I'm tired of this overemphasis on diversity spilling into our entertainment.

[DonFerrari]

The_Yoda said:

collint0101 said:

Johnny storm was like 13 when he first went into space but I haven't heard anyone complain about that. I don't take comic book fans seriously because they only seem to care whenever a change involves race. Changing literally everything about civil war except for captain america punching iron Man is fine and dandy but Valkyrie is played by a brown chick and all hell breaks loose. If that doesn't scream double standard then I don't know what does.

Do you really think people don't care about plot being changed?  I USED to care 20 years ago until I came to the realization that movie ADAPTIONS very very very nearly always stray from the source material in some way(s).

 

As for race the only time recently where it really bothered me was in the  Dark Tower.  I'm a big fan of early Stephen King (his work in the last 15 years not as much) and the Dark Tower series is one of my favorites. Roland being white was a plot point concerning Detta/Odetta and he was always depicted as a young Clint Eastwood looking mofo .  Now I have to admit I have not finished the movie but as far as I can tell they butchered the story so much that neither she nor Eddie are  even in it. OK I'm going to stop because I could be wrong and I shouldn't expect for them to squeeze 7 books into 1 movie and do it justice. I guess I just wanted to be honest that Idris Elba was such a far cry away from how I pictured Roland that regardless of how good an actor he is, him not being a "honky" meant parts of the story couldn't be there in the movie and that is a recent example that bothered me when I first heard about it.

On a different note my mother hates Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher because the character in the books is supposed to be a big dude and Tom is a shrimp ... so there is that. 

I just think fans get upset when things are changed, not just genders and sexuality but plot and story line as well.  I've mostly come to peace with the fact that sometimes you just have to look at movies, books, and comics on their own and know that it will not be a beat for beat translation when they move from one medium to another. Although, if possible, I still believe that if given the choice one should watch the movie(s) first then read the books that way you have a better chance of enjoying both since the books are almost always better than the movies.

I always prefer the original story.

But you are absolutely right, most of my friends hates all the changes they see (some could even accept that Saint Seiya movie for the sanctuary arc)... When I watch on a different media I always think as alternate storyline for me to not be totally upset with all the silly changes even more because some of then are needed when you cross media.

But as I said to the folk, if he goes to the dens where those fans fret over minimal details he will see a lot of complaining for all the changes not only gender/color/orientation. But SJW will SJW,