in m. night’s movie they replaced actual Chinese characters that were readily available and shown in literally every single episode with gibberish nonsense that is also high key ugly.

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If you really can’t see how a ridiculously terrible product with your work’s name forever attached to it doesn’t degrade the overall quality of the brand, then I can’t help you there.

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Also, it makes it much harder for someone to come along and do a good adaptation later, both because the market needs some breathing room between reboots and rights need to be negotiated and because execs are as liable to think the first adaptation's failure is due to demand for the brand not being that high as they are to think the adaptation was just bad.