• Bleeping Lobster
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    21 year ago

    It is quite different, and I put off watching it out of fear of this until a few days ago, thinking I was going to hate it as I loved the books.

    I remember thinking when they first announced making this, how the fuck are they going to make psychohistory and a relentlesly changing timespan into a TV show? Personally I thought what they’ve made is excellent scifi TV, I mostly binged it. Maybe they tried staying true to source material at first and realised it just doesn’t make for a compelling show?

    • Jordan Lund
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      11 year ago

      As soon as they went off track I was like “If you didn’t want to use the material then why did you license it in the first place?”

      Would be like if, I dunno, somebody wanted to make a Care Bears movie and made it about a group of mercenaries with colorfully painted body armor.

      I’m not going to automatically say it’s awful, it’s just not the Care Bears. ;)

      • Bleeping Lobster
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        11 year ago

        As soon as they went off track I was like “If you didn’t want to use the material then why did you license it in the first place?”

        How do you feel about the ‘Three Body Problem’ being produced by the Game of Thrones guys? (˵ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°˵)

        • Jordan Lund
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          21 year ago

          People give the Game of Thrones guys crap for the final few seasons, but you have to remember, they ran out of material to adapt, they were basically working off Martin’s Post-It-Notes at that point.

          While they actually HAD material to adapt, they were OK. Trying to generate new content off a bare bones outline? Maybe not so much.

          • Bleeping Lobster
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            11 year ago

            That’s a fair point, that I’d not considered. I’m trying not to pre-judge 3BP, but also trying not to get too excited for it… hype is a killer when it falls flat