[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/MrS0bek]

I still don't get how they butchered the first season if the book give he perfect introduction . Geralt tells some stories of his latest adventures to a priestess and has minor trouble with some locals. It is the perfect et up for a first season as you have a framing device and one adventure per episode to follow. From there you can built up and explain the setting the characters etc., in a classical TV Format and newcomers get what is going on. Then from season 2 onwards you can start the big story

Instead they did weird time jumps out of chronological order and made a joke about that one season later...

[u/AshenHawk → u/MrS0bek]

They obviously just wanted Ciri shoved in as soon as possible.

[u/-Kazt- → u/AshenHawk]

Yeah, and it was stupid.

In the books, we naturally come to care for both Ciri and Yen, because of their interactions with Geralt. We care about Geralt, and we grow to care about those he cares about.

[u/HoldOnOhio → u/AshenHawk]

Agree. Ciri is the main plot driver for the story and if you go an entire season without her and introduce her later (as she is in the books), the audience that doesn't know what you're doing will think that they just gave up the monster hunting stuff to have a dad storyline shoved in. That's kind of what happens in the books, but him chasing her takes a long time. I didn't watch past season 1 though, so I don't know how bad they fuck it up. Did they at least have her escape on her own and figure out she likes women while growing up on her own and being a psuedo-bandit?

[u/GrecoRomanGuy → u/MrS0bek]

The time jumping was really badly done. Framing devices, when done well, are super awesome IMHO, but this just wasn't it.

[u/Ongr → u/GrecoRomanGuy]

I was so confused with the first season, I had to google what the hell was going on.

[u/Glagaire → u/MrS0bek]

The show-runner made public comments about how "progressing feminist fantasy" was very important to her and how she wanted to bring Ciri and Yennefer to the forefront. She's even claimed that doing this allowed people who wouldn't normally like fantasy to discover the character of Geralt through Yennefer... For reference, the Witcher 3 sold over 50 million copies and the Witcher novel series has sold over 15 million books, but, instead of appealing to those preexisting and loyal fanbases they wanted to place the focus on attracting viewers through the primary female characters. This is why the first season needed to be distorted, both temporally and in subject matter.