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Dorin and Kendyl talk the magic of The Secret Garden (2020), the themes it pulls from the source material, and the changes made. Question of the Week: What do you think the theme of this movie was? Do you think it was successfully communicated?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Not shying away from taking this children's book too seriously, the Adaptation hosts discuss The Witches by Roald Dahl: the politics, the reproductive process, and the entrepreneurial possibilities of a traveling mouse circus that fronts as a witch hunting operation. Question(s) of the Week: What's your fan canon for how the witch-world works? How did Grandmother loose her thumb?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

The Adaptation hosts discuss the characterization, modernization, and representation in the 2020 Netflix series, The Baby-Sitters Club. Question of the Week: Do you want a season 2? What would you like to see covered in that season (doesn’t have to be something from the books)? **Disclaimer** Kendyl uses "queer" as a catch-all term to describe Ann M. Martin in this episode since she doesn't know precisely how she identifies. In hindsight, we realize that some are not comfortable with this term and it should not have been used for a someone who has not first used it for themselves.   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

In what might be the biggest difference of opinion Dorin and Kendyl have ever had about a film, the two discuss The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), the structure and tone, and most importantly, the waistcoats. Question of the Week: Do you feel like this is a good distillation of the themes and story of David Copperfield? If you've never read the book, do you feel this gave you a good handle on what the story was about?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

In this episode, the hosts do their best to cover the extensive series The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin, reminisce about childhood reading, and find that choosing your favorite baby-sitter is a lot like therapy. Question of the Week: Create your own t-shirt with the traits you admire most from your three favorite baby-sitters. **Disclaimer** Kendyl uses "queer" as a catch-all term to describe Ann M. Martin in this episode since she doesn't know precisely how she identifies. In hindsight, we realize that some are not comfortable with this term and it should not have been used for a someone who has not first used it for themselves.   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

In this episode, the Adaptation hosts break down their issues with Artemis Fowl (2020)...and there are many. Question of the Week: What was one thing you liked about this movie? How soon into it did you facepalm? What is the worst thing that they changed?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Jess and Kendyl cover the film All the Bright Places (2020), how it played with audience focus and expectations, and how fixing someone else doesn't fix you. Trigger warning: Just like the novel, this episode contains discussion of suicide, depression, mental illness, abuse, grief, and death. Please, keep yourself safe and skip this episode if these topics could be harmful to you. If you do proceed, please keep in mind that we are in no way mental health experts. Question of the Week: For those that didn't read the book, when did you realize this story was actually more about Finch? When did you realize it wasn't going to have a happy ending? And for everyone, what was your take away from the ending? Was it too much about Violet?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Jess and Kendyl discuss Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places, mental health, grief, recovery, and seeing the whole of a person. Trigger warning: Just like the novel, this episode contains discussion of suicide, depression, mental illness, abuse, grief, and death. Please, keep yourself safe and skip this episode if these topics could be harmful to you. If you do proceed, please keep in mind that we are in no way mental health experts. Question of the Week: How did you feel about the counselor’s interactions with Finch?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl discuss the first two books in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, its calculating protagonist, middle grade humor, and their favorite play on words... ever? Question of the Week: What do you think Artemis's first heist would have been?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Dorin and Kendyl tackle David Copperfield by Charles Dickens—a marathon novel with a large cast of outlandish characters—with a focus on identity, David's surprising faith in people, and an even more unexpected defense of Dora. Question of the Week: What parallels do you see between David Copperfield characters and sitcom characters?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Is The Secret Garden the perfect book for quarantine? Dorin and Kendyl think it just might be, with it's fresh-baked-bread-wholesomeness, themes of how nature connects us all, and early meditations on mental health. Question of the Week: Do you think that the author's intent was to make a statement about mental health, even with such an early understanding of it?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Adaptation gets down to business in this commentary on the 1998 Disney film Mulan! Question of the Week: Which metaphor in this movie is your favorite? Blossoming flowers? Rice? Reflections? The howling mountain?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

The colors. The music. The farce. There was so much to love about the 2020 film adaptation of Emma and the team gets into it in this episode, but not without a few disagreements along the way.  Question of the Week: When do you think Knightley knew he was in love with Emma in this version? In other adaptations?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Jess, Jenn, and Kendyl watch the 1996 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma in what might be the most talk-filled commentary we've ever done. Question of the Week: What is the most important element to get right in retelling Emma's story for you?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Relisten to this 2013 episode where Jess and Kendyl cover Emma by Jane Austen and what it means to like and root for a main character.   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

The team is back to praising Lana Condor's acting while covering To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020), even though they have some fairly big issues with the movie's structure. But who can say no to John Ambrose McLaren? Question of the Week: If you had put something in a time capsule in middle school, what would it have been?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

In this episode, Jenn and Kendyl have some differing reactions to Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020), from the pacing to the character interpretations. Question of the Week: What characters from this movie are you interested in seeing more from?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Is there anything like the nostalgia we have for middle school? Can we ever really see ourselves clearly? Will some people be bonded to you forever? Corey, Jenn, and Kendyl dive deep into the world of Jenny Han's To All the Boys universe with the second book in the series, P.S. I Still Love You. Question of the Week: What is the one thing that you’d be devastated if they didn't include in the movie?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Jess, Dorin, and Kendyl watched the first series of His Dark Materials (2019) and talk through the timeline, daemon, and character adaptations in this episode. Question of the Week: How did you feel about the prominence of the daemons? Did you ever forget that they were part of this world?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast

Jenn, Dorin, and Kendyl discuss the 2020 film adaptation Little Women, the important character beats, and how it compares to past adaptations. Question of the Week: What is your interpretation of the final scenes? Was that Louisa May Alcott? Do Jo and Friedrich actually end up together?   Follow us! adaptationpodcast.com instagram.com/adaptationpodcast facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast twitter.com/AdaptationCast adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com youtube.com/adaptationpodcast