#adaption problems

Fandom Problem 4215:

First, I'm proud of you. You did a marvellous job and brought joy to so many. You very likely expanded on the source material in ways that enhanced it beautifully.

But adapting is not creating.

Think thrice before you say "I can do this myself if I run out of source material."

No, likely not. Listen, I have every faith in your abilities as a creator. If you want to file off the license plate of your fanfic, go right ahead. Make something, twist it in different ways. Just don't think you can create official new content for your adaptions.

Game of Thrones is a recent example, but Call the Midwife suffers from the same ailment. The Handmaid's Tale. Yes, there will be occasional flashes of brilliance too, but it will likely still disintegrate like ratatouille without tomatoes.

The first problem is - there was likely a reason the creator stopped creating where they did. Cinderella 2? What on earth is there to tell?

Secondly. Your style is different. It just is. Probably your style harmonises beautifully with the creator's style. But if you take out an element - even if what makes the adaption succesful is the subversion of that element - it's gonna show. The lack is there, deafening in its silence.

People end up hating shows, movies, comics, etc and brand them as "cursed content" not for bad writing, not for being weird or obnoxious, but because they were popular. When something gets too popular, it usually either attains a massive fandom, or a massive amount of hater bandwagons. And that leads to toxic fandoms.

Fandom problem 4230:

Saw a post on twitter from a so called "critic" who has it out for one ship in particular in the show he "critiques" (i put those in quotes because this guy only skims bits and pieces of the show and complains about it). He has such a hate boner for the ship that every time the voice actors of that ship make a post about it he always jumps on it and tries to tell them "You're a professional voice actor. Stop talking about your ship and voice act."

There seems to be a huge false dichotomy when it comes to redemption arc discourse on Tumblr. You either can forgive everyone for any crime, and praise every arc no matter the execution (because all uses of a trope are equal, don’tcha know), or you can never forgive any character for anything and hate all redemption arcs.

I once had someone assume that I was ignorant of the issues with the criminal justice system in America because I didn’t like a redemption arc in a kid’s show. The dude had been implied to have committed numerous atrocities including using war orphans as child soldiers (and he started the war that made them orphans), but if I can’t forgive him, apparently I also support long prison sentences for drug addicts.