We've got ring theory on the brain due to some off-air conversations, so this episode weaves a delicate ring through several repeating topics: Fallout 76, fun trashy fantasy novels, John Green content, and more.
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Novelizations were often based on the screenplays so you had cut scenes etc in them and some stuff that wasn't changed yet. The most interesting novelization I have read is Raiders of the lost ark which was based on the screenplay and written before the Indiana Jones franchise was a thing so I guess there was little oversight. So the author just kinda took the pretty barebones screenplay and added a bunch of stuff including a whole tragic character arc for Belloq (who basically becomes the other protagonist). It's a pretty interesting book. Rest of the Indiana Jones novelizations are far more typical and just kinda retell the events of the movies.
2022-01-10 14:58:12 +0000 UTC
my personal hunger games opinion is that the books are Fun but Bad (like the prose is kinda god awful but they're compelling) and the movies can't criticize capitalism the way the books pretty explicitly do so they don't work that well