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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diamond Cross" data-source="post: 5279717" data-attributes="member: 51024">Actually, in some cases it's not fair. For example, sometimes the creator wants to have a certain message in their work. For example, Sting's Every Breath You Take is often misinterpreted as being a very romantic song when Sting himself has said it's about stalking. That's not really a different creative take. However, that's just coming to the wrong conclusion by mistake. Some people will actively change the meaning of some work to suit their own interests or just to be an arse.Then there's changing the work in order to deconstruct it. For example, Fahrenheit 411 is a strong message about censorship on a massive scale. But people will often omit something from the book because they find it too upsetting or can't understand it. And that quite simply is not fair at all.Another example of deconstructing is the Star Trek 2009 movie. In which before Spock was always trying to embrace logic and get away from emotions while humanity embraced emotions. Yet in the 2009 movie he was encouraged to embrace his human side while the humans were actually doing their best to keep their emotions in check (the rule if you're emotionally challenged you can not command a Starship) which is the opposite of what the original star Trek was about.An example of a different creative take would concern the character of the android Data in Star Trek TNG. Before he installed his emotion chip in the movie, he often though of himself as having no emotions. But I disagree. He has a strong sense of curiosity about things and that kind of curiosity can only be brought about through desire, and desire is a need which is an emotion. If he had no desire to learn and improve himself, then he's nothing more than a toaster with the only way to improve himself would be to change his software.So basically I'd say it would depend upon the individual circumstances, but I just don't like changing rules just because. It makes no sense to me when the rules are often just fine as they are written.</blockquote>

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