The thing about adaptations is that you can just enjoy the original book, or game or play or whatever that is actually good and became popular based on its own merits. Not to say there aren’t good adaptations, but you have to take it case by case there’s no way most of this stuff should sell just because of name recognition.

Do people hate God Of War tv because it too slavishly apes the look of the game, because there’s very little to go off there?