Do you think that if Wheel of Time had been made pre woke era then it could’ve reached the GOT early season popularity? Or close to it? I was going through my books and wondering what if someone who wasn’t a typical Hollywood douchebag had been the showrunner and no race swaps or changing the story to make the women look even stronger.
And speaking of GOT, that should be a prime example along with Westworld about what happens when you inject stuff like unnecessary girl power themes
Hollywood adaptations suck because the show-runner wants to (and has every incentive to) take ownership of the IP by making changes. If he meticulously adapts the source material with minimal changes, he might make the most popular show on TV, but he believes he will get no credit for it, and instead all praise will go to the original author.
So, instead, the selfish, egotistical narcissist who is in the position to become a major Hollywood show-runner is going to take a hatchet to the IP and make a lot of changes in order to make it undeniably HIS. Then, the original IP becomes a tool to be exploited in support of his own aggrandizement. If his show succeeds despite his changes having made it worse than if he had changed nothing, he still sees this as the superior outcome, because the result will be HIS, and not the author's.
The early seasons of GoT made a lot of changes, just nowhere near what you see now. But if you go on an episode-by-episode breakdown, there were a lot of changes. It's just that these changes were more for "adaption" purposes and less "creative" and "original" early on because D&D were desperate for the show to be a success and lacked confidence in themselves.
However, in later seasons, after they got full of themselves, they really shit all over the source material and the show went downhill.
How can we change this dynamic? Easy. Anime already went through this, to the point where some iconic shows had to be totally re-made only a few years later [like FMA]. This same dynamic used to dominate in anime, where 2-bit anime studio "writers" used to bastardize the source manga in order to make famous IP into "theirs" and the results were universally reviled. This caused a backlash that fixed the situation where now, it is pretty much the rule that anime adaptations of highly popular manga series strictly adhere to the source material.
The way you change the dynamic is to take away autonomy and control from the show-runner, and instead give the original author more power over the result, and to create a culture of "no changes from the source material" with the IP holders, who ruthlessly enforce it.
Will this actually happen? Likely not, or at least much more slowly, because Hollywood is compromised by libtards and atheistic jew activists who live only to enrich themselves and preach their ideology, and they don't really care much about maximizing profits anymore.
Well said. The first season of GOT was a great adaptation of book 1. I do blame the decline of the show partly on GRRM for not finishing the books. Also the way they caved to offended fans over the Sansa rape ( even though it didn’t happen in the books) and Ayra killing the Night King was done purely for girl power reasons.
Good to hear about anime. I remember the backlash the Cowboy bebop by Netflix got.
Arya killing the Night King made logical sense. You can neutralize an opposing army by taking out the leaders, which is why they've historically been so well-protected against assassins. In this case, the Night King was the mystical linchpin to the entire army of the dead, making him even more of a prime target. And they devoted her entire story arc into cultivating her into an assassin.
But because they went with the girl power route early on in the show, with too many girl bosses laming things up, Arya's 'power move' came across as pathetic feminist drivel.
As someone who loved the Ice and Fire books it really annoys me to see the way GRRM gets angry at fans for wanting him to finish the series