I recently finished the trilogy and I’ve got to say… Even though this clip looks neat I’ve never had less faith in an adaptation of anything. Particularly with Benioff and Weiss at the helm.
If GoT taught us anything, if they have Original Source MaterialTM to adapt, they do a decent job. It’s when they are left to improvise that things get awful.
I would get seriously more skeptical if the people in charge of Foundation got their hands on this adaptation tho.
For me it was how they lit the show on fire when they thought they’d be moving on to bigger and better things. “If we can’t run this show, we’ll make it so that nobody can”.
For real - in a vacuum (ha), it’s… passable, but mostly just the parts that involve Empire… and it has to be mentioned that those additions were barely present in the source work. I find most of the rest of the storylines to be unengaging and nonsensical, and the entire vibe of the show series is substantially different from what Asimov was clearly going for.
The Chinese adaptation by Tencent is available for free on YouTube. It does a generally good job. Episode 6 seems heavily censored, but it is otherwise a sensible adaptation of the original.
Netflix could have easily built on that and improve on it tremendously. There are parts in the Tencent adaptation that are plain bad (e.g., Evans).
However, if seems that they went on a different route. I hope that this “teaser” is not a faithful representation of the final product.
I recently finished the trilogy and I’ve got to say… Even though this clip looks neat I’ve never had less faith in an adaptation of anything. Particularly with Benioff and Weiss at the helm.
Seriously? Who would let those clowns touch their IP after what they did to Game of Thrones
If GoT taught us anything, if they have Original Source MaterialTM to adapt, they do a decent job. It’s when they are left to improvise that things get awful.
I would get seriously more skeptical if the people in charge of Foundation got their hands on this adaptation tho.
For me it was how they lit the show on fire when they thought they’d be moving on to bigger and better things. “If we can’t run this show, we’ll make it so that nobody can”.
For real - in a vacuum (ha), it’s… passable, but mostly just the parts that involve Empire… and it has to be mentioned that those additions were barely present in the source work. I find most of the rest of the storylines to be unengaging and nonsensical, and the entire vibe of the show series is substantially different from what Asimov was clearly going for.
I don’t see it as adaptable. There’s limits to what can be portrayed on screen.
The Chinese adaptation by Tencent is available for free on YouTube. It does a generally good job. Episode 6 seems heavily censored, but it is otherwise a sensible adaptation of the original.
Netflix could have easily built on that and improve on it tremendously. There are parts in the Tencent adaptation that are plain bad (e.g., Evans).
However, if seems that they went on a different route. I hope that this “teaser” is not a faithful representation of the final product.
I really wonder what the Netflix version would have been like if the Congresses producer they were going to work with hadn’t been fricking murdered.