Apparently I forgot all about this post, because I was surprised today when I read there were no plans for a Season 2.
I’m sure there will be a lot of ‘anti-woke comic-purist adults’ (The kind that Moore has also disowned) squeeling with glee at this. And ‘to be faiiiiirrrrrr’ i think a lot of show-runners these days are hacks…but I actually feel sorry for Lindelof on this. Its obvious he was just trying to open a conversation by being self-deprecating and asking trivial questions.
My feelings would be hurt, but then Im smart enough not to open a conversation with Alan Grumpy Moore without him signing a contract promising not to be mean.
‘Just neurotic ramblings’…FFS Alan.
Alan Moore has hated every adaptation. I should think that this is just another in a series and shouldn’t worry anyone.
Apparently I forgot about this post again because I saw new posts in this thread and thought “Oh, is Season 2 coming out?”
We all reach a time in which everything’s a surprise … mine is looming over me.
Yup. For Halloween Im rewatching Night Stalker, the Simpsons House of Horrors and Xfiles…even ones Ive seen before are mostly a surprise.
As far as I can tell he hates the very concept of adaptations, period. Apparently he has never tried to watch a single one. He’s no George R.R. Martin who was writing for TV back all the way in the 1980’s.
It’s not even that - he won’t even watch them. He’s a whiny baby about the whole thing. “This is all terribly embarrassing,” he says, about the critically acclaimed show that has drawn greater attention to the original work.
Heh. He needs to look closer to home. I mean, I love some of his stuff. But, Promethea, what the hell was that? He could use feeling embarrassed about that.
One of his (very legitimate) gripes with the comic industry is that DC agreed that the rights to Watchmen would revert back to him and Dave Gibbons once it went out of print, then they never stopped printing it, ensuring he never got the rights to it back. So, “drawing more attention to the original work,” isn’t necessarily something he’d view favorably, as it pushes the possibility of him reclaiming his work even further out.
He’s said to have liked the cartoon adaptation of “For the Man Who Has Everything”…and as well he should, from what I can tell its just drawn straight from the page.
I would guess his distaste with the HBO show is, like V for Vendetta its “Injecting American politics into a work that has nothing to do with that.” His main critique of V was that his work is about fascism vs anarchy and not a “Bush-Era parable”…“Thats fine. but make your own show then”
And that was 17 years ago. 17 years of being grumpier and grumpier.
I wasn’t aware of that - that’s a pretty legitimate gripe.
But man - I started following Neil Gaiman on Twitter lately, and he could not be a more lovely person. He interacts with fans daily, goes out of his way to be kind, and obviously is very involved in adapting his work across multiple media.
I guess write what you know and see in the world. But could there be a bigger difference between these two? “The world is full of bad actors and evil - leave me the f alone!” and “the world is full of hope and love, you just have to find it. Let me wish you a happy birthday and verify the signed copy of that comic you found at a thrift store is indeed mine.”