So this morning, I just found out that the Mortal Instruments is going to be adapted into a TV series on ABC Family. As a fan who has been wanting this book to come to life on screen since I was young, I am frustrated.
I have never felt that TMI was ever “respected” the way big titles like Harry Potter or Hunger Games was. Maybe even Twilight. And I don’t mean respect as in respect from its fans and audience, but respected in the way that the directors respected the fans?
Look at Pretty Little Liars. It’s just a teen school drama that never ends with love stories that just seem to dominate the story rather than the actual plot. So what’s TMI going to become? It’s literally ABC Family. Why?
The movie did fine despite that its targeted audience seemed to be tweens rather than the young adults the actual market is made up of. TMI is just as old (or around as old) as many famous mythical series out there though it is not even remotely close to any of them. I read TMI when I was in middle school, and I’m almost 20. And I am still in love with the book as I believe that other fans around my age are too. (Yes, I think 20-year-olds still kind of make up the young adults age, if not on the brink of it). And then it becomes degraded to a stupid teen-romance school drama that has the stereotypical mythological creatures that dominate television today when the book is not as stereotypical.
There’s this dark, intense atmosphere that comes when reading it, something that draws the reader to want to keep reading (as all books I imagine would) but it’s just going to be dragged out just like Pretty Little Liars. And I think that’s disrespectful to the writer and the fans.
I have always wanted the fan base to branch out more. I invite everyone to read it because it is a great series that I cling on dearly to my heart, but if the fanbase is going to expand through a movie or a TV series that does not plan in following the actual book, then I just feel... I don’t know.
And it’s not about being a true fan, it’s just how true the adaptation is going to be to the book and how it is being displayed on screen. And it’s a whole different experience, but, and as I feel that all fans feel, that when you make that transition, we want that experience to still touch the feeling that comes when reading the book.
And when the movie came out, everyone disregarded it because it was just copying Harry Potter and Twilight, which is total bullshit anyways because it’s just as old. (Okay Harry Potter is much older but it
And it’s hard, granted, so I don’t criticize movies so much, but a TV show on ABC Family? No thanks.
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