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Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Caryna posted:

You comic book people are the worst. This show is entertaining and Hell of a lot of fun.

Did you guys whine and complain when Dresden Files was made into a TV show and the result was nothing like the books at all? :v:

That's not really a fair comparison.

Dresden files TV show was still about a private detective wizard even if it didn't follow the same plot as the books.

Lucifer the comic is a fantasy epic about free will vs predestination that they turned into a procedural cop drama.


Like others have said though it's so completely detached from the comic that there's really no point in comparing the too.

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Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Pretty sure they could've made a show about "Devil Helps Solve Crimes" without having to actually own the rights to the source material which makes the whole thing even more confusing.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

Wasn't there a storyline in the comic where Lucifer made his own universe and dropped some aborted baby in there that grew up to be a god of some sort, and it killed a shitload of angels that went in to destroy said universe because it was not one of God's creations?

Cause yea, I can't really see that being marketed to prime time.

If you are going to take a stand on a show not being like the comic and how that ruins it for you, maybe pick either a better comic, or a better show, or a network that isn't broadcast. Something like the upcoming Preacher show maybe?

It's actually a lot more unmarketable than that. He get's the aborted baby from a priestess who was cursed by her gods because she got pregnant, so they caused her to miscarry and to live the same day for eternity so she had a miscarriage every day for a thousand years before Lucifer grants her death in exchange for her 1000 year old pissed off baby ghost. Not exactly prime time Fox material.

I doubt any kind of TV adaptation would be able to faithfully adapt a lot of what happens in the comic, but I can see the frustration when the one adaptation that does make it to TV ends up being a procedural cop drama. Simple solution here is to just not watch the show, the comics are still there and still really good.

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