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Started by PickelledEggs, August 26, 2014, 06:28:36 PM

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Shiranu

Just finished season 3 of The Expanse, and fuck me am I glad I avoided any spoilers for this series.

It is 100% best to go into it cold. Probably going to see if our local bookstore has the first book of the series to start reading it as well. I know the first one was nominated (won?) a Hugo, and the series as a whole has been nominated as well... and the writers were both heavily involved in the production of the T.V. series.

If you like Sci-fi, it is 110% recommended. It is perhaps the most "science" sci-fi I have ever seen.
"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur

Mr.Obvious

Watching a show about people who don't know one another but who are 'scientifically' matched get married.

I love my gf, but she has the worst taste in shows and films. XD
"If we have to go down, we go down together!"
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Shiranu

"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur

Shiranu

Quote from: Mr.Obvious on February 16, 2020, 03:05:10 PM
Watching a show about people who don't know one another but who are 'scientifically' matched get married.

I love my gf, but she has the worst taste in shows and films. XD

Ewww lol
"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur

Munch

#739
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on February 16, 2020, 03:05:10 PM
Watching a show about people who don't know one another but who are 'scientifically' matched get married.

I love my gf, but she has the worst taste in shows and films. XD

Is it a serious show with actual people or just a made up premise, because if it's not the latter we have a new contender for love island

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8YX1i_KrHzU

My aunt watches this show...

Unironically..

'Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners' - George Carlin

Mr.Obvious

Quote from: Munch on February 16, 2020, 03:51:19 PM
Is it a serious show with actual people or just a made up premise, because if it's not the latter we have a new contender for love island

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8YX1i_KrHzU

My aunt watches this show...

Unironically..

Oh, it's a real show with real people...

https://youtu.be/oM0dHMOekTU

And yes, it's completely and utterly awful.
"If we have to go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, requesting 69.

Atheist Mantis does not pray.

Munch

You have my deepest sympathies :(
'Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners' - George Carlin

GSOgymrat

Quote from: Mr.Obvious on February 16, 2020, 03:05:10 PM
Watching a show about people who don't know one another but who are 'scientifically' matched get married.

I love my gf, but she has the worst taste in shows and films. XD

I read somewhere that Love Is Blind was good. We watched 15 minutes and quit. It's really off-putting.

Hydra009

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Quote from: trdsf on February 16, 2020, 11:42:14 AM
Not looking forward to the upcoming Foundation series (ostensibly) based on the Asimov books.
Ha, I remember a decade or so ago when I was similarly up in arms about a planned Foundation movie that didn't seem like it was going to do the source material justice.  It was all "we don't know that for sure" and "it might be good".  Foolish.  Naive.  Unsuspecting.

Thankfully, we'll never know because it was cancelled.  I will never know vindication, but I do know this: we live in a comparatively fortunate universe.  Grateful or not, it makes no difference.

QuoteAnd who the fuck are 'Brother Dawn', 'Brother Day' and 'Brother Dusk'?  They have no source in the novels.
Presumably, brothers within the ruling family.  I suppose the producers wanted that family to serve as a metaphor for the galactic empire or something.  Seems stupid and directly contrary to Asimov's perspective of society lurching forwards (and backwards) due to forces much larger than individual people.

AcrobaticDetective

Just finished After Life. It was fantastic. It was also exactly what I needed.
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trdsf

Quote from: Hydra009 on February 16, 2020, 09:25:50 PM
Ha, I remember a decade or so ago when I was similarly up in arms about a planned Foundation movie that didn't seem like it was going to do the source material justice.  It was all "we don't know that for sure" and "it might be good".  Foolish.  Naive.  Unsuspecting.

Thankfully, we'll never know because it was cancelled.  I will never know vindication, but I do know this: we live in a comparatively fortunate universe.  Grateful or not, it makes no difference.
It's a little sobering to think that the best treatment Asimov has gotten from Hollywood was Bicentennial Man (which actually wasn't bad).  But yes, I remember the proposed Foundation movie.  It was to be done by Roland Emmerich.  Now, I have no particular objection to Emmerich's 'disaster porn' movies, but if there was ever a story that was not disaster porn, it's Foundation.

Quote from: Hydra009 on February 16, 2020, 09:25:50 PM
Presumably, brothers within the ruling family.  I suppose the producers wanted that family to serve as a metaphor for the galactic empire or something.  Seems stupid and directly contrary to Asimov's perspective of society lurching forwards (and backwards) due to forces much larger than individual people.
This this this.

I will never understand the need to fuck around with what's unarguably a monumentally popular and successful story.  If they wanted to tell a different story from Foundation, make a different fucking series.  Don't slap the name on it and then swap things around randomly -- that's how we got the abomination that was the Will Smith 'I, Robot' movie.  Only time I nearly walked out of a theater on a trailer...
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Hydra009

Quote from: trdsf on February 17, 2020, 12:04:41 AM
It's a little sobering to think that the best treatment Asimov has gotten from Hollywood was Bicentennial Man (which actually wasn't bad).
I saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(2000_film).  Yes, David Carradine.  Aside from that, my only recollections are how low-budget and completely unenthusiastic it was.  And very loosely adapted, to boot.

QuoteBut yes, I remember the proposed Foundation movie.  It was to be done by Roland Emmerich.
Oof.  Suddenly, I remember why I was opposed to it.  Well, at least he went on to do bigger and better things like White House Down, the Independence Day sequel no one wanted, and Midway (which just barely made a profit)

QuoteI will never understand the need to fuck around with what's unarguably a monumentally popular and successful story.
Ego.  Pure and simple.

QuoteIf they wanted to tell a different story from Foundation, make a different fucking series.
But you won't go see it if it's called something else.  If they call it something you're already familiar with, they have name recognition.  All they really have to do after that is slap a couple famous names on the poster, crank out a flashy trailer, and they'll make at least some profit.  Slash and burn cinema.

Mr.Obvious

Quote from: GSOgymrat on February 16, 2020, 08:31:45 PM
I read somewhere that Love Is Blind was good. We watched 15 minutes and quit. It's really off-putting.

Apparently the one I'm talking about is the local equivalent of 'married at first sight'.
"If we have to go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, requesting 69.

Atheist Mantis does not pray.

Mike Cl

Quote from: trdsf on February 17, 2020, 12:04:41 AM
It's a little sobering to think that the best treatment Asimov has gotten from Hollywood was Bicentennial Man (which actually wasn't bad).  But yes, I remember the proposed Foundation movie.  It was to be done by Roland Emmerich.  Now, I have no particular objection to Emmerich's 'disaster porn' movies, but if there was ever a story that was not disaster porn, it's Foundation.
This this this.

I will never understand the need to fuck around with what's unarguably a monumentally popular and successful story.  If they wanted to tell a different story from Foundation, make a different fucking series.  Don't slap the name on it and then swap things around randomly -- that's how we got the abomination that was the Will Smith 'I, Robot' movie.  Only time I nearly walked out of a theater on a trailer...
I know little about the proposed Asimov movies (loved the books).  But two movies stick in my craw--Planet of the Apes and I Am Legend.  Both are small books but are classics.  Both are not that complicated to make a film out of--but the efforts for both were irritating to say the least.  Both movies (especially the first one of each) was a huge disappointment for me in that the fucked up the story in each case and made them much less than what the books were---and they missed the point of both books.  Still pisses me off.
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SGOS

Quote from: Mike Cl on February 17, 2020, 09:49:18 AM
I know little about the proposed Asimov movies (loved the books).  But two movies stick in my craw--Planet of the Apes and I Am Legend.  Both are small books but are classics.  Both are not that complicated to make a film out of--but the efforts for both were irritating to say the least.  Both movies (especially the first one of each) was a huge disappointment for me in that the fucked up the story in each case and made them much less than what the books were---and they missed the point of both books.  Still pisses me off.
I had no idea Planet of the Apes was from Asimov.  Now I've got to read the actual story, because I want to know what the movie was actually supposed to be. A few years ago, a theater which occasionally shows an old classic, did the 1st Planet of the Apes.  It's the only special showing that I ever went to, even though I own the disk.  It's dated for sure, but I still think it's an important film.  But it wouldn't be the first time Hollywood demolished a story.