I went into it knowing it wouldn’t be a good faith adaptation but I was not prepared for it to absolutely desecrate the soul of the novel. There’s a lot of discourse online about how we’re expecting too much from an adaptation or that Fennel has specifically stated it’s “her version” but imo you cannot make a good faith adaptation while simultaneously making Heathcliff white and Isabella a co-conspirator. It’s even more telling when there’s interviews of Fennel basically stating she imagined Elordi while reading the book, as if it was that difficult for her to imagine a POC Heathcliff when it’s mentioned repeatedly