[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/Loud-Scarcity6213]

The Witcher famously did this, with writers openly bragging about it. They unfortunately fumbled several key themes of the books and games to produce a bland, generic fantasy show that was blatantly written by committee and for some reason reversed the age gap between Geralt and Yen to make Yen barely an adult.

Henry Cavill ended up leaving as a result of all this and certain people tried to imply it was because he was a chud bigot misogynist. Lots of women hed worked with came forwards to defend him and it became increasingly clear he quit because the show was dogwater.

[u/IAmNotABabyElephant → u/Loud-Scarcity6213]

Yen is definitely not "barely an adult", we see King Foltest as a little boy with his sister when she's doing her post-makeover graduation ceremony (or some other time post-makeover) and a few other signs of the timeline, so she's been an adult for at least a fair few decades

Edit: To be clear, I either agree with all the rest or don't know enough to feel confident challenging it. It's just that I'm pretty solidly confident that we had some indicators of Yen's age and that she's at least a definitely mature and fully grown adult.

[u/Loud-Scarcity6213 → u/IAmNotABabyElephant]

Anya Chalotra was 23 and Henry Cavill was 36. He was almost old enough to be her dad. "How do you do, fellow middle-aged adults?"

[u/GloriousNewt → u/Loud-Scarcity6213]

we're talking about the ages of the characters in the show, their real life ages doesn't matter in any way.

[u/RechargedFrenchman → u/Loud-Scarcity6213]

And Geralt looks like he's 20 or 30 years older than Yen in literally every adaptation of the books so casting someone who's older makes sense.