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Not reporting is bourgeois


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when certain adaptations transform super villains or other extraordinary characters into characters that could have come out with the world of a police procedurals or genetic action movie such as regular criminals, mobsters, vague ideological terrorists and serial killers, It happened in the early seasons of Gotham, Arrow and Agents of SHIELD
in Gotham there was a character called Balloon Man, whose comic counterpart is a metahuman with balloon powers but in the show was portrayed as a terrorist who targeted corrupt politicians by strapping them to weather balloons, the Electrocutioner who had electirc was just a sadistic doctor who just electroshocked people and the supervillain dollmaker who had the power to control dolls is a child trafficking organ harvester who also performs surgical experiments on them

There are other examples, but I've made my point. On some level I understand where it's coming from. You don't trust audiences to take outlandish comic book stuff seriously, so you try to make it more "grounded" but the end result is just a character that could have come out of any other police procedural or action movie, just with a weird nickname

It's because there's a segment of the audience that won't put up with anything that isn't "realistic" because they are embarrassed by the concept of fantasy.

>>42283
Sometimes you just end up with a case where the writer actively does not care for the series they are adapting, like Netflix's The Witcher. While I understand that adaptations may have deviations from the source material, in the cases of The Witcher and Gotham, it seems like the writers are essentially trying to hijack an established story. The writers of The Witcher wanted to create a generic fantasy story about witches, while the writers of Gotham wanted a gangster story and police procedural.

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adaption vs original comic book counterpart

>>42285
So these characters in question are a group called the Watchdogs, who were an explicit neo-fascist organisation that wants to return America to the golden age. They are fought by John Walker (the new government appointed Captain America) and Lemar Hoskins(the new bucky). Now the thing is both of these guys are conservatives as well and they do agree with some of their values bur don't condone what their doing. Ultimately the arc is more about John and Lemar having to re-examine their own political values and what they can cause. In the show they are presented as a right-wing militia who are bigoted towards aliens and meta-humans. Now the show wants us to consider these guys wrong, but it really fails to do so. This is because in the show's universe aliens invaded and killed millions of people and the first arc of the season was about an alien virus that was driving people insane. Given these circumstances, they were completely reasonable to be "bgotted" towards meta-humans and aliens.

>>42283
It's primarily this. It's why Mad Hatter has gone from a crazy guy who puts mind control cards into people's hats to make them commit Wonderland themed crimes to a child trafficker who specializes in prepping little blonde girls into sex slaves.

What we really need to talk about is the Nolanification of pornography.

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How about they stop giving these movie gargantuan budgets instead? Old TV shows don't need to have fucking Blockbuster budgets per goddamn episode. People will absolutely be fine with a character-driven Hank Pym prequel series with very modest sets, some simple looking shrinking effects, and only the occasional fight scene that can be done cheaper if it's done PRACTICALLY and not with a thousand things happening all at once.


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