[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.

https://giphy.com/gifs/S8BWMuSDtagNmJF5ex

Heard a lot of negative things from the adaptation.

[u/violetcassie → u/SpiritedSyllabub6822]

Character assassination, character assassination everywhere

[u/Sarkelias → u/violetcassie]

possibly the highest amount of character assassination ever conducted in a high budget sort of affair

[u/FeanorEvades → u/Sarkelias]

Hard to beat Rings of Power Galadriel given how high budget that show was

[u/Thelostsoulinkorea → u/FeanorEvades]

That whole show is a joke. I forced myself to watch season one and couldn’t even touch the second season.

[u/Sarkelias → u/FeanorEvades]

True, but while I have read enough to not bother watching it, isn't she the primary victim? Whereas basically everyone in the Witcher gets hollowed out into a vague caricature of themselves

[u/FeanorEvades → u/Sarkelias]

None of the other characters really existed with any real characterization to assassinate. That's what happens when you build a show on the appendices and unfinished notes and not an actual written story.