"Way to ruin it for the rest of us!"

[Quiver he/him]

There are only so many ideas in the world, and I can't count the number of times I've read something along the lines of 'it's how you do your version of it'. Even so, I'm sure I'm not the only one who hates to see a good idea go rotten, or a bad idea blow up beyond all reasonable expectations. It doesn't preclude you from enjoying other things with the same concept, but it always seems to hang over the pitch like a ghost.

Twilight ruining vampires is the obvious one, but personally, I can't think of Enterprise without getting annoyed. Not that I don't like the show, or feel it ruined Star Trek, but every time I think about it I think about the Temporal Cold War. To me, that's a really fascinating idea for a novel, maybe even a whole series. James Bond style-thriller stories, political wrangling, sci-if, time travel, paranoia... it sounds fantastic.

And then I remember how Enterprise used it, and I feel like a plagiarist for trying my own thing with it, and really disappointed in what it delivered with it.

Does anyone else have similar pet peeves?

[Peng the Just he/him]

I feel like the recent "gulliver's travels" film completely ruined the concept.

[Kurkistan he/him]

Of course we must all recall the The Last Airbender film. Honestly selling Avatar is annoyingly caveat-filled: "No, it's not Avatar like the Cameron movie. No, it's nothing like that terrible Shyamalan film. Well yes, it has the same general plot points as the film, but... It's just better. And yes it's a 'cartoon' but that doesn't mean 'bad'..."

[Shardbearer he/him]

Of course we must all recall the The Last Airbender film. Honestly selling Avatar is annoyingly caveat-filled: "No, it's not Avatar like the Cameron movie. No, it's nothing like that terrible Shyamalan film. Well yes, it has the same general plot points as the film, but... It's just better. And yes it's a 'cartoon' but that doesn't mean 'bad'..."

My wife, having not seen the cartoon, actually liked the movie. I, of course, am a fan of the cartoon, and I hated the movie.

[Shardlet he/him]

I thought the acting was a bit weak (particular Ang and the Prince), but they're kids.  What do you expect.  As to the whole "It sucked because the actors weren't Asian' thing, I don't get it.  Nobody in the cartoon (or at least very few) looked particularly Asian to me nor was it set in Asia.  But, the story followed very closely to the cartoon which is a plus.  Ang was directed very poorly as well.

 

In other news, the Riff Trax for both Avatar (airbender) and Twighlight were quite funny.