LONG VIDEO IS LONG. I’M SORRY. I tried to cut this down as much as I could. There are so. many. things. that I didn’t get to in this video, which turned out infinitely more ranty than I meant for it to be.
A quick point of clarification: I cannot emphasize enough that when I refer to people who insist that “the book is better” in this video, I am talking about people who do so without explanation. For the many books I believe are superior to their adaptations, I usually have some specific reasons for feeling that way. This is a separate phenomenon from what I was referring to in this video — people who preference books without articulating any actual reasons for doing so. I’m NOT saying that it’s wrong or a dick move to say that a book is better than its adaptation. I feel like I should repeat that sentence nine more times. I almost omitted that bit because, as I was editing, it occurred to me that I wasn’t as clear as I ought to have been and there’s a super likely chance that this comment will be interpreted not as I intended and cause a shitstorm of defensive responses. So. This is my attempt to forestall that.
Nicole is the co-captain of Snark Squad and these days she spends most of her time editing podcasts. She spends too much time on Twitter and very occasionally vlogs and blogs. In her day job she's a producer, editor, director, and sometimes host of educational YouTube channels. She loves travel, maps, panda gifs, and semicolons. Writing biographies stresses her out; she crowd sourced this one years ago and has been using a version of it ever since. She would like to thank Twitter for their help.
