Episode #165: Once Upon a Test of True Love

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Adaptation covers the fifth season of ABC’s Once Upon a Time, which started off promisingly before it crashed and burned.

Question of the Week: How does True Love work in OUAT based on this past season? Do both parties need it to break a curse as we’d always believed, or can it be one-sided?

Check out our episodes on Season 2, Season 3, and Season 4.

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Episode #164: Me Before the Wreckage

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This episode is a roller-coaster as Dorin and Kendyl begin by saying they enjoyed watching Me Before You (2016) and end by calling it a train wreck.

Question of the Week: Can you recommend some books/television/movies with good disabled representation? Maybe even actually written by someone living with a disability?

The Articles We Mentioned:

Huffington Post: ‘Why Are You Complaining? Some People Actually Feel That Way’: A Critique of ‘Me Before You’

Upworthy: A Hollywood film about disability has a lot of people feeling left out.

The Guardian: ‘I’m not a thing to be pitied’: the disability backlash against Me Before You

Variety: Film Review: ‘Me Before You’

The Telegraph: Quadriplegic author hits out at Me Before You after book features in film

UPI: Sam Claflin talks challenge of playing quadriplegic Will in ‘Me Before You’

Popcrush: ‘Me Before You’ Sparks Controversy Over Message About Disability


Don’t forget to check out our episode on the novel by Jojo Moyes!

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Episode #163: Magnetocast

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The Adaptation hosts discuss how the X-Men cinematic world has developed in X-Men:Apocolypse (2016) and then get into a very serious discussion about McKellen!Magneto versus Fassbender!Magneto.

Question of the Week: What theories do you have about the end credits scene and what it’s hinting at for the future of the series?

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Episode #162: Alice Through the Ocean of Time

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Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) turns the hosts to discussions of time travel, colorful characters, and what exactly qualifies as an adaptation.

Question of the Week: Does this film qualify as an adaptation? Did we really need this movie to be made? How frustrated are you with the time travel?

Don’t forget to watch Alice in Wonderland (2010) with us in our commentary!

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Episode #161: Super-Mega-Foxy-Awesome-Hot-Girl

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Girls run the Supergirl world and we love it! We discuss the great female-centric relationships, the comic villains, and where Supergirl fits in the DC television universe.

Question of the Week: What are your hopes and concerns for the move to the CW?

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Episode #160: Putting Me Before You

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Corey, Nicole, and Kendyl have a lot of feelings about Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. Through all the heavy concepts in the book, it’s still gray as to how the book handles them.

Question of the Week: What meaning did you attach to the title of the book—putting my needs before yours or the way I was before I met you? How does that play in to the themes of the book?

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Episode #159: Civil War Makes Civil Hands Unclean

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The hosts discuss the many heroes, twists, and ideologies of Captain America: Civil War (2016).

Question of the Week: What else? Cap or Tony?

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Commentary #14: Alice in Wonderland (2010)

comheader014Adaptation watches Alice in Wonderland (2010) along with you to prep for the sequel.

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Episode #158: The Law of the Jungle Book

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Ryan and Kendyl discuss the 2016 adaptation of The Jungle Book.

Question of the Week: Do the prominent actors voicing these characters distract or add to the movie?

We also have a commentary on the 1967 animated Disney film.

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Episode #157: The Huntsman and the Queen’s War

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The huntsman takes a back seat in this discussion as Jenn and Kendyl cannot get enough of the fierce fairytale queens in The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016).

Question of the Week: If the last shot of the movie is indeed setting up a sequel, what fairytale would you like to see incorporated in this world next?

Don’t forget to travel back to 2012 and listen to our episode on Snow White and the Huntsman.

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Commentary #13: The Jungle Book (1967)

comheader013The Adaptation staff had a really great time commentating Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967) in preparation for the new “live-action” film.

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Episode #156: Dawn of the Justice League

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The hosts are hot and cold in this discussion of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). We can’t love certain casting choices any more, but full-on hate others; we love certain plot points, but found others confusing.

Question of the Week: Did this movie get you excited for more of the DC universe or did it discourage you from wanting to see future movies?

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Episode #155: Divided Allegiances

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In discussing the film Allegiant (2016), the hosts discuss the flip in Tris and Four’s judgement, the pure versus damaged perspective, and what all these changes mean for Ascendant.

Question of the Week: With Tris being the only “pure” Chicagoan in the films, what implications does that have for the ways “pure” and “damaged” people are seen and treated? What implications does it have for the parallel with real world racism that we saw in the book?

Check out our episodes on Divergent and Insurgent, and on the Allegiant novel!

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Episode #154: What Would Peggy Carter Do?

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The hosts gush once more over Agent Peggy Carter, the vibrant, loyal characters around her, and the excellent way the writers subverted our expectations this season.

Make sure you check out our episode on season 1!

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Commentary #12: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2012)

comheader012A few Adaptation hosts watch Part 1 & 2 of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns in preparation for the bat to face off against the boy scout on the big screen.

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Episode #153: The Right to Refuse Allegiance

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Kendyl and Jenn discuss Allegiant, the final book in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth and make predictions for how off-kilter the films will go.

Check out our episodes on Divergent and Insurgent too!

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Episode #152: Deadpool Talks to Walls

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Like the rest of the world, the hosts loved Deadpool (2016). Listen to them go over the good, the bad (there’s always something) and what Hollywood should but probably won’t take from this.

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Episode #151: A Flirty Pissing Contest and Zombies

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Jenn, Sarah, and Kendyl discuss Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the film, the movie and the original Jane Austen novel they are descended from in this entertaining episode. They could have done without the B plot the film added, but Darcy’s leather coat, Bingley being useless, and the badass Bennet quintet more than make up for it.

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Episode #150: We Are the 5th Wave

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The Adaptation hosts aren’t in total agreement about the film The 5th Wave (2016); some enjoyed the film and others didn’t, but one thing that they do agree on is flannel and beards are in.

Check out our episode on the novel by Rick Yancey!

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Commentary #11: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

comheader011Watch, mock, and complain about X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) with us.

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