Episode 47: Give Me Your Fealty Fixed!
July 26, 2009
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Posted by Dr. Disaster
Every once and a while strange little elves invade the servers and we have to chase them out with a shotgun. However sometimes we don’t chase them out fast enough and they screw up the feed or the episode listings. We’re pretty sure that’s what happened to episode 47.
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I miss the censor sound you should bring that back
What Is the point in Ruling the world if it demands that you stay withing the confides of your space station arms length from the button at all times?
And Im pretty sure that the worlds combined force of scientists would make the same calculations as Osiris and narrow it down to a very limited number of places where the bomb would have had the effect Osiris describes.
So basically Osiris Plan would not only fail. It would bring the world together against a common threat and make it a better place.
We dropped the censor sound because a) It added an entire day of post to beep everything and b) We thought the joke just wasn’t funny anymore. We only beeped because we thought it made the show funnier but by episode 40 we were getting tired of it.
Many people have called out Osiris for his obviously shoddy plan, yet to this day he still stands by it! However I don’t think he realized he was a Watchmen style evil genius haha.
yeah youd think that the music would be enough to edit.
have you read the watchmen comic?
Yeah I read them about 5 months before the movie came out. I’d rate them as one of the finest things I’ve ever read and it has one of the greatest endings ever. Osiris and I chatted about the movie on air shortly before he left the show.
I Remember you talking about it with different people but I couldnt remember if you read it. I started reading it myself after seeing the teaser trailer for the movie.
I really hated the movie ending. Instead of using the Lovecraft references and the concept of peace trough external threat they replaced it with something that is similar to the fear of god. And the movie ending doesn’t even work because the tachyon attack looks like a nuclear blast in every way but the glow. the russians would just assume that its The US as soon as all communication with major cities dissapears. And The US would do the same. IN the comic only half of New York is destroyed leaving leaving the other half to film the event making it clear that its a alien attack.
*Deep breaths*
Im just mad that they fucked up the only part they rewrote. even when they didn’t have to. but i guess they wanted more images of things blowing up that the comic could offer.
The website looks great, good job.
I’ve read the comic and seen the movie, and I found it hard to judge the movie as ‘great’ if you analyse it on the same terms as the comic; it really is in a lot of ways a film ripped verbatim from the pages of the comic, with the shots even framed in a similar way to the original panels. So it’s very much the same, but with some parts cut out – Watchmen: the abridged version. That said, it was still the best blockbuster to come out this year by miles.
But its the fact that they were almost completely true to the comic that made it great. sure its shorter but if a movie is longer than 3 hours somebody isn’t doing their job. And most of the things cut have no real impact on the story. And Im happy that they were so true to the comic considering that the only part they made up themselves was the part that didn’t work. I don’t know what the motivation for the change was but it does not work.
I agree, but the devil’s in the details and given the sheer amount of material in the comic I can’t help but feel it might have worked better as some kind of TV mini-series.
I’m not sure about the ending change though, given that in the story Dr.Manhattan is symbolic of the Nuclear bomb, it does in some ways tie up the plot more cleanly. But, like you said, each country would just assume the other was behind the attack, so it doesn’t really work in practice.
yeah. but I fear that a Mini-series would double the length but decimate the budget.
I know. the ending sucks. and it effectively remove the Lovecraft-theme that goes trough the entire Comic. I recommend reading call of cthulhu because the comic is full of references. (Note that these conclusions were originally not drawn by me but allot smarter people. But they make allot of sense)
Hmm, maybe it’s just one of those books that doesn’t translate well to the screen, because as formats go, comics and television are very different and don’t necassarily mesh well.
I thought it translated, its not that. the reason they kept it so close to the comic is because it a tight story and the people that made the movie aren’t as good at writing as the original person. what annoys me is that they could have maintain the original story in the same time period. if they switched the scene where Ozymandias talk about free energy and the face of with the lady painting the monster and used the explosions scenes to show… the real explosion scene the story would have been perfect. They just thought that a Squid monster was too weird for people to understand. That Shows that they completely missed the point and the only reason they made such a good job is because they stuck to the path.
You’re right, sticking to the source material so closely was probably one of the only reasons the movie didn’t end up as a complete hash. I mean the director is the same guy who directed 300, and that film had stupidity, misogyny, racism and plain badness under a shiny special effects coating.
Incidentally, what did you think of some of the other comic book adaptations, From Hell, V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen etc.?
Regarding the 300 thing. I haven’t read a awful lot of that comic but from what I hear the movie was pretty close to the original.
I haven’t seen From Hell or LEG yet but ive read and watched V from vendetta. I did it in the right order too. because I saw the movie first and decided to read the comic. thats how i discovered Vertigo Comics accually.
I liked the movie for what it was but when I read the Comic I realized that they had watered it down and replaced the Anarchy element for a Democratic element. Again I get offended when movie makers think an Idea is too radical for me and replace it with something that is easier to understand.
A lot of adaptations seem to get watered down for one reason or another. I guess the studios are afraid of putting out anything too radical in case it confuses people and ends up as a flop. Its kind of sad and at the same time galling but in the end you can’t blame them, they are a business after all and will tend to take less risky route.
Do you think a low-budget ‘indie’ comic movie could work better?
That will always be the problem I guess. I understand that they want to stay mainstream and get as many viewers as possible but I just think they are selling people short. I like the Watchmen ending because it as brain food and they replaced it with eye food because they thought people would be afraid of the brain food. i don’t know but thats the same as calling me stupid when i go see a movie. and a movie like watchmen was only seen by people who read the comic/knew about the comic or people who thought it was a off bran batman. And its not like I DON’T go see a movie based on a crappy ending because i don’t know the ending until ive seen it.
It depends on the comic. Vertigo generally lends itself to Indie films because of good storytelling rather than big explosions so perhaps.
I heard some stuff about preacher a while back. that is a comic that works as a tv-series. mostly because of the episodic story and the low budget required to make the few effects.
Preacher, and a lot of other long-running comics (it ended up at like 60 issues didn’t it?) would definately work better as a series because they tend to have slow-burning storylines, hence their length.
At the moment I’m enjoying the ‘The Boys’ which is a series that the guy who wrote Preacher is writing now.
Are you reading anything at the moment?