I wrote what I thought of Man in the High Castle somewhere on this board. I thought the characters and/or actors were kind of weak (with the exception of the Obergruppenfuhrer), but I thought it got much better by the last couple of episodes and am actually looking forward to season 2.
I'm hoping it turns into one of those shows where the first season is kind of terrible but they eventually figure it out and it gets good.
― silverfish, Friday, 16 December 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
Jeter's got some great stuff and I will stan for him altho I haven't read his franchise novels (incl Bladerunner). He tends to be more mysanthropic and gorier than PKD.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 December 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
I bought one of the Jeter sequels (I think it cost a dollar), I read part of it, eventually I figured out that it was actually the second book of the series (or third if you think of the movie as the first). It did not seem particularly good.
If you want more bladerunner, a better option is maybe the 90s videogame, which I remember being pretty good.
― silverfish, Friday, 16 December 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
after taking a ~6 month PKD break, I just started A Maze of Death, psyched to get into it. Over the summer I finally got to The Divine Invasion and Transmigration of Timothy Archer. Loved the latter, thought it was remarkable how well PKD could write from the POV of a female character.
― flappy bird, Friday, 16 December 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
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
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 December 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
all three of those are great, for v different reasons.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 December 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
Electric dreams
Impossible planet on channel 4 now and it's not bad at all
― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 September 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 24 September 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
Flow My Tears, the Policeman SaidUbik A Scanner DarklyVALISNow Wait for Last YearEye in the SkyThe Three Stigmata of Palmer EldritchGalactic Pot-HealerThe Transmigration of Timothy ArcherThe Cosmic Puppets
reading Androids rn. gonna read Dr. Bloodmoney next
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 September 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
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