Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
In the last chapter of Robotech, Dana Sterling and member of the 15th won the race and are now taking the refugees of the Second Robotech War home, leaving behind Nova, Louie, Colonel’s Wolff and Carpenter…and a bunch of people I frankly don’t care about. We still have two chapters and epilogue to see what happens to them before the Invid kill them all. Won’t that be fun?
I sound harsher than I intend. So far the story has been good as a whole, just with a few nitpicks I wish the writer hadn’t done. So let’s get into this chapter and see the beginning of the fallout of Dana’s latest scheme.
BW Media Spotlight 
A Better Way To Approach Creators Of Bad Adaptation
Let me preface this by saying there are people out there in Hollywood who absolutely do not care about what the fans of a property want. For them it’s just lazy marketing to get something out or a belief they can “do it better” than the creator. That’s how you get Todd Philips’ Joker or Frank Miller’s The Spirit. Heck, the people I targeting with this approach may not care either, but only the liars will be able to treat fans as “toxic” when the truth is they don’t care and don’t want to be called out on not caring.
The angry Twitter responses are not helping, and in fact may be adding to the dumpster fire that the (anti)social “platform” has become. Basically we have no chance of convincing anyone of anything. So I want to come up with a few things those of us who want Superman to act like Superman, Star Trek to represent what made fans of Star Trek and turned a show cancelled in three seasons into a TV and movie empire, and any other adaptation at least feeling like I’m watching what I’m being told I’m watching can explain to the actors why we don’t like their take. It’s not the actors’ fault, it’s the screenwriters and directors (either part of the “we can do it better than the original” crowd or just wanted to get out their own story and the only way to talk the studio into it was lying about it being an adaptation of something more popular–and probably better) who are screwing this up. Before we start our arguments let’s realize a few things so we can better get them to realize a few things.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 17, 2022 in Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight, web series and tagged adaptation errors, commentary, Twitter.
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