Talk:Muriel Stacy/@comment-198.8.7.71-20200109150009/@comment-4934571-20200109184543

Hi. Here on AoGG Wiki we are aware of the differences between the books and other adaptations. Unlike the Harry Potter Wiki, we do not try to combine those universes becuase here we have more than one adaptation. We have decided to create separate pages for their respective universes - a Book one, a Kevin Sullivan live-action one, a CBC (AWAE) one and 9 more.

Sullivan indeed kept most of the book material in his first two films. However, The Continuing Story and A New Beginning dramatically changed not only Anne's future but even her origin. Along with Road to Avonlea, also based on Montgomery's books and chosen short stories, they could be considered fanfiction as well.

The same with Sullivan's animated series and a prequel film. The movie keeps only the arrival scene, the green hair dye accident and the Carrots moment. The rest is all made up. The animated series is a fanfiction too - it manages to keep the hair dye scene but otherwise it only uses some of the book characters as means to educate children.

If we go further, we'll find out that the other universes deviate from the original too – the original 1919 silent film and a 1934 remake feature skunks, guns, a fight against the Pye family, Anne and Gil's secret courtship against Marilla's wishes or Diana's unexpected wedding during Anne's time at Queen's. Moreover, the modern web and book adaptations Green Gables Fables, Project Green Gables and Ana of California brought the story to the present day. They aged Anne up, relocated her to Saskatchewan or California and presented their own version of the story.

Anne with an E might be controversial. It may not be liked by the fans of the book series or of the Sullivan's first two films (because almost none of those fans ever praises films 3 and 4). But it should not be blamed just for being a loose adaptation of AoGG while there are numerous other productions just as loose - or even more. Some of them are mentioned above.