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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6852300" data-attributes="member: 37579">To me it feels like if they redid the Star Wars prequels and instead of Anakin being a pretty good Jedi with some dark leanings before he was pushed over the edge and became Vader, he was a colossal monster. He waged the Clone Wars for conquest instead of defending the Republic, killed Wookies because they got in his way and turned them into rugs, and was already plotting the eradication of the Jedi Order. He went as far as to personally seek out Darth Sidius solely for purposes of becoming a Darth. And after arrangements for becoming a Sith Lord are being made Palpatine says "Hey, kill the Jedi right now and I'll save Padme." And Vader responded with, "Sure, it's already on my to-do list. I'll just move it to the top."Or, to pick an example that is less auto-disliked, it's would be akin to Romeo and Juliet if they were both terminally ill and going to die anyway. It still might be sad and a bummer, but it's no longer a tragedy. There's never a point in the story where things could change and become a comedy, no turning point where the protagonist shifts from hero to villain. That's what I dislike. There's no tragedy in Strahd anymore, which sucks ALL the drama out of events because there was never a choice, never a moment where he could have decided to take a different path. There's no emotion because the fall is a foregone conclusion. Which is one of the big themes of Gothic literature and horror: people making the wrong decision and the loss that follows. Gothic literature very much IS emo. Strahd was very much playing to a trope of the genre. And moving away from that diminishes Strahd from a tragic villain who fell for love to just another generic capital-E Evil monster to be killed. He's generic. Just another vampire. The thing is, regardless of which you like better (or how much you hated the prequels) one is already canon. It's possible to retcon and rewrite unpopular canon or "fix" things, but that's tricky and shouldn't be done lightly. As a rule, writers should respect the IP they're hired to update and not make changes without reason. Writers are the stewards of the IP, and they change to accommodate canon, not the other way round. This is a reoccurring problem with WotC and the current team. Like how the entire modus operandi of the Cult of the Dragon changed and contorted to fit the Tyranny of Dragons storyline.</blockquote>

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