The thing about the adaptational changes made to The Seven Dials Mystery

The thing about the changes made in the new miniseries of The Seven Dials Mystery is that they seem motivated by a couple of motives that strike me as unwise and illegitimate:

• to make a rollicking comedy-adventure-farce way more serious and solemn and sad


• to make sure the main heroine is not motivated by spunk, excitement, or sheer desire to solve crimes, but by revenge for the man she loooooooooved


• to make the heroine just the MOST speshul, not because of what she achieves or her choices and actions, but because of who she innately is

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