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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8664640" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Because they want the name recognition, know most of the audience probably hasn't read most of the material, and most aren't attached to any given specific component of the original material. What basic principles do you think were violated (as opposed to just changing things)?The age change might have something to do with our current view towards teenagers wandering around dangerous situations unsupervised. As for a hyper-rational deductive investigator, it depends. Agent Scully worked very well on X-files (for 3-4 seasons, until it because nonsensical that she didn't believe in the supernatural when she saw it every other Friday). For Tom Swift, I think sticking to the source material would have been a problem because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Quest" target="_blank">several </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Rich_(comics)" target="_blank">copycats</a> have already been popularized over the years which follow that formula. Moving up the age makes it a little different deal. As does black (also perhaps heads off any articles which look up the series and notice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift#Racism" target="_blank">Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle</a>). As does gay I guess (and agree with Practicalm, tv execs are a lot more ready to have a gay romance onscreen if it is secondary characters and especially if it means they can show two women kissing). I don't watch a lot of CW young adult fare. Too much of it that I have seen has been of the 'hey young adult, you should feel bad if your life isn't showing off 6 pack abs while getting out of your Maserati's pulled up to a trendy nightclub' variety. That said, I don't really think a Nancy Drew or Tom Swift, as initially written, really could make it as a TV show. Heck, mainstays like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2009_film)" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_the_Nile_(2022_film)" target="_blank">Hercule Poirot</a> have a hard time making a go of it without serious star power or a hook or change or something. Stuff like this might be the only way to keep these properties relevant.</blockquote>

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