[ SECRET POST #4698 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4698 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Scenario 1) Adaptation makes minor changes because nothing is ever exactly the same. I am a twelve year old perfectionist throwing a fit because minor dialogue scenes in the first Harry Potter movie were different from the book. Not Reasonable Criticism.

Scenario 2) Adaptation makes some fairly major changes which I dislike, because 2a) the creators valued different things about the original than I did, or 2b) because they are actively trying to say something different than the original did. "I'm upset that the thing I loved about this had a chance to be hugely celebrated and it was not" is reasonable to be upset about. "I don't like this because it doesn't contain the things I love about X" is reasonable. "This adaptation is bad because it does not cater to my tastes" is Not Reasonable Criticism.

Scenario 3) Adaptation makes major changes to make the original more corporate-friendly/marketable/slap it together fast and under budget. Not only does the adaptation not capture what I loved about the original, but the creators of the adaptation aren't saying or achieving anything with the changes, and clearly don't care about what I loved. The result is a mangled mess full of bits of lore and references to something better, like an undercooked fruitcake dotted with delicious rum-soaked raisins, but that you can't actually eat because the middle is fucking raw. "This adaptation is bad because it failed to capture what was good about the original and changed things pointlessly and made nothing new or relevant out of it," is Reasonable Criticism, and also reasonable to be upset by, at least by the standards of "it's reasonable to have any emotions at all about the important stories and culture in our lives even though poverty exists."