Lost in Adaptation

Gotta appreciate how he accentuates "ReNESmée" every single time.

It’s been a… spectacle, seeing Dom trying his damdest to judge the books fairly at the start before gradually giving up and just throwing them into the fire.

I have mixed feelings learning the X-Men brawl fake out was a movie invention.

Edited by Ghilz on Nov 13th 2020 at 4:10:59 AM

The oddest thing to me, as someone who's gone through and read the books twice (no even I don't know why) is how much lore and world building she decided to cram in for some reason in the last fifty pages. Suddenly we get a fucking swath of brand new and interesting vampire characters with neat powers and glimpses of history. Suddenly we're in the Vampire Chronicles territory, and it's...actually kind of interesting? Like, seriously, Don can't stress how way more interesting the side cast collectively is proportionately to our trio of assholes.

For what they are, the Volturi steel the show any time they're on page. And all these old vampires sound like they have interesting backstories. Like, there's some genuine creativity in here, that's all the more frustrating with what it's attached to.

Stephanie's damn good at writing interesting stuff when she's not trying to make romance novels. Sucks that they're almost always romance novels.

Basically her biases hurt her work?

I never really thought much of how odd Renesmee sounded since I don't know what constitutes odd names for foreigners. I did think her other name option was pretty awful though, but that may have just been because I couldn't pronounce it when I read it.

Jacob gradually becoming worse as the books go by with it all culminating in the imprinting still remains a spectacle. Even the average trashy shoujo has the decency to let their blonde losers maintain their nice personalities all the way through.

Today, Dom talks about the adaption of Prince Caspian of The Chronicles of Narnia:

Edited by jouXIII on Nov 27th 2020 at 8:08:47 PM

I still want him to cover the BBC adaptations.

I’m sure what he said was very interesting but I was too distracted by Dom’s perfect hair to listen.

More seriously… is it me or is "expanding" female characters’ arcs by throwing in a love story a depressingly common tactic in adaptations? Reminds me of the Hobbit films where they literally created a brand new female character for that sole purpose.

Batman: The Killing Joke really fucked it with Batgirl. And most everything else.

Did you really have to word it that way in particular? If so, goddammit I couldn't help but laugh.

Today, Dom talks about Lachlan by Hazel Hunter:

…Dom has been reviewing an awful lot of a… specific type of literature lately, hasn’t he?

Today, Dom looks at The Prestige, the movie adaptation of the book with same name by Christopher Priest:

Edited by jouXIII on Dec 18th 2020 at 9:37:46 PM

I had no idea this was based on a book. I thought this was one of Christopher Nolan's original works, like the rest of his non-Batman filmography.

Insomnia was a remake.

Edited by Motyka5 on Dec 18th 2020 at 11:49:12 AM

We have a book review today: Let it Snow, a gay romance story.

We also have a special appearance by Rantasmo from Needs More Gay, where Dom asks his opinion on heterosexual authors writing about LGBTQ+ culture.

EDIT: The video has been set to private at the time of this writing.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Dec 24th 2020 at 11:08:54 AM

I'm surprised Dom took until now to realize the Yaoi Fangirl trope exists.

He took years to figure out why his channel name would get weird jokes thrown at him.

Video's been set to private as between recording the video and release, the author came out as non binary and Dom didn't want to misgender them for the whole video, especially as the author's gender comes up in the review.

Edited by Ghilz on Dec 24th 2020 at 1:17:51 PM

On the prestige video, kinda weirded out to realize that trope page barely talks about the book so kinda seems like nobody has read the book besides to comment that characters are bit different on sympathy levels ^_^;

Did you not see the survey at the start of his video?

People surveyed: 399

Saw the movie: 177

Read the book: 1

Did Both: 18

Did Neither: 192

So yeah, no one's read the book :-P

Ah that was because I started watching video several days ago but was distracted so only finished it now So yeah, sad to hear that because book sounds really interesting

Bloopers:

Today Dom just posted his first Lost in Adaptation episode of the year; Pride & Prejudice (2005):

Not really a Lost in Adaption-episode, but something equally interesting: