Newcombers also note philip k dick C/D, S+D
― dow, Sunday, 24 September 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
Not read the story but I thought Impossible Planet was a snooze and the ending a let down.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 25 September 2017 07:55 (six years ago) link
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.
― angelo irishagreementi (ledge), Monday, 25 September 2017 07:59 (six years ago) link
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
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 September 2017 08:03 (six years ago) link
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
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 September 2017 08:05 (six years ago) link
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.
― angelo irishagreementi (ledge), Monday, 25 September 2017 08:16 (six years ago) link
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
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 September 2017 08:19 (six years ago) link
they advertised an eighties synth-pop compilation called 'Electric Dreams' during Electric Dreams lol
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 25 September 2017 08:22 (six years ago) link
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 September 2017 08:05 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
V much the spirit in which I watched
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Monday, 25 September 2017 10:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Monday, 25 September 2017 10:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― angelo irishagreementi (ledge), Thursday, 28 September 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link