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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2006-05-20 05:16 pm
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[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2006-05-20 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd rather having something good than nothing. But I'd rather have nothing than more of the same. "Doing it right" doesn't concern me, regardless of the source material.

[identity profile] trav28.livejournal.com 2006-05-20 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I stand by my previous comments - why have hamburger when you can have fillet steak?

[identity profile] wolflady26.livejournal.com 2006-05-20 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I think television is full of crappy shows already. Anything that isn't really good should be left alone.

[identity profile] surliminal.livejournal.com 2006-05-20 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't usually agree but I do in the specific case of bad superhero adaptations! But of cousre who knows what's "getting it right"? We both really liked V for Vendetta but some people would no doubt rather it had never been made..

[identity profile] laserboy.livejournal.com 2006-05-20 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'd rather have something than nothing"...

.. wasn't what I was saying at all. I know you were using that to lead to another discussion but I just feel the need to clarify that. ;-)

[identity profile] kurosau.livejournal.com 2006-05-20 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
If they can't do it right, I'd like a cool looking trailer rather than nothing. That's my option #3.

[identity profile] thishardenedarm.livejournal.com 2006-05-20 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
the first option kind of doesnt work because at the begining of the act of adaptation there is surely a presumption of success, of getting it kind of right. Unless that they _know_ its going to come out wrong, but the proceed anyway in bad faith, in which case option one would be "if they are cynically intending to do it wrong, they shouldnt do it at all", which no-one could disagree with.

The only other way this statement could parse is if it means something like "adaptations shouldnt be done by people who are delusionally convinced they are getting it right, when they are clearly not". Again, a no-brainer.

I cant belive i've got drawn into this, I must go and wash myself in Henry James. I'm on The Golden Bowl now, his famously convoluted last novel. Its like an amazing workout for the psyche; like having your intellectual sphincter stretched by a particularly impressive instrument. That will be the sound of no-one caring.
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