Tumblr crosspost (4 October 2020)

[anghraine]

Adaptation discourse has crossed my dash a few times lately, and … tbh, I think direct adaptations do inherently claim a connection to their source material. If their creators don’t want audiences considering how they’re engaging with the source material, they can file off the damn serial numbers like anyone else.

Tagged: #yes it's also a film; a tv series; a book; a whatever #and i think it's perfectly fair and important to consider things in those lights too #but that doesn't mean that it's invalid to look at something that proclaims itself a version of [x] and consider its relationship to [x]