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And in today's episode, Rosa, you and I are going to be using The Witcher season four and the Netflix adaptation at large, sort of as a launch pad for a larger discussion about adaptations.

Because you and I have been chatting about good adaptations, bad adaptations, what makes them good, what makes them bad, how do you do them right, quote-unquote?

How do you do them wrong?

And so we're going to get into that today, through the lens of the Witcher.

Okay.

What is your preference?

Do you want an adaptation to be a strictly adherent to the source material?

Do you like when an adaptation puts its own spin on it?

I do feel personally that that is a subjective question that's mostly on like a case by case basis.

But what are your thoughts on that?

Yeah, I mean, subjectively speaking, I lean toward the purest view on this.

Like, especially when it comes to stories that I'm already deeply attached to and that I'm

quite passionate about, if I'm watching an adaptation, I want it to follow the story that I

already know and love.

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