That is kind-of what we were all expecting. It's an anime, and most anime are shot-for-shot adaptations of manga.
A lot of people just wanted an animated adaptation that was faithful, which I did too. Despite that as I already said I also liked the show.
Yeah. I was expecting an adaptation of the comics that catches most of the stuff that the movie missed or couldn't do because of live action limitations.
Bad old storytelling:
The story isn't really either of these, so where does that put it? I mean there's bits of self improvement stuff but overall like it's nowhere near as much as the original.
Same here.
-Because they wanted to make a redemption arc to Ramona Flowers, since her character was seen with bad eyes on the original work, but they wanted a Ramona in different circumstances to do that.
It's absolutely a YA/coming of age story for a VERY specific group of people, that came out at pretty much the perfect time for maximum coverage of that kind of people. I'm sure I'd also absolutely fucking hate it if I read it again, being the person that I am now. I don't think it's a bad story per se, but the people the books were aimed at are now 30 or older, and grew out of the hipster arthoe (male) mentality. The irreverent storytelling aged like milk less because of Scott Pilgrim itself, and more because every big movie in the last however many years it's been since The Avengers has done it, and everyone's been bombarded by it, retroactively making SP more grating to read, even though it was pretty fresh and unique when the books were actually coming out.
“Why did the Canadian Netflix show want to put a greater emphasis on the openly gay character being openly gay?”
Unless I glossed over something and they are the same person, original Wallace ends dumping Mobile in favor of the uncle that works at Nintendo, Mobile still meets past Wallace in the ending, they can't even treat their faggots with consistency.
you can fuck someone without being in a relationship with them. whores especially aren't dating people. Plus the source material came out in the 2000s, pre-tinder. you'd have to be quite the cunt to have 7 different relationships by then.
literally the 2nd one, people don't realize how "cringy" that whole era was. Look at Weezer, its a huge band, but its albums from that era might as well be the soundtrack to /r9k/. The comic was made during a time when the internet was still new so plenty of loser white dudes all over the world were able to reach out to each other and realize they too love video games and anime. unlike high school where 1% of the population might have the same interests as you, now you can fill your entire social group with people just like you. It was the era of Myspace and when dyed hair and tattoos were absurdly niche. People seem to forget that the comics came out at a time when guys like Patton Oswalt were considered the king of cool for having the balls to say he hopes some teenage girl from a reality show dies of aids. white people still had cliques and weren't all just assumed to be a monolith like in prison. so stuff appealing to those nerdy white dudes could break out and sell to their niche and do absurdly well. its why we ended up with stuff like the scott pilgrim movie or chuck or 6 seasons of community.
Exactly how I feel about it, very well put. I didn't like it much at it's popularity height, and reading it again a few years ago was almost painful. I still think that people have a right to like it even if I don't and expect an adaptation to at least respect the original work.
Because with today's streaming platforms desperate war over people's attention, faithfully adapting a (relatively) niche work is not enough to justify the cost of producing a new show, much less an animated one, and that's ignoring how non-kosher half of Scott Pilgrim is nowadays. The pool of people who really care about Scott Pilgrim in 20 fucking 23 is small, specially compared to the absurd viewings requirements for a current Netflix show to be considered anything more than a disaster. The only way to beef up those numbers (that isn't making an effort to make a really good show which sounds hard) is trying to bring people from outside the small dedicated fan base by using whatever tactic they can. Controversy works best in those scenarios, a hate-watch, an I-support-current-thing-watch or a confusion-watch is as good as any other watch as far as number on a spreadsheet go, and has the added benefit of people from both sides of the controversy making online noise on social media with Xitters and Youtube analisys and all that garbage. Tying your newest show's success to the lifespan of a internet controversy is a very short-term strategy that's been proven time and time again to be very detrimental in the long run, but at this point everyone knows that Netflix's (and other's) current business model is untenable.
I can't say I like this black-and-white argument when something like this happens. There's a middle ground between making an unnecessarily faithful literal adaptation and just taking the name and the first chapter of something to bait-and-switch viewers. People wouldn't mind an alternative take on the original story, or some sort of a what-if scenario but you have to , but the fact that the presentation, the name and the promotional materials represented a more or less faithful adaptation makes it dishonest and shows lack on faith on your altered version of the product.
So you're saying this might be the first post clown world product that is actually so bad its good? And here I thought that was utterly impossible. Then again everyone on the farms was expecting barbie to be a feminist circle jerk that would get bombed (pun intended) by Oppenheimer at the box office. Only for everyone to do a full 1984 hate week and change their minds when they saw it was secretly the most based movie to come outta clown world.
I feel bad for all the Scott Pilgrim fans out there who were looking forward to this, I really do (kinda), but I'm lmaoing over here
