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DF Spoilers / Re: Adaptation Do's and Don'ts
« on: May 20, 2022, 02:17:26 AM »That one felt like an excellent mystery series, and properly did one case per season instead of a crime of the week setup.
I don't know anything about Bosch or the showrunners, but this brings up a good point. Do you think the adaptation (if done in TV form) should be one season per case, one case per week, or something else? Personally, I think it should be more of an arc format. The first season could be made up of books 1-3, each being 2 or 3 episodes, with later seasons being more one case per season (you can't or shouldn't do Changes or DB in only 3 episodes). The issue with this format would be showing a progression of time between arcs. In the books, we know that typically each book is 9-15 months after the last book. You could get away with this time progression easier if each case is a full season, but it would be much harder in other storytelling methods, leading to confusion among first-time viewers.