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On 6/5/2025 4:50 AM, Xocyll wrote:
> JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
> spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
> 
>> On 04/06/2025 21:12, Xocyll wrote:
>>>> Apparently, you've never heard of "head canon." It's impossible*not* to
>>>> stimulate some imaginations.
>>> Far from it, that's exactly the point.
>>>
>>> It's the main criticism of many people when their favorite book/series
>>> is turned into movie(s)/TV series, that the cast does not look like they
>>> imagined them to look when they read the book(s).
>>>
>>>
>>> When the movie or TV is the original, you don't run into that, you are
>>> presented with a fait accompli of the casting director/script
>>> writer/producer/directors idea of what they should look like.
>>>
>>> Some people might want to mentally re-cast the show to suit their own
>>> preferences, but most just accept what they're given (unless an
>>> actor/actress is terrible at acting and practically forces them to
>>> imagine someone competent in the role.)
>>
>> I think there's also the problem when they the sort of stick to the book
>> but not really. Where it does work for me is at one end Good Omens, very
>> much to the book, and at the other end Bladerunner which just uses the
>> themes.
> 
> Yeah all too much of "Hollywood" (and I use that term to refer to the
> entire world-wide movie and TV industry) feel the need to option a best
> selling book, and then fuck with it, removing scenes and making up their
> own.
> 
The problem here is EGO.  The entire industry is full of people who are 
convinced that they can "improve" any pre-existing story.  And most of 
them can't write a decent original story to save their lives.

>> The other problem I have is if I've watched the film/TV series then when
>> I read the book the characters voices get into my reading.
> 
> Yeah I've had that too.
> All about which you encountered first I guess.
> 
> It's like when you hear a good cover version of a song before you hear
> the original artist's version, and the original just sounds wrong.
> 
Bob Dylan has been quoted as saying that he didn't know he was writing a 
Jimi Hendrix song when he wrote 'All Along the Watchtower'.  ;)

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.