This contribution will draw attention to various overlapping critical concerns between two closely related fields of research— Adaptation Studies and Translation Studies — which have a lot in common in terms of methodologies, terminologies (including dyads and triads) and objects of critical investigation, yet do not communicate extensively with one another, and more often than not fail to recognise what links them together. In the spirit of interdisciplinarity and interdiscursivity, this article takes a kaleidoscopic format rather than a very linear one as it aims to paint a composite, multichrome picture of the translation/adaptation spectrum. It will look at clusters of issues, look for convergences and divergences, and highlight the rapid changeability of the picture.