The Power of Adaptation

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This entry was originally posted to Live Journal on January 23 2011, in response to my earlier piece The Problem of Adaptation.   In my diatribe about the problems in Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s Sherlock series I mentioned briefly that one of the troubles with adapting Sherlock Holmes is not only that the source …

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The Problem of Adaptation

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Happy New Year internet! Have a rant I originally posted to Live Journal on January 4 2011. But I think it’s worth archiving here. The trouble with adapting a story to another media, is that if that story is already practically perfect, any changes you make in the act of adaptation are more likely than …

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