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[punky]

The new series of Reaper has now started for those with access to US TV episodes

[cimt]

I'm so glad it's back, it feels like it had been off for ever! Same with Ashes to Ashes.

I liked the first episode.

[dilli-theclaw]

Tripods film still in development good

Beanpole a girl? HHHmmm we shall see.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a15...ovie-news.html

S/he would have to be, really ... The White Mountains is a bit of a boys' own adventure. The only significant female character only lasts a couple of chapters before coming to a sticky end. A modern family blockbuster would need there to be a strong leading young female alongside the boys. So it's either invent a fourth character to join them, or else change one of the three.

Anyway, look on the bright side, they might cast Clemence Poesy.

Originally Posted by Chris

S/he would have to be, really ... The White Mountains is a bit of a boys' own adventure. The only significant female character only lasts a couple of chapters before coming to a sticky end. A modern family blockbuster would need there to be a strong leading young female alongside the boys. So it's either invent a fourth character to join them, or else change one of the three.

Anyway, look on the bright side, they might cast Clemence Poesy.

much too skinny

As skinny as a beanpole?

[dilli-theclaw]

My dvd arrive today so - um speak to you all later lol

This is quite strange - rabbits vs camels in Iraqistaniland; Watership Down with heavy calibre weaponry.....

Linky

[cimt]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

This is quite strange - rabbits vs camels in Iraqistaniland; Watership Down with heavy calibre weaponry.....

Linky

Wow, well that should be fun to watch!

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

This is quite strange - rabbits vs camels in Iraqistaniland; Watership Down with heavy calibre weaponry.....

Linky

That looks amazing!!

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by Chris

S/he would have to be, really ... The White Mountains is a bit of a boys' own adventure. The only significant female character only lasts a couple of chapters before coming to a sticky end. A modern family blockbuster would need there to be a strong leading young female alongside the boys. So it's either invent a fourth character to join them, or else change one of the three.

Anyway, look on the bright side, they might cast Clemence Poesy.

not my type at all

Incidentally the 'love interest' was going to be rescued and returned home in the third series on tv, yet another divergance.

Well, yes, they would have to really, seeing as in the TV version Eloise's life is 'merely suspended', whereas in the book she and the other specimens are dead and on display like a case of butterflies. Far more chilling and sci fi but prolly not what the BBC wanted for Saturday teatime...

[dilli-theclaw]

Well, with luck, they won't mess up any film like they so oviously have the new Star Trek film. But I suspect that's a pretty faint hope.

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Originally Posted by Chris

Well, yes, they would have to really, seeing as in the TV version Eloise's life is 'merely suspended', whereas in the book she and the other specimens are dead and on display like a case of butterflies. Far more chilling and sci fi but prolly not what the BBC wanted for Saturday teatime...

I'm not sure why they'd 'have to'. They didn't seem to have any problems with changing the books in other areas to. Adding Black Guards - expanding the whole chateux thing, shortening the time left before the ship arrived that kind of thing.

Still, I guess it was all designed to make it more 'interesting'.

At least they didn't make the prequel - now THAT would have been bad

Heh ... The Day The Tripods Came, or When the Tripods Came, or something? Talk about cashing in. I read that while I was at school. You're right, it was a bit poor. It had more holes in it than a colander.

As to why the Beeb would 'have to' have Eloise being rescued at the end of any third series, I only meant they would have to in order to be internally consistent with their own version of the story, seeing as she was seen in The City of Gold and Will's Master explicitly stated that she wasn't dead.

I can see why the BBC changed things around. The City of Gold and Lead, as written, is pretty bleak and alien and would have cost a king's ransom to film. The series was expensive as it was - it would probably have become prohibitively so if they had had to construct alien backdrops for every single scene inside the city. As it was, they were able to get away with some location filming and easily-constructed sets that could have been alien, but then could have been anywhere else as well. It would also have been pretty difficult to keep up the pace and the tension if virtually the whole thing had been performed with the actors inside helmets, which would have been necessary if they had stuck closely to the book.

As for the Black Guards, well they conveniently keep up the pressure on the heroes without the need for too many costly FX shots of the Tripods.

Mind you, some of the changes were gratuitous nonsense. The Cognosc, for example, completely shatters the whole premise. Nice one, whoever dreamed that up. Not.

Those who liked the series "Dead Like Me" may have missed the movie released in February (called Dead Like Me: Life After Death) - Like the Stargate movies, it seems it went straight to DVD.