Talk:Alice Through the Looking Glass/@comment-1765692-20141225082138/@comment-1765692-20150115142232

Lewis Carroll has been dead for 117 years. His works have fallen into the public domain. Anyone who wants to has every right to adapt or interpret his work, as has been done with the works of countless other authors in the past. Shakespeare’s plays, the Grimm stories, and the Greek myths have all been adapted and interpreted hundreds of times by different authors, and some have been less true to their source material than others. There is nothing wrong with interpretation, and to say there is is to say that creativity is wrong, or that opinions are wrong.

Earlier, you compared ‘’American McGee’s Alice’’ to movies like ‘’The Last Airbender’’, ‘’Transformers’’, and ‘’Steel’’, all bad adaptations. There is just one problem with that comparison: those movies were all meant to be ‘’the’’ adaptation of their source material. It was the ‘’execution’’ that was their downfall. M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘’The Last Airbender’’ lacked any of the creativity or character of the show. Michael Bay’s ‘’Transformers’’ focused more on Shia LeBeouf than on the title characters. The 90’s ‘’Steel’’ was a generic 90’s action movie.

‘’American McGee’s Alice’’ just didn’t tell the same story as the book. You aren’t frustrated with the story that was told, you are frustrated with the fact that it wasn’t the story you wanted it to be. ‘’American Mcgee’s Alice’’ is not Lewis Carroll’s ‘’Alice’’, nor was it ever intended to be Lewis Carroll’s ‘’Alice’’. I can understand someone not liking it because of the body horror or the nightmare fuel, I’m not much of a horror hound myself. But hating something for telling a different story than you’d prefer is kind of stupid.