Adaptations are alwaysss bad, but I was still disappointed watching the series right after reading the book. You’re absolutely right, you highlighted the differences well and they really white washed Andie’s character. She was extremely evil in the book. Nat and one of her other characters were merged and she leaked the nudes to bully her cuz she was jealous of her. Nat’s brother was a lot more grey in the books. Max got arrested in the book, and they discounted PiP’s intelligence a lot. Like with the printer at Naomi’s place, she had thought of that earlier and ensured it tracks a history of what gets printed, which comes back later in the series. Naomi liked Sal, and she didn’t just tell PiP that he had an alibi, Pip did the digging. She stalked and found out that Max had another secret Instagram ID instead of Naomi just giving her the deets. PiP was a lot more smart in the book. She texts Andie’s friend pretending to be the other friend and gets the details about the Secret Older guy, whereas Ravi does that in the series ( That’s not too bad, it gave Ravi a little more essence). How PiP follows Howie, how Ravi tracks her phone to get to her in the climax is because she gets him to do it when she intentionally leaves it in Elliot’s car was a lot more cohesive than how it’s portrayed in the series that Cara just does it all the time. That Stanley, ( Journalist) was no where to be seen in the series.These were a few more differences that I noticed other than the ones you mentioned. For me, the series was definitely underwhelming as compared to the book but that’s almost always the case with adaptations.
You literally hit everything!! I completely forgot about some of this stuff to be honest, but you’re so right that too many things were just “given” to Pip and felt convenient. She is so smart in the books, which is why I loved her so much. My biggest peeve with the adaptation is how they only portrayed Andie as the victim 🙃. Like come on guys, Holly Jackson did all the work for you and built these awesome, developed, and gray characters and you just decide to do your own thing in the TV show and make them bland 🤦🏻♀️
I really enjoyed the books and thought the TV series was pretty good, but there was one main flaw to the latter: there was no on-screen chemistry between Pip and Ravi.
As someone who watched the show first and read the book after, I can totally see the differences. The pacing was really weird at points, going to fast or to slow or skiping things or characters. But honestly the show was pretty cool for me as a casual viewer, while the book being a bigger world with so much more stuff happening
The show was Sooo different 🥲 I read the book after hearing that its going to adapted in a show and I was thinking of reading the book from a long time anyway and I liked the books (havet read the kas one yet) but the show was... like it didn't include many good scenes and merged many characters. Moreover the casting (I was satisfied with Pip's one tho she was perfect) Maybe due to the time limit and low budget idk but the show was just not it. Btw can you remind me wy andie bell leaked nat's n?
I had to think about it pretty separately from the book to enjoy it 😅 but my expectations are always reallyyyy low with adaptations. From what I remember (at least in the book), Andie released Nat’s nudes because she was legit just bullying her (Andie was HORRIBLE in the book). In the TV show, I don’t think they even mention who leaked them 🙃
@@heididischler this was first time for me to watch a series adapted from a book that I've read before so i didn't knew what to expect but still they mixed everything up even I tried to watch it as a separate show and forget about the books for a while lol Btw thanks for reminding me I think she did it cause they and nat like the same guy or smtg
How did you feel about them taking out Stanley when he’s a huge part of the 2nd book? I did mute this for a short bit when you mentioned books 3 because I’m just starting it today. So maybe you said something and I missed it.
OMG I literally did not even notice that they took Stanley out. I forgot he was even in book one tbh 🥴. Considering that they mentioned some things that come along in book three, I’m surprised they didn’t mention him and that’s honestly super disappointing because the lead up will be anticlimactic since you didn’t get to know the character as much.
Someone mentioned to me that a huge character in the second book (his name is Stanley) isn’t even mentioned in the tv series (but he’s mentioned in the first book). I don’t think it would be an issue to start the second book after having watched the first season, but you will be missing some info for sure.
I actually did a movie review on it! I just didn’t make a video 😅 andddd I was thinking about doing a book vs. movie but it’s honestly been so long since I read the book that I would’ve had to read it again to even tell yall the differences lolol Here’s the link if you wanna read the movie review! www.heididischler.com/movie-review-uglies-2024/
Adaptations are alwaysss bad, but I was still disappointed watching the series right after reading the book. You’re absolutely right, you highlighted the differences well and they really white washed Andie’s character. She was extremely evil in the book. Nat and one of her other characters were merged and she leaked the nudes to bully her cuz she was jealous of her. Nat’s brother was a lot more grey in the books. Max got arrested in the book, and they discounted PiP’s intelligence a lot. Like with the printer at Naomi’s place, she had thought of that earlier and ensured it tracks a history of what gets printed, which comes back later in the series. Naomi liked Sal, and she didn’t just tell PiP that he had an alibi, Pip did the digging. She stalked and found out that Max had another secret Instagram ID instead of Naomi just giving her the deets. PiP was a lot more smart in the book. She texts Andie’s friend pretending to be the other friend and gets the details about the Secret Older guy, whereas Ravi does that in the series ( That’s not too bad, it gave Ravi a little more essence). How PiP follows Howie, how Ravi tracks her phone to get to her in the climax is because she gets him to do it when she intentionally leaves it in Elliot’s car was a lot more cohesive than how it’s portrayed in the series that Cara just does it all the time. That Stanley, ( Journalist) was no where to be seen in the series.These were a few more differences that I noticed other than the ones you mentioned. For me, the series was definitely underwhelming as compared to the book but that’s almost always the case with adaptations.
You literally hit everything!! I completely forgot about some of this stuff to be honest, but you’re so right that too many things were just “given” to Pip and felt convenient. She is so smart in the books, which is why I loved her so much. My biggest peeve with the adaptation is how they only portrayed Andie as the victim 🙃. Like come on guys, Holly Jackson did all the work for you and built these awesome, developed, and gray characters and you just decide to do your own thing in the TV show and make them bland 🤦🏻♀️
@@heididischler Exactly ❤️
I really enjoyed the books and thought the TV series was pretty good, but there was one main flaw to the latter: there was no on-screen chemistry between Pip and Ravi.
AGREED 💯
As someone who watched the show first and read the book after, I can totally see the differences. The pacing was really weird at points, going to fast or to slow or skiping things or characters. But honestly the show was pretty cool for me as a casual viewer, while the book being a bigger world with so much more stuff happening
The show was Sooo different 🥲
I read the book after hearing that its going to adapted in a show and I was thinking of reading the book from a long time anyway and I liked the books (havet read the kas one yet) but the show was... like it didn't include many good scenes and merged many characters. Moreover the casting (I was satisfied with Pip's one tho she was perfect)
Maybe due to the time limit and low budget idk but the show was just not it.
Btw can you remind me wy andie bell leaked nat's n?
I had to think about it pretty separately from the book to enjoy it 😅 but my expectations are always reallyyyy low with adaptations.
From what I remember (at least in the book), Andie released Nat’s nudes because she was legit just bullying her (Andie was HORRIBLE in the book). In the TV show, I don’t think they even mention who leaked them 🙃
@@heididischler this was first time for me to watch a series adapted from a book that I've read before so i didn't knew what to expect but still they mixed everything up even I tried to watch it as a separate show and forget about the books for a while lol
Btw thanks for reminding me I think she did it cause they and nat like the same guy or smtg
How did you feel about them taking out Stanley when he’s a huge part of the 2nd book?
I did mute this for a short bit when you mentioned books 3 because I’m just starting it today. So maybe you said something and I missed it.
OMG I literally did not even notice that they took Stanley out. I forgot he was even in book one tbh 🥴.
Considering that they mentioned some things that come along in book three, I’m surprised they didn’t mention him and that’s honestly super disappointing because the lead up will be anticlimactic since you didn’t get to know the character as much.
@@heididischler That’s what I was thinking too. Would have been nice to get to know him more than just introducing him with everything that happens.
@@heididischlerI wish they kept Stanley, he’s the reason why good girl bad blood was so good
Is it okay to read the second book without reading the first one, cause I watched the show??
Someone mentioned to me that a huge character in the second book (his name is Stanley) isn’t even mentioned in the tv series (but he’s mentioned in the first book). I don’t think it would be an issue to start the second book after having watched the first season, but you will be missing some info for sure.
would you consider making a book vs movie video about " uglies"
the movie has just been realesed on Netflix 🤞🤞😀
I actually did a movie review on it! I just didn’t make a video 😅 andddd I was thinking about doing a book vs. movie but it’s honestly been so long since I read the book that I would’ve had to read it again to even tell yall the differences lolol
Here’s the link if you wanna read the movie review! www.heididischler.com/movie-review-uglies-2024/
@@heididischler thats fair, thanks for the link 😃