Like, I feel like, books, its just a bunch of description that never truely paint a scene.
In a movie or TV show, you see exactly what the scene is, exactly what is happening. I mean, of course, sometime they cut corners and cut of parts of a book, but otherwise, its more easily conveyed.
Like the popular saying, a picture is worth a thousands words. But I’d say: a video is worth a million pictures.
No.
Most people have no idea how to present information, this on top of the average person being able to read about 4x faster than someone can speak. I regularly play podcasts at 1.5x-2x. There are perhaps 3 people who I’ll watch on YouTube for information, only because they show how something works and the video format is useful for the subject, and I still often play it at 2x, or just skip through all the nonsense.
99% of video presentations are garbage to me.
As for entertainment, books and video are different things. Video will always have the influence of scriptwriters, director, producers, actors. You’re watching their interpretation of a story. Sometimes this can even be a good thing when they highlight something you may not have really noticed. Often though, it comes with the baggage of someone fundamentally altering a story.
Oh yea. This reminds me. I see this in a recent thing I watched, 3 Body Problem.
There is 2 versions of it, there is a Netflix adaptation made in the west, there’s a Tencent version made in China.
In the book, there was a scene depicting the Cultural Revolution of PRC, but the Tencent version cut it out, while the Netflix version did not hold back.
So I get it, it can suck when things get cut out.
But when sometimes its great to be able to see the story, instead of just imagining it. I guess you really have to do both to experience the full story, well… different interpretations of a story.