Comment on Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series
misk@sopuli.xyz 9 months agoFoundation is pretty good, it’s an adaptation of unfilmable series and I understand choices that had to be made. Back in the day I was willing to die on Tom Bombadil shaped cross but since then have learned to enjoy different takes on established stories.
Totally agree. I was put off by it at first, but I forced myself to pretend it was new IP with similar character names, and now I love it. It’s a very well-made show with excellent acting, gorgeous set design and beautiful cinematography.
I implore folks to just watch it like it’s not based on any books.
The problem for me is that I’ve read the entire series a few times and kept getting blue balled by the fake cliff hangers. I really wish we could have had Prelude and Forward before jumping straight into it.
Yeah, it was the first Sci-Fi series I read as a kid, completely opened me up to the genre. I love the source material. There are so many decisions they could have made differently, and knowing the overall arc of the series can definitely make it frustrating at times, but for me it’s also just one of those lush, well-made Sci-Fi shows that I can still lose myself in. I’m a sucker for spaceships, what can I say.
If they wanted to do an original story, then why license the property and attach the name?
See “I, Robot” with Will Smith.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“You killed my child.”
“No, I killed someone else’s kid, they just had your kid’s name.”
“So we agree you killed a child?”
Also, people that say that Foundation was unfilmable are just parroting what others have said. If it had been done by someone with any talent, it would have been just fine. Instead they gave it to a milquetoast superhero writer/director. Dune is a great example of a property that really should only work as a book, but it’s directed by someone who gives a shit and has vision.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Right? If they felt that it was unfilmable, then they shouldn’t have filmed it, and instead left it for someone who had the vision to accomplish what they could not.