An adaptation completely botches the original theme and message

[u/Morr4Seiya]

Mulan(2020)-They give Mulan superpowers which is not only lame it goes against the message of the original about equality and struggle,plus they removes Shang because apparently having Mulan date her superior was "problematic" even though Shang genuienely respected Mulan and their rank was never brought up

I am Legend(2007)-You know why the story is called "I am legend"? SPOILER ALERT the protagonist is the actual monster,humanity is gone and the vampires have a actual society and the protagonist kills and terrorize them

Animal Farm(2026)-On the very slim chance that Andy Serkis ever sees this,here's the thing Andy,Animal Farm was not a children work it was not supposed to have a happy ending,you never heard of cautionary tales before?

[u/Zachthema5ter]

A major theme of the Halo games and novels is seeing how far someone is willing to go for survival, shown in how Master Chief and the other spartans are child soldiers who willingly accept their role as weapons and the last hopes of humanity

This falls apart in the Paramount show when Master Chief abandons the war against the covenant because he doesn’t like that he’s a child solider

[u/NDinoGuy → u/Zachthema5ter]

My "favorite" part of the TV Series is how right after the bad haircut girl (I don't remember her name) got done doing shrooms in the forest and saying how she wants to abandon her home planet, watches her father get brutally murdered by the Covenant, then suddenly just becomes a die hard Insurrectionists against the UNSC (even though the Covenant killed her father, not the UNSC).

But why are the Insurrectionists even a thing in the TV Series? Because her father was told to do it by a bunch of desert witches.

[u/hates_stupid_people → u/NDinoGuy]

But I don't want to adapt the source, I want to tell the story I've been working on for years!

-Average showrunner for modern adaptations