I agree with your point, but the lack of ::: spoiler spoiler dead fake space squid ::: was still a silly, unnecessary and confusing change. It completely lost the critical “look out, they are coming for you from space” aspect, which is the only way his plan might have worked.
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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoI think the Watchmen movie is the only example I can think of where deviating from the source material was actually a good thing. Even then, it was a tempered change that still captured everything else about the comic, and they didn’t try to “fix” anything else.
You don’t make a successful book-to-movie project that makes millions of dollars by shitting on the source material that also already made millions of dollars. Hollywood writers are egotistical assholes that do not make millions of dollars. The book was successful for a reason. Don’t fuck up a good thing.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Say those words in the spoiler out loud, and you’ll see how silly and ridiculous the concept was, especially to modern audiences.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I agree. But comics are weird.
If they had to replace it, I think they still should have picked a replacement that actually still somehow implied ::: spoiler spoiler an extra terrestrial threat to humanity. :::
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
They kinda did, if you think about it.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agreed.
But how does the TV series fit into that?
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Man I don’t think I could disagree with a comment more. He captured nothing about the comic. He missed the point entirely.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can you expand? I thought it was pretty much shot for shot, except the exchange of common external enemy and exclusion of pirates.