I still can’t stop but think how stretched out the Hobbit films were, for an otherwise short book. That’s a sin that stains forever with me. The Lord of the Rings films, do have their own flaws, but they’re fairly contained and can be debated as to whether they were good or not. I have so much trouble excusing anything with the Hobbit though.
And I hope we never, ever see anyone tackle The Silmarillion. Simply because, there will be so much improvised fluff in that would-be film, that it’d make the Hobbit films blush.
A little late to the party but I don’t think I will ever get over what Amazon did to Wheel of Time. I’ve read through that series so many times and knew no one would be able to translate it to a live action format. I didn’t think they would throw the baby out with the bathwater, though. Just absolutely unwatchable in any way.
Torture porn and gore in Star Trek Picard.
From the restrained brilliance of “there are four lights” to… that shit.
Among many other complaints about the show
the cancellation of the buffy re-boot
The ending of Dexter (the original.)
For me, the Mass Effect 3 ending at launch. It’s still aggressively mediocre after several patches and DLCs, but the original at launch was genuinely insulting. I have only been invested in a piece of media like that a few times in my life—the shittiness of that ending really ruined me for a few days. It was an entire decade before I could muster up the desire to replay the trilogy. I’ll still be mad about it when I’m on my deathbed.
Game of Thrones ending was less disappointing for me.
1899 being cancelled after one season.
Firefly being canceled
“Second screen content”
also with the Lord of the Rings, just deleting the scouring of the shire.
There’s so many, but one that I can never forgive is Disney & Sony cancelling Spectacular Spider-Man
Firefly getting cancelled.
The Expanse getting cancelled.
all the good scifis getting cancelled because it wasnt “drama” enough.
I was upset about the expanse too. Talked to a coworker for a while about it and he said go read the books, just start at book 7 you really won’t be missing much. So I did and immediately knew the 30 year time jump wouldn’t have worked on screen. We still might get more a few years down the line when the actors age up. Also I’m glad I got into the books it was the spark that got me into audiobooks. Started listening to the expanse authors new series and I think that’s getting picked up by Amazon as well.
I actually did start reading the books and then decided to stop and just watch the show, but then I forgot the books existed, so that’s fun I can go and read them now
I’m not a dumb man but I never could figure out the expanse, I’d always get lost of what was going on
It was always too agro for me. I watched the first season at the request of a friend, but after that I hated every minute.
Edit: It was great at first because the plot was breakneck and focused on the cast, but around episode 6 of season one it starts out witn “11 years earlier” and I knew the good part was over.
I had a hard time with season 1 because it kept jumping between so many different things. I gave up on it then tried again after a couple years after hearing. It got sooo good and then got even better. Then I read the books. In the show they needed to introduce a character earlier in the story whereas in the books it’s not until book 2. So that contributed to some of that disjointedness.
Yeah, I had to rewatch Season 1, because I didn’t get hooked the first time. Afterwards I think it gets much better.
Star wars. I just have such a love/frustration relationship with it. This includes stuff produced by George Lucas btw.
I feel like it tries to appease all crowds. The family friendly crowd, the autistic nerdy crowd, the politics obsessed crowd and so on.
Andor for example is peak star wars, because it’s made specifically for one audience. No one’s taking their 6yo to watch this.
The problem is when a kids’ show has the prerequisite plot for a show with a totally different audience.
Take the clone wars for example. It started as nothing more than a kids’ show. Then, it ended dark. Same with rebels. Look at episode 3. Amazing amazing plot with the transformation of the Republic into the empire. And then you have jar jar binks.
Let’s not even begin to talk about Disney.
Star wars just has so much potential due to its huge world and the Jedi/sith stuff. But it’s just so frustrating to see how such art can be wounded by the will to earn money.
I know this isn’t “the most unforgivable sin” or whatever, but I suppose it’s definitely up there. It’s the sin of painting an angry face emoji on top of a beautiful and detailed painting of an unimaginabley cruel monster, just so that more toys can be sold.
A lot of the original episodes of Pokemon were never dubbed in Danish. I will never forget. Never forgive.
This is the level of petty im here for.
In reference to books words->minutes of film
Peter Jackson’s movie version of The Hobbit (in three parts and clocking in at a full eight hours) is an outlier, spending five minutes per 1000 in visualizing that story
DISNEY take over of X-men spinoffs, resulted in thier cancellations. they were much better series than mcu slop we have now. gifted, runaway,etc, it had alot of potential.
never shouldve made Yashime, for inuyasha, because the series was way to groom-y making the whole series strange.
compared to the hobbit films and the trilogy ROP is probably the worst.
enterprise, the season 3 was a big mistake, and it was suppose to have a few more seasons, comparatively to NUTREK it was far superior.
