The 8 Biggest Book-to-Screen Changes From ‘The Passage’
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What about how the virals in the book, were hairless, green-glowing, yellow-eyed beasts?
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What about Amy? In the book, her mother had never seen and African American until she moved out to the South with Amy. . . suddenly, wave the magic wand, and Amy is a politically correct pre-pubescent black girl . . .
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Interesting.... so making her black ruined it for you. Shame you are so fragile.
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I'm confused. I read the books and watched the show. Many criticisms being valid, I literally seen not one way in which the character's race impacts the story. The only character's with racially specific notes to their arcs are Carter and if you really want to stretch Lila.
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Wasn't Babcock abused as a child as seen in the collective dream? Cronin really humanized a great deal of the "evil" characters and vamps technically. By providing character motivations steeped in their own traumas the author seems to prompt loathing, followed by understanding, followed by loathing...rinse and repeat.
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I agree with Woody and Razer Head. Wrong Guy never read the books so he is try to make a raciest chirp.
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Honestly, anyone who read the books knows that the Amy of the books was this introverted, somewhat creepy kid, who was not just pale but also was somewhat sickly. What we got instead was a black, healthy and hip teenage kid who talked more in one episode than the real Amy throughout the first half of the book.
The main character got pretty much replaced.
And the books also had this overshadowing dark feeling to them, the series got pretty much nothing right.
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Lila had such a huge role in the series as it would have easier to explain in Season two. It obvious whoever did this site didn't read the second film.
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I agree completely i loved the books they were excellent. It was an original spin on something that had been really over done. It really re"vamped" lol vampires it was like blade meets i am legend. But the TV series was horrible!!! Babcock was portrayed as this beautiful girl that killed her rapist step father and her traitorous mother (whom facilitated her sexual assaults for all those years ruining her childhood) making her crime understandable. Infact, not only do you find yourself in a position where your able feel bad for her, but it gives her situation and the decision she made in the heat of the moment to stab both of her victimizers a certain sense of passionate justification. Yet in the book Babcock was a murdering rapist who had 0 remorse and was evil, making him so unrelatable that it's quite possible one might detest him completely. Even after the knowledge of his abuse is made known to readers... and this is only one example of the changes they made that ruined the story and adds further credence to the stereotype that more often than not the book will be better than the movie and/or show!
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This show depicts a completely different story from Cronin's book. Whoever was in charge felt compelled to fight the Social Justice War, throwing story fidelity to the wind. No wonder it got canceled...