• Reacher TV Show→ The TV makes Reacher dumber and weak in the name of "dumb" audience

  I am really thankful for the TV show existing as this was the reason I picked up the audiobook. But apart from that, the general additions and removal really get to me:

  1. Women Power: I mean why shove women power into everything? If the original story didn't care, why keep adding powerful girl character and turning girls into a man's anger equivalent? It feels out of place in a story not really designed for it.
     Notable Examples: The whole female character in the first book was turned into a Tomboy which made no sense. I guess the producers really want tell everyone how empowering women can be. Just write a moral science show please.
     On top of that, in the season 3 I started, the women again is mocking and showing herself a larger person that she was ever in the book. It feels really inauthentic, male of female, if that character shouted like that(when reacher asks a favor initially she starts making fun of him, also she is the idiot one who catches reacher going out the back, OMG so powerful!).
     In the first season, they added this stupid girl hacker character and gave her too much screentime which was not needed at all.
     
     I hate bad writing, male or female, but it's like if they add a women character, she should be the boss or something.s
  2. Men Dumb because women powerful: To incorporate the "women power" Reacher is throughout made dumber and dumber. Like that scene in the season 3 where when federal officers show up in the book, he gives a really good explanation why not answering the door is a bad move and in the show he just runs away like an idiot and gets caught by the "women".
     They also added a whole male character whose only job is to be made fun of, which is fine, but no, a women must always make fun of him for the laughter. It was pathetic.
  3. Reacher is made weaker for TV: When he is asked to play Roulette in Season 3, the tv show shows him hesitating and being scared, in the book, he is an absolute beast.

  
  P.S: I actually have sold multiple Reacher Books online when I was doing my book business but never actually read them.

• The Strain→ The TV show changed and added a lot of characters which ruined it. The book is still great.

  What utter hot pile of horse shit this was!
  Just to be clear, the audiobook which the TV show is "supposedly" based on doesn't have so many stupid problems where just to get some shock and awe, logic is thrown out the window.
  Yes, these are vampires but you should stick to some rules set by yourself or if the rules has to be broken it should be done in a way so it doesn't feel like it was forced onto it.
  
  Also the show has women problem.
  TV show creators hate women. The audiobook was far better.
  
  Adding insufferable badly written women can't be made up for by showing their naked bodies and implying sex.
  
  Not only this show compared to the book add insufferable characters but also turned characters from the book insufferable.
  
  Here's the list of changed characters:
  1) Nora: She is always confused and sad in this show with no sense of purpose or intelligence as a character compared to the book. I know she left the show and thus the character has to be killed but even before that her constant down-syndrome face and her "acting like your typical damsel in distress" shows up again and again.
  And also, they had to add that pathetic sex scene and someone walking upto them to tell them it's wrong because Eph went through a divorce while her wife is already shagging someone for so long.
  
  2) Kelly & the whole divorce rigamarole: I think being this show for America, the creators thought, let's add a bunch of "relatable divorce stuff" in the show.
  The book has the same motivations of Kelly but it's implemented so much better and it's never allowed to be bigger than it's supposed to be.
  Also, they had to add the insufferable montage of father-son bond because the father went through a divorce. It was pathetic.
  
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  Now, the stupid characters added so that the men in the show don't feel lonely:
  1) Dutch: What an insufferable women. The showrunners must really hate the LGBTQ people so they added her to to show their hatred. And of course, in TV show no man can be without a woman so of course she tries to hook up with the lone-wolf Fet.
  
  2) The little woman for the rich old dude: Yup, of course she was added and soon killed because how can a man live without a woman. In the book, he is such a strong character who is above such things, but no, in the dumb TV show, they had to add a woman again because it's just "nice".
  
  3) The flashback women for Thomas Eichorst: What piece of garbage. I didn't even bother watching what she did and I don't want to know. Suffice to say, in the book, he is handled much much better and is so lot more consistent.
  
  
  Of course there are women added apart from this:
  I am still 2/3rd in the book-series so I will confirm this later:
  1) The congresswomen: Again, very very insufferable.
  2) The resistance women leader: Same, very irritating with confusing ideals.
  
  Other characters have been affected slightly: Many characters are kept alive earlier and longer and they don't fit the narrative in the way. I still want you to read the book so I won't spoil it but just a hint, the book handles characters a lot better including Angel. Some notable ones are:s
  1) Angle: He is such an amazing character in the book while just glossed over in the TV show.
  2) The taxi-driver: Is handled so much better in the book again.
  3) Thomas Eichorst: Unnecessarily too much in the TV show to the point one starts to question if he is the one who affects everything while in the book he is just another pawn.
  4) Eph: Has drinking problems but I guess the TV show people thought it would be so much more relatable to Americans if we show him struggling with alcohol all the time when the book handles hum so much better.
  5) The other CDC glasses friend: Unnecessarily butts his way into the show and creates just nuisance. In the book he is just another pawn which makes a lot more sense.
  6) The old man: For some reason, they leaned into the old man's weakness and showed him at a much varying strength levels. He is either very strong or very weak both as young and as old. His fingers are snapped because he dare challenge the master while in the show he actively seeks out the master and damages the master enough to put a permanent memory in the master.
  
  Apart from these there were so many great characters from the book which were never even touched. These should have been in the TV series instead of adding random women because it's for the "dumb" TV audience:
  1) Crazy: What a well-written character who affects the plot in significant way.
  2) Fade: Only show face once but is integral to how he is portrayed.
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  Also, the show unnecessarily leans into extra mechanics like:
  1) The non-sex strigoi: It is so so irritating having shoved this in your face all the time.
  2) The way the mystery unfolds: It's pathetic in the show, handled greatly in the book.
  3) The constant imagery of the strain transfer just for shock and disgust is cheap.

  Even other side characters like Mark, the policeman, the blind kids are portrayed so much more better in the book than the TV shows.

• The Hobbit→ Movies change the tone of the whole books

  Yeah the book is pretty chill and a fun experience. The movies unnecessary add stuff from other books for the sake of just lenghtening them. Just listen to the bok instead.

• Harry Potter→ Dehumanized Movies

  Now I want to talk to you about something I have recently learnt with Harry Potter recently and comparing the movies and the books too.

  Before I get into it however I should let you know that I know these are full of huge plotholes. Even while listening to the books I can tell you hundreds of plotholes in the same chapter sometimes even without going through, "Everything wrong with the harry potter movies" on youtube. I am aware of these plotholes but I still keep moving forward.

  What I love about the books is the general everyday talk about normal stuff going on in everyone's day to day life. Things that if a director wanted to make into a movie will willingly gloss over because "drama or emotion enducing sequences" take more precedence.

  In the last book I actually skipped the whole chapter about the fight at the ministry because I didn't think them important at all. I knew them already but I was more into I guess normal dialogues and the end chapter explanations by Dumbeldore. Things that are in my memory are them cleaning the house, cleaning the garden of gnomes, Ron going upto the girls dormitory and falling flat, their normal everyday life of students and so so many many more memories (LOL I said memories as if it really happened with me or something).

  Now that I think about it even with the recent book about the Boudelare's children I was really more interested in the normal day to day activites that doesn't have to be full of drama with every second like the movies and it is also interesteing to see that the people who completely stick to the movies/tv shows miss out this particular aspect. Even with long TV series what I have seen is that movie/tv makers knowingly gloss over or skip over "day to day stuff that makes us human" whenever there is an adaptation and care about more "emotion enducing scenes".

  One of the tragic examples is harry Potter's 6th book where the love affair took center stage in this when there were so so many stuff that they could have focussed on instead in the movies, yes the love affair with Ron Hermoine and Lavendar Brown was a small part of this book but there was so so much more that would have been more important than emotion-enducing.

  It feels to me that the parts of the books that are selected for video entertainment are again, "emotion enducing" whereas when I listen to book I really like the part of the books that I guess makes them human. Maybe this is also the reason I can't get into complete magic books where there are no connection with real humans or for that matter even TV shows or movies. Like I love Dark but mainly because the humans lives and how they have been changed rather than actual sci-fi aspect. I love sci-fi, I really do, UFO aliens, time travel, the lot, but what I am more interested is I guess how it affects the people in it.

  Now, there is one more thing I want to talk to you about. It's the general dumbing down of stuff from the books into the movies. In the 6th Harry Potter movie, Luna Lovegood who has been established only believes in stuff as long as there is no actual proof in them and her imaginations are just imaginations and not really gronded in reality. She wears a sort of googles in the movie and starts checking train compartment to find whatever it was on Harry's head due to which she was able to see him under the invisibiliyt cloak. This was completely outrageous in my opinion. In the movie there is a much more logical reasoning when Tonks comes to check and finds a compartment with the drapes down and tries to find him instead here just for the sake of entertainment the logic has been pushed aside and sort of confirmed that whatever backward ass story Luna is thinking is actually true.

  This makes me think that movies will always dumb down stuff for the audience, always. They will always prefer grandure, emotions, dopamine and not I should say, "things that make us human."

• A Man Called Ove→ Book has a lot more depth to it

  I wanted to talk about A man called Ove/Ovah or Otto. I had wathced the movie already. Don't remember the ending exactly but I had liked the movie but that's the thing, apart drom the trailer of the movie I can't really remember a good moment in the movie at all.

  And I suspected this and that's why I had my reserve before starting the book. I finally did and I have not even been through 30mins of the book and I am already creating memories, sad and funny, normal and just boring day and small humours moments. I thought I would not be able to do that since I had already watched the movie.

  And I do get the images from the movie in my head again and again and I try my best to shove it aside. Despite this I have already formed quite a lot of memories(Yes, memories as if I was actually in the story) like Ovah telling the lanky neighbour that he shouldn't even be allowed to reverse a cassete tape let alone a car. Also just subtle writing like the door opened as if it opened out of fear by itself and he disliked the woman a little less.

  Later:
  I was dreading listening to A Man called Ova. I had watched the movie and I expected something amazing. So i kept positioning it and after to it, it was amazing... Almost cried at the end. However I am breaking my earlier habit of watching a movie just after reading the book it is based on. I beleive it helps me visualise the characters and events but they are feel hollow and I believe they break the stuff I have created in my head

Note: After 26th Oct 2026, if unspecified, I read the movie/tv script instead of watching the movie/tv.

• Movies Recommended by EFAP mainly!

• Scary Movie Summary → 29th Oct 2026

• Coherence 2013 → 27th Aug to 28th Aug 2026

  I was on the edge of my seat and I found this very very exciting but since I have watched this movie many-o-many times, a better test would be a movie I have NOT watched before.