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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Good Omens is the only one of his novels that targets adults that hadn't been adapted yet and since it was co-written by Pratchett in sure the BBC will get to it eventually. What? The only works of his that are aimed at adults that have been adapted were Neverwhere and this. Stardust is for teens/adults, Coraline is for kids/adults, Mirrormask is for kids/adults. Meanwhile he's written a sequel to American Gods (not adapted) and The Ocean at the End of the Lane (not adapted) which are both primarily aimed at adults (though the latter could be read by YA teens just as easily). e: also you should Google the history of Good Omens adaptations, including the news that it's finally happening! On Amazon next year precision fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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Stardust is usually regarded very well, it made me cry and it's beautiful. And I'm referring to the book and the movie both.
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Apr 25, 2017 03:43
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dogmother1776 posted:I didn't imagine Easter as being skinny. All the other actors/actresses look really good and well cast though. This just reminded me that the first "it's really happening" adaptation of Good Omens was set to have Johnny Depp as Crowley and Robin Williams as Aziraphale and then Hollywood said "Can you cut out Death and all the apocalypse stuff?"
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Apr 25, 2017 13:58
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PST posted:There was, however, a very good adaptation of the book into a radio play: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04knt4h . Unsure of availability in foreign parts. It's available on Audible and yes it is fantastic.
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Apr 25, 2017 15:48
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It looks like the show is going to be bringing a lot of things into the story earlier than the book does though (in some cases WAY earlier). Like, if it were being super faithful, I would think that Media wouldn't show up for a while, and certainly not be in the promo materials for how small her role in the book is
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Apr 25, 2017 18:07
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I definitely think it's kind of dumb that they're explicitly calling people "The God of Thing", the book was very good about not making anything that simple and reductive. Czernobog is the one I'm especially thinking of here that made me roll my eyes in the show's promo material. Also I really think Mr. Nancy was supposed to look a lot older, I pictured him as being like 60+ just very spry for his age.
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Apr 26, 2017 03:10
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If the show doesn't have the "Tiger's Balls" song in its entirety it will have failed utterly. Kings was great.
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Apr 26, 2017 03:36
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Holy poo poo this intro is the best I've seen since halt and catch fire Edit: aaaahhhhhhhhh the eyes precision fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Apr 30, 2017 |
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Apr 30, 2017 20:08
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Pretty sure all Prime stuff is regular HD.
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Apr 30, 2017 20:45
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The soundtrack is awesome though?
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Apr 30, 2017 22:00
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My only issue is that they're taking things really slow. I had thought the first episode would have gotten us at least to the point of meeting Mr. Nansi. I'm not exactly complaining, but a couple things did feel like genuine filler (the fight with Mad Sweeney, if not his entire scene really).
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May 1, 2017 00:08
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Ian McShane is perfect and I really hope they use the (this is a super minor spoiler not some big book moment) night deposit robbery vignette, it was one of my favorite parts of the early book.
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May 1, 2017 02:27
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MiddleOne posted:I'm going to be the rear end in a top hat here and say that whoever called that the maneater scene was unfilmable was right. That scene was absolutely ridiculous and not in a good way. It was pretty bad.
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May 1, 2017 08:28
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Yak of Wrath posted:I don't get this attitude, doesn't this story show that Fuller and co, kept Gaiman in the loop and consulted with him and respected his input in regards to the adaption? It does, but it also shows that Fuller and co. legitimately thought it would have been a good idea for that scene to exist, which is just straight up baffling.
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May 1, 2017 16:38
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Maybe it's a generational thing but I was taught the meanings behind the names of the days in middle school.
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May 2, 2017 03:53
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Yeah this probably has my favorite title sequence since Halt and Catch Fire. It's so good.
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May 2, 2017 04:08
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I was pretty certain that Shadow in the novel talks about his mom being black.
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May 2, 2017 05:49
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double nine posted:It's trivial and I shouldn't get hung up on it, but why the hell was Anansi wearing a modern suit? He also mentioned events in the future. Maybe Anansi has some kind of supernatural powers?!
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May 7, 2017 23:15
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Axel Serenity posted:Excellent. Thank you. Yeah, if they had stuck to Book Shadow then Whittle would have had very little to do.
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May 8, 2017 04:18
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dead comedy forums posted:I thought I would definitely not see another "vagina that eats people whole" scene because the effects look really loltastic after the first time Sometimes "show, don't tell" backfires. Hell it would have been more effective if they did the same general thing, but kept a sheet over her lower body so you could imagine the horrors of a giant vagina mouth instead of... what we got.
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May 9, 2017 19:07
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Right, in the book the scene is played as a guy who is not just paying a woman to gently caress him, but being an rear end in a top hat about it, and Bilquis devouring him is played not just for horror, there's a bit of "the guy kinda deserved it" angle that Gaiman spins on it.
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May 9, 2017 19:33
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MiddleOne posted:I'm just going to assume it's some producers personal fetish porn at this point because these scenes are awful, especially when contrasted to the rest of the show. Well, "vore" is a thing...
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May 10, 2017 22:05
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tin can made man posted:They could do something with Hearst and have Jon Lithgow play him like in that one Drunk History I feel like if we don't get a flashback of Media as Geraldo Rivera (playing himself) the show will have failed on so many levels.
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May 11, 2017 00:11
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Cojawfee posted:They both have teeth. Haven't spent much time in the deep South, eh? 
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May 11, 2017 02:27
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The Saddest Rhino posted:i forgot that show after they killed off some of the best characters (Chad and Niecy Nash's character) but is season 2 even worth watching? It's more of the same, it's not really bad or anything. The sizzle had just worn off a bit because the show went full throttle in season 1 and there wasn't anywhere left to go but sideways.
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May 11, 2017 02:42
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Slight nitpick: He doesn't say "That's a lot of Jesuses", he says "That's a lot of Jesus", pursuant to the followup line from Wednesday that's something like "People need a lot of Jesus".Rocksicles posted:I don't know, i'll wait for the information to be volunteered rather than go looking for it. I posted in the spoiler thread an interview where Fuller says that 100% of the penises in this show are CGI or dildos. 100%. Also why not hire gay men to do a gay sex scene? precision fucked around with this message at 22:48 on May 15, 2017 |
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May 15, 2017 22:44
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e: phone postin'
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May 15, 2017 22:48
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Mad Sweeney is the breakout surprise of the show and could only be better if he were being played by Joe Gilgnun, which would also be a neat wink and a nod since Preacher was contemporary to Sandman.
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May 16, 2017 03:05
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MiddleOne posted:The alt-right outrage is in the comments. Isn't it always?
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May 16, 2017 14:18
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The TV IV › American Gods: That's a lot of penises.
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May 16, 2017 18:52
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Steve Yun posted:There's a White Penis, a Black Penis, a Mexican Penis, an Asian Penis...  to both of yins
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May 16, 2017 20:06
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withak posted:Who was the person in the top hat reflected in the security camera display? Maybe Abraham Lincoln became a god? Questions like these should probably be asked in the spoiler thread, I think. (As light a spoiler as possible, and also speculation) It's probably Crispin Glover's character
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May 17, 2017 22:44
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Aesop Poprock posted:Sandman would be so much harder to pull off than American Gods. It's much more scattered and well, dreamlike and doesn't always follow a continuing plot and the gods are all kind of their own little thing. Dream's connection to his siblings are more backstories and how they are in the current form than they are plot points. I'd say give it a go if they can figure it out but American Gods is a main plot with flavor scenes added. Sandman is a lot of flavor scenes with a main plot loosely tying them together. That's a pretty challenging thing to pull off without changing how it feels. While I agree about the comic as a whole, I think you could make a great season/film out of the The Doll's House
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May 27, 2017 22:59
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I want a show about Lucifer's retirement on the beach. A sitcom with a wacky ensemble cast. Call it THE DEVIL YOU KNOW or SATAN AROUND or whatever
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May 28, 2017 20:05
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Oasx posted:Dead Wife continues to be a complete waste of time. Putting the main story on hold just to they can do 1½ episodes on her just seems like a bad idea this early on, hopefully she will go away for a while now. Mr. World talks about Gods as all being united in the same industry (the salsa monologue) which would indicate that he's interested in bringing all the Gods to work together and harvest as much belief as possible. Whether he is a God himself or not didn't seem at all clear.
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May 28, 2017 20:40
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Remember how they wanted to cast The Rock as Shadow? Am I the only one who noticed that the lighting, framing and makeup in the police interrogation room scenes made Ricky Whittle look almost identical to The Rock? The first time I noticed it, I didn't think much of it, but every time it cut to him in those scenes he bore a striking resemblance, even in his body language.
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May 28, 2017 21:16
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etalian posted:Well when the book was realized the internet really had taken off yet and I laughed how the show updated Technical Boy to basically be a forum troll type personality. Yeah in the book, Technical Boy is less "the Internet and smartphones" and more "general technology fetish", hence why he dresses like a Matrix character. Also, he was fat and ugly because back then only fat ugly nerds used the internet. Now he's skinny and ugly! One wonders why Media is dying though - shouldn't she be high as gently caress on all that sweet 24/7 News Cycle poo poo? Or maybe there's a separate God of (Fake) News. poo poo, now I want to see Gillian Anderson dressed as Anderson Cooper or Alex Jones.
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May 29, 2017 18:16
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Media says there are aliens because people believed there were. Not that those aliens are Gods like she is, just that belief creates reality.
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May 29, 2017 21:51
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KilGrey posted:I think she implied she got high off of that. A ton of people tuned into that radio broadcast and collectively poo poo themselves giving her a big bump. Yeah but she also did say "now there are aliens out there because people believed there were"
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Zaphod42 posted:Those "aliens" could simply be more media henchmen, or they could be their own thing. We dunno.  Sometimes text is text. It's not like it's a plot point that's going to come back. Media says "people believed in this, now it exists". The rules of this universe posit that belief can create things, which are occasionally called Gods but also sometimes called Spirits, Demons, Leprachauns, whatever. Jeez man, do you have some kind of condition that forces you to be this... argumentative, with everyone, all the time?
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