A quiet Saturday
Jan. 11th, 2020 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheart... and boy, did it me a wealth of good! I got up only slightly later than usual and spent the morning with a bit of unhurried crafting.
Someone in our Monday sewing club (no longer existent, alas) cut out the pieces of a rabbit and a teddy from some velvety red stuff, then abandoned the project. Now, I find the idea of a red rabbit and the red teddy a bit odd, but didn't want the poor things to end up in the rubbish bin, so I took them home with me. And now that I'm done with my tightly scheduled craft projects, I decided to finish the dolls. I've sewn on all the details - I only need to sew the two halves of each together and stuff them. They're turning out well enough, except that the teddy's head is proportinally too small. But it has been cut out that way and I can't change it now.
In-between I also cooked Sauerbraten for lunch, had the neighbour lady over for coffee and a chat and finished reading "Sleeping Murder". As I re-watched the TV episode yesterday, I was really impressed how close they stayed to the original. I'm always annoyed when ambitious directors try to "re-imagine" the classics (which is why I don't like Peter Jackson's films... to put it mildly). When I invest time and interest into watching an adaptation, I do it because I want to see beloved characters and plots shown in a different medium.
Differences are inevitable, of course, but when someone who was a good guy in the original suddenly acts like a villain in the adaptation I tend to take it rather personally. My other major grievance in this area was the Brother Cadfael series, especially The Pilgrim of Hate. But generally, I don't understand why adaptations tend to change the very facts and characters people actually like a certain book for. Yeah, I'm old-fashioned that way.
What else? Oh, I did a tiny bit of translating - the current chapter will be finished tomorrow, or so I hope. We'll see.
Someone in our Monday sewing club (no longer existent, alas) cut out the pieces of a rabbit and a teddy from some velvety red stuff, then abandoned the project. Now, I find the idea of a red rabbit and the red teddy a bit odd, but didn't want the poor things to end up in the rubbish bin, so I took them home with me. And now that I'm done with my tightly scheduled craft projects, I decided to finish the dolls. I've sewn on all the details - I only need to sew the two halves of each together and stuff them. They're turning out well enough, except that the teddy's head is proportinally too small. But it has been cut out that way and I can't change it now.
In-between I also cooked Sauerbraten for lunch, had the neighbour lady over for coffee and a chat and finished reading "Sleeping Murder". As I re-watched the TV episode yesterday, I was really impressed how close they stayed to the original. I'm always annoyed when ambitious directors try to "re-imagine" the classics (which is why I don't like Peter Jackson's films... to put it mildly). When I invest time and interest into watching an adaptation, I do it because I want to see beloved characters and plots shown in a different medium.
Differences are inevitable, of course, but when someone who was a good guy in the original suddenly acts like a villain in the adaptation I tend to take it rather personally. My other major grievance in this area was the Brother Cadfael series, especially The Pilgrim of Hate. But generally, I don't understand why adaptations tend to change the very facts and characters people actually like a certain book for. Yeah, I'm old-fashioned that way.
What else? Oh, I did a tiny bit of translating - the current chapter will be finished tomorrow, or so I hope. We'll see.
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Date: 2020-01-12 03:58 pm (UTC)I can't even remember the differences in Cadfael but it probably annoyed me that time as well. I'm annoyed at Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries atm.
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Date: 2020-01-12 08:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-12 08:33 pm (UTC)I don't understand why adaptations tend to change the very facts and characters people actually like a certain book for.
I am right there with you.
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Date: 2020-01-18 08:15 pm (UTC)