[ SECRET POST #6709 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6709 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Invincible]



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[Lao, Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition]



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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Glad you were able to get that off your chest here.

Care to elaborate at all on what you think the TV show did better?

[(Anonymous)]

In general a lot of updating of tropes and ideas that were considered novel in the 90's but are terribly outdated these days. Queer characters on screen who are main characters, the gender binary around the One Power and all the women-written-by-a-man issues pervading the prose are toned way down. The romances are actually decent (at least compared to the books, I wouldn't call them great, but there's promise) and in general, I get the sense that the characters actually LIKE each other, which I did not get in the books.
Some people might disagree, but I think most of the characters they do choose to focus on are deeper and more complex than the books, especially the villains. I think the cuts were largely for the better, considering the limited amount of episodes they have to work with, and the stuff they did expand on was well done and fit the story they are trying to tell. (I could do without the fridging of Perrin's wife in the first episode, but I do understand why they chose to use it for his character development which is very internal in the books, and I thought it impacted his and Faile's relationship in season 3 in an interesting way.)
Also, I can't imagine Rafe Judkins making excuses for the slave-owning, imperialist invaders and trying to convince me they're not that bad actually while failing to address the part where they enslave women in horrific fashion, so there's that, too.
Is it a faithful adaptation of the books? No, but it's not trying to be. Is it a good story when considered on its own merits? I would argue yes.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks! Very thoughtful and that makes a lot of sense.