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Wooper posted:Besides lost expeditions I think there is series potential for some of the not so lost ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen%27s_Fram_expedition I'll not witness the death of Mrs. Chippy on cable Tv
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I'd be fine if it were just an anthology series where each season is a different mashup of history and monsters. If they wanted to keep it as similar as possible, a failed Everest or K2 expedition with yetis would fit the bill, where they could explore then Nepalese mythology behind the yeti rather than our modern conception of it. Or just adapt At the Mountains of Madness. And I'd be fine if they didn't go snowy with another season, just new mashups of history and monsters. Any number of ill-fated expeditions would work.
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I could totally see a season dealing with the Roanoke colony. Or Dyatlov pass. Hell, there's a whole lot of mysteries in history that have never seen a competently done film/tv adaptation.
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Apr 26, 2018 12:13
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give me the conquistadors searching the jungles for gold
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Apr 26, 2018 12:28
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All of these, please.
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feedmyleg posted:If they wanted to keep it as similar as possible, a failed Everest or K2 expedition with yetis would fit the bill This is literally the plot of The Abominable, another novel by Dan Simmons. It's...not very good.
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bloom posted:I could totally see a season dealing with the Roanoke colony. Or Dyatlov pass. Hell, there's a whole lot of mysteries in history that have never seen a competently done film/tv adaptation. American Horror Story did Roanoke recently and it was a completely wasted opportunity. I was extremely disappointed. feedmyleg posted:Or just adapt At the Mountains of Madness. I'd rather not see At the Mountains of Madness unless it's a either a seriously budgeted blockbuster film, or at least a huge HBO project that they throw all their weight behind like GoT. I don't want to see a half-assed version of that story, for now I'm ok with just having Ridley Scott's Prometheus as the next best thing.
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Basebf555 posted:American Horror Story did Roanoke recently and it was a completely wasted opportunity. I was extremely disappointed. So I take it that's not worth watching? I gave up on AHS when I hit the witch season.
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bloom posted:So I take it that's not worth watching? I gave up on AHS when I hit the witch season. There are some good things about it but yea I'd say you can skip it if you're already feeling done with AHS. If you're just looking for an interesting take on the Roanoke story then definitely skip it. AHS Hotel was pretty good though, I'd recommend that before Roanoke.
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bloom posted:So I take it that's not worth watching? I gave up on AHS when I hit the witch season. Roanoke was half a season of "what the gently caress is the point of this gimmick" and then another half laughing hysterically once you  get the gimmick and just watch everyone die...
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feedmyleg posted:Care to spoil it? The entire first half of the season is a faux documentary where you have actors playing roles in a "reenactment" of events while the "real" people are interviewed in that talking head documentary style. Then at the halfway point the reenactment ends and they do a followup story where the "actors" from the original reenactment go back to the real house and spend a night there with the actual people who experienced the original events. Needless to say, they all get horrifically slaughtered.
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That is, indeed, very dumb and squanders every decent possibility.
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feedmyleg posted:That is, indeed, very dumb and squanders every decent possibility. The actual connection to the original Roanoke colony is a complete afterthought, it really has very little to do with the main storyline of the season. Complete waste.
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This mask resembles evil mountain-dwelling tuunraq spirits that pursued and devoured hunters. The creatures have twisted faces, asymmetrical eyes, and mouths that are red or splattered with blood. Shamans employed tuunrat as helping spirits and made masks to represent them.
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Yeah, if the bear's face had been all hosed up like that I would've loved the creature design.
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Even googling Tuunbaq has a ton of amazing ideas for the bear design. In a show that is meticulous about so many things and has a powerhouse of acting and characters, it's just disappointing... the show is so good, it was just so close to being so much better. Spoilers through end of show: Best moment in the entire series: "Forks!" Best episode: A Mercy, the one with the carnivale. Start to finish the episode was just perfect. I really loved the writing behind the ending... I just wish tuunbaq looked like more like a hosed up polar bear. You can take as Mr. Blanky's forks have crippled a bear and the captain pulling a chain which is tugging on the forks and rope inside rips apart it's inards, and like a bear should, it eats the gently caress outta Mr. Hickey's bloodied tongue-arm. Or you can take it as tuunbaq the god is poisoned by Mr. Hickey's evil soul. Adam Nagaitis (Mr. Hickey) was phenomenal and I'm hoping he gets a bigger role.
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canyoneer posted:Also, here's one of those virgin/chad memes that I laughed about, which contains spoilers for those who haven't watched past the release schedule This should be in the OP.
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Is the AMC app total garbage for anyone else? Episode 1 is available for 4 more days but episode two is "locked" already (idk why its limited at all).
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Tuunbaq looked appropriately hosed up I thought. It looked like a really twisted and weird polar bear with a hosed up face
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feedmyleg posted:Yeah, if the bear's face had been all hosed up like that I would've loved the creature design. Here's a storyboard image from the scene with the first reveal 
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Fartbox posted:Tuunbaq looked appropriately hosed up I thought. It looked like a really twisted and weird polar bear with a hosed up face Looks like the monkey. 
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Tuunbaq’s nose really throws the whole look off for me. It’s more of a teddy bear nose and it looks out of place.
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bloom posted:I could totally see a season dealing with the Roanoke colony. Or Dyatlov pass. Hell, there's a whole lot of mysteries in history that have never seen a competently done film/tv adaptation. Roanoke would be interesting, Dylatov pass would probably just be one episode from the way it played out. If you haven't already, Futility Closet is a great podcast that looks at interesting bits of history - ranges from unsettling unsolved mysteries to quirky things. Pompous Rhombus fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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bloom posted:
The Chad Ice Master vs. the Virgin Tuunbaq was hilarious. Also Tuunbaq gets rejected by Lady Silence despite bringing gifts.
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etalian posted:Also Tuunbaq gets rejected by Lady Silence despite bringing gifts. Tuunbaq is on LS's eskimo ghost phone as "free dinner"
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bloom posted:Tuunbaq is on LS's eskimo ghost phone as "free dinner" Funnily enough, that's what Tuunbaq has the Terror's crew down as too.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Funnily enough, that's what Tuunbaq has the Terror's crew down as too. I see which side of the Incel Rebellion Tuunbaq naturally is on.
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Like a true incel failson, Tuunbaq reacts to being turned down by binging on unhealthy fast food.
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I think the show was a good example of how not showing the creature is often the better approach since it ended up looking goofy especially when getting clowned on by the Chad Ice master.
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alf_pogs posted:give me the conquistadors searching the jungles for gold That would be great. Really I just hope we get anything similar to this though.
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CODChimera posted:That would be great. Really I just hope we get anything similar to this though. It already got made through Aguirre the Wrath of God. The spooky diving bit was my favorite scene so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYg8rEDT1RU
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etalian posted:I think the show was a good example of how not showing the creature is often the better approach since it ended up looking goofy especially when getting clowned on by the Chad Ice master. Anything is foppish and clownlike when faced by the badassery of Mr Blanky.
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It's a good thing the show is done after this season and that these dumb goon anthology ideas aren't coming to pass Its adapting a book, not a pulp magazine, any future anthology would be poo poo, like game of thrones after they stopped adapting the books
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I'm now on a lookout for both Blanky's sweater and also the officers' double breasted sweaters.
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Lemme know if you find them, those sweaters were 🔥
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Phi230 posted:It's a good thing the show is done after this season and that these dumb goon anthology ideas aren't coming to pass Yeah, not like any impossibly crazy poo poo happened in real world explorations.
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Phi230 posted:It's a good thing the show is done after this season and that these dumb goon anthology ideas aren't coming to pass Sorry to hear about your lame un-lost expedition.
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