I'm so devastated by Monica's death and sad that they seemingly bought into the 'bury your gays' trope. Secretly hoping she'll be brought back in dramatic fashion!
The adaptation question is really a question about what we think stories are for. If the book's job is to live in your imagination, the adaptation's job is to translate it for a different kind of attention. They're not the same project. Rivals is an interesting case because the changes seem to be about updating what the audience can bear rather than what the story needs.
I worked as a screenwriter for ten years before I wrote my first novel, and this post reminds me of something oft-quoted in Hollywood, apparently first said long ago by a studio head, probably apocryphal, but it was originally in relation to Anne Rice's and her fans' opposition to Tom Cruise being cast as the Vampire Lestat:
"Ten thousand fans could storm the studio gates with flaming torches and pitchforks in protest and the studio couldn't care less."
I'm so devastated by Monica's death and sad that they seemingly bought into the 'bury your gays' trope. Secretly hoping she'll be brought back in dramatic fashion!
The adaptation question is really a question about what we think stories are for. If the book's job is to live in your imagination, the adaptation's job is to translate it for a different kind of attention. They're not the same project. Rivals is an interesting case because the changes seem to be about updating what the audience can bear rather than what the story needs.
I worked as a screenwriter for ten years before I wrote my first novel, and this post reminds me of something oft-quoted in Hollywood, apparently first said long ago by a studio head, probably apocryphal, but it was originally in relation to Anne Rice's and her fans' opposition to Tom Cruise being cast as the Vampire Lestat:
"Ten thousand fans could storm the studio gates with flaming torches and pitchforks in protest and the studio couldn't care less."
They really, really could not care less.
Ahh I had no idea we had to wait until November for the next episodes! 😭
Interesting take!!
Episode 6 of Rivals was so good even if it differ from the book