Mount your horse and begin your journey to Canterbury with Emma and Ria as they dig into an excellent movie and extremely loosey-goosey adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales—2001 cult classic A Knight’s Tale! Must an adaptation of a 14 century book be accurate or can it not simply operate on vibes alone? Why is the fact Chaucer is one of the movie protagonists accurate to the book? Who’s getting freaky in the Czech Republic on the weekend? All these questions answered and more in today’s episode.

Content warnings for The Canterbury Tales includes: stories of violence, stories of rape, and 1390’s typical racism, sexism, religious opinions, and fart jokes.

Content warnings for A Knight’s Tale (2001) includes: jousting violence, pre-9/11 crude humor, and a naked Paul Bettany.

The articles Emma references in this episode can be found here:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-14-ca-63182-story.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/16/how-we-made-a-knights-tale-heath-ledger-paul-bettany-brian-helgeland

https://www.theringer.com/2021/05/11/movies/knights-tale-heath-ledger-behind-the-scenes-stories-paul-bettany

https://splicedwire.com/01features/bhelgeland.html

You can find Emma on bluesky @crabmoney.bsky.social. Ria can be found on bluesky and twitter @ria_tee and on Instagram @riaeliza. Both Unnatural Selection and So Emo I Fell Apart are a part of the Moonshot Network. If you like what you’ve heard and want to support us, you can become a patron at patreon.com/moonshotnetwork

The music for this show was commissioned from and composed by Jake Loranger. You can check out more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com/

Don’t get Sicilian Defensive as Camilla and Emma break down the very first limited series in Unnatural Selection History—The Queen’s Gambit! They get into the details of chess history, compelling orphan origins, and how hard it is to find good adaptation interviews from high lockdown in 2020.

Content warnings for The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis include: death of a parent, alcohol abuse, medication abuse, childhood drug abuse, child sexual assault, shitty adoptive fathers, and 60’s-questionable depictions of the story’s sole Black character.

Content warnings for The Queen’s Gambit (2020) include: suicide, death of a parent, alcohol abuse, medication abuse, childhood drug abuse, shitty adoptive fathers, and questionable depictions of the story’s sole prominent Black character.

The interviews Emma references for this episode can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX6SvqjBedY

https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/interview-audio-scott-frank-d9e8489138cc

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/28/950010157/queens-gambit-co-creator-scott-frank-wanted-to-explore-the-cost-of-genius

https://ew.com/tv/the-queens-gambit-netflix-scott-frank-interview/

https://www.theringer.com/2020/11/17/tv/the-queens-gambit-netflix-scott-frank-limited-series-godless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob9gjJhyCyw

You can find Emma on bluesky @crabmoney.bsky.social and Camilla @anteatermom.bsky.social. You can check out Camilla’s Twitch streams at WeAreAlexandra and the VODs at WeAreAlexandra on youtube. Emma and the Alexandrite System are both a part of the Moonshot Network. If you like what you’ve heard and want to support them, you can become a patron at patreon.com/moonshotnetwork

The music for this show was commissioned from and composed by Jake Loranger. You can check out more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com/https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com

Life finds a way and so do film adaptations. Join Emma and Greg to celebrate Valentine’s Day and Unnatural Selection’s third anniversary with the adaptation that both started their relationship and made Emma want to start this podcast—welcome, to the Jurassic Park episode! Emma and Greg get into the nitty gritty details of dinosaur development, blending lawyers and PR guys, and how sometimes making changes to characters based on who you cast makes things better, actually.

Content warnings for Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton include: dinosaur-related gore and death, death of an infant, children in peril, mild weirdly handled classism/racism, the folly of capitalism, and more computations than you’re expecting.

Content warnings for Jurassic Park (1993) include: dinosaur-related gore and death, children in peril, electrocution, and the folly of capitalism.

The book and articles Emma references in this episode can be found here:

Shay, Don; Duncan, Jody “Making of Jurassic Park” Copyright 1993. Published by Ballantine Books. New York

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/06/movies/film-visiting-jurassic-park-for-real.html

https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/creating-jurassic-park-a-classic-interview-with-author-michael-crichton-a1296

https://abcnews.com/Entertainment/jurassic-park-turns-25-scenes-moments-iconic-summer/story?id=55332468

You can find Emma on bluesky @crabmoney.bsky.social and Greg on discord at Hamamelis. Unnatural Selection is a part of the Moonshot Podcast Network. If you like what you’ve heard and was to support the network, you can become a patron at patreon.com/moonshotnetwork.

The music for this show was commissioned from and composed by Jake Loranger. You can check out more of his work at https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com/https://amaranthine.bandcamp.com