I meant the little mermaid.
That's how I felt about iRobot and Jurassic Park.
As a reader of the books, I felt like I was in for a treat and I HATED both movies.
ANGREEEEE
But then, years later I saw Jurassic again and thought the first was actually a good movie, it just wasn't MY Jurassic Park.
I think if you grew up on little mermaid, it feels like they are erasing your character or taking that (insert better nouns) memory or childhood connection or your attachment or something.
I felt that way about the transition from comics to the movies.
I said they couldn't make a good comic book movie until the goal was to make a good movie and NOT to make a movie to help sell more comics.
Now, they got the good movies and they are so good they have replaced the comic heroes with the big screen heroes.
No one (younger) thinks Captain America and sees drawings. Everyone thinks Chris Evans. That's what pops into your mind.
Wonder Woman.
For years, I saw the cartoon with the silly invisible plane.
Then I saw Linda Carter in my mind.
Now I see that Gal Gadot poster when someone says Wonder Woman.
When someone says Harley Quinn I still see the WB cartoon version with the jester hat.
I haven't transitioned yet.
X-Men Storm is still the comic book Ororo and not Halle Berry.
There's something to that - changing stuff and breaking your connection to it.
That property is no longer mine and MY Experience is no longer the official one.
It's an even bigger disconnect when they do some swapping along with changing the overall direction and tone.