What are the makings of an exceptional female protagonist? Whatever happened to movies set in the medieval period? How do you pronounce Saoirse Ronan’s name? Join my quest to answer these questions on this episode about Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness.   https://ia601502.us.archive.org/35/items/AdaptationalSongOfTheLioness/Adaptational%20-%20Song%20of%20the%20Lioness.mp3  

What are the makings of an exceptional female protagonist? Whatever happened to movies set in the medieval period? How do you pronounce Saoirse Ronan’s name? Join my quest to answer these questions on this episode about Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness.   https://ia601502.us.archive.org/35/items/AdaptationalSongOfTheLioness/Adaptational%20-%20Song%20of%20the%20Lioness.mp3   Advertisements

On this special bonus episode, join Harris Gale, Jackson MacGillivray, Dan Vadeboncoeur, and me as we join forces to identify all the Easter eggs hidden (and questionable decisions made) in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One.   https://ia601501.us.archive.org/17/items/AdaptationalBonusReadyPlayerOne/Adaptational%20-%20Bonus%20-%20Ready%20Player%20One.mp3  

On this special bonus episode, join Harris Gale, Jackson MacGillivray, Dan Vadeboncoeur, and me as we join forces to identify all the Easter eggs hidden (and questionable decisions made) in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One.   https://ia601501.us.archive.org/17/items/AdaptationalBonusReadyPlayerOne/Adaptational%20-%20Bonus%20-%20Ready%20Player%20One.mp3  

What are the concepts associated with hard science fiction? Are we on the verge of another whitewashing controversy? How much patience can I have towards a novel with so much sarcastic and bawdy humour? These earth-shattering questions and more on today’s discussion about Andy Weir’s ‘Artemis’.   https://ia601504.us.archive.org/8/items/AdaptationalArtemis/Adaptational%20-%20Artemis.mp3  

A short heads-up about the upcoming episode on Andy Weir’s ‘Artemis’, and a tease of what will be coming up on the proceeding episode.   https://ia801504.us.archive.org/14/items/QuickUpdate_201804/Quick%20update.mp3  

Do video game heroes need to have the moral high ground? How do you write for a silent protagonist? Can any movie break the dreaded ‘video game curse’? Journey into the unknown and the uncertain on this episode discussing director Fumito Ueda’s ‘Shadow of the Colossus’. Featuring Harris Gale of ‘Aggressively Unfunny’ and Jackson MacGillivray […]

Do video game heroes need to have the moral high ground? How do you write for a silent protagonist? Can any movie break the dreaded ‘video game curse’? Journey into the unknown and the uncertain on this episode discussing director Fumito Ueda’s ‘Shadow of the Colossus’. Featuring Harris Gale of ‘Aggressively Unfunny’ and Jackson MacGillivray […]

The potential to feel empathy for an unusual band of felines, the differences between live performance and digital effects, and the question of whether to sell a movie to either adults or children. These and other discussions on today’s episode about Andrew Lloyd Webber and T. S. Eliot’s ‘Cats’.   https://ia601506.us.archive.org/14/items/AdaptationalCats/Adaptational%20-%20Cats.mp3  

The dramas found in a small British community, the differences between British and American culture, and the question of how to respectfully depict a character who may or may not be on the spectrum. These and other discussions on this episode about Mark Haddon’s ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’.   https://ia601506.us.archive.org/30/items/AdaptationalTheCuriousIncidentOfTheDogInTheNightTime/Adaptational%20-%20The%20Curious%20Incident%20of%20the%20Dog%20in%20the%20Night-Time.mp3 […]