Not To Get Too Intense About It, But I Really Do Love A Good Retelling, But My Criteria For Good Retellings

Not to get too intense about it, but I really do love a good retelling, but my criteria for good retellings are... not high, but perhaps more specific than they are for most people. If I had to make a list

A good retelling must understand the original text and its context. If one is retelling a Greek myth, you must understand not only the plot of the myth, but the author should also at least understand the intent behind the myth, both in charitable and uncharitable interpretations.

A good retelling must add something new by telling this story again. You can't just say that this is the same story... but in space! You have to know that the creation of a different context for a story fundamentally creates different themes and understandings, and take advantage of that. To go back to Greek myth, Hadestown is fundamentally a retelling of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. However, instead of solely focusing on Hades as a figure representing Death, Hadestown focuses on Hades as a patron of the wealthy, the lord of all wealth hidden beneath the earth as much as the bones that also lay there. The story is then reframed as not just the story of Orpheus and Eurydice but also of the story of an early 1900s company town wherein Hades is the exploitative boss. Orpheus is voice of the downtrodden, traveling to this place of the downtrodden and trying, in his own way, to affect some tiny bit of change. In what I'd consider one of the seminal songs in the musical, "If It's True," where his simple action of singing this question about whether this is the only way things have to be awakes the deadened workers and their collective force makes Hades respond.

A good retelling must stand on its own even if the audience is unfamiliar with other tellings. Knowing the original should enhance the experience, but it should not be necessary. Sorry to keep using musical examples, but The Tain by The Decemberists is still a great song with solid lyrics, even if they're abstracted from the original story of The Cattle Raid of Cooley. They change the lyrics to more modern ideas, with references to Charlemagne, cars, and so on, but the through-line of the story is very clearly there. The story even ends with a direct question to Medb - was all that really worth it?

I dunno where I was going with the rest of this, but those are my thoughts on the matter.

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Seeing people grow out of their z*tara phase is extremely validating. Cause people were coming up the wildest fucking takes in the fandom.

The fact that most of the fandom demonised 12 year old Aang, a genocide survivor and the literally the last remnant of an ethnic group, was abusive or "toxic" about his feelings for katara or mocked him for his passivity, something that was an integral part of his culture and identity as an airbender.

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Aang brought her hope and genuine happiness. He respected her and taught her how to be a child again. Her and cared attacks against the fire nation.

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9 months ago

MCU Peter is such a far cry from the character you can barely call him Spiderman. His trilogy sucked ass because they kept his character tied to the billionaire war profiter and refused to challenge the role of Spiderman in any interesting way. Plus, he said and did things that you would genuinely question his supposed intelligence for.

Wanda and pietro were whitewashed and were killed in the most godawful ways imaginable.

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