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Just make the clock 4 years instead of 1? Or don't give a date?
It kind of diminishes the quick growth of the gang, but it's not like they can stop the cast from growing.
An Avatar would spend many years on one element alone, so pretty much mastering all of them in a few years is still an impressive feat.
This adaptation, while promising superior visual spectacle in comparison to the movie that doesn't exist, is however a mistake. My prediction is that it will flop. Not because it is technically bad, but because the show runners and writers are cowardly corporate plants. They will not dare do anything creative, innovative or cool with the concept. They should've told a new original story in universe, or done the Scott pilgrim takes off approach and just have fun with the retelling of the same story. Instead, we will have the vanilla oatmeal equivalent of a series. Passable, even good by all accounts, but ultimately boring and bland.
I still don't have any hope for it even being faithful to the original despite how good the trailers look. Don't forget, very early on, the original creator walked away from the project because he didn't like what they were doing with it.
Bryke immediately left netflix after disagreements with the story iirc
And here we are. The show hasn't even premiered and getting word of possible massive fucking changes to the story. Which in and of itself isn't a horrible thing. A new take isn't the end of the world if it's a good one.
But I don't trust Netflix to do that. At all. Look at their 'fresh take' on Deathnote. It was like they hated the source. Misa was basically the real Kira. Light pretty much confessed as soon as he met L. RYUK WAS A VILLAIN
It should be illegal to change beloved stories in adaptations. It makes me want to punch people.
It can work. Every single version of Hitchhikers was different.
There are multiple accounts.
Their statement back then was that they were not able to tell the story the way they wanted to. Sources within Netflix leaked to the media that Bryke were way behind the agreed-upon schedule in preproduction and were unable to get things going.
Great idea to remove the thing that forces our characters to actually do something. Maybe they should also remove the 100-year war so they can have more fun on their way.