I remembered that thing I forgot!

[evilfuzzydoom]

It was about canonicity!

While curled up on a couch watching True Blood (based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris) the other night, my experience was intermittently interrupted by my viewing companion shouting "You're doing it wrong!" A short discussion wherein I expressed my bemusement ensued: my reasoning was largely thus: "This

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[aleph_abyssal]

I get extraordinarily pissed off when people compare a movie/TV show to a book - I almost want to yell at them (and okay, I HAVE yelled at them!) What is is about the realities of fucking film-making don't you get?

Just renting out the rights to use, say, a road or a public facility costs money, and is limited by how much there is to spend. The crew work by union rules (money and time) and if something can be told in one scene - rather than two, the producers will chose the second option. Adding an extra character will cost thousands of dollars, and if they only say a couple of lines a main cast member can say, they will be turfed.

I made a movie of a story I did. Heaps of stuff had to be cropped and left out just to accommodate the medium!

/rant