The audio book for book one is 8 hours and 25 minutes long. I don't know what the conversation factor would be between audio book and TV adaptation, but I could see eight 45 minute episodes bein… (View Post)

I thought the Harry Potter films were awful, because they couldn't fit in all the material required for the overarching plot arc. They end up relying on the viewer knowing the books well enough … (View Post)

Long story arcs are necessarily more complicated and so more likely to go wrong, and there's also the pressure for each episode to have its own narrative arc which often causes problems. But if … (View Post)

I don't know. If you were cynical then you might view this as shitpost as advertising. We all now know that Amazon hold the rights to James Bond, and that's where we need to go to pay to wa… (View Post)

The Institute for Government have this: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/irish-reunification There's a lot of wriggle room for interpretation there, although several of the su… (View Post)