thread: 2010-11-30 : Currents
On 2010-11-30, Jaywalt wrote:
Hannah has refused to watch The Walking Dead with me anymore because I get audibly frustrated with how poor the show is in comparison with the comics. Why change things to make them _obviously worse_? I don't get it. I know people say that about all sorts of media adaptations but the lack of any obvious reason that would explain why the creators decided to replace good storytelling with bad storytelling is especially troubling here. Apparently they just don't get it.
We're (re)watching Deadwood right now and gearing up for Tim Olyphant in Justified, which might be next on our list. Deadwood feels a lot like Apocalypse World to me and makes me want to run a game in which the apocalypse is the Civil War, maybe set during the reconstruction of North Carolina or Virginia, or in Missouri and Bleeding Kansas like in Ang Lee's film "Ride With the Devil."
Have you read "The Color Out of Space," yet? That might be my favorite Lovecraft story. Or "The Music of Erik Zann," which was the basis for the Afraid campaign I ran in Boston.
