firstly thank God they haven't got the rights to The Silmarillion, we were spared that at least. Secondly based on what they had (which is LOTR plus references to Silmarillion on a case by case permission basis) and what they made, it's so far from anything even moderately approximating Tolkien's world and writing! I can take it as fan fiction in a TV medium - then its okay I guess.
I chose to not watch after S1 but I followed what they did in S2 and dear me - characters make no sense, timelines make no sense, ordering of events like the forging of the rings make no sense and they tried to do multi-POV which... also makes no sense. I don't have any malice, I'm just amazed that a team of (presumably) creative individuals thought this was good TV (forget the adaptation bit) and are planning to do 3 more seasons! 🤣
It's not about being faithful adaptation or not - that ship never left Valar to reach Middle-Earth.🤣
Coming back to LOTR movies, recently rewatched them, great. Should have cut the prolonged Arwen bits or maybe even Shelob's Lair and done Scouring of the Shire - more essential imo. But other than that, perfect.
Hobbit films, I only watched the first and it was too long, the unnecessary non-book scenes and prolonged combat jarred. Shouldn't have been more than one movie.
Haven't seen HDM, I'll try that some day then.
After seeing the recent approach to adaptations, I am praying that OTT studios leave my favourites alone!
I totally respect your opinion on this Paromita. It’s hard seeing adaptations that don’t live up to the standard of the original work.