- [Pitched 2021-04-25](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=ozg4dk7ewvyo#sent/FFNDWNFQhBtrdNGkFFgzrBxCjQHGvQrL) The surprising overlap between true blood and the hunger games; my whole stick about how the reason I like true blood more than game of thrones has nothing to do with the quality of the books or the stories or even the production, but rather what I think the video versions ad in terms of the reader experience. Some people are more visual some people are more written some people are more audio and their preferences, I personally like reading because it is faster for me than an audiobook, I realize that a bunch of people have a different emotion about it because they have a commute that's long enough to actually justify an audiobook and not a lot of time to read books outside of that commute, but for me personally it takes a lot to get me to watch a television version of the story. The Dresden files is a good example of how which order you view things in can impact how much you like something; for example I really have a strong preference for the old books for Battlestar Galactica and had real trouble watching the new version. but true blood and hunger games both do something that I find really remarkable; they genuinely add to the experience because they expand on the other points of view and are fundamentally different medium. they both offer third person perspectives on first person books, and The hunger games in particular does a phenomenal job of making the points of the book ram home. Reference story about the people in the audience who cheered when the children died, there by missing the entire point of the moral semicolon maybe we shouldn't make children fight to the death in order to entertain people. similarly one of the strongest parts of true blood was that it expanded out on the points of view of all the other characters, for example Jason and Tara had their own plots that sookie would have been completely unaware of even if things had stuck to being precisely the same as what the books were, I would have enjoyed them. By contrast I had a lot of trouble with game of thrones because I spent the whole time feeling like I know it was going to happen and it didn't really add anything for me -- as opposed to my husband who really enjoyed the television show because it added the strong visuals and made them better able to see the world in his mind. This is another reason that I really enjoy the Dresden files role-playing games. %% How does Altered Carbon hold up? How about Roswell as an adaptation? Tie in how often pop TV is an adaptation, e.g. GRRM %%