Ya heard me. The DBs have a new one for Netflix based on what I hear is a very great and most importantly: VERY FINISHED sci-fi book. Been meaning to check it out. Anyways, there’s a trailer. I have no idea what’s going on; it’s non-existent in plot, very saturated in mood, imagery and general ‘what the shit is happening’ and so I am in.
After all, they’re good when they have a full story to work with.
(Also secretly hoping it’s just their Confederate show; that’d be some epic trolling).
Oh I didn’t know they were doing this. I’ve read the first book, and it’s fairly interesting stuff, though leaning a lot harder to Hard SciFi than I usually like. I didn’t love it, and wasn’t sure I’d continue, but it’s stuck with me more than I expected, and I’ve been considering picking up book two. A handsomely mounted adaptation might be enough to get me there.
Yeah, I’ll give a full adaptation of theirs a try.
It’ll be interesting to see if they still have that skillset, or if the end of GoT was more about their hubris and intelligence than it was a lack of creativity.
Wasn’t there a movie version fairly recently? I can’t find any conclusive information but I swear I heard about one years ago.
I think they’ve been been trying to get this made for years.
There’s both a live action Chinese produced film and an animated series (also Chinese).
Yeah, so wtf is that about?
It’s essentially a modern War of the Worlds, but that probably gives the wrong impression. The first book is much more along the lines of something like Contact.
S8…
It was okay you losers.
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I’ll just read the books thanks. Don’t need to suffer through anything these two hacks put their hands on ever again.
Full Trailer! Hits in March:
Looks slick. Hopefully Netflix has a guy whose job is to use a cattle prod on Benioff and Weiss if they start discussing new ideas.
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That looks like they did a pretty remarkable job of adapting a very uncinematic first novel.
Stop trying to make #season8didnothingwrong happen! It’s not going to happen!
The first two episodes of Season 8 were excellent. People forget this.
Of course we’ll all watch this. B&W’s early seasons are great!
When they have strong material to adapt, they do well. It’s when they’re inventing shit wholecloth that things go downhill.
Got me intrigued enough to order the book. Been in the mood to read some good sci-fi lately.
Seasons 6 and 7 also mostly followed nothing but a blueprint and featured some great material. The show was as popular as ever right up until that last season. S8 was a shitshow and I think they took some lazy shortcuts but it’s simplifying things to claim that none of their original stuff was good. Even Martin is clearly having trouble finishing the series.
I don’t think it’s simplifying things at all. S6 is where things begin to get persistently wobbly; S5 showed signs of danger, but still had existing material to use as a base.
S7 and S8 are huge departures from the show’s previous character- and sociological/cultural bases, making a hard and janky transition to being entirely plot-driven (“Danaerys forgot”). We see this with the acceleration of “teleportation,” characters doing all sorts of things that are inconsistent with what’s been established before, and an emphasis on cool/memeable moments rather than earned, natural developments. S7 and S8 are chock full of Because TV Show moments which feel amateurish compared to the writing and plotting of the first four seasons.
While I’m only speculating, Martin struggling with the ending probably has as much to do with being a discovery writer and overcommitting to other projects as it does with the actual story giving him fits.