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Post by clemfandango on Sept 19, 2021 17:42:53 GMT
So my mate has just told me this is releasing very soon. It’s based on some very highly regarded sci fi books. I’ve not read them.
Should we be looking forward to this?
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Sept 19, 2021 17:45:07 GMT
The trailers look ace.
Starts on friday. I'm looking forward to it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2021 17:53:48 GMT
I know nothing about it, but I'm all for more Sci fi.
Hopefully it's a dark and violent Sci fi.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2021 18:01:26 GMT
I'm sort of surprised they made this. I have read them - interesting ideas, and generally regarded as great sci-fi, just seem a bit dry to me for a full on TV series. There are lots of other books / series I would have thought would make better choices (The Galactic Milieu and Saga of the Exiles by Julian May would be my first choice).
Not unlike other long epics, it all goes a bit off the rails in the later books too (debate as to when, just like the Dune books). Nonetheless, as a framework for TV series it might might be great, but I think it will need rather more added to the source material than usual, to make it great telly.
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Post by technoish on Sept 19, 2021 18:02:22 GMT
That would be interesting. It's all psychology and conversation in the books  |
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Post by technoish on Sept 19, 2021 18:04:20 GMT
From the common sense media review, lol:
"character development and action often take a back seat to philosophical debate and speculation"
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Sept 19, 2021 18:16:26 GMT
The trailers made it look pretty spectacular.
I don't have apple TV but I'll try and find it somewhere.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2021 18:34:13 GMT
If you have a ps5 they've been doing an extended free trial. Not sure if it's still running.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2021 18:36:33 GMT
Yes, plenty of spectacular events to show certainly, just quite a lot of fairly lengthy and dry discussion of those events too.
I think it would be like trying to film the AC Clarke Rama series to a certain extent (though a very different story and setting). What takes place is amazing, history defining stuff, but the people in the middle of it may be a bit too professional and steady to be very interesting.
Maybe it will be superb. This is the upside of the 'who cares what the story is, just get it made' culture, gems will get commissioned that have been passed on many times before - this might be one.
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Post by Danno on Sept 19, 2021 19:05:09 GMT
If you have a ps5 they've been doing an extended free trial. Not sure if it's still running. is there anything worthwhile on there? |
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Post by jellyhead on Sept 19, 2021 19:09:13 GMT
The trailers sure look ace! But they would, wouldn't they?
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Post by ignatiusjreilly on Sept 19, 2021 19:12:54 GMT
The books were great, but it will be tough to translate to TV
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Post by mothercruncher on Sept 19, 2021 19:20:41 GMT
Well, I guess they felt the books gave them a solid
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Post by neilka on Sept 19, 2021 19:23:59 GMT
It's actually a sequel to Locke where Tom Hardy finally gets his concrete pour done.
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Post by grey_matters on Sept 19, 2021 19:33:23 GMT
I'm guessing that it will deviate fairly hard from the books. I'm fine with that to be honest, or I will be if it's a fairly solid well-done thing in it's own right (albeit with a nod to the books on occasion). The visuals in the trailers certainly look good.
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Post by Onny on Sept 19, 2021 19:37:48 GMT
Well, I guess they felt the books gave them a solid F O U N D A T I O N Here all week Can we ask the admins to add a “dislike” button, good lord. I read the foundation books when I was young and quite liked them although I remember virtually nothing about them to be honest. Will definitely be checking this out though, looks gorgeous if nothing else. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 19, 2021 19:40:22 GMT
This will be literally the second thing I’ve watched on Apple TV in the four months we have had it.
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Post by stuz359 on Sept 19, 2021 20:14:14 GMT
Presumably, Ted Lasso was the first.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 19, 2021 20:19:32 GMT
I think that’s literally the only thing anyone with free sub has watched. Although, I do tell a lie I have also watched the beastie boys doc.
I suppose it’s mainly on me, though. Their content seems very worthy but I mostly just watch trash, of which there is very little.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 19, 2021 20:29:59 GMT
If you have a ps5 they've been doing an extended free trial. Not sure if it's still running. It is got a 6 month trial with my PS5 bought in August. |
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Sept 19, 2021 20:48:00 GMT
Just finished the first book. It'll be interesting how they adapt this!
Yeah there's the dry conversations but there's also generation in between each event!
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Post by grey_matters on Sept 19, 2021 20:51:35 GMT
Just finished the first book. It'll be interesting how they adapt this! Yeah there's the dry conversations but there's also generation in between each event! Maybe lean a bit on the later 'Forward to Foundation' book where a younger Hari is the focus? |
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Post by mothercruncher on Sept 19, 2021 21:11:12 GMT
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Post by Syrette on Sept 24, 2021 6:47:41 GMT
Reviews seem a little mixed so far, I'm afraid.
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Post by askew on Sept 24, 2021 22:11:22 GMT
Reece Shearsmith! 😅
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Post by deebs on Sept 25, 2021 2:36:34 GMT
I would have far preferred the Culture series that Amazon were working on, but this'll do for a bit of hard scifi. Problem is the books are a bit fucking boring.
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Post by tonyferrino on Sept 25, 2021 7:03:36 GMT
Well, I liked the slow world building of the first episode. Mrs Ferrino found it slow and quite boring. It's going to be a bit polarising I think. I love a bit of epic ambitious sci-fi, so hopefully it gets her on board with the next episode.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2021 7:25:10 GMT
Well that does sound like the books certainly.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 25, 2021 9:09:52 GMT
I didn’t find it that slow, I’ve never read the book/s but it felt like there were two pints of story being poured into a one pint glass so things just kept happening. Enough stuff happened in that episode to fill a ten part Netflix series. Ive just watched the second ep and they go from ‘lol exile’ to ‘here’s a fully funded project, a spaceship and a shitload of people’ in the blink of an eye.
And, tbh, I think that’s to it’s detriment. It just feels like it needed a bit more time to breathe. Decent, though.
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Post by Techno Hippy on Sept 25, 2021 10:28:47 GMT
I might have to take the plunge and subscribe.
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