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⌈ Secret Post #2335 ⌋

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Comments

[philstar22]

That never seems to stop people. I mean, there are at least a dozen Wizard of Oz books written by the original author plus a bunch of other ones. And yet there still hasn't been a single faithful version done of even the first book. The just keep writing their own stories.

Mostly, you just have to pick which fandoms you can live with the changes for and enjoy it for what it is and which ones just aren't going to work for you.

[(Anonymous)]

Possibly. It's just depressing that the single most consistent change made for this canon is to turn a once-off female character who beat the male lead and then left into a seductress love interest who usually either dies or needs to be saved by said male lead.

That's really not a trend in adaptations that I'm fond of, or one that says good things about modern storytelling.

[philstar22]

Oh, absolutely that's a problem. I'm just saying it isn't surprising that canon is changed even when there are unadapted stories. The stories that tend to be adapted over and over are the ones that people know. And then changes have to be made so this version is something different.

This is while I'll stick to Poirot for my detective tv fix. Mostly faithful and still awesome with each new viewing.

[(Anonymous)]

We're talking David Suchet Poirot, right? Not the Ustinov TV movies. I like Ustinov, but he's ... not Poirot.

Suchet, on the other hand, is fabulous.

[philstar22]

Yup. Suchet pretty much is Poirot. I have all the dvds, and I never get tired of watching them. Even when you know the ending, they are still worth watching again. I'm sad they never got to finish all the stories.

[(Anonymous)]

I love Suchet. He has a gentility as Poirot. Ustinov mostly seemed ... smug?

[philstar22]

Agreed. When I'm reading the stories now, Poirot's voice is always Suchet. He just captures the role perfectly. And you can tell he really gets into it and enjoys what he's doing. Ustinov's version is okay, but he does seem to be smug in a way that Poirot isn't. Poirot is arrogant, sure, but he isn't smug.

[(Anonymous)]

Very arrogant, sometimes. His disdain for legwork always did rub me the wrong way a bit. It's his gentility that leavens that, which is why Ustinov fell flat to me. Poirot is, being fair and honest, an easy man to hate sometimes. You need to show the other side of him to avoid that.

[philstar22]

True. I think Poirot's arrogance makes him an interesting characters, but yes the gentility does balance it out so that he's bearable. Without it, he would be hard to root for after a while.

[(Anonymous)]

...And the OP still isn't complaining about fandoms - they're complaining about the tendency of showrunners/writers who are perfectly capable of choosing to pursue underused parts of the canon, or continuing to write their own stories and *not* use Irene as a love interest.

[philstar22]

The OP isn't. I was just responding to a particular comment that mentioned how many stories were still unadapted and was pointing out that it wasn't exactly unique.