Giles: Uh, well, basically the, uh, the She-Mantis assumes the form of a beautiful woman and then lures innocent virgins back to her nest.
Buffy: Virgins? Well, Xander’s not a, uh… I mean, he’s probably…
Willow: …gonna die!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Episode 4 – “Teacher’s Pet”
One of the greatest myths in the world—and the phrase “greatest myths” is just a fancy way of saying “big fat lies”—is that troublesome things get less and less troublesome if you do them more and more. People say this myth when they are teaching children to ride bicycles, for instance, as though falling off a bicycle and skinning your knee is less troublesome the fourteenth time you do it than it is the first time. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, and that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator – Lemony Snicket
Worf: I do not like doctors. Any doctors.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5: Episode 16 – “Dr. Bashir, I Presume?”
“Yes, I’m meeting Cormac at eight, and we’re —”
There was a noise like a plunger being withdrawn from a blocked sink and Ron surfaced. Hermione acted as though she had not seen or heard anything.
“— we’re going up to the party together.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
Adapting a beloved novel for the big screen is often an enormous challenge, even with books written with cinema in mind. Most stories don’t automatically come with a two hour screenplay attached, and the process of fitting that story into a film can be troublesome for the filmmakers and heartbreaking for fans. Some things will naturally have to be cut in order to fit into the running time, while others will have to be changed or rewritten in order to work on the screen (and heaven forbid the filmmakers add something that was never in the book). Then there’s the struggle to find the right tone and perspective, where humor and pathos have to be transitioned to the screen but also balanced in the right mix to feel true to the author’s intent. If you’re too faithful to the novel you might alienate viewers who are unfamiliar with the source, but if you go too broad then you might risk diluting what made the story so special in the first place. So it’s a pleasant surprise that the film version of The Fault in Our Stars is such a success.
Giles: Um, this computer invasion that Willow’s performing on the coroner’s office, one, one assumes it is entirely legal?
Willow: Entirely!
Buffy: Of course!
Giles: Right. Wasn’t here, didn’t see it, couldn’t have stopped you.
Buffy: Good idea.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Episode 4 – “Teacher’s Pet”
The Love Pirate 