User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-1659929-20131201052751/@comment-4123215-20131204044528

I can completely see both arguments here.

DT, you want a faithful adaptation of the original source material from one of the top dog companies in entertainment, who will most likely hold the copyright on that very source material for a long time.

The rest of you feel as if Disney used to source material as an inspiration, sort of half inspired, half their own creation. It's both an homage, and its own thing.

So in the end, while it isn't a faithful adaptation, it wasn't supposed to be. It was inspired by the source material, not a direct adaptation as far as writing goes.