Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Why Canon Matters" video.

  1.  @based9930  Whatever the reason, 2-hour-movie makers will always be at odds with the fans of the original work, because they're trying to make something complete that is over in about 2 hours of runtime. To the movie makers, it's always a one-off, and they'll add or subtract whatever they think they need to in order to make the one movie a success. I've seen this over and over, since long before critics started criticizing it. While there are definitely some deliberate cultural genociders out there, in the main, it's the nature of the medium to butcher the original intellectual property. I'm always the geek who's read the book before seeing the movie, so I've seen how they butcher books in order to get a self-contained, 2-hour movie that'll make money. I think it used to be relatively rare for someone to know "the canon" before the movie came out, and most people's only exposure to, say, Wuthering Heights, was the movie. The audience that'd be disappointed was always far outnumbered by the "normies," who'd never heard of it until they made a movie about it. But they opened up a can of whoop-ass when they took on the Marvel and DC Universes, with millions of comic-book fans coming out of the woodwork, angry at how they took great stories and, to be repetitive, butchered them, not for any story-telling purpose, but for some other purpose. I think audiences are also a lot more sophisticated, generally, because of the glut of entertainment, the Netflix Binge Phenomenon, etc. There're still a lot of normies, but the number of people who are susceptible to just any old thing if it's got good special effects is dwindling. Hell, everybody's a critic.
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