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I'll admit, I make that claim pretty frequently, but usually in the context of an omission, alteration, or addition that serves to further some storytelling goal or take advantage of the new medium to convey something that was done differently of necessity in the original. But that arc is the defining moment of "We're not that Heroic" in the middle segment of the book. It should've been the centerpiece of the movie once all the premises established by the first movie and the overall trilogy structure are accepted.
I mean, I am not that upset about it because it's a departure from the book, but because the book already provided the perfect route to progress what the first movie was doing, and they've apparently ignored it. I really need to find time to watch this, because it sounds like they've taken an absurdly sharp turn away from the direction they established in the first movie, and that is what bugs me. Adaptation is fine with me, it's fucking it up so that your version is alarmingly inconsistent in addition to being unfaithful that gets to me.
I expect the trilogy to be different from the book in a lot of ways, but I don't expect it to create narrative discontinuities with itself.