If I had a nickel for every comic adaptation that wasted…
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If I had a nickel for every comic adaptation that wasted its first season just to end with the starting premise of the first issue of the comic it’s based on, I’d have a lot of nickels
This is such a bizarre and specific trope that I don’t understand how it could keep happening. Surely tv executives understand there’s source material and trying to wring an extra season out before you even get to the source material is a bad idea because you might not get renewed, and it misses why people read the series.
Powers (2015) based off a Brian Michael Bendis comic, ran for two season.
The comic starts with the death of Retrogirl and the mystery surrounding it, the show’s first season ends with it.
Jupiter’s Legacy (2021) based off a Mark Millar Comic, ran for one season.
The comic starts with the hero uprising and the utopian being taken down. The comic mostly follows Chloe and Hutch’s son as the family retakes the world and stops Brainwave. The show doesn’t even get to the point and instead spends the first season showing the discontent that would’ve maybe lead to the uprising, but we’ll never know because it was cancelled before the comic’s story ever began.
Runaways (2017) Ran for 3 season, based off the marvel comic. This one isn’t as fair because it was actually fairly good from what I watched off it, but the comic actually starts with them running away, the show spends and entire season building up to it, and has a lot of focus on the parents. It went for 3 seasons so maybe it wasn’t a bad idea, but for a show being called the runaways, it’s kinda weird to not see them runaway for a whole season.
Preacher (2016) Ran for 4 seasons, also enjoyed it. Season 1 is spent in the small town that’a destroyed at the end of the season and then they hit the road. Season 2’s first episode actually has a scene from the first issue with the cop confrontation and the saint of killers introduction. I enjoyed the first season and not as much the second ironically.
Summary:
I’m very much not the kind of person who thinks the quality of an adaptation is connected to how comic accurate they are, I actually like when adaptations do their own distinct thing with the spirit of the comic. All of these however felt like straightforward adaptations though, and either hit the same plot beats, or were moving towards it, just taking more time.
I’m not saying any of these shows were bad either, I enjoyed them to different degrees, and they all inspired me to read the comics they were based on, which I’d definitely recommend
#entertainment
This is such a bizarre and specific trope that I don’t understand how it could keep happening. Surely tv executives understand there’s source material and trying to wring an extra season out before you even get to the source material is a bad idea because you might not get renewed, and it misses why people read the series.
Powers (2015) based off a Brian Michael Bendis comic, ran for two season.
The comic starts with the death of Retrogirl and the mystery surrounding it, the show’s first season ends with it.
Jupiter’s Legacy (2021) based off a Mark Millar Comic, ran for one season.
The comic starts with the hero uprising and the utopian being taken down. The comic mostly follows Chloe and Hutch’s son as the family retakes the world and stops Brainwave. The show doesn’t even get to the point and instead spends the first season showing the discontent that would’ve maybe lead to the uprising, but we’ll never know because it was cancelled before the comic’s story ever began.
Runaways (2017) Ran for 3 season, based off the marvel comic. This one isn’t as fair because it was actually fairly good from what I watched off it, but the comic actually starts with them running away, the show spends and entire season building up to it, and has a lot of focus on the parents. It went for 3 seasons so maybe it wasn’t a bad idea, but for a show being called the runaways, it’s kinda weird to not see them runaway for a whole season.
Preacher (2016) Ran for 4 seasons, also enjoyed it. Season 1 is spent in the small town that’a destroyed at the end of the season and then they hit the road. Season 2’s first episode actually has a scene from the first issue with the cop confrontation and the saint of killers introduction. I enjoyed the first season and not as much the second ironically.
Summary:
I’m very much not the kind of person who thinks the quality of an adaptation is connected to how comic accurate they are, I actually like when adaptations do their own distinct thing with the spirit of the comic. All of these however felt like straightforward adaptations though, and either hit the same plot beats, or were moving towards it, just taking more time.
I’m not saying any of these shows were bad either, I enjoyed them to different degrees, and they all inspired me to read the comics they were based on, which I’d definitely recommend
#entertainment
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