POX Phillip K Dick

i absolutely love transmigration - it really feels like a development in his writing for exactly that reason, which makes it even sadder that he died before he had the chance to properly follow up on it

all three of those are great, for v different reasons.

Electric dreams

Impossible planet on channel 4 now and it's not bad at all

I haven't seen the first yet. According to the Graun review last week, that was the best ep and subsequent ones are not as good. But I might dip into this at some point. Brooker not having anything to do with it is a plus.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Ubik
A Scanner Darkly
VALIS
Now Wait for Last Year
Eye in the Sky
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Galactic Pot-Healer
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
The Cosmic Puppets

reading Androids rn. gonna read Dr. Bloodmoney next

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Not read the story but I thought Impossible Planet was a snooze and the ending a let down.

Brooker not having anything to do with it is a plus.

Other script writers thinking they can improve on Dick's stories is a minus.

decent enough I thought, despite Channel 4's annoyingly aggressive advert schedule

don't know most of the short stories but most of what I love about PKD is unfilmable so

it's generally a good thing to have a series of self-contained 1 hour SF dramas without a fecking story arc or a fecking canon tbh

I don't care about canon but 99% sure Dick had more interesting ideas than anyone working in TV today. But ok I'll wait until I've seen this episode and discovered how far it differs from the original story before imparting my negative opinion.

as I say, he's too good to be dramatized imo and that's largely because of the ideas he deals with, but his name is surely attached to this mainly for advertising purposes

they advertised an eighties synth-pop compilation called 'Electric Dreams' during Electric Dreams lol

it's generally a good thing to have a series of self-contained 1 hour SF dramas without a fecking story arc or a fecking canon tbh

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V much the spirit in which I watched

Looked like some kind of first draft script where they hadn't quite figured out the characters' motivations yet. Interesting premises left hanging, out-of-character behaviour at the climax, the whole thing salvaged by Geraldine Chaplin's performance. The feel of it was more like a Ray Bradbury story than PKD I thought.

Better than the first one I thought, at least it didn't jettison a perfectly good story in favour of some flimsy rubbish. "Out-of-character behaviour" was I presume due to oxygen deprivation.