Talk:Meg

I know this isn't the proper place for what I'm saying here, but I can't figure out how to start my own blog ex nihilo.

I just saw the movie based on Alten's notorious Meg book after twelve years in development hell. Very, very loosely based on it, I should say. The backstory isn't too far off (though it's more dramatic and no doubt translates better to the screen than the book version would have) but everything else. . . You see bits and pieces here and there that hearken back to elements of the series (more from later stuff than from Book 1), but it's thrown into a whole new storyline. Jonas Taylor is the protagonist, but he doesn't seem much like I'd imagined. (Most damningly, he became a drunken ex-pat after his career ended rather than study marine biology and paleontology, so how he was able to pull up an encyclopedic knowledge of the Meg as soon as it appeared is a question with no clear answer.) His old friend is Mac (no full name given). The Japanese-American Tanaka family is more or less replaced with a family of Chinese nationals. Instead of a father with two adult children, it's a father, daughter, granddaughter. Jonas still gets the girl, though. A character named DJ is introduced in an early scene, played by a black actor and thus clearly not a relative. And he's got jack shit to do with DJ Tanaka.

And while Jonas does eliminate the Meg by "making it bleed," there's no crawling around inside the beast's heart.

Now failure to adhere to the source material, even to such a tremendous degree, does not necessarily make for a bad adaptation. Is this one any good? It's all right. Better than the reviews I've read suggest.

Actually, it really reminds me quite a lot of the movie where John Barrowman improbably offers to take the girl home and eat her pussy, though it's a little easier to take seriously. Turtle Fan (talk) 06:13, August 12, 2018 (UTC)