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  • TV series. If it's good, I get to spend more time with it that way.

    • I always said the Harry Potter movies should have been a series, each book getting a mini 6 episode season or something.

      Unfortunately that cast was great, and to be the time is passed. I know they're trying to do it again - but at this point I love the movies, they could have just been better. I don't have any hopes that they could recreate the magic.

  • Depends on what's being adapted. Some things benefit from a longer run time to cover all the good stuff, while other things benefit from a lot of the guff being cut and the story streamlined.

  • Depends a lot on the story complexity and pacing. The fact that a lot of adaptations are done poorly because they end up being someone else's story with only the veneer of the source material for name recognition, and that is true for both movies and tv/streaming series.

    A fast paced novel like Hunt for Red October that is constantly moving the plot forward would feel stretched thin as a multi hour series. Thrillers often fall into the category, and so do short novels like Lord of the Flies. Even a series of books of these types this tend to be better as movies.

    A slower paced book or book series is far better as a series, although fantasy often suffers from a lack of budget or falling into the TV adaption issues of adding content that doesn't really fit the source material to fill time. Not to mention a successful series can have be renewed and end up being a detriment to the source material after the source material runs out.

    Overall the run time should match the source material pacing and content if it is a direct adaptation, and both formats introduce issues when that doesn't line up with common video lengths. I really like it when streaming series have different length episodes so that they can be the length needed to tell that part of the story!

  • TV series would be best most of the time for adaptations. Miniseries specifically.

  • I actually agree with some people here. I enjoy mini series the most. This restricts the writer to stay closer to the source without going excessively out of bound with their interpenetration, allows for better character arcs and world building, without being restricted to 2-3 hours and no cliffhangers to sell the next 20 seasons. I prefer the 1 hour long episodes and then 8 to 12 at most. No season 2 unless it's another finished season in on itself.

  • TV series for stories I loved. (Preference for animation unless it's sci-fi)

    Movies for stories I enjoyed.

    I don't have a great deal of time anymore to just binge watch every show that comes across my table so I need to be more selective.

  • Depending on what it is, TV series. Specifically animated. The exception to the rule would be anime currently running. I was severely disappointed by the Boruto movie being a collection of episodes from the anime, once I figured it out.

  • Depends. Is it a novel with a single entry? Is it a series of books with a lot of emphasis on world development? Is it an action video game franchise with little plot or lore? Or a video game franchise that prides itself on story? Is it set in the current world or in a wildly different fantasy/sci-fi setting?

    In general, it's rare for an action videogame or book to convert well into a series because it requires lots of writing by writers who didn't invent the world and, vice versa, it's rare for a highly detailed fantasy world to work well in a movie because there's not enough time to do world building. Not saying it's impossible and there are great examples of both, but generally those are the ones that don't work out.

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