Oh, same here, which is why I said I didn’t want to nitpick either (one). My fault for using what was, in retrospect, ill chosen words. I suppose a more accurate wording is that I don’t want to, consciously or unconsciously, be comparing the two works as they are ultimately they’re own things.
I read the Barsoom series when I was in my early teens, and enjoyed it well enough. By the time ‘John Carter’ came out, it had been decades since I read the books and the movie hit the main beats from the first book that had stuck with me and I love the movie, flaws and all. The first series I re-read on my current “re-read through” were those books. When I was done with the first book, I remember thinking how different the movie really was, but by then I didn’t care because I had spent years just loving the movie on its own terms.
Would I have disliked it had I re-read the series prior to seeing the movie? Don’t know, but I probably would’ve been focused more on the differences and what I liked and disliked in each version rather than just enjoying the story.
Same for Samdman. I remember the general beats and some imagery and as long as it hits those I’ll be happy. The trailer showed some of the beats and imagery I remember, with some changes….changes that I don’t care about because of the distance from the source material, so I’m pretty stoked about it. Which aside from SNW is the first show in years that that’s happened with. If Neils happy with it, I feel like I will be too.
