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[puddingcat]

Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse, Hollywood rewrites The Dark Is Rising.

Link via madwitch. I'm mad, too.

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[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

<cries>

My childhood! My childhood!

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

I am In Despair.

Which only got worse when I read the comment about how Susan Cooper wanted them to stay true to the book and they decided not to. See, people had been saying that SC had been involved, it may not be that bad. Obviously, it is.

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, and really. If they do decide to make the rest, what the hell are they planning to turn Bran into?

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

It's Hollywood; I'm guessing an IRA sympathiser.

[madwitch.livejournal.com]

I am currently being reminded of an episode of Cadfael I saw the other day. Only the names of the incidental characters gave any clue to which of the books it had been adapted from, as the plot, murder victim, murderer and almost everything else relevant had been changed.

And I still can't work out why.

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

unfortunately I think its the network execubots fault

Director: The network Execubots are coming!

Calculon: Oh, dear God!

[Enter three huge clunky robots on tracks.]

Betabot: Presenting the president of the network.

[A man walks in, places a laptop on a desk and leaves. A modem in the laptop beeps and the network president, the laptop itself, starts to speak.]

Network President: Greetings, gentlemen. You already know my Execubots: Executive Alpha, programmed to like things it has seen before.

Alphabot: Hey, hey, hey.

Network President: Executive Beta, programmed to roll dice to determine the fall schedule.

[Betabot rolls two dice.]

Betabot: More reality shows.

Network President: And Executive Gamma, programmed to underestimate middle America.

Gammabot: It's funny but is it going to get them off their tractors?

[The president plays a clip of Bender dancing on his screen.]

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Surely anything that gets Bender dancing is a *good* thing, though?

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I started seeing red (instead of a dull orange) about when Will's dad unaccountably turns into a physics professor and after that it was downhill all the way!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was the emotionally-abused American bit that got me frothing.