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Bill should've used the FN FAL he had on the gun wall. Other than that gun nerd nitpick, man, what ab episode.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 12:02 |
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ded posted:A video game gets a show made from it that rules, while foundation gets something that people only watch to see how badly they gently caress it up. Foundation’s narrative format isn’t very compatible with a television series whereas TLOU was already pretty close.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 12:49 |
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navyjack posted:Dark horse pick: Control. Hard to make a full series tho. A prequel before the events of the game would absolutely work and be relative easy to make. It could rip the X-Files structure wholesale. They can spend each other episode doing monster of the week and building up the Hiss metaplot or whatever.The FBC is just a office building set, and even the supernatural aren't too expensive. The dev studio obviously wants to make movie/TV too so they'd totatlly be down.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 13:19 |
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Perhaps, but Control is as much a metatextual commentary on videogames, where the Service Weapon marks the Director as an individual that is capable of and obligated to perform limitless violence against the "mutated" remnants of your coworkers. That thing only works in a videogame format, where you can draw attention to the absurdity of it even as you blast away at hordes of humanoids with weird glowly red bits on them. Also it needs the main character narrating everything in second person. Towards You. The Audience.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 13:27 |
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A pot of these adaptations are going to be prequels. The Bioshock one probably will be, the Horizon one definitely is. Uncharted was too, despite also riffing on the fourth game.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 13:49 |
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Rageaholic posted:Apparently Netflix is already signed on to do a Horizon series. The showrunner is Steve Blackman, who's also the showrunner for The Umbrella Academy (which I've never seen). I have no idea how this will go. Oof It's bad
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 14:28 |
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But at least we'll see some Aloy danceoffs
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 14:28 |
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GlyphGryph posted:I could see Disco getting a TV adaptation (and apparently Amazon was trying to make one before poo poo went all to hell at ZA/UM) and it being good, but I feel like no matter what you did it would be lesser than the game, even if they let the original creative team play any role in it, which I doubt anyone would be willing to do even outside the current circumstances. What happened to the game studio?
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 14:29 |
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Shageletic posted:What happened to the game studio? Essentially a corporate takeover by the people who funded it. The original creators got kicked out. There's a lawsuit now on who owns the IP since it grew out of an tabletop RPG made by an art collective. So the studio ended in the most appropriate way possible considering EDs themes.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 14:45 |
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"apocashitstorm: netflix announced today that they weren't gonna go ahead with a third season"
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 14:45 |
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Shageletic posted:What happened to the game studio? One of the investors sold himself a picture of concept art for a dollar from the company vaults and then secretly bought it back from himself through the company for the entire price of the company, which he then used to buy out most of the other investors and fire most of the creative team while claiming full ownership ovet the IP as a result, even though the IP predated the company. He then sold the show rights to Amazon and started putting out ads for monetization experts to help with the development of Disc Elysiums sequel while vaguely accusing the original creative team of a litany of "bad stuff" without anything concrete. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Feb 2, 2023 |
# ? Feb 2, 2023 15:09 |
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Shageletic posted:What happened to the game studio? Slowly being crushed as pawns of capitalism, most likely doomed. An awful turn of events, but kind of a poetics reflection of their game. It’s kind of a complicated ongoing legal affair that seems unlikely to turn out well for the original writers and involves (new) investors stealing from the studio in a manner that may turn out to be legally permissible via technicalities and… it’s kind of hard to tl;dr but Disco’s founding writers got fired by said new investors and are unlikely to regain control of the Disco IP. But they are fighting for it!
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 15:10 |
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GlyphGryph posted:One of the investors sold himself a picture of concept art for a dollar from the company vaults and then secretly bought it back from himself through the company for the entire price of the company, which he then used to buy out most of the other investors and fire most of the creative team while claiming full ownership ovet the IP as a result, even though the IP predated the company. Jesus christ
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 15:23 |
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GlyphGryph posted:One of the investors sold himself a picture of concept art for a dollar from the company vaults and then secretly bought it back from himself through the company for the entire price of the company, which he then used to buy out most of the other investors and fire most of the creative team while claiming full ownership ovet the IP as a result, even though the IP predated the company. Really fits well with the “humans are the real monsters” theme of shows like this.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 15:40 |
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Bugblatter posted:Well, the HZD show is intended to be set primarily before the apocalypse with only a few post-apocalyptic vignettes. The post-apocalypse probably doesn't need that much effects work if it's kept small. Just shoot it around Sedona and add some robot dinos in a couple scenes. On the other hand learning about how the apocalypse happened was the most interesting part of HZD (and why I didn’t care for HFW story) so if they’re going to make a show on it, that’s the way to do it.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 15:40 |
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Make an unreal tournament as an ultra-violent sports show/league filled with egos
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Solaris 2.0 posted:On the other hand learning about how the apocalypse happened was the most interesting part of HZD (and why I didn’t care for HFW story) so if they’re going to make a show on it, that’s the way to do it. That's not how they're going to do it though. We're gonna get a season of Faro's origin before we even see him designing a robot.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 16:47 |
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Rageaholic posted:Apparently Netflix is already signed on to do a Horizon series. The showrunner is Steve Blackman, who's also the showrunner for The Umbrella Academy (which I've never seen). I have no idea how this will go. aw gently caress yeah, she gonna fight with kendo sticks and poo poo
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 17:07 |
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Shageletic posted:Oof I thought they did a good job of adapting the Umbrella Academy, certainly in terms of making the various characters into real people and the plot more coherent. In the graphic novels there's a huge amount of high speed chaotic nonsense going on which must have been a nightmare to untangle. Arcane is another great video game adaptation, though it's more just taking a handful of the interesting characters and the game world and building a great story around them. https://i.imgur.com/kteH11C.mp4
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 17:09 |
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if they do the horizon show chronologically i'm gonna have an aneurysm
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 17:11 |
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If it doesn't get to the dolphin-mulching within 20 minutes then what is even the point?
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 17:20 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, I think we're agreeing with each other. And I think we are too and I'm just being unclear. I mean that you can't knock the show for your weird death-of-the-author interpretation not making sense. e.g. if you decide that Charlotte's Web is an allegory for The Dreyfuss Affair, you can't critique E.B. White for not making Wilber Jewish enough, it's on you to figure that out. I'm responding to people saying that the message is X and then saying, "Well, if X is the message, then they should've done Y," as an authorial critique. It's the difference between death of the author and just calvin ball.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 17:56 |
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Basically. It's jut really weird to be like 'THIS is the author's CLEAR INTENT' as an objective, factual statement based on a subjective reading of the material, and then using that assertion to springboard into criticisms about the writing, etc.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 18:18 |
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abelwingnut posted:it seems safe to say the show has been a success thus far. ratings keep going up, most critics rave about it, hbo renewed it, etc. and whenever something new and 'fresh' like this comes out, there are copycats.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 18:20 |
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Stoatbringer posted:I thought they did a good job of adapting the Umbrella Academy, certainly in terms of making the various characters into real people and the plot more coherent. In the graphic novels there's a huge amount of high speed chaotic nonsense going on which must have been a nightmare to untangle. We have very different tastes, I thought the first season of the show didn't really know what it wanted to do (other than dance montages) other than a slam crash of a season finale (which I thought was done significantly better in the comic book). Arcane I dropped out after a couple episodes because I didn't like the characters or dialogue.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 18:20 |
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Justin Credible posted:Basically. It's jut really weird to be like 'THIS is the author's CLEAR INTENT' as an objective, factual statement based on a subjective reading of the material, and then using that assertion to springboard into criticisms about the writing, etc. Exactly. You signed up for this by ignoring authorial intent (which is valid), so you can’t use it to make statements about intent. The intent is gone, you got rid of it.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 18:41 |
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Shageletic posted:Oof I wouldn’t call UA prestige TV, I think it is good and very very far from bad. It is better than most TV marvel adaptations I have seen.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 19:04 |
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kanonvandekempen posted:The probability of this happening is somewhere between never and zero, but I'd go crazy if they made Bloodborne into a TV series or movie. this is actually in preproduction with HBO
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 21:00 |
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Moltke posted:this is actually in preproduction with HBO Eh? You have a source on that?
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 23:01 |
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Xiahou Dun posted:I guarantee you that a dozen different versions of that crept in and were culled during various stages of production but I think they made the right call. I’m with you, I want to see that too, but I can’t imagine where it could go without just murdering the flow of the narrative and the tone. Melodrama and action are flavors that are hard to match at the best of times and there’s just no space in the narrative for it. Eh I think they could have slotted in a minute or two of badassery for Bill easy enough, just something instead of shooting from the middle of the road he was using spots he'd previously made into cover. I think they did Bill a teensy bit dirty by showing his gunfight tactic to be total rear end. And don't get me wrong, i get that's a fairly asinine criticism I'm making, and I don't think the episode is actually worse for not having more action, I just think it would have been satisfying to really show us the value in Bill's way of thinking, that he was able to keep his partner safe and dominate a gunfight because he'd gone through this scenario a million times. Also yea apparently there was a 2 hour cut originally and I would love to see it. Hilarious that they accidentally made a TloU movie about tertiary characters. Tumble fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Feb 2, 2023 |
# ? Feb 2, 2023 23:40 |
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ded posted:A video game gets a show made from it that rules, while foundation gets something that people only watch to see how badly they gently caress it up. The funny thing about Foundation is the best parts are the same stuff they added, like the clone emperors.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 00:25 |
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Tumble posted:Eh I think they could have slotted in a minute or two of badassery for Bill easy enough, just something instead of shooting from the middle of the road he was using spots he'd previously made into cover. I think they did Bill a teensy bit dirty by showing his gunfight tactic to be total rear end. Wow, they really could just release a standalone side-movie about it without too much effort then. They should do that. I personally found in terms of how that action scene was presented was the raider doing a happy-spin dance in front of a still-blowing flamethrower for like 2 seconds was worse, it made me laugh.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 00:47 |
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Bugblatter posted:Eh? You have a source on that? https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14610240/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 01:51 |
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Bugblatter posted:Eh? You have a source on that? ehh just a rumor i guess, but i want to believe
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 02:15 |
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Moltke posted:ehh just a rumor i guess, but i want to believe I’d love to believe it too, but there hasn’t even been a licensing sale, the furthest a show could be is internal development at Sony. Certainly not preproduction at HBO.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 02:21 |
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Volte posted:We haven't even seen how anyone else in the world lives yet outside of the QZ so if we see a thriving community of people, will you complain that the show is contradicting itself? Tiggum posted:This reading is not contradicted by the text, but I don't think it's fully supported either. To go one way or the other I think we'd have to see an example of some group of people who are doing well because of community. So far the only community we've seen or heard of has been terrible and the only people doing well were living in their own private fortress. The fact that that made them vulnerable in other ways only suggests that neither option is ideal; we haven't seen what the authors' vision of the ideal solution would be (yet). Bugblatter posted:Spoilers for anyone who hasn’t played either game Xiahou Dun posted:Yeah but also you can’t critique something for inconsistent theming and have death of the author. At that point you just have a poo poo interpretation. kanonvandekempen posted:I mildly enjoy foundation, but then I've never read the books. Solaris 2.0 posted:On the other hand learning about how the apocalypse happened was the most interesting part of HZD (and why I didn’t care for HFW story) so if they’re going to make a show on it, that’s the way to do it. ilmucche posted:Make an unreal tournament as an ultra-violent sports show/league filled with egos Xiahou Dun posted:I'm responding to people saying that the message is X and then saying, "Well, if X is the message, then they should've done Y," as an authorial critique. Justin Credible posted:Basically. It's jut really weird to be like 'THIS is the author's CLEAR INTENT' as an objective, factual statement based on a subjective reading of the material, and then using that assertion to springboard into criticisms about the writing, etc.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 03:47 |
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Hey can you make a single post that isn't wall-to-wall hot takes
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 03:51 |
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I don't know why I assumed otherwise but Linda Rondstadt (who I had never heard of before this episode) is still alive. Probably not in the show's universe, though. Actually, I hope they don't but I would laugh if they did something like Tom Petty in The Postman.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 03:57 |
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Tiggum posted:This is the non-spoiler thread. People who want spoilers for the game can get them elsewhere. Thus the tags.
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uvar posted:I don't know why I assumed otherwise but Linda Rondstadt (who I had never heard of before this episode) is still alive. She has Parkinson's Disease so you shouldn't expect to see her in the show.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 05:55 |