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Author: KJMackley

Feb 21st 2014 at 2:06:36 AM

Most of these are just artistic changes, with nothing really being "fixed" but just interpreted differently. As it stands right now it is PragmaticAdaptation described in different words, alterations made in an adaptation that work better in the new format or would be better received by modern audiences. That includes eliminating social, political and racial views that wouldn't translate well.

If this has any hope as a trope, make it a deliberate counterpart to AdaptationInducedPlotHole. Actual, honest {{Plot Hole}}s from the original (not archaic viewpoints or research mistakes) that don't exist in the adaptation. Maybe AdaptationFilledPlotHole or AdapationReparedPlotHole.
* A rather infamous change in Film/TheLordOfTheRings is when Faramir was tempted by the ring just the same as any other character but was convinced to let Frodo and Sam go after learning his brother Boromir betrayed them and tried to take the ring for himself. The change was made because Faramir's ambivalence towards the ring in the book was at odds with everyone else [[ArtifactOfAttraction having a supernatural attraction to it]].