Personally I kinda liked the first season. It’s better if you forget the original Asimov story and just watch it as its own thing because it diverges from it quite a bit.

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Looking forward to see where they go after that ballsy season 1 ending. Lee Pace will continue to kill it no doubt.

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I don’t quite understand why they do this with books. Maybe it’s because they have to, since many names and pieces obviously refer to the book. Or maybe they do it to attract people who have read the books.

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@pglpm @JasSmith I reckon it’s three things:

  1. Using the IP name is free marketing
  2. For better or worse, creatives want to put their own spin on the source material.
  3. In some cases, the difference in medium actively forces major changes in adaptation.
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It’s not really free tho, since IP rights cost a ton of money. And honestly, adaptations that aren’t true to the source don’t tend to do well, at least not beyond the first product.

It used to be the case that studios could buy IP rights for peanuts and make a cheap knockoff, but that’s not the case anymore.

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@WhoRoger free was wrong phrasing. I meant that it was a way to sidestep the lack of familiarity that stops people from trying new media. People will give Spiderman xyzabc a shot rather than try out a completely unknown IP. In a congested streaming economy, that advantage is worth quite a bit.

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