#Marginal adaptation

[bethanydelleman]

Hallmark's Adaptation of Sense & Sensibility 2024

Overall, I enjoyed it. It was better then I expected to be honest and it did something I've not seen before, which was put Elinor & Edward's story centre stage instead of Marianne & Willoughby. I think they cut a bit too much of the M&W story because it totally fell flat, but I enjoyed having a well-developed relationship between E&E.

They also did a really good job of explaining why Edward staying engaged to Lucy was an honourable thing and we even hear Elinor say she admires him for it. The inheritance issue was well explained too, though more blame should have gone to John Dashwood. Did not love Fanny as Lady Macbeth.

But yeah, leagues ahead of Persuasion 2022 because Elinor felt right. They turned up Edward's sassiness, but it is something that exists in the novel (he calls himself "saucy" at one point). What it really needed was Marianne actually looking desperate and sick before the rain scene.

The only characters that really felt wrong were Mrs. Jennings (not so fun), John Dashwood (too nice), and Robert Ferrars (too hot and too nice). Also, Anne was technically right but Lucy should have been correcting and shutting her up more often.

6/10?

#s&s 2024 #hallmark #review #sense and sensibility #not a bad adaptation really #I'm marginally impressed

[the-woman-upstairs]

Favorite Horror Novels I Read in 2023:

#horror #horror novel #i need a reading tag #horror books #mister magic #dark harvest #the cabin at the end of the world #camp damascus #i think Brother was the most surprising for me in how much i loved its awful nastiness and gut punch ending #but props to Rachel Harrison for making a story about how your mother loves you enough to make you hate her #and never be nostalgic for a home that will gleefully kill you #two out of the three books here have terrible film adaptations #bones and all innocent #especially since Luca Guadagnino worked overtime to make the movie about queer life on the margins #john waters and i agree: timothee was doing his best impersonation of a butch lesbian #also loved that Mister Magic was basically IT fanfiction on a campaign against Mormonism

[weldnas]

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#Seeing the dune part 2 american centric red carpet and as a devoted aficionado of the books and yk a moroccan person here are my 2 cents #Dune was one of the few Western works inspired by MENA culture that that felt genuine and respectful #But ofc despite the profound symbiosis with Middle Eastern and North African culture evident within the pages of the novels #the movie adaptation lack of substantive representation from these communities both in on-screen portrayals and within production roles was #very much disappointing in part 1 and i doubt there are any change now #While drawing inspiration from the Amazigh peoples of Algeria and Morocco #the film barely skims the surface of its MENA influences leaving substantial potential untapped #Herbert openly acknowledged the profound impact of Islam and MENA culture on his noveIs #from the metaphorical representation of Spice as oil #to the allegorical parallels drawn between the occupation of Arrakis and real-world MENA geopolitics #By marginalizing Arabs from the narrative fabric of Dune the essence of the story is being undermined particularly its anti-colonial core #the irony of this is kiIIing me because this was a direct resuIt of us impérialism on the middIe east #But the reality is that Dune is an American production tailored for an American audience so it makes sense for it to be what it is now #a big production running from its original essence #What adds to my disappointment is the fact that I liked Villeneuve's adaptation of Incendies and I had what you call foolish hope hfhg #Dune feIt Iike a squandered opportunity to authentically depict the cultural milieu that inspired it #Given the narrative's inherent anti-colonial themes #the omission of Arab and North African voices dilute its message if any of it is even left #without representation from Arabs and Amazigh people the cultural essence becomes another appropriated resource watered down to an aestheti #rather than serving as a critique of the destructive actions of colonialists seeking power and dominance #the narrative becomes susceptible to distortion and co-option by the very entities it was intended to condemn and hold accountable

[seaofgriefs]

I'm still on this historical genre thing. Like the process of watching the show IS the process of having your assumptions about pirates and history proven wrong.

The characters in Season 1 play on a lot of historical action and pirate tropes. Flint seems like a "badass" captain, Eleanor seems like a girl boss, Billy is the naive newbie, Vane is the "savage" villain, Rackham is a slippery sidekick, Anne is silent but deadly, etc. This could just be a product of weak writing. Certainly not all of the characters are completely fleshed out in the beginning.

But all of these characters are given at least some nuance early on: the badass goes too far in his violence, the girlboss is secretly insecure, the naive one lies to the crew, the villain is genuinely heartbroken, Jack and Anne are surprisingly tender with each other. But I didn't really see these details until at least the second viewing.

The first time around, these nuances seemed like discrepancies rather than intentional. I dismissed them the first time. I think the tone really encouraged me to watch it uncharitably. The gratuitous nudity and slapstick humor undercut the more serious moments. When the characters seemed tropey, I assumed there was nothing more to them. I didn't give the writers enough credit to believe that depth would be added along the way.

Instead, they took these seemingly flat characters and then added layer after layer of complexity, without contradicting what came before. There are moments for each character that defied my expectations about them so much that it forced me to reasses them, and the show as a whole. Its only when you have the context of their entire arcs that you can return to S1 and recognize that what you saw was just the tip of the iceberg.

I think this is the reason I liked S1 so much better on rewatch. Its far from my favorite, but it feels like I'm seeing pieces of a much larger puzzle. You can't fully appreciate it until you know what the complete picture looks like. Even though literally the first two scenes tell you that there is more to this world than you assume (the scary pirates joking around after the raid).

Despite the flaws in S1, the way they took what they had and capitalized on it is incredible. It elevates its first season in retrospect. I don't think it would have had the same impact if they had done a more abrupt pivot in S2. Instead, they gradually add complexity. At the same time, the tone shifts to become more and more like a historical epic, something encourages you to notice how literary the writing is.

Whether or not it's what the writers set out to do in the beginning, the show first presents and then systematically deconstructs popular assumptions about history, pirates, civilization and the frontier. It weaponizes the preconceived notions that you are projecting onto the show against you. That's why the characters are continually surprising, even when they've heavily foreshadowed their true natures.

And that's why Flint's line about how they will "be defined by their histories" and "distorted to fit into their narrative" hits me so hard every time. We KNOW its true because that's precisely how we entered the show. Its only by the end that you fully realize how tragic that is.

#black sails #black sails meta #I will never be free of this show #its a historical drama about history #its a pirate show about pirate tropes #its a literary adaptation about stories #its a prequel about backstories #its a frontier story about marginalization #im losing my mind and trapped in the narrative #there is no other meta storytelling like this on tv

[the-everqueen]

"let people feel their feelings." fyi, i am also a people. with feelings.

#i'm not policing anyone's feelings about the fucking end of the comix i'm saying i don't want y'all #to harass the neilman into changing the ending for the adaptation #when the og ending functions exactly as it's supposed to #bc the story is a tragedy #and people are capable of finding hope in tragedies #also sorry but this IS a berserk button for me because that phrase gets whipped out so often to silence marginalized ppl #making this unrebloggable bc i'm just Yelling #but i'm allowed to Yell on mine own blog where i post mine own content #if you don't like it then why are you here

[queerticulate]

So to recap doing an open relationship went poorly for Loustat, so Louis started a race riot. All new plotlines, but I am so living for how this adaptation is so doing justice to how all of these characters are dramatic gay bitches who constantly create these bonkers troubling situations for themselves due to engaging in all these petty hair-brained schemes.

#this episode was almost armand level of pettiness though so now im really curious how they will adapt armand eventually #amc iwtv #interview with the vampire #vampire chronicles #iwtv #loustat #i mean no offense btw i was with louis every step of the way and his rage was so just and seeing him kill racists is so fucking satisfying #and of course on a more serious note i would not hold him accountable for starting anything when this was a clear case of systemic injustice #when systemic injustice beats down marginalized people again and again and it is designed to deal severe punishment #to anyone who dares stand up for themselves... the person standing up for themselves is not accountable for the fall out #the agents of the system are

[ghostbustermelanieking]

i will say that i am only on episode 6 but. apples never fall should've been like 10 episodes and also it should not have rewritten literally everything from the book

#some of the changes they made im just like. holy shit #it's better than nine perfect strangers but only marginally #i feel like both adaptations just rewrote the source novels trying to make them crazier #but im like what we had was pretty good #the original book is very serious but it's also FUNNY like where is the funny #and they r decimating stan so far #apples never fall

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

Happy because favourite book series is getting TV series adaptation.

Terrified beyond repair because favourite book series is getting TV series adaptation.

#tv shows #tv adaptations #lockwood and co. #lockwood and co #i made my tumblr because of lockwood and co #i was desperate to find lockwood and co content anywhere and tumblr was the only place with even a marginal fanbase #even then it was really small but i got to share reading the last book with them #got to review and ramble and theorize a little beforehand #it was nice being in a small but dedicated fandom nice finally being able to see others talk about this relatively obscure series #and now it's getting a tv show and i love the books so much i just live in fear that they will ruin everything #and i feel rather gatekeep-y and book snobby in this tumblr tonight as i worry new fans who don't care about the books will crop up #and mess with that cozy little fandom feel #or will like it if it's horrible or i don't really know #i want the show to be good but no adaptation of anything has really been good has it #except the asoue tv show that did the books a lot of justice even in its changes #so here's hoping for an adaptation following its example #and not the example of countless movies that shall not be named #and not the example of the stupid alex r*der show i hate it i hate it it was so boring i hate it and people love it and i hate that more #the casting for lucy and lockwood looks decent so far so i'm cautiously optimistic while still being twisted with unease #like it's all about the vibe will they get the vibe will they get the humour will they get the horror #and will they stick with the novel's plotline and twists? fear fear fear #I hope it’s good

[ne0nwithazero]

Gotta love bullshitting code and failing miserably at it, only to accidentally fix what you were trying to do when you give up on it

Failing upwards is my strategy for everything and I'll stop when I'm dead

#Jay Talks #Neocities tag #Context - I hate doing responsive coding stuff but I still insist on doing it anyway #I couldn't center a table on mobile and I kept making up margins and crap on the CSS to try and center it artificially #then I just said fuck and removed everything #And turns out a piece of placeholder code I added actually fixed my stupid table #horray???? #Anyway I hate tables and adapting them to mobile phone screens #But so help me I'm making a cool profile for one of my obscure OCs to try and get a base idea of how I'll structure the pages #And the whole page is tables that only work half the time #because I have no idea what I'm doing half the time #fun :)

[calvincell]

Rambling Thoughts on Netflix’s One Piece Teaser Trailer

After that Teaser Trailer, I’m still remaining cautiously lukewarm on Netflix’s One Piece adaptation. Particularly after the debacles of Death Note, Mob Psycho & Cowboy Bebop’s Netflix live action projects, even Oda’s direct involvement doesn’t feel like a boon for the show. A common refrain from behind the scenes of projects on this scale is executive/studio interference after all & which is rarely surmounted.

My Likes:

- Casting seems great so far with Sanji & Luffy standing out as particularly good.

- I actually really love the fact that Luffy has a distinctive accent

- Designs from ships & buildings like the Merry & Baratie look alright

- The CG Sea King actually looks alright too

- Clip of Zoro saving Luffy from drowning, Sanji readying for a fight & the Strawhats’ barrel break did tickle my hype gland

My Dislikes:

- “Gum-Gum”  rarely sounds good coming out of anyone that isn’t a cartoon

- Even for the normally stoic Zoro a lot of the acting in the teaser was bland & stiff beyond Luffy’s actor who is rightfully leaning in

- The yellow/sepia-tinted color grading on so many shots looks just soooo abysmal to me personally. It triggered a memory of some big movie/show having a similar issue a while ago but can’t remember any specifics beyond that it wasn’t & rarely is liked by audiences & I include myself in that camp

- Luffy’s rubber CG feels like one notch below the point where it wouldn’t be distractingly noticeable, once again, at least to my eyes

My Worries:

- Crossing my fingers for Chopper to look good. Honestly, a route of using a hybrid of a physical puppet/animatronic just with some touching up via visual effects might work out best in my eyes but what do I know LOL It is the same technique used for Grogu in The Mandalorian so I’m hoping for at least that much.

- Praying that the effects for all the other Devil Fruit abilities are great

- My single biggest worry at the moment might be the show’s ultimate pacing. Live-action TV is forced to be economical in a way that animation & manga aren’t as beholden to. There’s a reason that so many of the big climactic emotional & victorious events in OP’s manga/anime hit hard & it’s due in a large part to pacing for both anticipation building & character development. Rush + an inability to allow the story & characters to breathe will absolutely suffocate the whole thing

At this point, my plan is to cease all engagement with the show until the first season is done & taking the consensus. Might read a few first impressions from a fan & a newcomer but no trailers or reactions or clips until season end (I’m just assuming it’s going to be scheduled at least since Netflix & other streaming networks are eschewing the bulk drop/binge format these days.)

#one piece #netflix #netflix's one piece #please at least be marginally better than Netflix's Cowboy Bebop #live action #manga adaptation #anime adaptation #monkey d. luffy #luffy #sanji #zoro #usopp #straw hat pirates #cat burglar nami #nami #cautious pessimism #eiichiro oda #oda #Youtube

[coulsonlives]

I'm watching this video, and I just saw a really good observation that went:

'People go to (x radical community) to get upset. Every emotion is converted into anger.. because sadness, fear, and despair are paralyzing, but anger is motivating! Whatever someone's problems are, there's always someone they can scapegoat for them, a person feels less helpless when they're pissed off. And while that person is hopping up on reassuring nonsense, they're also topping up on stress. And since they're cut off from the people they used to associate with, which happened because of their radicalization, the only place they can go to release that stress is back to the place that gives this stress to him.

It's a feedback loop

#anti censorship #censorship #fandom #radicalization #psychology #why fanpol are so angry all the time and sniffing around for scapegoats basically #another good one is 'radical groups rely on someone to adapt their beliefs to fit a group that meets a need' #which explains how so many fanpols are lgbt because they already feel marginalized and want to get angry and need a scapegoat #and as soon as they see a group that looks like it'll accept them and feed their anger they'll slowly adopt those beliefs over time #and oml is the fanpol movement scary levels of accessible here #and then: 'from any other perspective (outside the cult) harassing someone is something you might feel ashamed of' #'the thing that keeps people in cults is staving off the guilt they would reckon with as soon as they stepped out' #'which creates a psychological imperative not to consider other perspectives' #'cult members know that the things they do to others (outside the cult) could easily be done to them as soon as they step out of it' #'they live under constant threat of being called out if they step out of line' #whole video is amazing tbh #innuendo studios #cults #cult cw

[anaalnathrakhs]

truly nothing spells out “we live in a hell world” better than the fact we could be having a reasonable discussion about what death means to humans and the logical end of bodily autonomy and all that important stuff, but instead our society and medical spheres are so rotten from the inside out that any advancement in that field is used to coerce disabled people and other marginalized and vulnerable populations into letting themselves be killed off because we don’t feel like offering proper healthcare or proper infrastructure to offer every living person the basic necessities of life

#it infuriates me so much hearing about the news in canada #because of course i think everyone should have ownership of their own life #and that we cannot have a genuinely helpful mental health care system if we don't offer people the option to die #not even talking about disabilities because that's not my experience #but i don't think we can foster genuine peace of mind for everyone living with or recovering from something if we don't keep that door open #and of course we're never gonna have the PERFECT system that prevents and alleviates everything that the laws of nature allow it to #so if we ever want to implement assisted suicide we have to atttach it to an imperfect system that doesn't help everyone it could #but of course when we say ''imperfect system'' in this world it means marginalized people are on the front lines #and we end up with this kind of eugenistics because shit doctors don't want to bother helping patients #and well-meaning doctors are blocked from helping by a shit system that can't be assed to adapt to the patients it needs to help #and society is still a hostile hellscape that only values people who can fight through it #broadcasting my misery #vent #death tw #suicide tw #eugenics not eugenistics i can't spell pardon me

[starkswondertwins]

it looks like a pie but its really a bomb. made in a bomb factory. smells like cherry... or blueberry... or apple...

A pie!!

oh boy what flavor? Pie flavor! *Guitar riff*

“We’re not trusting a pie from him!!” Tony chucks the pie while Ella dramatically falls to the floor and yells. “WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS!?”

#The Scribbles In The Margins; Crack #Absolute Nuisance- hxlf-dexd; Danny #their being heathens #Alone V2- Phantoms: Ghosts Or Not We Will Survive: Ella #Alone V2- Phantoms: Adaptation Is In My Blood: Tony

[neuromantis]

feel very fucking weird. you know that dissociatey feeling when you're actually there, but perhaps a couple sizes smaller? perhaps an inch to the left actually?

like. overlapping yourself? not quite fitting inside, yet not in a constricting way really?

#it just feels disorienting - it is miniscule - but is the entirety of you that is marginally wrong - so it's a lot of weird actually #when i full-on dissociate i usually stand outside of my body and pull strings - right now i feel like i am an inch above my nape #which makes sense because if i have a soul - that's the exact point where it is located - outside of my body an inch above a certain bone #it's just always a bit of a struggle to work with delays and not-quite-fitting parts #and i mostly adapted except for always being bruised to shit because i always bump EVERYTHING #sometimes when i dissociate i am just ''in my head'' and the world is a whip of colour passing by - i think that's actually overstimulation

[watermeat]

I'm genuinely thinking about the last 10 games of league and about how often we're ganked vs how often our jungler ganks the enemy team. Last 3 games we didn't get ANY ganks but were ganked multiple times, the game before our midlane camped us, and then the games before that we had like, 1 maybe 2 ganks max when the enemy jungler ganked 2+ times.

I mean we still WON most of those games but I guess it's actually crazy.

#Honestly I think my biggest skill as a support is knowing who the weak point is in the lane and how to play around it #If I'm the worst I know how to adapt and I know how to play if i'm better than at least one of the enemy team and my ADC is horrible #And if I sense blood with one of the others being weak #I can punish the lane HARD #So I rarely hard lose lane unless me and the ADC are the worst 2 in the lane by a pretty large margin #I guess that means our jungler leaves us to it when the enemy jungler is pressured bot #So we still get more done cross map #but jeez

[reasonsforhope]

"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

#trees #forests #reforestation #tree planting #global warming #climate change #climate crisis #american south #the south #eastern us #southern usa #conservation #meteorology #global temperature #conservation news #climate news #environment #hope #good news #hope posting #climate action #climate science #climate catastrophe #climate hope