Shadowrun
Off-topic => Off-off-topic => Topic started by: Malex on <09-20-11/0950:32>
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So I've been watching a bit of '80s cheeze tv. I'm like 4 episodes in and it's amazing how much this show reminds me of SR2-3.
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A gritty ,dystopian future where the main character is a investigative reporter who runs into trouble with a camera rather than a gun who's brain patterns are used to create what is basically an artifical intelligence and a hacker/computer geek sidekick?
NAH, nothing Shadowrun-esque about that AT ALL.
;)
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Do not forget the use of credit/ID cylinders, terminology like 'Ice', and security companies with the right to use excessive force. :D
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And Pink Mohawk Pirate Broadcasters!
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What about the rabid man-eating ghouls who secretly just want to be normal?
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So why can't we get great '80's Era TV li,li,li,like that a-a-a-a-anymore?
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BTW, has anybody seen my coca-cola?
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BTW, has anybody seen my coca-cola?
You mean New Coke? It's right over there, next to the Crystal Clear Pepsi and 7-Up Gold.
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Hey I'm just trying to Ca-Ca-Ca-Catch the Wave...
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BTW, has anybody seen my coca-cola?
You mean New Coke? It's right over there, next to the Crystal Clear Pepsi and 7-Up Gold.
.....and a mailed in subscription diskette to AOL.
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So why can't we get great '80's Era TV li,li,li,like that a-a-a-a-anymore?
Because that requires writers and people who want to be creative, neither of which are available on Reality TV.
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I would love to see a re-visualization of that show. Maybe even one of Robo-cop.
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I would love to see a re-visualization of that show. Maybe even one of Robo-cop.
How many re-visualizations have you seen go right?
Uwe Boll would probably end up making the damned thing.
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That is true, but then again they cancelled something before it had gotten good. I hate it when they do that, I honestly believe if someone who loved the material from the first run was able to do it I think it would be good.
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It would be nice to have a reinvisioning which would make use of more modern technology, stripped down typewriters and corded phones kinda date the material.
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Or adds to the dystopic environment.
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I think they could do a more mainstream acceptable one that will do a better job staying on air. I mean seriously, it couldn't be as bad as the Knight Rider remake.
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Yes. It could.
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I think they could do a more mainstream acceptable one that will do a better job staying on air. I mean seriously, it couldn't be as bad as the Knight Rider remake.
Which one?
Knight Rider 2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_2000)
Knight Rider 2010 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_2010)
Team Knight Rider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Knight_Rider)
Knight Rider (2008 series) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_%282008_TV_series%29)
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Yes.
Although I did enjoy the 2008 series, but that was because I was expecting Goliath with a Cybernetic Garthe Knight and the original KARR's AI.
And really wanted to see a race between the Knight Industries 2000 versus the Knight Industries 4000.
The transformation mode, however, really ruined things I believe. Especially when KITT became a PEDO VAN!
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I think they could do a more mainstream acceptable one that will do a better job staying on air. I mean seriously, it couldn't be as bad as the Knight Rider remake.
Which one?
Knight Rider 2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_2000)
Knight Rider 2010 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_2010)
Team Knight Rider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Knight_Rider)
Knight Rider (2008 series) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_%282008_TV_series%29)
The official NBC one. I consider the one that went straight to syndication a sequal.
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hmm, head mounted cameras, net streams, a bit of AR overlay...
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Sad that the series ended just when a good metaplot was beginning to develop. A fate shared with so many other shows, Firefly being among such.
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At least it never jumped the Shark, you know like Dark Angel or Buffy, or even Angel.
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Buffy jumped the shark because Joss Whedon get's bored after a while
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So why can't we get great '80's Era TV li,li,li,like that a-a-a-a-anymore?
Because that requires writers and people who want to be creative, neither of which are available on Reality TV.
no, it requires that the networks let shows grow for more than a quarter season before axing it, because they put it up against something like american idol. yes crappy shows should die, but we need a different measuring stick than how much profit the network is getting from all the ads.
unfortunately it'll never happen.
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So why can't we get great '80's Era TV li,li,li,like that a-a-a-a-anymore?
Because that requires writers and people who want to be creative, neither of which are available on Reality TV.
no, it requires that the networks let shows grow for more than a quarter season before axing it, because they put it up against something like american idol. yes crappy shows should die, but we need a different measuring stick than how much profit the network is getting from all the ads.
unfortunately it'll never happen.
Which are why some of the best shows are on cable/pay channels. They already know they won't beat those numbers, so any good numbers are worth pursuing.
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no, it requires that the networks let shows grow for more than a quarter season before axing it, because they put it up against something like american idol. yes crappy shows should die, but we need a different measuring stick than how much profit the network is getting from all the ads.
unfortunately it'll never happen.
It's also why the revolution will not be televised. (http://youtu.be/rGaRtqrlGy8)
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I have been thinking that if this show did have a revamp now, after movies like the Matrix and with the internet and computers becoming ubiquitous, it might have a better chance of survival than it did in the pre-internet late 1980s.
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I don't know, Max is looking pretty dated in his CRT TV...
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Not lookin all (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X18e113BRKE) that good, no. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRtjEfw-mSE)
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We really got to get him a new home. Something in a flatscreen.
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Just as long as it's a rental. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGUk6GwDvdo)
-k
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Maybe a Satlink while we're at it. "We're going global baby!"
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It would be nice to have a reinvisioning which would make use of more modern technology, stripped down typewriters and corded phones kinda date the material.
Yeah sounds great but it'd be like this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X18e113BRKE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X18e113BRKE)
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That said, I remember vaguely seeing the show back then. I think I might have bee 14 or so when it went off the air.
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Okay, great, now I'm going to HAVE TO make a Max-Headroom style A.I.
Wonder what Negative Quality would best represent the skipping/stuttering... any ideas?
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Okay, great, now I'm going to HAVE TO make a Max-Headroom style A.I.
Wonder what Negative Quality would best represent the skipping/stuttering... any ideas?
Distinctive Style, 5BP
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Okay, great, now I'm going to HAVE TO make a Max-Headroom style A.I.
Wonder what Negative Quality would best represent the skipping/stuttering... any ideas?
I recommend giving him rigger abilities as well.
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Okay, great, now I'm going to HAVE TO make a Max-Headroom style A.I.
Wonder what Negative Quality would best represent the skipping/stuttering... any ideas?
I recommend giving him rigger abilities as well.
Well, of course. ;D