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ghce
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Any one been watching this?

I have been binging it the last couple of days, didn't realise it was out!

I started reading the series when I was a kid back in the 70's but even though I was an avid Sci Fi reader ( probably still am) it is the one book series that I never completed due to Asimov's somewhat difficult writing style so unfortunately have nothing to go on as to how accurate the films represent the books though I have read its only loosely based on them.

Cant wait for the rest of the different book series to be made into film.
 
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It’s an incredibly complex series to watch even but I’ve loved it, the world building itself is pretty amazing and the budget Apple have brought it to life with is impressive. I’m a big fan of AppleTV+ in general, I find they are letting the creatives really run the show and letting slow build content develop rather than doing what Netflix and others are doing and forcing ratings from day one under threat of cancellation.

For all Mankind, Ted Lasso, the Magic Johnson series, and many others are just really well done and Apple is contributing to quality filmmaking far more than many of its competitors.
 
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I really enjoyed season 1. Several Apple+ shows are excellent and filling a void with HBO falling off over the last few years.

I really enjoyed season 1 of ‘Truth Be Told’ too
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These last few years we as the public have been blessed with a remarkable amount of high quality SF and other series being presented by new players in the entertainment industry.

My only disappointment is as you say the way that many very good series have been cancelled mid stream sometimes even though the ratings have been excellent, quality seems to take second place to other factors.

I think part of the success of these shows is a generational thing with fans of SF and other genres now being of the age where they are actually making the production decisions for these shows as opposed to the 60's 70's and 80's where a whole older generation was in charge with ideas on what the public wanted spawned out of events like WW2 and the great depression.
 
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I was never able to make it through the Foundation books and I enjoyed the Apple TV+ series very much.
 
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I enjoyed the books in the original trilogy. The later ones were more hit and miss. I might check out the TV series once it's released on disc.
 
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I may have to revisit the books again, possibly maturity may make it a better read ( though I doubt it)
There are worse authors, won't mention names but Game of Thrones was a good TV series lol.
The only other old SciFi book I found BBB ( Boring beyond belief) though a good story was Dune, not that enamoured of the recent film either, watched the earlier film with Patrick Stewart a few weeks ago but could only mange 10 or 15 minutes of it, truly forgettable stilted rubbish.
 
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The only nice thing I can say about this program is that it was interesting enough to get me to re-read the entire series. Sadly it really has little to do with the books.
 
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If you read the books, I hope you don't care about women at all. In the 800 pages or whatever the trilogy was, I think there were two women characters, if you include the adolescent.
 
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If you read the books, I hope you don't care about women at all. In the 800 pages or whatever the trilogy was, I think there were two women characters, if you include the adolescent.

That was my impression too, it seemed to be aimed at socially inept males, written in a wooden mono focused manner, unlike other stories he had written which were quite good.
 
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I read the books when I was younger (1970's) but Asimov was never one of my favourites. I was much more an Arthur C Clarke fan, along with Brian Aldiss, Philip K Dick, Robert A. Heinlen, Poul Anderson, etc.

If someone were to make a Rendezvous with Rama series (or movie) then one of my childhood dreams would be fully realized...
 
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I read the books when I was younger (1970's) but Asimov was never one of my favourites. I was much more an Arthur C Clarke fan, along with Brian Aldiss, Philip K Dick, Robert A. Heinlen, Poul Anderson, etc.

If someone were to make a Rendezvous with Rama series (or movie) then one of my childhood dreams would be fully realized...

I like your thinking and your author selection too.
Would love to see some of Niven's works too like the Ringworld Series and Heinleins Stranger in a Strange Land, I could really Grok that or some Pak world series.
For those that don't know the Pak concept
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Protector
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ghce
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Things have certainly come a long way since the 60's and 70's with some truly awful sci fi though I must admit some of it wasn't to bad, recently watched the original Day of the Triffids and I must say it stood up fairly well to the passage of time.
The film has an interesting side note in that one of the secondary characters was also one of Doctor Who's assistants.
 
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I read the books when I was younger (1970's) but Asimov was never one of my favourites. I was much more an Arthur C Clarke fan, along with Brian Aldiss, Philip K Dick, Robert A. Heinlen, Poul Anderson, etc.

If someone were to make a Rendezvous with Rama series (or movie) then one of my childhood dreams would be fully realized...
With CGI these days, I have to believe this would be possible. It would be scary expensive.
 
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All…A worthy show on Amazon. “The Peripheral” … genuinely disturbing, Very well done.
 
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Larry S Larry S
All…A worthy show on Amazon. “The Peripheral” … genuinely disturbing, Very well done.

We have enjoyed it so far...
 
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