Finding light where I can
Apr. 29th, 2025 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessBecause it's so dark out there and today's light was a student from last year stopping by to tell me he's graduating next week and he wanted me to know I am the best teacher he's ever had. He thinks I'm stellar.
My computer is back to acting up, the browser is randomly pausing videos now and it won't go to sleep and stay there so I'm fairly sure there's malware in it but nothing that the antiviral programs can find. sigh. Know what I regret? Not going to into computers, even now when I had the chance when I first got here. I hate this helpless feeling.
Another point of light: my MRI to look for the aneurysm/tumor/etc in my head to see if we can figure out what might be causing my stupid trigeminal neuralgia. But I think it's at the same time as my endocrinology appt I will move the MRI that'll be a shit ton easier than moving endo. I really need to go there too because of my thyroid. I'm tired of being so sick, yinz, so tired.
This fannish 50's fandom question is brought to you by Blue Exorcist anime (or at least the one from a decade ago) and the question is how close to the source material do you want your adaptations. I know this is a hard one to answer and definitely YMMV. For the most part I like it to be close. This older Blue Exorcist adaptation is SO off the rails it's hard to enjoy it (I know there is a new one, I thought this one was going to be that but no). I felt that about the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist. There were some things I liked about the off the rails stuff (the homunculi) but things I absolutely hated BUT in that case (and I think is the same thing in the older BE adaptation) is they were jumping on the band wagon before the manga was done and making it up (badly) as they went.
On the other hand, there are adaptations I think were better for some editing (the Harry Potter books, Lord of the Rings).
There were ones that were absolutely bad adaptations, Constantine, the Percy Jackson movies, which actually weren't bad movies, they just sucked it as adaptations and should have been presented as something original (especially Constantine)
Then there's just bad bad, most of the early Stephen King ones, the Anne Rice Vampire movies etc.
Does anyone have any adaptations you think were as good as or better than the source material? Oddly I do. Maybe it's because I watched Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and Murdoch Mysteries before I read the books I much preferred the TV shows. Honestly I think the Fisher books are so dumb I don't even know how we got an adaptation (again YMMV, if you like them great) How To Train Your Dragon (that book was so weird and honestly I think they only kept the names and nothing else) Howl's Moving Castle is good as book and movie but very different.
My computer is back to acting up, the browser is randomly pausing videos now and it won't go to sleep and stay there so I'm fairly sure there's malware in it but nothing that the antiviral programs can find. sigh. Know what I regret? Not going to into computers, even now when I had the chance when I first got here. I hate this helpless feeling.
Another point of light: my MRI to look for the aneurysm/tumor/etc in my head to see if we can figure out what might be causing my stupid trigeminal neuralgia. But I think it's at the same time as my endocrinology appt I will move the MRI that'll be a shit ton easier than moving endo. I really need to go there too because of my thyroid. I'm tired of being so sick, yinz, so tired.
This fannish 50's fandom question is brought to you by Blue Exorcist anime (or at least the one from a decade ago) and the question is how close to the source material do you want your adaptations. I know this is a hard one to answer and definitely YMMV. For the most part I like it to be close. This older Blue Exorcist adaptation is SO off the rails it's hard to enjoy it (I know there is a new one, I thought this one was going to be that but no). I felt that about the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist. There were some things I liked about the off the rails stuff (the homunculi) but things I absolutely hated BUT in that case (and I think is the same thing in the older BE adaptation) is they were jumping on the band wagon before the manga was done and making it up (badly) as they went.
On the other hand, there are adaptations I think were better for some editing (the Harry Potter books, Lord of the Rings).
There were ones that were absolutely bad adaptations, Constantine, the Percy Jackson movies, which actually weren't bad movies, they just sucked it as adaptations and should have been presented as something original (especially Constantine)
Then there's just bad bad, most of the early Stephen King ones, the Anne Rice Vampire movies etc.
Does anyone have any adaptations you think were as good as or better than the source material? Oddly I do. Maybe it's because I watched Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and Murdoch Mysteries before I read the books I much preferred the TV shows. Honestly I think the Fisher books are so dumb I don't even know how we got an adaptation (again YMMV, if you like them great) How To Train Your Dragon (that book was so weird and honestly I think they only kept the names and nothing else) Howl's Moving Castle is good as book and movie but very different.
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Date: 2025-04-30 10:16 am (UTC)I think the 2009 movie adaption of the comic Watchman was better because it tied the ending to Doctor Manhattan rather than some giant squid-like thing.
Same goes for Fight Club. Instead of blowing up a skyscraper and a museum, they directly go after credit card companies.
And finally, for The Shawshank Redemption, in Stephen King's short story, Andy Dufresne stays in the prison for another 20 years or so after he finishes the tunnel to freedom, instead of leaving right away. That never made sense to me. I suspect it was to show how change can be frightening, even if it leads to freedom, but still dumb.
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Date: 2025-05-03 04:50 am (UTC)I had forgotten that in King's story. There are some of his short stories that make no sense, like literally all of the Long Walk (which I suspect was the inspiration for The Hunger Games)
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Date: 2025-04-30 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2025-05-01 12:35 am (UTC)Clue/Westing Game book... Clue was soooo much better.
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Date: 2025-05-01 02:43 am (UTC)Oh wow I didn't know CLue was based on Westing Game (which I did not like)