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Most of the time I have no real issue with it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I thought this was going to be a topic about shows from one country being adapted in another (like the UK Office being adapted into the US Office, or Friends being adapted into the UK as Coupling, or the occasional (terrible) attempts to redo shows like Red Dwarf in the US), and that's a subject I actually tend to be more opinionated about. If only because I've seen multiple UK shows I like that were adapted into terrible US versions. But some adaptations like that are good, so it's hard to say it's always a bad thing.

Yeah, that was what I was assuming as well. I will say that I've liked the trend simply because it gives an alternate take for something I like. Being Human UK and US diverge pretty substantially in terms of content, with the UK version flat-out going off the rails later on. The handling of certain concepts was also interesting. And, because I saw s1 of the US version first, I hadn't expected them to play the original plan straight, where George/Josh was used to kill Bishop (I can't remember what he was called in the UK version).

In the case of White Van Man / Family Tools, I got two shows I absolutely loved. Ironically, Family Tools was canceled almost immediately (when only 10 episodes had been produced) but, because BBC seasons are shorter, the two shows have roughly the same number of episodes.

As for The Office, I'll admit that I never quite understood Michael Scott *until* I saw David Brent when Ricky Gervais's sublime performance made clear the character. Granted, I still didn't like Michael Scott all that much, but I got his appeal and liked him a bit more. In general, the UK version handles the concept so much better even if the jokes tend to fall flat due to the British idioms.

Kimbos_Egg posted...

Its stupid. All you're doing to making the people ignorant of other cultures even more ignorant.

See the first harry potter book.

That's a remarkably stupid viewpoint since, if a person has no context for something, having that thing exist doesn't really benefit anybody unless you're including explanations at which point you're disrupting the flow of the novel.
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