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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

So I've noticed that there are a lot of streaming movies and TV shows that match a lot of these patterns:

  • IP is announced. Adaptation of extremely popular series with existing fanbase
  • IP is billed as "adult" with "mature themes"
  • Producer/Director goes on a podcast and compares IP to "Game of Thrones" a few weeks before release. Said comparison treats GoT as an ideal to aspire to instead of a cautionary tale.
  • Producer/Director also insults existing fanbase for some reason
  • IP is previewed to critics, gets amazing reviews
  • IP comes out, and gets high streaming numbers day one
  • Writing ends up being terrible
  • Plot ends up being surface level, with all the subtly of the original adaptation cut out. This somehow is true now matter how basic the source material may seem
  • Acting is terrible. There is at least one race swapped character, who they also butcher from a writing perspective
  • VFX is terrible, and expensive scenes are cut out
  • Costumes are terrible to the point where everything looks like shitty cosplay
  • There's a few violent scenes that are extremely gratuitous. VFX and writing are so bad that it's comical instead of jarring
  • There are a few random sex scenes thrown in. The sex scenes detract from the pacing of the story, and are blatantly thrown in so producers can brag about them
  • Sex scenes tend to focus on the female form. If men are involved, they all are hairless and look like boy band members
  • If it is a gay sex scene, it blatantly written by women and for women with an extremely limited knowledge of men as a whole
  • In a few days, the Internet erupts with needlessly vitriolic discourse about said IP.
  • A year post release, the show is essentially forgotten.

In that context it's no surprise younger people don't like sex scenes. It's basically a canary for a low quality show and extreme toxicity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Are you taking about Uglies? I feel like you described Uglies. I liked the adaptation, but a lot of critics didn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I think the Netflix Avatar the last air bender checks off a good amount of that list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I didn't have anything specific in mind, but a lot of this matches up based on the one episode I watched. There weren't any sex scenes though.

The Air Nomad genocide happens within the first ten minutes, while Aang is on a walk or something. It's billed as this super metal moment that shows you this isn't for kids. However it looks so fucking cheap and is written so badly. I just sat there rolling my eyes.

To be fair, the online discourse part also didn't match up. The show got good but not great reviews. Avatar is a lot more popular that most adaptations, especially among millennial bloggers who do these reviews. While there were the usual 9/10s, there were also a ton of reviews written by people who grew up watching the show that were just like "yeah this is disappointing in every way. I guess it's okay if you didn't watch the original show, idk you do you 5/10". Because of the diversity of the original IP, there was no culture war BS either.

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