There'a an equal amount of young women being punched in the face (and doing punching tbf) by men. Just a lot o' punchin' all round.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link
I suppose some of the women are 2000 years old and/or not stricty women but the optics are the same.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
Anyway, grim as much of it was I am slightly bereft at being dumped back on Earth 2.
What's next - Caprica?
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 27 May 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
There must be some kind of way out of here
― burnt hombre (stevie), Thursday, 27 May 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
I'd say if you are looking for another old scifi streaming show, I would check out Farscape. It is lower budget but it is more fun and less over the top grim as BSG.
If I was an entertainment mogul looking to make my scifi streaming show, I would adapt Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars series. Kinda surprised it has not happened yet, that book how it is setup I think could work well as a Tv show.
― earlnash, Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
that one's tough because it covers such a long period of time that favorite characters would always be dying/disappearing. the expanse has lots of secondary characters coming and going but there's always at least a stable core
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
At least you don't have to pay actors more and more each contract renewal...
― DJI, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
I think it would take a few seasons to do just the first book 'Red Mars'. I think it would work as more of a large ensemble like BSG or Game of Thrones.
― earlnash, Friday, 28 May 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
I think I heard an Internet rumour that Red Mars was in the works.
I'd like someone to have a bash at the Culture novels.
― chap, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
I prefer The Expanse to BSG in a lot of ways, not least because it's proper hard Sci-Fi rather than a slightly half-arsed SF/mystic fantasy hybrid, but I don't think it reaches the heights of nailbiting drama BSG did at its peaks.
― chap, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
I think Amazon started working on a Culture TV show and gave up.
― DJI, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
yeah Expanse is much more...clinical, maybe? it has a coldness and to it and isn't as interested in Big Obvious Themes or goopy love triangles xp
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Friday, 28 May 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
― DJI,
Fair play to be honest, it would need an absurd budget to do properly.
― chap, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
I tend to forget, when I'm reading Culture books, that many of the characters are weird multi-legged creatures and other things that might be tough to relate to as a television viewer.
― DJI, Friday, 28 May 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
I'm guessing they would just do the typical head loaf makeup that other scifi shows do.
― DJI, Friday, 28 May 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
animate it?
― koogs, Friday, 28 May 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
That would be rad
― DJI, Saturday, 29 May 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
Sounds like it was Bank's estate that pulled the plug xpshttps://www.theverge.com/2020/8/26/21402585/amazon-cancels-tv-adaptation-culture-series-iain-m-banks-consider-phlebas
― groovypanda, Saturday, 29 May 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
Got my mom started on Galactica, should I warn her about the later seasons or make it a delightful surprise?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link
delightful surprise
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
100% agree.
Maybe take a health check after the season three opening episodes, that's the jump off point before you hit the weird part of the rollercoaster.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link
does she like the song "All Along the Watchtower" y or n?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
The only song I’ve ever been sure she liked was “Sussudio.”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
the Cylons woulda given themselves away by dancing
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
Serial killer doctor episode in season 3 merits my mom's first 100% critical text re: Galactica.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link