tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post4416895467124587261..comments2024-03-21T21:37:03.772-05:00Comments on Series Books for Girls: The Hardy Boys Hulu Television SeriesJennifer Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10405593758228423001noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-47111618432276325132021-01-23T00:07:05.524-06:002021-01-23T00:07:05.524-06:00The Hardy Boys show is great! Thanks for the reco...The Hardy Boys show is great! Thanks for the recommendation. My 12 year old daughter also loved it. She read about 75 percent of the Nancy Drew yellow covers and loved them. She does not like the new Nancy Drew show at all.Travis Ketchumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01822804437456157569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-50449310547365748952021-01-07T14:21:42.342-06:002021-01-07T14:21:42.342-06:00I think the CW show did the right thing with Nancy...I think the CW show did the right thing with Nancy by setting her series at the end of her high school years/beginning of college. That hits the sweet spot of making her still youthful while also making her old enough to have credibility with adults as she navigates their world. It also gives a tv show time to use the actress for several years as the character grows up to young adulthood (one of the things I'm concerned about with the CW show is that all these COVID delays will cause us to lose valuable time with Kennedy McMahon as Nancy while she's still young enough to portray the character convincingly--one of my problems with Frank Hardy in the Hulu show, for instance, is that the actor is quite obviously NOT 16). The eternal problem with portraying these characters onscreen is how to cast the right young people to play the parts while they're still youthful enough to do so convincingly--and even then there's only a limited window of time in which it can be done.<br /><br />The CW show's biggest misstep, to me, was putting the death of Nancy's mother so close in the recent past. That overloaded the show with Nancy and Carson's family drama, which, to me, took away from what I want in a Nancy Drew property. I don't tune in to Nancy Drew stories to watch her arguing with her father all the time. I didn't even mind the supernatural stuff (although I would've preferred it if they had kept that element more subtle and not gone so overboard with it), but I really didn't like the "Nancy vs. Carson" aspect to it.ADFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06337583912789164893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-23892718276382094552021-01-06T09:47:00.421-06:002021-01-06T09:47:00.421-06:00I agree completely regarding the Nancy Drew New Yo...I agree completely regarding the Nancy Drew New York detective show. That one was too much for me, for one simple reason. I am a fan of books which feature children and teenagers. Nancy Drew must not be an adult with adult problems. She needs to be under the age of 25, but preferably 20 or under. Otherwise, I'm not interested. The same goes for the Hardy Boys.Jennifer Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10405593758228423001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-49631043633660252462021-01-05T15:53:28.431-06:002021-01-05T15:53:28.431-06:00I ended up liking the show more than I thought I w...I ended up liking the show more than I thought I would, although they never did stll me on the age difference between Frank and Joe; I still think the show would've been better had they been closer in age. Also, Frank and Joe didn't interact very much during most episodes (although the moments when they did interact were, I though, the highlights of the show). I, too, thought Joe was more appealing than Frank, who took quite a while to grow on me. He just didn't "seem" like Frank Hardy to me for a long time. It wasn't until they started getting into the corrupt college plot and Frank got a chance to show off his smarts and academic skills that I started buying that this was Frank Hardy. Oddly enough, despite him being so young, I accepted Joe as Joe Hardy right away.<br /><br />What I was struck by was how much this show seemed to be tailor-made for a Nancy Drew adaptation. I think they actually did a better job making a "Nancy Drew-like" show than the current Nancy Drew show did (at least in Season 1).<br /><br />While I agree that adaptations are necessary, I also think it's possible for them to go too far; as an obvious example, I never, ever agreed with the planned 2016 CBS version of Nancy Drew which made her an adult NYC homicide detective solving Bess's murder. That was simply too far. The adaptation has to have more in common with the source material than just a main character who happens to share the same name. This Hardy Boys show was actually more faithful to the source material than I expected it to be, which was a real surprise considering I had gotten to the point where I thought the Hardy Boys would never be adapted to television again (I figured a show about two brothers--white brothers, at that--with the word "boys" right there in the title isn't nearly "woke" enough to suit modern tv producers). They didn't even go as far with the changes as I thought they would. Heck, the only thing they really "changed" was making Chet black (which I was fine with since I don't like the character in the first place), but then they proceeded to do essentially nothing with him throughout the show.<br /><br />I also don't really understand why they needed to make Biff into Eliza"biff," when they could've just used Vanessa from the CaseFiles series (which they were obviously aware of, since they used the CaseFiles logo as the logo of the show) to give Joe a girl companion. And it's too bad they couldn't figure out a way to include Tony. But they definitely got Fenton right, and they age-corrected Gertrude--excuse me, Trudy--and made her a worthwhile character (although they had to kill off Laura to do it). Also, I'm not clear why Bayport had to become Bridgeport. At least the CW Nancy Drew show justified the change from River Heights to Horseshoe Bay by moving the setting from a river town to a bay in Maine. I'm not sure what going from Bayport to Bridgeport was supposed to accomplish.<br /><br />Anyway. The show was fine, and I'm glad it exists, 'cause like I said earlier, I truly didn't think we'd ever see the Hardys onscreen again in this era of wokeness.ADFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06337583912789164893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7157530669780468545.post-57516933500507992772021-01-02T19:24:01.594-06:002021-01-02T19:24:01.594-06:00Jennifer, I agree with you. After I accepted that ...Jennifer, I agree with you. After I accepted that this was different than the books, I truly enjoyed the series. dsingletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06492732931987758627noreply@blogger.com