Adaptations, good thing or bad thing

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Hey everybody

Todays subject is adaptations.
We've all seen plenty of adaptations, an original IP (intellectual property) is redeveloped into a story for a different medium or rebooted in the same one.

Now theres plenty of reasons someone would make an adaptation, built in audience, sense of nostalgia, a form of advertising (movie tie-in games come to mind), as some loving homage to the original work.

However, this isn't without its drawbacks, incredibly lackluster product can be put into production because its banking on the established audience, studio driven decisions can infect an artists vision (consider that Sony made Venom appear in the Spider-man 3 film because he was a fan favourite even when Sam Raimi didnt really know how to or want to write a part for him) and a market flooded with adaptations can make it difficult for an original IP to survive.

So what are your thoughts? Are adaptations a totally awesome way to re-experience old great stories? Would you prefer to live in some sort of bizarro universe where nothing is ever adapted? Is there a place for adaptations? Post your comments below.