Television

I mean, you're welcome to that opinion, but it still isn't the same thing I'm talking about because what I'm saying is that it doesn't matter how good or bad either version is at all.

See, when a production company buys or options an IP, they aren't doing it blind. They're partially paying for the established fan base.

Once you step far enough away from what made those people fans in the first place, again regardless of quality, the less value that IP still has because it isn't the same thing at all.

I get it, you don't like Ennis as a writer at all, no big. I think he's kinda mid overall, an idea man with meh to poor execution over the run of most of his arcs. He's bad at taking established characters and writing them, but his own are consistent. Yes, consistently hammy and overwrought, but that's actually harder than it seems.

But, again, that has nothing to do with the concept of adapting an established property and scrubbing it being shitty. Doesn't matter how well you do it, it's a waste.

Those writers for the show could have come up with some kind of show on their own instead of being given the sorry job of retreading someone else's work. It doesn't matter if the end result was fight club or queen of the damned, once you start abandoning core pieces of the work, you're wasting resources, and insulting the people you're counting on to be your initial audience.

It's like the live action disney shit. The same time, effort, and money could have gone into something original. But, in this case, the production company started with something they didn't already own.