Peculiar in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

I am halfway through reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
I recently saw an advertisement for the movie on the television.
I looked up the film on IMDB.COM.
Something strange is afoot.

In the book, a young woman by the name Emma Bloom becomes friends with the protagonist. She has the ability to conjure fire. Meanwhile, there is a young woman named Olive. She will fly away without being weighed down.

In the film, it appears, there is a young woman by the name Emma Bloom who becomes friends with the protagonist. She will fly away without being weighed down. Meanwhile, there is a young woman named Olive. She has the ability to conjure fire.

In other words… they have taken the CHARACTER and ARC of Emma Bloom and kept it the same while trading her POWERS with another character. This is confusing. The reasons I could think of why they would do this:
(1) Floating away seemed more emotionally fascinating for the script writers than Fire Starting.
(2) Fire Starting didn’t read well to audiences as “Friendly” so they changed the ability to be more “Audience Aware.”
(3) The film thought Fire Starting wouldn’t be as visually interesting as Floating Away.
(4) Floating Away is passive, thus more “acceptable” for a Main Female Protagonist than Fire Starting.
(5) They are sincerely fucking with people who wish to watch the film and pretend that they’ve read the book.

Here is what I could find On-Line: ‘Miss Peregrine’ Author Defends Tim Burton’s Movie Changes