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While everyone was going nuts over the new Star Wars trailer featuring "R2Ball2" and "Hilted Light Sabres" this little nugget seemed to fly under the radar... "HBO Will Make Asimov's Foundation With Interstellar's Jonathan Nolan" (click for article) quote:It looks like HBO is teaming up with Interstellar writer and Person Of Interest showrunner Jonathan Nolan to adapt the highly revered and beloved Foundation books into a TV series. Wow. If you're not familiar with the series, it started with some short stories that Sci-Fi visonary (and muttonchop enthusiast) Issac Asimov wrote in the 40/50's that evolved into the first three books, then another three. Basically, a maths wizard discovers that the Galactic Empire is going to fall apart in about 500 years, then after that there will be a dark age of anarchy that would last 30,000 years. BUUUUUUT! If his intrepid band of autists have their way and work on their lame version of Wikipedia, it will only last 1,000 years!  So, HBO a network known for Gritty series with tons of violence, sex, and quirky humour wants to tackle a book series that has possibly 4 witnessed deaths, possibly two instances of nudity, and pretty much zero action/violence. So how the hell are audiences going to bridge the gap between the premise being set up in the first episode or two and the topless asian planet? Foundation Trilogy Timeline: Hari figures out the Galactic empire is Rome on the downward slope. He sets up a colony of nerds to write an encyclopedia on a backwards planet. They trade with some savages. They start a science religion. They send out traders to do business. An impotent Jeff Goldblum takes over the galaxy. Some nerd guys with mind powers turn him retard. Things go back to normal. The old empire in its death throes tries to destroy the nerds, but fails. A ditzy chick makes a guy decide if the galaxy will be run by book nerds, mind nerds, or the matrix.
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At long last proper sci fi where the smart nerds beat the jock barbarians in their own arena of political posturing nyer nyer
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Nov 29, 2014 04:21
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You know what, I think Nolan is actually a pretty good fit for this particular set of books.Harime Nui posted:At long last proper sci fi where the smart nerds beat the jock barbarians in their own arena of political posturing nyer nyer Exactly, this is Extremely Nolan's poo poo.
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Nov 29, 2014 04:57
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Blistex posted:A ditzy chick makes a guy decide if the galaxy will be run by book nerds, mind nerds, or the matrix. These books were extremely bad, although the extrapolations of the Spacer worlds' futures were kind cool.
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Nov 29, 2014 05:00
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cool books and not tits very cool cool awesome
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Nov 29, 2014 05:01
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only the first foundation book was any good
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Nov 29, 2014 05:07
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Neurosis posted:only the first foundation book was any good a hard truth
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Nov 29, 2014 05:11
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Neurosis posted:only the first foundation book was any good Oh come on! How could you not love the book with awkward sexualized hair touching, or poison Asian nipple planet, or "Hari Seldon lives in the Ghetto".
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Nov 29, 2014 05:15
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This is a good fit for Nolan because it allows him to dig deep into his elitist and vaguely classist sensibilities about how people like him know what's best for everyone in spite of what "they" say. I wonder which lead actor that vaguely resembles Nolan himself they'll get for it.
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Nov 29, 2014 05:19
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mind the walrus posted:This is a good fit for Nolan because it allows him to dig deep into his elitist and vaguely classist sensibilities about how people like him know what's best for everyone in spite of what "they" say. I wonder which lead actor that vaguely resembles Nolan himself they'll get for it. There isn't even a main actor in the first book. It's just a bunch of different guys for a chapter, with the odd cameo by Seldon.
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Nov 29, 2014 05:27
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Issac Asimov is poo poo and so are all his novels. He's the tolkien of science fiction.
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Nov 29, 2014 05:41
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Jim Barris posted:Issac Asimov is poo poo and so are all his novels. He's the tolkien of science fiction. woah that is quite the opinion
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Nov 29, 2014 05:41
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Jim Barris posted:Issac Asimov is poo poo and so are all his novels. He's the tolkien of science fiction. you're the hitler of GBS
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Nov 29, 2014 05:42
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a bone to pick posted:you're the hitler of GBS I'm the Citizen Kane of Hitlers
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Nov 29, 2014 05:45
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Jim Barris posted:Issac Asimov is poo poo and so are all his novels. He's the tolkien of science fiction. Meh, 3/10 you're acting like any nerd familiar enough with Asimov and Tolkein isn't also familiar enough with bullying to know when they're being baited or not.
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Nov 29, 2014 05:49
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topless asian planet?
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Nov 29, 2014 05:53
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Move thread to TV/IV then ban everyone who posts in TV/IV
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Nov 29, 2014 05:54
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Arthur C Clark's Naked Boy Mysteries
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Nov 29, 2014 06:14
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Harime Nui posted:I'm the Citizen Kane of Hitlers I'm the Rosebud of the Citizen Kane of the Planet of the Hitlers.
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Nov 29, 2014 06:18
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I can't wait to see what kind of fixes HBO brings in for these problems. Also: the fact that all characters are the same.
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Nov 29, 2014 06:22
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ikanreed posted:I can't wait to see what kind of fixes HBO brings in for these problems. Guy Pearce as Hari Seldon. Also Will Smith would make a great R. Daneel Olivaw.
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Nov 29, 2014 13:11
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Ivor Biggun posted:Guy Pearce as Hari Seldon. Also Will Smith would make a great R. Daneel Olivaw. So basically Guy Pearce after the first chapter is a glorified X Box Live achievement. "Congratulations Foundation, you've levelled up!"
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Nov 29, 2014 15:34
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This is actually cool and good news, HBO is the only company that makes anything worth watching and even if this isn't very good it'll still be better than The Walking Dead or any other garbage drama on network TV.
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Nov 29, 2014 15:52
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I hope they throw out the location of the Second Foundation and actually do something cool and not dumb with it, though. And keep The Mule a mystery for longer.
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Nov 29, 2014 15:54
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Did you guys know that Asimov had no idea what the gently caress he was doing and had a short notice meeting with his publisher, who wanted to know what he was working on, and he was reading Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire at the time. So he paraphrased what he was reading but set in sci fi times and thus he pitched 'Foundation' without having written poo poo yet. He just brainstormed it because he was so loving lazy.
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Nov 29, 2014 16:03
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Big Beef City posted:Did you guys know that Asimov had no idea what the gently caress he was doing and had a short notice meeting with his publisher, who wanted to know what he was working on, and he was reading Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire at the time. Yeah well I don't see you inventing an entirely new field of mathematics to predict human behavior and drag us out of a thousand-year intellectual darkness. e: I mean... I guess technically Asimov didn't do that either... he just talked about it... because he was so lazy
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Nov 29, 2014 16:10
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Big Beef City posted:Did you guys know that Asimov had no idea what the gently caress he was doing and had a short notice meeting with his publisher, who wanted to know what he was working on, and he was reading Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire at the time. It's almost like he was just a really good and creative person and was able to make up something that changed literature forever on the spot. The most bizarre aspect of Asimov was his hobby of molesting women in elevators. Probably because he was too lazy to take them on dates and get them drunk up on wine and take them back home... lazy
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Nov 29, 2014 16:23
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Asimov was the first goon.
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Nov 29, 2014 16:25
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Asimov owns and if you unironically disagree with that you're a dumb idiot fucker toilet man.
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Nov 29, 2014 16:45
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Cool, click for ending spoilers: Asimov's Mary Sue is so much smarter than everybody else
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Nov 29, 2014 16:47
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MegaGatts posted:Asimov owns and if you unironically disagree with that you're a dumb idiot fucker toilet man. Wow, you seem really secure in your opinion of Asimov. This sci-fi stuff seems really interesting and worthwhile which is why only extremely undersocialized white males champion its greatness
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Nov 29, 2014 16:47
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foundation series is actually kinda poo poo past the 1st book
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Nov 29, 2014 16:49
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Neurosis posted:only the first foundation book was any good mm i should of read the thread before posting
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Nov 29, 2014 16:50
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hemale in pain posted:foundation series is actually kinda poo poo past the 1st book Yeah but Second Foundation inspired the bad guy in Looper and it's cool to have a mysterious snowballing of worlds going radio silent until you see all of their ships and people fighting for the other side
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Nov 29, 2014 16:52
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The second book is okay if you don't read the third but when you find out what the mule is/where he comes from it's extremely gay e: The sequel to Forever War, written by Joe haldeman, is about as lame. They go to the outer edge of the galaxy and it turns in to some supernatural scifi stuff but then they end up going back to earth, visiting disney land and meeting god lmao hemale in pain fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Nov 29, 2014 |
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Nov 29, 2014 16:53
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Beef Turret posted:Wow, you seem really secure in your opinion of Asimov. This sci-fi stuff seems really interesting and worthwhile which is why only extremely undersocialized white males champion its greatness Cool man, I'm being totally sincere when I say lazy sarcasm is the only way humorless jerkoffs can try to be funny. Try out a real joke, you have one between your legs so you should have plenty of inspiration.
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Nov 29, 2014 17:31
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DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE that scene where it turns out r daneel olivaw has been robot puppetmastering everything from the loving burned out MOON is gonna be a real MINDFUCK for modern audiences!!!
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Nov 29, 2014 17:57
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this is very much my poo poo op thanks
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Nov 29, 2014 17:58
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I only got to the Mule book before I got bored of seeing how Asimov's Mary Sue character of the week would solve the problem by being ~so smart~ Foundation was poo poo
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Nov 29, 2014 18:01
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Asimov + Nolan + TV Series + HBO what can go wrong?
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