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Old 09-26-2017, 01:53 AM   #5671 (permalink)
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams



Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (TV Series 2017

I used to read a lot of his short stories when I was a teen. I loved them and to a large extent, they shaped me.
I only saw the pilot so far, and every episode is a self contained story, so I can't really judge fully, but...
This tv series.. it's not for everybody.
The pilot episode made it very clear to me. I loved it, but I sort of knew what I was getting into.
Visually it was.. well, stunning is not the right word, but it was really powerful - a dirty, concrete dystopian future full of angry people, class divide and poverty. A dirty, broken world.
The episode tells a story of a duo of government workers in this world - a police detective and a telepath assigned to help him, in a city on the brink of a revolution of some sorts. I won't spoil the story though, so that's all I'm gonna write about it. Here's a link to a lovely shot from the episode, it's a bit too big to paste it directly.

Now, why is it not for everybody ? I saw folks raging in the comments section of imdb about it, so I know it's an issue. Thing is, these stories were written many decades ago. A ton of popular sf, movies etc are based on the ideas Dick had. This might suggest these plots are unoriginal or shallow even, when in fact quite often they are the idea in the form it appeared. If the series follows in the footsteps of the pilot, and I don't see why not, they will have fairly simple plots. In my eyes, that's not really a problem - as long as they're executed well, and again, judging by what I saw, they should be.
8/10 so far, it's something different.
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Old 09-26-2017, 02:51 AM   #5672 (permalink)
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Old 09-26-2017, 04:02 AM   #5673 (permalink)
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Cool didn't realise it was out yet. Will have to check it out this weekend. Shift change at work has really put a stop to my tv bingeing.
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I'm gonna have to watch that as well.
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Star Trek: Discovery is out! I hope it's good. Watching the first two episodes as a family tomorrow evening.
Isn't there something about having to pay to watch that? Someone was complaining about it in another thread.
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Isn't there something about having to pay to watch that? Someone was complaining about it in another thread.
He probably got a torrent of them or something.
But yeah CBS is charging 5 bucks a month for their streaming service to watch.
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He probably got a torrent of them or something.
But yeah CBS is charging 5 bucks a month for their streaming service to watch.
I suppose that's the future now. Not like we don't already pay enough for our satellite TV services, now it'll be a PPV too. Bastards.
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I suppose that's the future now. Not like we don't already pay enough for our satellite TV services, now it'll be a PPV too. Bastards.
They are just greedy. They see successes like Netflix and Hulu and want their own piece of the pie. Internationally you guys luck out, I hear that it will be on Netflix for you to watch, idk the timing on that though. They just want to stick it to the US customers.
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The Handmaids Tale.

7 episodes in. It deserves all of the Emmys it won. Especially Elisabeth Moss. She's absolutely brilliant in it.

It's freaky watching a work of fiction that could easily become reality in the near future if a faction of the powerful men in this country were to become a very large majority.
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They are just greedy. They see successes like Netflix and Hulu and want their own piece of the pie. Internationally you guys luck out, I hear that it will be on Netflix for you to watch, idk the timing on that though. They just want to stick it to the US customers.
Well that's certainly good news. Thanks.
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