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tarraxahum · 1 year ago

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One thing I have to thank having Speed Racer as my first fandom ever for

is that it's practically impossible to frustrate me with adaptations being different from source material. However drastically.

No shade to fans who get salty about character rewamps or loose story interpretations, but when your first ever exposure to Media You Care About was a franchise that NEVER had two interpretations consistent with each other (story, time period, setting, location, race, names, looks, character development, family dynamics, who is related to whom, fucking car design, future generations consistency, you name it - they flipped it AT LEAST once)... You just never develop the ability to give a fuck!

#I kinda. see different iterations as separate things because of that.#maybe that's why I also don't understand why people get a hair up the ass about black actors being cast for white roles #or allegedly white anyway #I've watched my boy jumping between being Japanese and American and his name is actually Go but they localized him as Speed #and then americam comics went ahead and named him GREG and also for some reason made him and his brothers adopted?#and 97' anime for some reason took his little brother and made him his girlfriend's younger brother?#they give him one son in one mini-series and then scrapped the poor kid and gave him two others instead #the 90s american cartoon BUTCHERED THE CAR #and the 2008 movie straight up changed the world the vibe the setting and the racing itself #there are two Mach 6s in this canon somehow but they are different cars #multiverse I guess!#anyway that was my first formative fandom experience #all of THAT #so now when people on my dash are getting sad and salty about iterations (I'm talking iterations not direct continuations ofc)#I just. Can't relate #rip to y'all I'm different etc etc #....come to think of it my SECOND formative fandom experience was W.I.T.C.H.#and everyone initiated knows that the animated show quickly whirred off the fucking rails from the comic's plot #so no #I didn't get the memo that different iterations of a story are meant to be in any way consistent :DDD

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