Episode #191: There’s Something There That Wasn’t There Before

The Adaptation hosts just can’t stop gabbing about the new live-action Beauty and the Beast (2017). Despite their previous doubts, they’re pretty happy with the extra backstories, songs, and details from the original fairytale.

Watch the 1991 animated film along with us in our commentary.

Question(s) of the Week: How did you feel about the balance of backstories between the Beast and Belle? Would you have liked more from one, the other, or both?

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Adaptation #109: And a Hobbit with the One Ring

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In discussing the final installment of The Hobbit, the hosts get into a heated debate about where the film starts, but agree on many of the other aspects like the fantastic fight choreography and the over-done love story. Make sure you let us know what you thought of the film, the end of the series and our discussion in the comments!

*NOTE* This episode is unusually quiet because of some problems with the recording. We promise to do better next time.

Be sure to check out our other Hobbit podcasts: (novel) (part 1) (part 2)

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For a similar discussions, check out our episodes on A Feast for Crows, The Maze Runner, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Emma Approved.

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Adaptation #89: X-Men and the Day Everyone Died

header089… but then they didn’t. In the new installment in the X-Men series, Sentinels created by Trask Industries have decimated mankind. In order to prevent this future, Wolverine travels back to the 70s to stop the event that set these events in motion. Our hosts come together to try to figure out the intricacies of this new time-line, what it means for the future and how thankful they are for the fixed mistakes.

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For a other superhero discussions, check out our episodes on The Amazing Spider-Man 2Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: The Dark World, The Wolverine, and Man of Steel

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Adaptation #72: Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon

header072In this episode on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, our hosts talk about the added/extended storylines, the awesome CGI, the unnecessary CGI and what it all means for the third film. And also how they would watch an entire film of elves fighting because oh. my. god.

Also, we have an episode on the novel by JRR Tolkien and films 1 and 3.

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For similar adaptations, check out our episodes on Thor: The Dark World, Ender’s Game, Once Upon a Time and Percy Jackson.

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Adaptation #29: Toners for Dwarves

header029The team talks the first installment of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, how it fits into the Lord of the Rings saga and how faithfully it represents the novel by JRR Tolkien.

For our discussion on the book check out episode #26: Luckily for Hobbits, Size Doesn’t Matter. For The Desolation of Smaug, check out episode #72: Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon. For Battle of the Five Armies, check out episode #109: And a Hobbit with the One Ring.

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