I love what Spence did putting “The Stand” in chronological order.

It’s very annoying when film makers take a well known book and throw it in the blender giving us a confusing out of order movie / show.

Another example of this is “Where the Crawdads Sing”. My wife read the book and said it was in chronological order in the book but the timelines were jumbled up in the movie.

I HATE THIS. Don’t put things out of order unless it is important to the story! For example we do have timeline jumps in Caddo Lake but it’s a time travel movie so it makes sense!

Stop mixing up timelines for stories that don’t need it!

So that said. Edits that can really improve on the source material are ones that take a disjoined out of order mess and put it in order!