Random Blabbings

adaptations

i recently fell in love to webtoons. this is quite evident with the change in my wattpad profile picture. don't worry, i'll prolly change it again sometime in the future but for now, please look at athanasia and how cute she is.

moving on, i was one of the people who doesn't fancy webtoons at first for the simple reason of impatience. yes, impatience. i don't have enough patience to wait for a day to read one chapter nor the money to buy all chapters at once.

though when i started to get into it, i realized a lot. one of it is adaptations.

for example is athanasia's story. it was originally written as a novel then adapted to the wonderful piece of manhwa (korean webtoon) that i have read.

there's a couple more stories i've read which are Death Is The Only Ending For The Villainess and Omniscient Rader's Viewpoint. both of which i've read the manhwa and the novel. both of which is still ongoing so help me god, gimme patience.

now, it's something that i've seen over the years of watching animes and being a potterhead myself, people usually don't like adaptations. there's always the rant of wanting the adaptation to be as perfect and as detailed as the original aka novel version. there's always someone pointing out how much the adaptation sucks and how it ruined the story for them.

i get it. and i understand it too.

but what i realized is novels into drawings is more probable to be close to the novel because it's much like the novel itself--done through imagination. wherein adaptations to movies and series would most likely be more deviant because seriously, it's harder to find a living person with the perfect qualities usually described in the novels. 

cut real people some slack.

though the real reason that suddenly launched this blab is bridgerton.

yes, the Netflix series.

i didn't read its novel, but i watched the two seasons of the series and i like it to the point that i will read all of its novels. now, before this, i read a rant about how they want bridgerton to be the bridgerton they've read in the novel.

and my mind just went, "well, why don't you do it?"

see, what most people don't think, i guess, is the people behind the scenes of adaptations like these are also artists. they know how to tell stories, too. 

for the love of god, let them.

i'm all in for a perfect adaptation, but it wouldn't kill us to let these artists be artists and make artistic choices they believe would help to tell the story. after all, it's their medium. they now it better than most of us.

and come on, we do this everyday, we ship characters, we string stories of our own using the characters we like--isn't that more like an adaptation too? why are we not angry over ourselves?

if you don't like the adaptation of your favorite story, then by all means don't watch it. sane and simple.