• ExLisperA
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    i think Against a dark background by Banks could make a fucking amazing series but them I’m 99% sure they would fuck it up and I wouldn’t enjoy it.

    I really liked The Wool but didn’t like Silo at all. Loved HHGTTG and TV series was good but it’s just a fairly accurate adaptation, nothing great. The movie was weak. The first Dirk Gently show was mediocre, the second was fairly good but was only loosely based on the books.

    I don’t get the obsession some people have with specific lores. Good lore alone doesn’t make a good show. Many shit shows were based on The Witcher. I would love to see good, deep, layered, hard Sci-Fi show and I don’t care what it’s based on. Good lore is like 10% of a good show. At the same time good book is good enough in itself, I don’t have see it rehashed in a different format.

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      I’d like to see The Player of Games adapted. I think it’d work pretty well. Or consider phlebas. The nonlinearity of the other books can make for challenging TV narrative.

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        Use of Weapons, State of the Art and Inversions would also make great movies. The rest relies on AI too much.

        But I still think there’s only about 10% chance that someone who actually gets those books would be tasked with adapting them to the screen and wouldn’t fuck it up.