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Where's Alice... Joe? Monat? Goering?

posted 14 years ago by rareandfirsts
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I can understand leaving out Tom Mix and several others, but to leave out such interesting characters from the mini-series is criminal to the source material.

This looks 10x better than the 1st effort from a few years ago and I can live with updating it to include the influx from the WTC disaster and might even like to see a new bad guy wake up by the riverside so he could be killed off several times during the series.

In the books, RW contained people from the beginning to the end of human life on earth (or at least to a certain cut-off date IIRC). It doesn't appear to have the same plot line with what can be told from the screener.

The story of Riverworld could be made into a television series that could dwarf the success of any other SF/Fantasy series ever made with proper writing, production values and respect for the source materials. I wish it luck.

Oh yeah... I wonder if they'll have the grails and the trippy gum?

I'm so tired of the club scene... So are the baby seals.

[–] patedoz 14 years ago

Sadly, i've seen a trailer for this new thing... and they're making a lot of mistakes again... there's not bald people, not trippy gum, not millions of people from all time waking naked beside a river (there's a few waking underwater, like the 1st forgettable show... oh, i understand, people emerging from liquid, very good metaphore... *sarcasm*) and there was... wait for it..... HORSES!.... HORSES IN RIVERWORLD!!! (?) Did this guys EVER read the *beep* book????
PLEASE!!!

[–] rareandfirsts 14 years ago

Yeah, I'm afraid that this is going to be another disaster that's going to doom the non-reading public from the spectacle and breadth of the novels and short stories that the Halmi's are ripping for a quick buck again.

They have only one mini worth salt to their credit which is Lonesome Dove and I still think someone else used their name in producing that.

I'm so tired of the club scene... So are the baby seals.

[–] There_Is_No_Sayid 14 years ago

Honestly there's no way you can condense a couple thousand pages of text into two or even four hours of movie without cutting stuff out. So some characters are going to be left behind.

My question would be why include any of the characters from the novel? There's several billion people on the Riverworld, so why not do a story totally unconnected to the stuff chronicled by Farmer?

"Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything."

[–] rareandfirsts 14 years ago

Then why even bother calling it Riverworld?

I'm so tired of the club scene... So are the baby seals.

[–] There_Is_No_Sayid 14 years ago

It would be the same setting, just not trying to follow the storyline of the books. No Burton and crew going up the river, no fabulous riverboat. This is the approach they took in the two collections of Riverworld short stories they did. Everyone told different stories of the Riverworld and none, to my recollection, used any of the main characters from Farmer's novels.

"Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything."

[–] rwoodrom 14 years ago

There cannot be a Riverworld without Joe.