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One valid reason to dislike what Green and Fuller have done is the circumstances of what put Shadow away. Instead of Shadow tuning up his fellow crooks, he tried to rob a casino on Laura's bidding. Further, Git Gone demonstrates the pure switch in tone that Shadow and Laura have been subjected to as an adaptation: Laura was "dead" in her life according to the TV show and only in death did she find the reason to be alive whereas Shadow was "dead" in his life prior to meeting Mr. Wednesday. For the sole purpose of adapting from one medium to another, Shadow has to be an active character on TV instead of a passive vessel for reader projection. I think it's persnickety to find this as the overriding fault in the adaptation.
But I do recognize that the shift of being a lifeless character from Shadow to Laura can piss people off and I think this is reasonable, but still hope people give it a chance.
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