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Posted May 17, 2017
Netflix? Is this some kind of Anime?
Posted May 17, 2017
I guess I need to start playing the games soon even if I cannot set all the settings to max. It's unlikely I'll get a more powerful PC in the foreseeable future.
Posted May 17, 2017
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Luned: I'm going to have to disagree on the "fake-y" part. I was actually 12 years old in 1983, living in a place about halfway between Indiana (the setting) and Georgia (where the series filmed), and what makes the series hit me so powerfully is that the entire backdrop of the town and the characters is so true to what I actually remember.

Even down to playing AD&D at lunch in the school cafeteria (instead of a friend's basement) and being thought weird. :)

I know people who closely resembled the adults and older teens in the story in characteristics during that time period. I can get why the series doesn't speak as strongly to you, since you don't have the same associations, but don't mistake the American small-town cultural backdrop as incorrect for the time period. It's the very rightness of that portrayal that amplifies the eerie stuff.
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Breja: I did not mean that as "inaccurate". I meant that it's almost a carbon copy of 80s movies. That it has nothing of it's own, and just comes off as a copy- a "fake".
i think the words you are looking for are "inspired by" or "homage" ...
Posted May 17, 2017
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Breja: I did not mean that as "inaccurate". I meant that it's almost a carbon copy of 80s movies. That it has nothing of it's own, and just comes off as a copy- a "fake".
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amok: i think the words you are looking for are "inspired by" or "homage" ...
Nope. The X-Files was inspired by Kolchak the Night Stalker and Twin Peaks, but it's still a unique, original work with a style of it's own. Stranger Things is stylisticaly a facsimile, not a unique, original creation merely relying on something else for initial inspiration.
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Posted May 17, 2017
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Falci: Is it wrong for me to really, really wish this ended up being a cartoon series in the spirit of Voltron/Avatar (that is, awesome anime inspired artwork and great writing)?
Considering Netflix is making an animated Castlevania series next year, in a similar, although bloodier, vein to their Voltron series. I think your wish has a good chance of being fulfilled.
Posted May 17, 2017
Why would they need to do that?
Posted May 17, 2017
I will wait with bated breath. I want it to be good, I really do, but I fear it won't be.

If it had been HBO, their track record is a bit better, although it could go pear-shaped either way.
Posted May 17, 2017
No thanks
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/netflix
Posted May 17, 2017
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Klumpen0815: No thanks
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/netflix
Yup, I was going with drm'd telly, but that's good. Amazon, Netflix, all these firms making telly only watchable through their clientwares, its becoming endemic to every part of life.
Posted May 17, 2017
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kalirion: Let's hope it's better than what I hear of Shannara.
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Breja: That series was (is? I'm not sure if I'll bother with the second season) something of a guilty pleasure of mine, partly for the throwback to the 90s fantasy shows like Hercules and Xena, partly for the "it kinda feels like someones tabletop RPG game" quality but yeah, it absolutely is in fact pretty damn bad. Definately not what I'd want from The Witcher :D
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Falci: Is it wrong for me to really, really wish this ended up being a cartoon series in the spirit of Voltron/Avatar (that is, awesome anime inspired artwork and great writing)?
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Breja: Yes, because Avatar was absolutely goddamn terrible :D

Now, if you'd give it to Genndy Tartakovsky, that I might get behind.
I'm not really fond of Genndy's visual style, in all honesty. But I suppose it would be great narrative wise.
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Falci: Is it wrong for me to really, really wish this ended up being a cartoon series in the spirit of Voltron/Avatar (that is, awesome anime inspired artwork and great writing)?
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DaCostaBR: Considering Netflix is making an animated Castlevania series next year, in a similar, although bloodier, vein to their Voltron series. I think your wish has a good chance of being fulfilled.
Oh, I had forgotten about that one. Thanks for reminding me. :)
Post edited May 17, 2017 by Falci
Posted May 17, 2017
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Falci: Is it wrong for me to really, really wish this ended up being a cartoon series in the spirit of Voltron/Avatar (that is, awesome anime inspired artwork and great writing)?
Yes (I support it, that is)! Seriously, for comics and video-games, the animated form (regardless if it's the American or Japanese version) is really one of the best ways to capture the original stylistic and artistic portrayal, in the most true-to-life fashion. Live-action actors just don't come off the same.

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nightcraw1er.488: Yup, I was going with drm'd telly, but that's good. Amazon, Netflix, all these firms making telly only watchable through their clientwares, its becoming endemic to every part of life.
Haha! I kind of Rolfed at that! I mean, what you said is true. It's merely the way you put it suddenly tickled my funny bone.
Post edited May 17, 2017 by Nicole28
Posted May 17, 2017
Let's hope the Witcher series does not end up part of another Netflix series.....Mystery Science Theater 3000.

I admit Netflix nailed that one. They were smart, they let Best Brain Procuctions pretty much do their own thing.
Posted May 17, 2017
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Breja: http://kotaku.com/the-witcher-is-getting-a-netflix-series-1795289049

And I'm not too happy with the news. I'll be honest- I don't much like what I've seen so far of the Netflix stuff, other than the first season of Daredevil. I've havve not finished season two, I got bored pretty early on, Jessica Jones managed to put me to sleep in one episode, and Stranger Things was likewise boring and also just painfuly redundant and fake-y and uninspired rip-off of the great aventure sci-fi movies of the 80s. So my hopes for this are not high. I'll be really surprised if they manage to capture the unique mood and tone of the original and not just make it "the Netflix Game of Thrones".

Then again I'm the crazy guy who actually kinda-sorta likes the crappy polish tv series version :D
I liked Hemlock Grove and House of Cards. I have good hopes for this... But I too also fear it's trying to capitalize on the Game of Thrones phenomenon (I say phenomenon because GoT isn't that good) and be yet ANOTHER GoT clone.
Posted May 17, 2017
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paladin181: I liked Hemlock Grove and House of Cards. I have good hopes for this... But I too also fear it's trying to capitalize on the Game of Thrones phenomenon (I say phenomenon because GoT isn't that good) and be yet ANOTHER GoT clone.
I found Hemlock Grove quite literally unwatchable. House of Cards... I just could never force myself to try watching it, which I admit is likely unfair to what is probably at least a decent series. It's just that the original is so phenomenal, the very idea of an american remake just makes my stomack turn.

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Falci: Is it wrong for me to really, really wish this ended up being a cartoon series in the spirit of Voltron/Avatar (that is, awesome anime inspired artwork and great writing)?
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Nicole28: Yes (I support it, that is)! Seriously, for comics and video-games, the animated form (regardless if it's the American or Japanese version) is really one of the best ways to capture the original stylistic and artistic portrayal
Do remember, we are talking about an adaptation of the original short stories and novels, not the games. The games most likely do not enter into this project at all.
Post edited May 17, 2017 by Breja
Posted May 18, 2017
Looks like we've got some casting news.
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