There's a growing subset of various fandoms when books get adapted to movies or TV shows that I have seen online that will complain about a book to screen adaptation not being faithful to the book and it's often in a case where I thought the adaptation was pretty dang good. (E.g., People We Meet on Vacation, Disney Percy Jackson, Off Campus) And I just want to know what such people's baseline or expectations are. Because I think I'm coming from a place of having watched the Eragon movie as a kid and the Percy Jackson movies as a kid and knowing the feeling of deep disappointment of a screen adaptation literally being a hallucination of a plot that has nothing in common with the books. So I guess maybe I just have a low bar but for people who didn't think those previous examples were good adaptations, I'm genuinely curious what book to screen adaptations you hold up as exemplars. For me, my exemplars are The Fault in Our Stars, Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, the Murderbot show, the Hunger Games, Baz Luhrmann Great Gatsby, 2005 Pride and Prejudice, etc. I've also enjoyed People We Meet on Vacation, Off Campus, Disney PJO, Bridgerton, The Host, Warm Bodies, Austenland, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, etc. And I have been *let down* by the Chronicles of Narnia after the first one, PJO movies, Eragon, The Hobbit. I think my main thing is that I don't need my screen adaptations to be identical to the book, but they do need to capture the same essence or spirit.
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