4194: help me - Hermione, her family and Ron

[pottersues]

Title: help me
Perpetrator: romionefangirl
Sue-O-Meter: Toxic
Cover/Banner Art: It’s a picture of an actress.
Summary: “Basically Hermione with abusive parents and Ron finding out and trying to help her. (rated T for abuse)”
Full Name: Hermione’s parents. Hermione, Ron
Species: Abusers who weren’t in canon. A Bella Swan and a knight in shining

Comments

[yemi_hikari]

We live in a day and age where people think people should receive a pat on the back simply for doing, rather than achieving.

Just look at the recent Wrinkle in Time movie where people are simply going because they want to support a the first black female director who got over a 100 mil budget despite the fact she's openly stated she doesn't care whether the movie flops or not, because it was her vision.

People don't see the blackwashing as an issue despite the fact Meg's mom is definitely described as having red hair. Critics say things like, "Unlike "Black Panther," race is not central to the characterization or plot of "A Wrinkle in Time.", yet I take offense at this, because they're talking about the cultural aspects of the characters, which is only the basic scope of how race can effect characterization.

Because, strip any character of their non-white race and you get a backlash regardless of whether race was central to the character, meaning it is a definite double standard. I didn't mind a black actress playing Hermione in the play, but to cast her in a Harry Potter movie despite being described in a way that indicates she has light skin - which doesn't mean she's not ethnically mixed, doesn't work.

And Meg says something in the books about equal and like not being the same, yet that message got completely missed. People forget that adaptions and derivatives of ones own work aren't your own story, or at least not completely, yet everyone is saying she should be allowed to tell her own story. I agree with that - the thing is, she's not telling her story, but L'Engles. It's poorly written fanfic.

[yemi_hikari]

I think the core issue is that it's becoming more of a norm for filmmakers to resell nostalgia by packing it in special effects and popular performers rather than try to create a new product. Some even try so hard to appeal to a newer generation that it comes off as a reboot rather than an adaptation. It's sadly what people expect these days. The worse part is that once it's been done, no one will touch it for a while. They can't sell tickets when a movie's still fresh in people's minds. The story's basically been monopolized.

[yemi_hikari]

Reboots aren't bad, but you've got to market it as such. Take Voltron: Legendary Defender which was clearly marketed as a reboot of the original series.

Of course, there is a limit to what one can still do within a reboot of a series. Take the characters to far away, and it doesn't work either and it then feels like original fiction instead of an adaption or a reboot. Take the live action Cat Woman movie. It was Cat Woman in name only, and not just because of who they got to play her.