The main thing I hate when watching live action adaptations (or adaptations in general) are the story changes.

When i see that a cartoon, book, animated film, game, etc is getting a live action, all i want them to do is to make the live action nearly exactly the same as the original content, but in live action. I honestly hate story changes, unless they are good but most of the time they suck.

This is what made me dislike "Avatar: The Last Airbender" Netflix, visually it looked amazing, but the writing sucked. Except for the Blue Spirit episode, that was the only changes in that show that i felt were good and worth changing.

Its also why I loved "The Last of Us" so much, it was almost exactly like the game, and the changes that were made weren't bad at all.

If a story is perfect as is, there is no reason to make changes. Just show us what we already love, but make it look real.

I decided to post this because i saw the leaked images for "How To Train Your Dragon" live action, and i previously didnt have high hopes but these leaks looked amazing and exactly like the animated film, it honestly changed how i felt about the project entirely, but i saw other people saying they hated it because it looked too much like the original.

I happen to be rewatching SUITS for the first time since it aired on USA network originally. I never gave much thought to Meagan Markle, I thought her portrayal or Rachel was fine. But upon back-to-back episode binges, Rachel comes across as overly emotional, immature and reactionary. Outside of her obvious beauty, she is a largely unlikeable and volatile character, flying off the handle in many of seasons 1-3 episodes… and that never occurred to me before while I was watching it week-to-week over the course of many years.

Do you have any shows or characters that you liked less upon binging?

I can’t believe a story about a guy losing their ⚽️ and 🍆 made me ugly. I would never expect something so visceral to come from a silly show like this. The cinematography, animation, voice acting, music - EVERYTHING was choreograph to perfection. I don’t see a lot of anime episodes that are praised on r/television, but this week’s episode to Dandadan deserves it flowers.

Away were the days of sympathetic characters with compellingly thought-out arcs and consistency of tone, now all of his shows were about ridiculous architypes and overachieving underdressed minors where someone hysterically ends up laughing or screaming every 5 minutes like it's the fucking Crazy Steve show. And whatever jokes remained were either getting insanely repetitive or too revealing of that dirty bastard's kinks in a way that makes them painful to watch.

We all love TV shows because they offer us incredible stories and unforgettable characters that keep us entertained. Some episodes are so impactful that they leave us speechless and change the way we see the entire show and even life as we know it. But not every episode lives up to that standard. In fact, there are some episodes in otherwise great shows that just don't resonate or feel as strong as the rest.

Take Game of Thrones, for example. It's based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and the show brought us an epic narrative filled with political intrigue, complex characters, and jaw-dropping twists. But when it comes to the finale, it’s hard to even talk about it in a positive light. We do not talk about The last episodes and the conclusion.

So my question is: What’s a terrible episode from a great TV show that you would rewrite into something better?

As we all know the fallout TV show is terrible adaptation of the fallout games and lore due to modern Bethesda insistence on making everything look like fallout 4 raider huts and brotherhood of steel . Not to mention what it did too new Vegas . But in any case it's still a high quality show over all that executes it's ideas well. And delivers a fun time and viewing experience. Like the lord of ring's trilogy By Peter Jackson.

What are other examples of bad adaptions but still good shows ?

How the fuck did this show fall so low?

It used to be my favourite show. It had good action, compelling drama, decent to great acting, amazing soundtrack... I was always a tepid KK fan, but Cobra Kai made me fall in love with the franchise. Now... I hate it more than most people hate Game of Thrones. It was around Season 5 that I realized how awful it got. Where was the the complex and tragic, but slowly improving relationship between Robby and his father Johnny? They barely talked in the season that was supposed to be the apex of their relationship and Johnny's redemption (y'know, the purpose of this show). Where was the beautiful teacher-student relationship between Daniel and Robby? They exchanged more words in the episode they met in then they have in the last few SEASONS. Same with Sam and Robby. What happened to the rivalries, once so compelling and multi-faceted, now reduced to awkward stare downs and cliche lines. OR, completely erased and replaced with charmless, idiotically written friendships. Like, Robby and Miguel tried to kill each other! I don't care who their parents are banging, the boys from Seasons 1&2 would rather set themselves on fire then have a civil conversation. Same with Sam and Tory! absolutely ridiculuous.

And now this latest season... cartoonishly evil karate rivals, awful and distracting slow-mo choreo, terrible character decisions/relationships and (I swear I'm not making this up)... THEY MADE MR. NARIYOSHI MIYAGI A COLD BLOODED MURDERER!!! What the fuck? And looking at the official subbreddit, people are loving this! Am I alone in this? I thought I closed my heart to this show, but it's somehow going back there and torturing me again.

Co-developer Lindsay Katai tweeted the news. The show’s creative team previously emphasized that strong Netflix numbers in the first few days would be key to getting the show a second season.

https://x.com/lindsaykatai/status/1857492806933295190?s=46&t=7YT7yMPCw2VMMwQUxWj5_A

For me it's the sound/look of fake ice cubes and also the thick pre-crinkled brown 'paper' bags of food/groceries that don't make any noise

Does anyone else remember this? I looked for it. I could not find it. But perhaps I am half imagining it. That happens with TV shows, movies, and other media you watched as a kid. I am pretty sure it was approximately as I recall. It made an impression for the savvy application of simple statistics (how means are calculated) and the violation of social norms (making your own preferences paramount).

On the TV show Dance Fever, guest Danny DeVito controlled the episode. Dance Fever had, if I recall four couples, enthusiastic amateurs, competing at disco moves. They had a host, Danny Terrio, who had choreographed Saturday Night Fever. They then recruited three celebrity judges. It premiered in 1979. I would have been 12 years of age. The winner was selected by taking the average score on a 1 to 100 scale. Each judge was weighted the same. My family watched this regularly. I am not sure why. My parents, immigrants, were not dancers. Maybe this was what they regarded as the best of the culture thay had to adapt to.

Anyway, here is what DeVito did. The background is typically a judge would rate the contestants 80-83-87-92, or something such as that, bunched together, all in the 80s and 90s. Maybe one in the 70s, if they were truly awful. The point is the standard deviation was not significant, either for an individual judge or the totals.

At least that was the norm. DeVito, when his turn came, scored something like 30-50-70-95. If you have any ability to calculate, and even if you are not fond of arithmetic (here, addition and division), you can figure out the result. It hardly mattered what the other judges thought. They were separating their choices by 2-3 points, while DeVito was doing so by 20-30 points.

For some reason, this has stuck with me for more than four decades.

I need reddits help on this. It's been on the back of my mind for awhile.

Bit of a back story. So years ago I was introduced to David Spade on a show called 8 simple rules, I liked his character and the show.

Now I remember either was a commercial or a billboard that had this new show called two and a half men with David Spade in it. I was thinking ok, it's prob called that cause it was a joke regards to his height.

I watched a few eps and no David Spade, thinking that he probably shows up later in the season or something but he never did.

Does anyone else remember this or am I mixing things up?

We’d enjoyed the Denzel Washington films….. And this new series which premiered last night looked interesting. And it would have been…. If we could see it.

Like many shows today, this show was very, very dark. And I’m not referring to the mostly-black cast. I mean DARK. Even the outside daylight shots looked like they were filmed in a fog bank.

I know this is supposed to add “drama”…. But it’s hard to be dramatic if you can’t see what’s going on.