Dilemma

With limited time this evening, should I publish the 100th post for this month or rewatch The Girl Who Played With Fire? I am interested in the clever devices by which the makers of the films, having cut incidents from the plots of the novels, find different ways to bridge the resulting gaps. As a hypothetical example, suppose that someone filming Poul Anderson's A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows had cut Flandry's visit to the planet Diomedes, where he learned of Aycharaych's part in the conspiracy, but then introduced an extended conversation between Flandry and Kossara while still in space that yielded the same information?

My answer is that this should not be necessary. I want to see any novel adapted to screen not as a two or even three hour "feature film" but as an extended serial, long enough to leave nothing out.

Now to watch the dvd.