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jng2058 posted:This one feels like a serious monkey's paw scenario. You know, like taking the Lucifer comic book and making it a police procedural. Or the mangling that happened when they let Stephanie Meyer adapt The Rook. I fear unless you got some really dedicated Amber fans in charge of the show that you'd end up with "Corwin without his memory on Earth as a superhero/troubleshooter" or some such bullshit. or the discworld series
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ChubbyChecker posted:or the discworld series How was the Watch-series? I haven't seen it yet. Didn't even realize it came out. The Discworld movies were mostly great. That's probably the best format for Pratchets books anyway. Issaries fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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jng2058 posted:You know, like taking the Lucifer comic book and making it a police procedural. Lucifer was pretty good for first couple season, even if it didn't have much to do with the originals. Same with JMS Jeremiah tv-show. Excellent 2 season series that had nothing in common with the comics. Now Dresden files series, that was a real stinker.
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adhuin posted:How was the Watch-series? I haven't seen it yet. Didn't even realize it came out. the watch series was very atrocious and non-pratchetty and pratchett's books aren't really filmable his style is to use literary techniques that don't work on screen
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It's true. Those movies try their best but they're pretty bad
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adhuin posted:Or Moorcocks Eternal Champion stuff. How many women are there? One in each story, to serve as the Eternal Champion's lover interest? Dorian Hawkmoon's girlfriend at least fights sometimes, but Dorian is mostly adventuring with one of his other companions. adhuin posted:if this succeeds they should do Robin Hobbs Farseer-books next. These would be much better from a modern representative perspective. With Altea's story for example. Although that would be an abrupt shift in protagonists. Otherwise you'd be stuck with Kettricken and Patience, which isn't a lot. At least the Fool is non-binary.
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adhuin posted:How was the Watch-series? I haven't seen it yet. Didn't even realize it came out. it was an abomination, and so unlike Pratchett to be considered stolen IP. Imagine making a show called "Cheers" and it had all the same named characters but instead it's set in space and everyone swears a lot
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ChubbyChecker posted:the watch series was very atrocious and non-pratchetty Going Postal was ok, if only because Charles Dance
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LegoMan posted:it was an abomination, and so unlike Pratchett to be considered stolen IP. I'm imagining it now and uh can we get swear-y space Cheers, please? Bezos, make it happen
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ChubbyChecker posted:the watch series was very atrocious and non-pratchetty I’m imagining the story where a bunch of soldiers are revealed to be woman passing as men one by one and the MC’s internal narration changes the gender of pronouns they use for them, sometimes mid-sentence, as they change their mind on how they think of them. Sometimes even flipping back as they change their mind again . No direct “so I decided to call them a girl” line. He just trusts the reader to pick up what’s going on and not get confused. That would not at all translate to a TV show.
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I've never actually seen "Hogfather" in it's totality, but I certainly enjoy watching clips of it on YouTube because it seems to get the cheesy but hopeful tone of most Discword stuff. Scenes like Death talking to Susan about how people need hope are great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBnENlXt-H4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG7buZJFLCE I enjoy the Hex stuff too. Death exhorting the world's first computer to believe because the world needs all the belief it can muster, and Hex pausing as it computes that before replying with it's Hogswatch wish list is just plain fun too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN3tLnlixkY The cast is pretty excellent too. I don't know who was playing Death or Susan, but both have really strong performances of Pratchett's words in the scenes I've seen of it. David Jason as Albert is fantastic too. Just the right amount of crotchety git. I'm still kind of shocked no studio has plundered Discworld for a cinematic universe, as it seems primed for it. Whoever played Death would rake in a fortune for life too, so long as it was even moderately successful.
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tsob posted:I've never actually seen "Hogfather" in it's totality, but I certainly enjoy watching clips of it on YouTube because it seems to get the cheesy but hopeful tone of most Discword stuff. Scenes like Death talking to Susan about how people need hope are great: Hogfather is still an annual watch for me around Christmas. I think it's the best of the movie adaptations. Susan was from Downton Abbey, and Teatime was very well done.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Nynaeve teaser: This is giving me some pretty heavy Shannara Chronicles tv series vibes.
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Sixtyforces posted:This is giving me some pretty heavy Shannara Chronicles tv series vibes. gently caress, don't say that.
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Sixtyforces posted:This is giving me some pretty heavy Shannara Chronicles tv series vibes. You mean it's going to be better than the source material?
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Jedit posted:You mean it's going to be better than the source material? lol
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I had such a crush on Lanfear as a kid and I hope they don't mess up her casting.
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Hizawk posted:I had such a crush on Lanfear as a kid and I hope they don't mess up her casting.  
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Should be updated to more modern sensibilities: 9 feet tall and horny: 
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I mean, I'm sure Lanfear would be willing to do some cosplay to get her man given everything else she does in the books.
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Lanfear has the most horny theater-kid energy of all the Forsaken.
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Yeah she's extremely thirsty and that is a very attractive thing for the teen boys who were reading the first few books in the late 90s. e: In 2021 I'm far more into the "let's kill god" aspect of her approach.
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Pleads posted:Yeah she's extremely thirsty and that is a very attractive thing for the teen boys who were reading the first few books in the late 90s. light book spoilers below To some extent Lanfear plays into male gaze/expectation on purpose though. There’s at least a few times throughout the series where she appears to Rand or Perrin playing the hot damsel in distress and then drops the act when they figure it out. She also kind of explicitly says that her whole “thirsty for Lews Therin” thing was always about power/possession, not actual love or desire. If she falls into a trope she’s more the femme fatale/black widow type Somebody fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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Hey let's maybe not talk about characters from beyond book 1 in this thread please, there's a very active Book Bran thread for full series discussion.
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quote:Rosamund Pike has revealed that her new feminist fantasy series The Wheel of Time will show 'more naked men than women'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10181743/Rosamund-Pike-reveals-naked-men-women-Wheel-Time.html
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silvergoose posted:six-part fantasy drama? It's the Daily Mail. Their readers and writers both can't count above the fingers on one hand.
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Jedit posted:It's the Daily Mail. Their readers and writers both can't count above the fingers on one hand. i loled at quote:In the show Magician Moiraine, a member of a mystical all-female organisation,
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tsob posted:First season is kind of short, I guess. It's eight episodes per season. The six part thing seems to be a replicating error in various media coverage.
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Johnny Joestar posted:yeah it's kinda funny how things are listed given that it's the daily mail, the comments are suitably fitting given the website it is. got some hopping mad people out there, lol They're so angry about how this is disrupting Tolkien's vision!
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 counting the erect penises on my screen, purely academically
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:It's eight episodes per season. The six part thing seems to be a replicating error in various media coverage. It's because we know the episode titles of the first six episodes, and have for a while, that people assume that it's a six episode season instead of eight.
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