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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Lost in Adaptation
🕑 Added 2023-02-01 02:02:18 +0000 UTCAlan Moore's hatred of adaptations of his work explained.
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Britney Phillips
I would love to have a Patreon exclusive about the loyalty of the characters in LOEG to their original characters! I'm so sorry you have Covid, I got it for the first time ever last fall and it's rough, glad to hear you're on the mend!
E. P. Haury
I'd definitely be curious to see a Patreon video comparing the characters. Having young man Tom Sawyer always bothered me. I understand that they wanted a young American character. But The Adventures of Tom Sawyer took place before the American Civil War. The existence of slavery is a key premise of the sequel. So Tom Sawyer should be an old man around 1900. I'd long thought the Connecticut Yankee would have been a better choice, though time powers would've made the story more absurd. However, while watching your video, I wondered if instead Tom could have mentioned having visited the Connecticut Yankee's workshop and being accidentally zapped forward a few decades. (If they had to have him at all, of course.) That would have added to the number of characters with odd lifetimes. But having physically young Tom being a bit out of time might have brought a genuinely interesting twist to the relationship with Quartermain.
