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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 8995527" data-attributes="member: 9053">Let me explain it: the fans of a book are fans of the way it is presented, the plot, the characters, the settings what the environment looks like, you name it, down to the dialog.When things get changed, the question is: does the person making the changes do the series justice? Do they get the themes that the author was trying to present and are they making it work the same way in a different medium, or are they updating it based on what they like or telling the message they want to tell? And if they are, what level of storyteller are they?As an example, I am a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings films by Peter Jackson. Yet I understand that he made some rather significant changes to the characters to tell the story in the way he wanted to. Fans of Faramir will tell you that he was done dirty by what Peter Jackson did, and there are many examples of it. And yet, on balance it's my opinion that Jackson did about the best adaptation of the material that he could have. And as a fan of both the books and the films, I'll disagree with my friends and say the changes were relatively minor. (And please, before you respond disagreeing, know that I have heard the arguments from some of the most knowledgeable Tolkien scholars in the world, so I get where you are coming from).I have seen a lot of adaptations of other books that are much worse, and I think that's much more the norm these days. I watched the Wheel of Time season one and there were so many breaks with the original story that I just had to shake my head at. Telling the Wheel of Time on screen means you have to make some changes but it was a very different story, and I'd say it wasn't made any better for it. I am at best a casual fan of the Wheel of Time, but I know the hard core fans ripped it apart.So the TLDR version: yes, you have to make changes when adapting a book but are those changes in service to the story the author wrote or to one you're making out of the shell of what the author did?</blockquote>

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