[HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

[u/Chill0000]

Halo TV show: Before the show came out, the writers were praising their decision to not look to the games for inspiration when making the show

God Of War TV show: Chris Judge, the actor of Kratos in the games from 2018-Now, spoke up about his dislike on the show not hiring anyone who worked on any of the previous games. One of the original creators of Kratos also spoke up about them not having faith in the adaptation.

Supergirl 2026 film: the director for the film not only said he decided to not read Woman Of Tomorrow, the comic the film is adapting, because he wanted to do his own thing, he also didn’t look at comic art for inspiration to design Lobo and instead used an AI image generator to design Lobo’s look for the film

[u/SpiritedSyllabub6822]

The Witcher series.

Heard a lot of negative things from the adaptation.

[u/Griffemon → u/SpiritedSyllabub6822]

The weirdest thing about this is that Henry Cavill who plays the main character Geralt in this is a huge nerd and so was was basically the only person on set trying to play it faithfully to the games/books

[u/One-Two-Gobbledeedoo → u/Griffemon]

Imagine getting excited getting to play the main character of a beloved franchise, then get your hopes dashed when the showrunners admit they haven't even played the games.

They say they read the books, but if that's the case then they have the reading comprehension of a goldfish.

[u/Xaira89 → u/One-Two-Gobbledeedoo]

A big problem with how they adapted it (especially the first season) is that they cut REALLY IMPORTANT CONTEXT from the short stories in favor of adding more visual flare. Which works, in some instances, but leaves the actual stories feeling disjointed if the viewer is paying attention. I understand needing to edit for runtime, but the writers really needed to learn to prioritize the actual story itself over dragging out cool moments.

[u/Base_Six → u/Xaira89]

Honestly, I kind of loved that about the first season. It was a bunch of little stories lacking connecting bits and major context, but the whole span of what was happening came out of all of those little bits as the season went on. I love having an episode that's mostly Geralt fighting some cool monster without all the exposition that makes sense with the exposition that shows up two episodes later.

Then they dumbed it down and stopped doing all of that and I stopped watching.

[u/Thelostsoulinkorea → u/Base_Six]

I felt the same. The first was the best because of the short monster hunting stories.

[u/Several-Minute6846 → u/Thelostsoulinkorea]

That’s essentially the first 2 Witcher books and they’re awesome. Sapowski crammed his short stories together.

[u/Thelostsoulinkorea → u/Several-Minute6846]

I read some of the books. Enjoyed the first two, the third was meh and the fourth I couldn’t finish.

[u/DaVirus → u/Base_Six]

Agree. The first season is the best one because of that. The only thing I didn't like was the messy timeline. It could be way easier to follow if it was actually chronological.

[u/Solrokr → u/Base_Six]

That’s how the first book was written. They didn’t synthesize it well and it became disorienting for a lot of folks though.

[u/No_Region_4719 → u/Base_Six]

Yeah season 1 was fine. It was never really supposed to be a particularly interconnected story or have a through line. The first couple of books are basically a collection of separate tales that read like myths or folklore stories of a mythical hero. It's not until the later books that you actually get a consistent storyline.

[u/HalfEatenSnickers → u/Xaira89]

Exactly how the project hail mary movie felt to me tbh

[u/HalfEatenSnickers → u/[deleted]]

Well his name is rocky

And I agree - just they prioritized things that didnt exist for rushing the plot

Like a weird pseudo romance with strat, the tv room thing

Loke some things I get, making mary smarter, less of the stumbling around with amenisa etc.

But the whole process of how he not only makes taeamoeba but finds out it escaped, twice, and is on rockys ship was very rushed and made legit 0 sense in the movie - was very much a poof now its done

[u/SatanV3 → u/HalfEatenSnickers]

I’ve never read the book and the movie made complete sense to me? Like yea they skipped over some of the science stuff, but I can infer he figured it out off screen / without showing. It all still made sense

[u/spidd124 → u/Xaira89]

The whole Law of Surprise, Duny, Princess Pavetta/Cirilla and Geralt stuff made absolutely no sense to me when I watched it. Because okay Geralt doesnt age, dont have an issue with that, but there was no indication that it all separate time periods. And was an anthology story.

When I listened to the audio books everything made sense, All of the seemingly disjointed "issues" explained themselves. 5.

[u/iamdispleased → u/Xaira89]

Oh i wonder if that's why I never clicked with it! I haven't read the books or played the games, I plan to play w3 at some point, and I was excited to get an intro through the show. But I was just a little confused the whole time and dropped it by early season 2

[u/chenbuxie → u/One-Two-Gobbledeedoo]

In their defense, the books are incoherent trash and the only reason anyone even cares about this story is because the folks at CD Projekt were able to polish that turd. Without the games, nobody cares about the books.

[u/_glizzy_gobbler → u/chenbuxie]

Heh. Polish.