Why Is "Different" Bad?

[Winger]

@wild_toa

it did something different

The only thing unpredictable about that movie is that the villain was so ridiculously predictable no one thought they’d actually do it.

[thewimpykid]

@OraNui

Different good = Turkey Bacon on pizza

Different bad = Pineapple on pizza

Congratulations, San Francisco! You’ve ruined pizza! First the Hawaiians, and now you!

[Chronicler]

@Nogus101

“Argue About Spider-Man with Cronk being utterly right” topic.

FTFY

[Toa-of-Snow]

@rainsong

At the same time, though, you start getting into a more fundamental question: what is the point of an adaptation? Should the people making the adaptation be trying to recreate the entirety of another work by the numbers, trying to recreate it as accurately as physically possible? Or should they be more liberal, infusing new ideas into the story and characters to make them feel more at home in the new medium? If the latter is the case, what things should stay and what things are okay to change?

This is where I’m coming from a bit. I used to be of a mindset that an adaption should be rigidly trying to just do a better job (or convey in a different medium) the same story that we’ve heard before. Otherwise, what’s the point?

Then I saw the Lost in Space reboot, which is nothing like the original on any level but still undeniably fantastic.

Maybe I just find adaptions frustrating generally for reasons like this, and a slew of others. Just tell new stories, people!

@thewimpykid

Congratulations, San Francisco! You’ve ruined pizza! First the Hawaiians, and now you!

[wild_toa]

I would disagree there. the dagger, despite it being absolutely horribly implemented (as well as the concept not being very good), was different. the exogol fleet? something new, just poorly done. palp returning has actually happened in legends, so it isnt really new there. but what Im getting at is that it isnt just a remake of RoTS or RotJ, as some sequel and prequel movies tend to be (I mean, look at the phantom menace next to a new hope and tell me they arent similar). point is, something can be different and bad, just as something could be different and new, but the good thing is that its different

[Winger]

@wild_toa

(I mean, look at the phantom menace next to a new hope and tell me they arent similar

I mean, look at The Force Awakens next to A New Hope and tell me they aren’t CARBON COPIES.

@wild_toa

different and new, but the good thing is that its different

Fair enough.

The Sequels are just not different, and bad.