Alright baby listeners… we kept waiting for one of us to turn on it, and it just didn’t happen.
We all kind of landed in the same place on this one. The book does what books do best, it slows down, builds things out, and lets you sit in the story a little longer. And then the movie comes in and instead of ruining it… it actually holds up.
Like, it’s not the exact same experience, but it still feels right. The pacing works, the choices mostly make sense, and we weren’t sitting there asking “why would they do that” every five minutes, which already puts it ahead of a lot of adaptations.
We talk through the differences, what each version leans into, and why this ended up being one of those rare times where it doesn’t feel like you have to pick a side.
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