#how not to adapt a books series

[egophiliac]

ENG PLAYERS I BESEECH YOU

I have been informed that you guys are getting part 4 of episode 7 tomorrow, which means we are FINALLY going to get the official romanization of Revaan's name, somebody please tell me because I need to know what it is.

like, yes, it's probably just Revan/Levan, but look, I'm sitting here with my finger over the button of all these Laverne and Shirley jokes and just waiting for the opportunity to deploy them --

[effieotto]

Haymitch Abernathy- Sunrise on the reaping

“I roll straight off the mattress onto the floor and pull on a pair of shorts made from a government-issued flour sack. The words: ‘courtesy of the Capitol’ end up stamped across my butt.”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

you are so whimsical i qant to check out this mdzs (..??) because of your whimsical nature thank you sorry im very high and your art moved me emotionally

This is simultaneously the sweetest and funniest thing someone has sent me, thank you.

[batcavescolony]

just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!

[twinsarekeepers]

A Grover B plot in season 2 where he’s remembering being trapped in the Cyclops’s lair with Luke, Thalia, and Annabeth and Percy catches flashes of those memories in his dreams because of the empathy link. He can’t piece together the full memory because it’s very fragmented so he thinks it’s what Grover is seeing in present day. It isn’t until Annabeth tells him the story that he understands he was witnessing Grover’s memory and that’s when the audience gets the full flashback as well.

[tangents-within-tangents]

Just some things I think deserve a super accurate movie/show adaption in a beautiful 2D animation style:

The How to Train Your Dragon series

Gregor the Overlander

Artemis Fowl

The Adventure Zone

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (fr so much was left out of the 1939 film!)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

The actual Little Mermaid story (there are a ton of adaptations I haven't seen yet so maybe it exists somewhere but we all know Disney’s didn’t even come close)

[mostlyvoid-partiallyflowers]

The most recent episode of Interview with a Vampire let's us see Lestat's side of the story and see how it compares to Louis' accounting of their relationship. As a result, it reaffirms just how unreliable of a narrator Louis is, but it also further illuminates elements of his character that the director and writers have been playing with since the beginning of the show.

There's this part in the episode where Lestat turns to Louis and apologizes and it's framed with Lestat turned to Louis on one side and Claudia on his other side. They're the angel and devil on Louis' shoulders, but who is the angel and who is the devil? And as my friend said, Armand and Daniel are placed into that same dynamic with Louis later on. We are being asked to decide who to trust, who's telling the truth, who's the good guy, but the fact of unreliability robs us of that decision.

This whole story is about Louis, he's the protagonist, though not the narrator, and he is constantly being pulled in two directions, no matter when or where he is in his story. He's a mind split in two, divided by nature and circumstance. He's vampire and human, owner and owned, father and child, angel and devil. He's both telling the story and being told the story. His history is a story he tells himself, and as we've seen, sometimes that story is not whole.

Louis is the angel who saved Claudia from the fire but he's also the devil who sentenced her to an life of endless torment, the adult trapped in the body of a child. He's the angel who rescued Lestat from his grief and also the devil who abandoned him, who couldn't love him, could only kill and leave him.

He's pulled in two directions, internally and externally at all times and so it's no wonder that he feels the need to confess, first to the priest, then Daniel, and then Daniel again.

He's desperate to be heard, a Black man with power in Jim Crow America who's controlled by his position as someone with a seat at the table but one who will never be considered equal. He doesn't belong to the Black community or the white community, he can't. He acts as a go-between, a bridge, one who is pushed and pulled until he can't take it anymore. He's a fledgling child to an undead father, he's a young queer man discovering his sexual identity with an infinitely experienced partner. He's confessing because he wants to be absolved, that human part of him that was raised Catholic, that child who believed, he wants to be saved. He wants to be seen.

Louis wants to attain a forever life that is morally pure, but he can't. He's been soiled by sin, by "the devil," as he calls Lestat, and he can never be clean again. Deep down, I think he knows this, but he can't stop trying to repent. He tries to self-flagellate by staying with Lestat and then tries to repent by killing him, but can't actually follow through. He follows Claudia to Europe to try and assuage his guilt. He sets himself on fire, attempts to burn himself at the stake, to purify his body, rid himself of the dark gift.

Louis is a man endlessly trying to account for the pain he has caused and he ultimately fails, over and over again, because he can't get rid of what he is. A monster. He's an endlessly hungry monster. He's hungry for love, for respect, for power, for forgiveness, for death. He's a hole that can never be filled. He can never truly acquire any of those things because he will always be punishing himself for wanting and needing them in the first place. He will never truly believe he deserves them and as a result, can't accept them if they are ever offered. He can never be absolved for he has damned himself by accepting the dark gift and thus has tainted himself past the point of saving.

[counting-stars-gayly]

Lord, give me strength. The PJO discourse has begun, and no one starting it has read the books in the last five years.

[rayssion]

New pjo fans, how do you guys feel about the big reveal?

[namtans-jean-jacket]

i think some ppl don't realize that most of these gl series are based on books?? they are making a series adaptation from specific source material. they can't just omit certain storylines bc they're weird or uncomfy bc they're literally main plotlines in the novels. that's just how adaptations work lmfao

[the-lektric-tinker]

(Minor flashing light warning like 15 seconds in.)

Live to Fight Another Day: THE FULL STORY - The Cog is Dead Lyrics Video

[something-random18]

am i the only one gets kind of scared when a bunch of actors have been casted to portray a book series and fear they'll drop out or won't make it till the end or worse. they'll end up changing their actor???

[tallysgreatestfan]

Uglies (2024) + tumblr text posts (and one tweet)

Also have quite a few that only work for the other two books, but since we don't have adaptions for them...

[twinklingwatermellon]

I remember watching something ages ago that I assume was a Cranford adaptation because I remember the “sucking oranges” scene, and I think it was the same series that has a scene where a lady acquires some extremely fine lace and then it gets eaten by a… pig? a dog? something. and the main reason I remember is because it was my first time seeing a sedan chair, and it’s this lady in the sedan chair poking her head out to tell her friend on the street “I CANNOT STAY, THERE IS LACE AT STAKE!!!!” and it had me and my mom in stitches (and after the lace comes out the other end, they wash it and it’s good as new jdhdjdhsgdgd)

I also remember watching one (maybe the same one, maybe a different one) where the new town doctor tries to bring a new method of surgery to the town but everyone is skeptical and he sits outside in a new black coat and cries because they won’t let him use his knowledge to save the patient and someone sees him and thinks the patient is dead (because the doc is wearing black). And later, that same doctor is accused of starting a flirtation with someone’s daughter, even though the one who did it was his friend, in a letter he passed off as the doctor’s, and they discover it because the main character knows the doctor’s handwriting herself because he prescribes her spectacles.

There’s also a plot with a little boy who runs away and then comes back or something? I’m 99% sure that was Cranford because I remember Judi Dench.

[welcometomytrashpileofrandomshit]

i know absolutely no one will care at all about this but i remember really liking the Matched Trilogy when i read them in middle school, but that was literally 11 years ago and i was like 11 and so i recently decided to reread them and found that nope 11 yr old me had solid taste in books. are they the best thing i’ve ever read, even then? absolutely not. i also read the hunger games around that time. do they definitely feel like they were written in the early 2010s? absolutely. but overall the characters and relationships aren’t atrocious. and the world building is pretty solid, though i still have several questions. like wtf happens in terms of the matching for lgbtq+ people? i’m assuming there is BIPOC running around somewhere but i’m pretty sure there isn’t a named character in the books. so is racism still a thing? or neurodivergent people? most of this does come from me now being 22 and having developed better critical thinking skills and a love for overanalyzing books. and i can give her some grace as she is a white (and as far as i know) straight woman writing at in the early 2010s and i’m pretty sure those things literally never occurred to her (though they should have).

but also quite honestly i’m just glad that the pseudo love triangle isn’t made up of one guy who’s perfect and one guy who is clearly an asshole or worse two guys that are both varying degrees of asshole. like ky and xander are both pretty solid choices all things considered.

i wasn’t really involved with fandom culture back then, so i was really surprised to find how many people hate/dislike these books. the books are by no means perfect but christ they’re not that bad! I saw one person wish ally was dead for writing them, like jesus christ! but her name being pronounced “CASH-uh” instead of “CASS-ee-UH” will never not bother me. like ally, baby, how the fuck did you expect anyone to figure that out, let alone MIDDLE SCHOOLERS. i legitimately remember asking my 6th grade english teacher how to pronounce her name and she had no idea.😂

also how is there like zero fandom for these books. the series came out in the early 2010s when dystopian ya series with an obviously skewed love triangle was all the rage! i mean fuck the divergent series has more of a fandom and that series is written way worse.

[nothinggold13]

I am back on my “defending Narflix” train because somebody involved said something stupid and now tumblr is showing me all the people complaining about that quote (which, I will say again, is most likely to either be a silly statement meant to confuse us or was meant as “it’s going to be epic.”)

And I AM very passionate about defending the Potential of Narflix, simply because having the entire story of narnia on screen means so much to me!! as an editor, and as someone who just loves visual media, and as someone who adores the books and wants to see them all brought to life and done justice!! This is an exciting prospect for me because it is the first time one company has owned all the rights!!

But (although this shouldn’t be necessary; anyone who has followed my posts for long enough should know that my passion goes both ways) I will also restate the fact that if Narflix proves to be in any way disrespectful of C. S. Lewis, his books, or his faith, I will heel-turn so fast.

I have so much critical thought. I just like having hope for things. 🫶🏻