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I have nearly finished reading “How To Kill Your Family” and all I can say is that I want a limited series directed by Greta Gerwig put on my telly asap.

So, the casting for the Percy Jackson disney series has come out! I’ve only seen the Adam Project, so I don’t have any idea how the two actors playing Annabeth and Grover are on screen, but I’m sure that they’ll do their best (and trusting that Riordan has managed to find actors that capture the essence of his characters).

And, y’know, when the movies came out, I didn’t care as much about the differences between physical descriptions in the book and movies, but more that they’d screwed up the whole timeline.

A non-white child who can play Annabeth to a T? Is absolutely something I am more than willing to watch because representation is important, and being able to play a character and bring their personality to life in an authentic way? Way more important than what the actor looks like verses what the source material showed them to look like.

Opinion time: adaptations that are 100% faithful to the original are not only challenging to create but also have limited utility.

Adaptations are in conversation with their source material, not competition.

Not that criticism of adaptations is invalid on these grounds. Just that a material and it’s adaptations are two different works with merits and weaknesses all their own. Though we tend to notice absences in adaptations, they are uniquely positioned to say something new about the subject already addressed in the source material.

not too sure what to think about all these live action adaptations what if they actually decide to make a live action kung fu panda???