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highfantasy-soul · 2 months

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I know this isn't going to have any effect on those who feel justified in hating the adaptations they do - all sorts from comic to screen, book to screen, animated to live-action - but in my re-watch of ATLA (animated), I've noticed a lot more 'eeehhh' storytelling than I did in my other watches. Because I'm looking for it to compare specifically how they did it in the animated to how they did it in the live-action.

And let me tell you - the animated story is amazing, phenomenal, one of my favorites ever...and it has storytelling issues.

So maybe, if you were convinced the PJO adaptation was shit, the ATLA adaptation was awful, the Wheel of Time show was a tragedy, try going back and watching/reading the OG LOOKING for things to gripe about. Treat the OG like you treat the adaptation - with the most critical eye for any inconsistency, character work you don't like, plot holes, expositional dialogue, and pacing issues.

LOOK for those issues, and I guarantee you'll find them. Because, let me let you in on a secret: no story is perfect. We love them anyways because the story is still good. It's still meaningful. It still has merit.

Imagine the OG is actually the adaptation and (if you're able to honestly do that) you'll find things the adaptation did better.

Again, I know the people who've made it their personality to hate all adaptations and pretend they're storytelling geniuses who know best aren't going to pay attention to this, but idk, maybe one person will? Or for us more forgiving watchers, we'll be able to catch ourselves if we start to make some uncharitable, knee-jerk arguments about certain pieces of media.

Idk, just try it maybe.

#fandom #adaptations #pjo tv show #atla netflix #wheel of time on prime #just something to think about before you get all righteous in your indignation over an adaptation #like I'm watching the blue spirit episode of atla and...yeah...how zuko is up on the roof when zhao gets his promotion?#how did he know Zhao had even captured Aang or where he was keeping him?#it literally makes no sense yet we forgive it because it's a dope episode #we accept that the writers wanted to keep the mystery so how zuko even knows to go there is hand-waved to not give away the surprise #but you can bet your ass if it was explained in the anime and the live-action hand waved it - HOO BOY would people be lambasting it #so many criticisms would be made of OG storytelling if the changes in the live-action v OG were reversed

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musashi · 2 years

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FINALLY. after that. smooth brained "oh no i wasnt hiding information that gentleman just told me to withhold information its different" bellhop we meet the ffffffvshehdv Mr White. (mr white in the law office with the statue clock vsbsajwn) i dont like him. hes big smarmy rich guy energy.

WFAYWJSV I RARELY GO AND JUST. ASK. this is very good and its only Game ONE? SECOND EPISODE? spirits help me after that bellhop incident and miles nearly bursting a vessel i had to PHYSICALLY restrain myself from the FFFFkn Zuko parallels

musashi "just casually compares aa/atla like its nothing" von sky hi hello I Cant Unsee it and now im Chewing

"spiky haired lawyer man" phoenix im So glad hes the protag. he Drips blue

hope you had fun cause there is SO much of that in ace attorney. you will be two days into a trial and some witness will drop KEY INFORMATION all of a sudden and when you ask like wtf why didn't you say that every goddamn time theyre like oh the prosecutor asked me not to teehee <3

redd white is such a fucking mess because he's a scumbag but hes so fucking funny while he's doing it. i'm going to hunt him for sport.

and yeah if you're having this much fun with the first two cases i am excited to see how fucking nuclear you go for the remainder of the game and trilogy if you end up playing it all. it only gets better and better, and every time you think it can't get better it just... does.

uhhhh miles WILL get more zuko! you are going to go fucking insane in case 4 of game 1. you are going to lose it. i can't wait to watch it happen.

#sifusoup #wendy answers

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