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If we don’t at least watch each season as it comes out the show will be cancelled before they ever get to end it. I’m not gonna start watching a season until all the episodes are available but I can’t expect them to just make seasons and seasons of television for me without showing them some sort of return.

Why just pick up Castle Rock? That was a good series?

Or revive that True Blood ?

80 for Brady, bro. Guy Fieri

Lots of movie adaptations (like comic ones) don’t adapt the source story even close to 1:1. Most video game adaptations don’t do this. Mario bros, sonic, Pokémon, Halo, resident evil, assassins creed are their own thing but use events and characters to create their story.

The only medium then tends to get close to 1:1 adaptations are books.

They are simply two different approaches to adapting.

I’d imagine it’d end with them driving him insane and fleeing from them. Makes me think of that writing prompt I saw a while ago that imagined Pennywise going after the boys from Malcolm in the Middle. Spoiler: he didn’t get a chance to eat the boys, but recognized the true master of terror when Lois came looking for them.

Fear and loathing... is this even a question?

You get rolling pretty good and everything is logical, even all these bats...

That isn't at all what was happening. AT&T wanted a giant streaming service that could appeal to everyone. HBO Max was built from the ground up with a more diverse set of executives and producers than HBO the cable channel. But when AT&T spun off Warner to Discovery, they also spun off over forty billion dollars of debt. Discovery management immediately started cutting across the board, including plenty of content that could have kept going if the new company's financials weren't in such dire shape. The cuts at HBO Max fell hardest on the culturally diverse side of the executives and the programming.

HBO Max's old mission was to be an all-audience first-rate streaming service similar to Disney/Hulu, Netflix, maybe Amazon Prime. They did very well at building that audience when they launched. The new mission is a lot less ambitious, a lot less diverse, and a lot more budget conscious than before. Whether or not it works out in the long run, they are likely to miss out on the opportunity to establish themselves as the undisputed leader of streaming services among today's competition.

While nothing is wrong with liking one more than the other, it’s a little unfair to compare which is “better” directly. Last of Us is translating something that once a video game, directly into a TV show. Arcane simply took some of the lore in the world and crafted a whole new story.

The writers had far different jobs. For Arcane, they could make a story from the ground up that works perfectly for TV. They didn’t really have to worry about staying “faithful” besides making sure the lore itself was faithful. Meanwhile The Last of Us had to take an entire story that was written for a video game and rework it to fit as a TV show. And that doesn’t just come with the challenges of changing the story to work in the format. You also have to deal with constant comparisons. If a character is even slightly different than in the game, people while hyper fixate on it and nitpick every change. With Arcane, it’s a whole new story, so people could just see if they enjoyed it. There wasn’t a whole discussion of how “game Vi is better than show Vi”. Arcane made a great story and is amazing, but The Last of Us definitely had a ton of hurdles and restrictions that Arcane didn’t.

I guess it comes down to what you’d say a story is. There’s blurbs in the games about character backstories, and I know it’s a popular theory (or even confirmed I’m not really sure) about >!Vander becoming Warwick!< just based on what happened to them in the season.

There’s lore, and that’s getting adapted for tv. Again I think it’s more just a discussion of “how good an adaption is it” than if it is or not.

But yeah I really like it

I would call it writing an original story in a previously existing world.

Like Fantastic Beasts. Or the Cloverfield sequels.

This is not only a popular opinion,its also factual.

I also thought it was great.

But I think I'm at that point where I don't want to start watching a show until its run is over. "Severance" was the straw that broke the camels bank. They didn't answer any of the central secrets (what are they doing, why are they there, etc) and I'm tired of waiting years for answers.

What are you on about? I thought she was amazing in that role

Thats not the definition for film though.

"A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film."

There is no story from LoL that it takes and expands upon so technically it's not, but it's beside the point. The show is excellent regardless.

I'd watch an IT-Derry Girls crossover show.

FYI…. Did you know Elaine has one of the best memories of anyone on the planet

Actress Marilu Henner has a highly superior autobiographical memory, a rare condition identified in only 100 people worldwide. This trait drives her to advocate for more funding for brain research. Give Marilu Henner a random date in the past and she can recall it with amazing clarity.

This is surprising. The way season two ended I thought that was it. They wrapped it all up nicely I thought.

So, you’re adapting that world to a new medium.

Adapt - make (something) suitable for a new use or purpose; modify.

Officially greenlit i guess because the team is already deep in preproduction in Toronto pretty sure the writing is over.

It’s not an adaptation, unless League of Legends has a story to adapt. Does it? I’ve never played it.

If not, it’s just a story that takes place in a previously established world.

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You will go far in life, Jenny. But you will not be well-liked

How do you expect anyone to answer that

As far as the actual work of crafting a narrative, yeah.

TLoU had an infinitely easier time because there was a solid, "cinematic" narrative as the baseline.

Meanwhile, Arcane had to make something out of the half assed bios of discount Harley Quinn (and that's already a pretty low baseline) and fisting and police brutality jokes the girl.