This changed when I got an email from them, including an episode list. Maybe it’s the strong “NSFW!” marketing Netflix is pushing, but I wasn’t that interested in it from the get-go. 18 short science fiction films, from 6 to 20 minutes long each, exploring the themes in the anthology title. If you walk in any of the same circles as I, you’ve likely heard about Netflix’s new animated anthology, Love Death + Robots. Today we’ll be taking up way too much space to look into the short film, Beyond the Aquila Rift, and compare it to the 2005 short story of the same name by Alastair Reynolds. What did they change that worked? What did they not change that they could have? What made it tick? Time to take a deep dive and find out. So when I found out that a short story I enjoy was turned into a short film, I checked it out… and found myself in the middle. You’ve all heard it before: “The book was better!” countered by a smaller but no less vocal, “The book sucked, the film streamlined the story and made it so much better!” (Okay, a much smaller group there, but still.) Middle ground is hard to find, it seems. There’s a general narrative that goes around the internet when any adaptation, particularly book-to-film, drops.
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