We were all saying how the Lois Lane of My Adventures With Superman looked more like Luz Noceda from The Owl House, but it turns out we weren’t far off. We just got the race wrong as the show creators just confirmed that their Lois Lane is supposed to be Korean. Is ANYBODY the same character they are in the comic or all namesakes of the characters they really wanted to make but didn’t care to get characters they didn’t create correct? Maybe Hollywood studios should take more risks on original properties just so they’ll stop tearing apart the ones we want adaptations of. Luz is a new character and people love her.
It can, has, and will be done, while those of us who want to see our favorite characters adapted properly have to wait until these namesake shows ends and hope that the next creators actually want to do a faithful adaptation, if it ever comes. It gets worse with something like Battlestar Galactica, since it got popular enough to supplant the original for many, thus ensuring we’ll never get a proper adaptation with Glen Larson’s death and nobody looking to restore it. Instead we get Ron Moore’s namesake, so this isn’t some “anti-woke” thing. The fact that Korean Lois is a straight tomboy, a dying breed in media, shows that’s not the problem. It’s adaptations in the hands of people who don’t care. As I’ll get into tonight, the preschool shows do a better job adapting and reworking the source material than the stuff made for people old enough to actually read the comics.
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