There are some people in the world (hi mom!) who will always insist that “the book is better than the film.”  They will maintain this position even when the film in question is weighed down with critical acclaim, Oscars and large swathes of the population hailing it a masterpiece.

What this point of view touches upon is the belief that we absorb more information by reading it, rather than watching it.  While this might be true in some mediums; sometimes, we just want to watch stuff. When that “stuff” is actually genuinely informative and highly entertaining, it’s hard to argue that it’s not time very well …