So, the leaks for the CW's Powerpuff Girls pilot script turned out to be real and I am sincerely disgusted by it.
You know what made the Riverdale show work as a premise? The fact that they were teenagers. The fact that it was a highschool setting so flipping it from a very silly and overly wholesome comic strip/cartoon to a serious and overly dark highschool melodrama with murder and sexy teens is what makes the flip funny. Here, it's little girls who were known for being adorable to the point of ridiculous. Yeah, little girls who would tear monsters apart, punch the teeth off villains, blood and all, and do some tremendously violent fighting, but, despite the occasional adult joke, it was overblown, pretty evidently anime inspired, cartoon violence. Very cartoon, very overblown. Turning them into disgusting, whorish, scum is not, in any way shape or form, an appropriate adaptation (and I do mean scum because I've meet girls who act like the ones in this script and you can tell how often they were literally sticky from whatever the hell they were doing. Be it the parties, the drugs and so on). Being a bunch of drunk, disgruntled sluts from a garbage HBO show with too many buzzwords is neither a deconstruction nor a negation nor anything remotely opposite enough to be a parody of that show. It's not a smart approach to the source material and, just to add insult to injury, it was all for the sexy points. Like turning my little pony characters into human stripers who do it because they like it. Da f' is wrong with you?
Most people have to preface that they don't mind that Buttercup is a lesbian now. Not me. That was stupid and not only do I hate that they not only turned her into a lesbian but a shameless, black, promiscuous lesbian so that they can make her a super minority and a modern millennial who gets laid at all hours. Stop changing characters into whatever they are not. It's not noble and it's not heroic, it's just self glorifying borderline propaganda at this point.
This is a millenial's idea of good writing and it is dumb as bricks, when it sincerely thinks it good, and revolting when you apply it to these characters. Most people are saying it's awful writing but I'm sincerely grossed out by it and I've watched my fair share of Takashi Miike. Not only does it have no class, like, none at all, it's done to a property that has absolutely no compatibility to the themes it's applied it to. This is the worst and those people should be ashamed. I'm sure they're not. I'd bet money that they're even indignant. That people should like it on principal but to hell with that. This is garbage and my opinion of the woman who wrote Juno, Jennifer's Body and Young Adult has taken a severe turn for the worst.
