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oh yeah gotta post this in the new thread
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Agile Vector posted:consider phlebas perhaps as an anthology adaptation would be the most viable for general appeal, but thats not really the culture material i want to see happen. pretty sure in a few years player of games could work as some sort of esports political intrigue show i think you are right but both of those shows sound horrible i think the main thing that i like about banks's writing is the way he makes it easy to imagine things that could not possibly exist or be coherently rendered by any reality-adjacent rendering engine; Lededje's infinitely intricate skin is fascinating and easy to imagine but there is absolutely no way to ever actually put it on a screen, same with Azad and the assassin cloud and probably hundreds of other extremely memorable scenes
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I think the biggest barrier to the culture series getting a film adaptation is that the portrayal of (mostly) utopian anarchism is utterly foreign to TV and cinema. Only thing less likely to get an adaptation is The Dispossed
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Jonny 290 posted:ok its over and holy poo poo what a loving good god drat action spy movie. wowwww I feel the same way about Johnny English
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nobody seems to have a midlife crisis on star trek or is it because human lifespan is so much longer that the whole "become an insufferable ambassador and travel the galaxy annoying young people" is the equivalent?
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Sep 14, 2020 18:37
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its easy- special circumstances is space cops! in modern day
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oh no idrians have released 99 human criminals sma and a drone who looks like a human for reasons have to hunt them down banter!
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PCjr sidecar posted:sma and a drone who looks like a human for reasons have to hunt them down would
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let's be honest it would basically be the mandalorian but with a drone instead of baby yoda
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pointsofdata posted:I think the biggest barrier to the culture series getting a film adaptation is that the portrayal of (mostly) utopian anarchism is utterly foreign to TV and cinema. Only thing less likely to get an adaptation is The Dispossed yeah it would be capitalist as hell lol
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pointsofdata posted:I think the biggest barrier to the culture series getting a film adaptation is that the portrayal of (mostly) utopian anarchism is utterly foreign to TV and cinema. Only thing less likely to get an adaptation is The Dispossed Yeah, it's like the main barrier is psychological. Imagine how many tens of millions of dollars your studio would be spending on CGI, just to adapt the message "money is a sign of poverty". It doesn't work.
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bezos is veppers from surface detail, right down to aws and hells as a service i don't think i could handle the irony of amazon producing a culture series
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infernal machines posted:bezos is veppers from surface detail, right down to aws and hells as a service this is true. but I want to see someone try and adapt the hell subplot of that book, itd be nuts
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I've tried to explain surface detail to people and I sound like a complete maniac: ok there are these aliens and they're like elephants but they're not really elephants, ok? So they are a technologically-advanced - well I guess I should back up. In this galaxy there are a bunch of really advanced civilizations like they have ai and huge space orbitals and all this crazy poo poo but it's still all scifi there's no magic - well I guess maybe the civilizations that sublimed, but they just kinda go away. So anyway there are a bunch of these advanced civilizations and it turns out that advanced civilizations tend to evolve in similar ways... ...and then the researcher / academic elephant alien ... ...and then this guy, he's like Jeff bezos... ...well no if she dies this time it'll be a problem because... ...the Angel of Death! ...and the ship is really funny, you have to read it. Like the ship says... But the anti-hell coalition ... ...so bezos is just absolutely going to town on this hot model chick... ...just miles and miles of stretched skin and jagged bones...
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Jonny 290 posted:so holy poo poo i'm watching Atomic Blonde (2017) and its not scifi but is one hell of a cold war artistic color balance cold war nutshot asskicker movie and i literally never heard of it 4 hours ago Atomic Blonde was def a great sleeper hit, mostly because it really just nails that cold war berlin setting that also makes me wish I had been able to experience berlin in the late 80s. e: for more hot Charlize Thereon but in sci-fi, I really liked The Old Guard that just came out. I don't know what the source material is but the movie is an action movie about a small group of immortal people dating back to Sumarian times that still do figthing poo poo. Not great, but its a fun shlocky movie Xaris fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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it was a comic book, op
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Xaris posted:e: for more hot Charlize Thereon but in sci-fi, I really liked The Old Guard that just came out. I don't know what the source material is but the movie is an action movie about a small group of immortal people dating back to Sumarian times that still do figthing poo poo. Not great, but its a fun shlocky movie lol that was also her background in hancock
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old guard is an actual decent movie instead of the crap Netflix shoves out for the rest of its "originals"
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power botton posted:old guard is an actual decent movie instead of the crap Netflix shoves out for the rest of its "originals" i'd believe you, but haveblue posted:it was a comic book, op
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Sep 15, 2020 14:08
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indigi’s probe caused me to learn that cspam has its own animated probe av. neat. i wonder what such a thing would/should look like in yospos
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Uptime Sinclair posted:indigi’s probe caused me to learn that cspam has its own animated probe av. neat. i wonder what such a thing would/should look like in yospos perhaps moose milkie’s av in a kennel.
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Eeyo posted:perhaps moose milkie’s av in a kennel. 
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Uptime Sinclair posted:indigi’s probe caused me to learn that cspam has its own animated probe av. neat. i wonder what such a thing would/should look like in yospos > jail -u [target] -c stop.timeout=21600
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Uptime Sinclair posted:indigi’s probe caused me to learn that cspam has its own animated probe av. neat. i wonder what such a thing would/should look like in yospos richard stallman getting booted out of MIT or maybe that should be reserved for bans
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Uptime Sinclair posted:indigi’s probe caused me to learn that cspam has its own animated probe av. neat. i wonder what such a thing would/should look like in yospos no one cares about yospos anymore
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Achmed Jones posted:I care he said no one, checks out
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I feel like the final The Expanse book is gonna suck
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indigi posted:I feel like the final The Expanse book is gonna suck the last one sure did yeah
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good post title glorgnole
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Corla Plankun posted:i think you are right but both of those shows sound horrible oh, yeah, those would not be particularly great shows for several reasons and you nail it that imagery is a big one. banks could capture the imagination and i dont know if a show for a steaming service could match that even if it was done competently. just the scale and set piece shifts in those two would be a lot for a single show and capturing the detail right would either be lost or ruined in the process qirex posted:nobody seems to have a midlife crisis on star trek or is it because human lifespan is so much longer that the whole "become an insufferable ambassador and travel the galaxy annoying young people" is the equivalent? its all midlife hubris when they turn 100 and try to create super humans or brashness when theyre 20 and get stabbed in the heart in a bar brawl
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becoming old in star trek means you become mark twain and harass androids
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qirex posted:nobody seems to have a midlife crisis on star trek or is it because human lifespan is so much longer that the whole "become an insufferable ambassador and travel the galaxy annoying young people" is the equivalent? tom paris is fixing up a hot rod and getting really into black and white serials i feel like he’s a good candidate
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"I should buy a boat" - Ensign Harry Kim
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maybe ben sisko is just having one big long midlife crisis throughout DS9. he begins the series being listless and unable to connect with his son. then he finds religion, gets a fancy new star ship, gets a new girlfriend, and has several health scares/disassociations with reality. he even builds a sail ship, sails it around the neighborhood, and then shows it off to his biggest rival to prove a point.
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he also makes jambalaya
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what do you call whatever jean-luc is going through in picard
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an end of life crisis, apparently alternatively, bad writing
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