leia131 | (no subject)

Someone, someone who I believe may be certifiably insane, decided that this was a good idea: 10 Things I Hate About You, the TV show

Now, there are more problems with this than I can count, but let's just touch on a few.

1. First and foremost, you are turning movie that starred Heath Ledger into a crappy tween show. It's bad enough that many people can't even watch the original movie anymore, because it's so connected to the tragedy, as 10 TIHAY was many people's first introduction to Heath, but from the look of the trailer I saw today, you kept his character in the show. Heath Ledger's character - Heath Ledger = FAIL.

2. On that note, you can't seem to decide whether or not this show will have the same characters (the same actor is playing the father), or just people who aren't them but might as well be (and even more steriotypical then they were in the movie too). Either way, it doesn't work.

3. 10 Things I Hate About You came out TEN YEARS AGO. Why are you making a tv series out of it now? The fanbase of the movie is now college age or older, and not going to watch your show on ABC Family. The age group you're targeting with this nonsense may have possibly seen the movie on TV, once, when they were 8, maybe. So why bother associating it with the movie at all?

4. You took a movie that contains lines like "Heinous bitch" and "Bikers. Big ones. Full of sperm" and made it squeaky clean for your family network. Though I love 10 TIHAY dearly, it's not the greatest movie ever, and a lot of what makes it not suck is the PG-13 dialogue and content. Lose that, and you lose a lot.

5. Did you forget that 10 TIHAY is based on The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare? And, as far as modern adaptations go, is pretty good. You're going to ditch that parallel, I just know you are, and then what will you have for a plot? There is no sequel to The Taming of the Shrew, and with good reason. Willy was smarter than that.

So, ABC Family, why didn't you just make a new stupid high school show, with new characters and a new premise, and leave 10 Things I Hate About You alone? No one's even going to understand the title if they haven't seen the movie, and anyone who's seen the movie isn't going to watch your crappy show, so you could have saved everyone a lot of pain and suffering by just leaving well enough alone.