You can always tell when an author is trying to “deconstruct” something that they think is stupid or boring or otherwise beneath them because they’re unwilling or unable to develop the necessary understanding of the source material to properly rip into it and the end result invariably fucking sucks. You need to love a genre in order to truly do it violence.
Adaptations, retellings, deconstructions… you always have to love the story first. If you feel contempt it will show, and make you lazy. Nobody fights as passionately as a lover.