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I'm Jocelyn Getty.

I am Cattingus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously.

Welcome to February.

It is Romantic Movie Month, aka a whole month for Jocelyn's bad at me for making her watch a bunch of romantic movies.

Mm-hmm.

That's correct.

We are kicking things off with the 2010 adaptation of the Time Traveler's Wife, not the TV show that came out last year and was swiftly cancelled.

Yes indeed.

But whichever way you choose it be at the TV show or the movie, this is the famous cautionary tale about the things that you love as a teen and in your 20s, not being what you look for in a partner in your 30s and beyond.

Now I've seen both the movie many times and I saw the TV show when it was on and I've read part of the book just this week.

So I'll probably be able to do some little additions of how it went in the book, but we're mainly obviously going to be talking about the movie, which from what I can tell is of the far better adaptation than the way it handles the story is better than the book or the TV show I think.

Oh I disagree.

Really? Yes. I think the book is the best adaptation of this story for various reasons, but I think certainly the movie is better than the TV show.

Sure.

I think the TV show, which I have also seen bits of and I've watched the movie for this and I read the book many times.

The TV show, I think, had the first problem that number one, Stephen Moffitt had already basically plagiarized it in full for Doctor Who, like the entire AB pod thing.

So he's really double dipping on his own interest.

Number two, I think the TV show deals with the central problem of the character of Henry by really leaning into him being an asshole.

I think the movie doesn't fare much better, but at least what it what it hones in on is the melancholy and eggs of Henry's character.

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