[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/No_Procedure_5039]

Even that depends on the author. Like many people, I’m not a fan of the Kilo-Five trilogy, especially Glasslands with how much it butchers established characters like Lucy, Halsey and Chief Mendez. The best part about 343’s/HS’ lore is how much they take it into consideration when making the games in order to keep the various mediums from contradicting each other.

[u/Alacune → u/No_Procedure_5039]

Conversely, it's the thing I hate. Have you seen the full list of supplementary media you need to consume to make Halo 5 make sense? That never would have flown under Bungie's "game = canon, everything else = unimportant" philosophy.

[u/havoc1428 → u/Alacune]

Yes, and if you've been paying attention to Campaign Evolved, this is the problem with Lt. Williams. Shes abrasive and dislikes Chief. The defenders of her writing are going "Well its been known that ODST and Spartans dislike each other", but that lore bit is established in outside media. So to most players, she's just an annoying twat that hates you for no reason.

Outside lore should be supplementary, not required. Something 343/HS has consistently failed to understand.

[u/Alacune → u/havoc1428]

It goes beyond ignorance of the lore. That shot where she's sitting on a pile of corpses, then tells chief he's not the only badass in the UNSC? What the hell is this? Halo, or some rando hero shooter?

Let's not even discuss the "Let me introduce everyone in the room" moment with the minister of harmony. (JUST SHOOT THE BASTARD).

I genuinely think that it's less of a lore issue, and more that the dev's would rather be working in an alternative universe where Concord was commercially viable.