Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight book series, used the word “murmur” 349 times.

The word “murmur” appears no less than 349 times in the Twilight book series.

An uncommon mention, but the Inkheart trilogy by German author Cornelia Funke. The first two books are spellbinding, and while the third book disappointed me in some ways, it was still good.

I see your mention of Warriors, and raise Guardians of Ga’Hoole by Kathryn Lasky.

Seconding the Harry Potter books. I could not put this series down as a young adult.

The TV show Midnight at the Pera Palace was actually a complete rewrite of the original book, and it was utterly phenomenal. I hope that someone writes a novelization of the show to publish.

The show centers around Esra, a modern-day journalist and aspiring mystery writer who is assigned to write a BuzzFeed-style style article on the Pera Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. While visiting the hotel, Esra is accidentally transported back in time to 18 April 1919, where she is mistaken for Peride, a wealthy socialite. After the real Peride is murdered, Esra takes her place while trying to solve her murder, as well as to foil a British assassination plot against Atatürk.

Along the way, she meets Halit, the handsome owner of the nearby Garden Bar nightclub, a WWI veteran with a dark past, and seemingly a spy for the British. Over the course of Season 1, Esra and Halit slowly develop romantic feelings for each other, but Halit begins to suspect that Esra is hiding secrets from him, and figures out that “Peride” is not actually Peride, and confronts Esra.

Remember, if you ever agree with Eric Cartman, you’re probably wrong.

“Only rubbish”? Season 1 and Season 2 of The Mandalorian and Andor are great.

The issue with this is that making a Star Wars movie based on a comic book or novel is that only a small subsection of the general audience has actually read whatever comic book or novel that the film was based on. Lucasfilm also couldn’t adapt, for example, the Heir to the Empire trilogy of novels by Timothy Zahn, who founded the EU, for three major reasons:

1. The first EU book was published all the way back in 1991, the year I was born. (I’m 31 years old currently.) Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2012, and didn’t release Star Wars: The Force Awakens until December 2015. By that time, the original cast members that the original Legends EU trilogy primarily focused on - Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher - were too old to reprise their roles as Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia. However, Disney managed to fit them into the sequels that we got in the 2010s.
2. As the three main original cast members aforementioned were too old to reprise their original roles in an adaptation of Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn, this would have required a much-more-controversial recasting of the main three leads of the original trilogy with new, younger actors. Recasting is already deeply controversial in the Star Wars fandom, with Solo: A Star Wars Story - the testing ground for recasting - being widely seen as a box office bomb or disappointment. Disney decided not to recast.
3. The EU itself did not have a single director and “vision” - that of George Lucas - but rather, a wide array and hodgepodge of different books, written by different authors, sometimes with their “visions” for what the story and direction of Star Wars should be directly conflicting with one another. There was at least one notable feud between two EU authors, for example, when it came to romance in the EU books; and even a feud between Timothy Zahn, the most popular EU author, and George Lucas himself over whether or not Luke Skywalker should fall in love, get married, and have children. (Lucas envisioned Luke as a hermit, whereas Zahn envisioned Luke as having a wife and children.) This was one of the biggest reasons why Disney decided to scrap the EU from 1991 to 2012 and start over from scratch, as they sought to create “one single, unified, consistent canon and vision for all new Star Wars books going forwards”. To this end, the Lucasfilm Story Group was founded, but discrepancies still happened occasionally.

“she isn’t a very good producer”

Films that Kathleen Kennedy has served as a producer on:

• Poltergeist
• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Gremlins
• The Goonies
• Back to the Future
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• The Land Before Time
• Back to the Future: Part II
• Hook
• Jurassic Park
• Schindler’s List
• Twister
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• The Sixth Sense
• Ponyo

Her career summary on IMDb:

"Eight-time Academy Award®-nominated, Kathleen Kennedy is one of the most successful and respected producers and executives in the film industry today. As President of Lucasfilm, she oversees the company’s three divisions: Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound.

In 1992, she co-founded the production company The Kennedy/Marshall Company with director/producer Frank Marshall, and in 1982 she co-founded Amblin Entertainment with Marshall and Steven Spielberg. Altogether, Kennedy has further produced or executive produced more than 70 feature films, which have collectively garnered 120 Academy Award nominations and 25 wins."

r/saltierthancrait is already unironically calling Eric Cartman a “voice of reason”, and praising the character, solely because he was making fun of Kathleen Kennedy. Ironic.