It's been 19 years since the Uglies book was first released, and while I have waited eagerly all that time to see Tally hoverboarding on screen, I'm so glad it only happened now. The Netflix sci-fi movie was a long time coming since a screen adaptation of Scott Westerfeld's 2005 book was announced shortly after its release (in 2006). My aged copy of Uglies even had a "soon to be a major motion picture" stamped on the front, but as I grew up and the years passed, I slowly gave up on this promise. Now, an Uglies movie has finally become a reality, and after watching it, I'm glad I was forced to wait.

Uglies was one of the first sci-fi books I ever read, and I quickly fell in love with the technology of Tally's world. Sure, movies like Back to the Future had already made hoverboards cool, but the way...