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indelen · 9 months ago

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The way the show actually shows us the tense fight with Winklman's gang at Kensal Green, but the book is from Lucy's POV exclusively and at the end they just take piss out of Lockwood about it like "oh is it still three guys you fought off or is it four now?" And Lockwood's like "still three, but should have seen the size of them!!" Is my favorite and most hilarious distinction between what works on screen and what works in a book 😂

the thing is book locky would brag to any clients that he got shot (and survived) while george and lucy would sigh dramatically in the background

#l&co #lockwood and co #lockwood and co netflix #anthony lockwood #jonathan stroud #it would have been impossible to capture the feel of the books in a show #because the books are from Lucy's very subjective and flawed POV #you cant capture that on film so i get why a lot of changes to the characters were made #and lockwood of the books on screen would come off as too callous ans unfeeling #he straight up kills a dude in self defense and doesn't seem to give it a second thought #it's easy to blow past that as a reader and just think its cool because we don't see it #because Lucy doesn't witness it #but if the show had Cameron Chapman straight up stab a man through the gut and pitch him in the river it would be jarring #reading something is very different from seeing something #adaptations are tricky beasts to wrangle #and i find it helpful to view them as separate entities #not adding or contradicting the cannon #just stapling an AU to it #a gazebo to the property that is the source material #may or may not increase the overall value and can be largely ignored

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