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I don't trust HBO to make shows with full arcs and endings. They bombed GoT so hard that the echoes still reverberate from the walls, and House of Dragons did absolutely nothing to rekindle the simple joy of watching a well produced, written, and acted play.
If anything HoD solidified that HBO has lost the thread of entertainment amidst the wash of CGI, fanciful scenery, and dreadfully dull, plodding characters. Viserys was the only shining light of the show and with his passing, the remaining cast and characters desperately attempt to fill time and space with plot that feels tedious at best.
HBO is desperate for a hit to pull themselves back into the hearts and living rooms of the world, but they seem to think that the calculus is pageantry and computer generated fluff, rather than cornerstone fundamentals of story telling. And that is why I expect they will continue to fail.
Their Chornobyl was rich. I guess it depends on how much they care about the quality and who they employ to do the job.
I mean, that's a real story. They just had to adapt it into a short format.
They did a lot.
And you can check out how russians did just that to counter these series.
ed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Abyss
They made a movie? Seems like a Russian versions of any of the Mark Wahlberg average guy stops awfuk thing series.
Not familiar with these, but there's one manly main actor who warps both logic and historical truth wherever he goes. Everything becomes dumb to make him look smart, even radiation stops working. That's not what I thought would be a movie about a catastrophe produced in a country that was also affected by it. That's like if Michael Bay filmed a michaelbayean version of 9\11 with explosions and comic books-like catch-phrases.
America produced a movie wherein the tragedy of a young woman's murder was retold to be stopped by a folksy hero, his best pal and his dog. Complete with flamethrower and gratitious violence.
Edit: wait didnt Michael Bay make a bad revionist historical action drama called Pearl Harbour?
I will not forget what they did to westworld either.
Yo dawg we heard you like robots. Now how about ninja robots!
They should have put GoT on hiatus when they ran out of material to adapt and put the pressure on GRRM to finish the damn books.
For this, I dunno, is it actually adapting Herbert material? Or is it another thing like "Foundation" where "we like the names, but fuck the original..."
It's not Frank Herbert material.
"The prequel series based on the 2012 novel Sisterhood of Dune by Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert, the son of Dune creator Frank Herbert."
I actually didn't mind Brian's books, they weren't as exciting to read as Frank's, but they did add a lot to the story.