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The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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I wish they'd make another Altered Carbon season. And bring back Joel Kinnaman. The first season was amazing.

Or more Electric Dreams! Great production value Philip K Dick short stories.

I haven't actually watched Altered Carbon but I have a trail of Takeshi Kovacs characters in various mmos and games, and am in general a Richard K Morgan fan. I loved Altered Carbon series. His recent-er Thirteen was fun imaginative Mars stuff. Market Forces is old old old & has a lot of mediocre aspects, but I loved the Car Wars style setting & corporate mercenary treatment.

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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I wish they'd make another Altered Carbon season. And bring back Joel Kinnaman. The first season was amazing.

I really liked S1 and went into S2 bright-eyed and bushy tailed. Woe, it wasn't the same at all...

Hope they bring back Joel and the S1 formula for success

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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I wish they'd make another Altered Carbon season. And bring back Joel Kinnaman. The first season was amazing.

I rewatch it once a year or so. I haven't caved yet and read the books. But I still hope for a 3rd season even though it is probably never going to happen

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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I wish they'd make another Altered Carbon season. And bring back Joel Kinnaman. The first season was amazing.

Or more Electric Dreams! Great production value Philip K Dick short stories. I haven't actually watched Altered Carbon but I have a trail of Takeshi Kovacs characters in various mmos and games, and am in general a Richard K Morgan fan. I loved Altered Carbon series. His recent-er Thirteen was fun imaginative Mars stuff. Market Forces is old old old & has a lot of mediocre aspects, but I loved the Car Wars style setti…

What were your thoughts on their take on Autofac?

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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I would love to see how insane a 10-14 hour Dune movie would be. No intermission I'm sure.

I wouldn't mind sitting in a screening of Dune pt1 followed by Dune pt2 when it comes out. Sounds like something Alamo would do. While not 10-14 hours, I would be willing to sit in the theater for 4-5 hours.

AMC by me did all 3 LOTR films in 3 nights just before the hobbit came out. I enjoyed it a lot but by god by the time the 3rd movie ended I was done, and then I still had to sit through another 45 minutes of endings.

(Best movies ever)

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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I would love to see how insane a 10-14 hour Dune movie would be. No intermission I'm sure.

Slightly unrelated, but there is a 19 hour fan-edit of the Hobbit + Lord of the Rings -- i.e someone glued all 3 Hobbit movies and all 3 LotR movies into a 19 hour video.

The best way to watch that is almost certainly to come in on ~hour 10.

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From the Times article: > [Rinsch] transferred more than $4 million from his Schwab account to an account on the Kraken exchange and bought Dogecoin, a dog-themed cryptocurrency. Guy sounds like a dummy > Unlike his stock market investments, this one paid off: When he liquidated his Dogecoin positions in May 2021, he had a balance of nearly $27 million. Shit, maybe I'm the dummy?

Around 2021, Dogecoin was a very interesting short term investment, yeah. Everyone was high off of AMC and GME in the stock market, so people were actively investing and day trading. Elon Musk was talking up Dogecoin, keeping in mind this is when he was still very popular in a positive way, and crypto in general was doing really well around that time. I'm not sure that it's wise to throw money into it now though. Cry…

> Crypto has become a very polarizing topic with people...

Certain people. I was involved from the beginning, and most of the OGs just shrug at the present day noise - the convert zeal being long exhausted by all the complaints about how PoW makes Mother Gaia cry. The people who have a crazy level of investment are the tech journalists that took very public positions badmouthing bitcoin. That is probably also true of anyone else who can't resist calculating how much their mistake cost them when they compared bitcoin to beanie babies at $150.

> ...which certainly needs to happen for it to have a future too, but governments...

Firing first in a duel, global economy style - that is why the foot dragging has been so protracted.

Re: The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see

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I wish they'd make another Altered Carbon season. And bring back Joel Kinnaman. The first season was amazing.

I really liked S1 and went into S2 bright-eyed and bushy tailed. Woe, it wasn't the same at all... Hope they bring back Joel and the S1 formula for success

The books where also very different from each other, but with much superior result. Give them a try, if you want part of the fun of the first season. But the first season of the Netflix show is still muy preferred approach to this universe.

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I would love to see how insane a 10-14 hour Dune movie would be. No intermission I'm sure.

SciFi did a miniseries, just before or just after they changed their name. It wasn't bad. I think it was about 10 hours. The problem is that a lot of the payoff is at the end of book 3, and then book four tips the whole thing upside down with some deep religious and philosophical elements that I'm not sure everyone is ready for. I'm always a little surprised how few people have read Dune relative to Lord of the Rings…

>with some deep religious and philosophical elements that I'm not sure everyone is ready for.

This is how I felt about Battlestar. I barely remember watching the original series as a kid, but I just remember a couple of character names, Cylons (which I thought were cool), the space ships, and the human in the dark room ontop of the pyramid shape the Cylons talked to. That was it. Then I watched the reboot, and was shocked by the religious overtones. Clearly, I never researched anything about it until that point, and then it all made sense.

I'm nervous about Buck Rogers (biddybiddup, what's up Buck!) might turn out the same way on a reboot.

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