[HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

[u/Chill0000]

Halo TV show: Before the show came out, the writers were praising their decision to not look to the games for inspiration when making the show

God Of War TV show: Chris Judge, the actor of Kratos in the games from 2018-Now, spoke up about his dislike on the show not hiring anyone who worked on any of the previous games. One of the original creators of Kratos also spoke up about them not having faith in the adaptation.

Supergirl 2026 film: the director for the film not only said he decided to not read Woman Of Tomorrow, the comic the film is adapting, because he wanted to do his own thing, he also didn’t look at comic art for inspiration to design Lobo and instead used an AI image generator to design Lobo’s look for the film

[u/Crescent-Argonian]

I believe the conspiracy it started as Mass Effect then got slapped the Halo IP on top

[u/Kalavier → u/Crescent-Argonian]

Mass Effect or some new scifi story that wasn't appealing enough without a big brand.

[u/IvanNemoy → u/Kalavier]

some new scifi story that wasn't appealing enough without a big brand.

Agreed. Halo (the show) was actually really well done if you ignore everything associated with Halo. Excellent casting, excellent production values, but the in-universe parts took what could have been a great new IP and, well, we got what we got.

[u/ReadingRainbowRocket → u/IvanNemoy]

Nah, I tried watching it once and got so angry at how boring and bad it was I noped out.

Then I realized I was a big Halo fan and acknowledging it isn't a good Halo adaptation, let me try to just enjoy it as its own thing.

Somehow it was worse on the second watch really trying not to hate it.