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Just saw the release notes for this: Netflix TV series about the rise of Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel. Nearly 6500 people were murdered in Medellin in 1991 ... might give GoT a run for it's money in body count numbers.
Looks like there's going to be a lot of Sci Fi coming up:
Microsoft are making TV series out of Halo, and another series called Humans about humanoid robot workers.
Plus the TV remake of the Expanse series ... which could be awesome. I'm just finishing the first part after a recommendation from the Book thread. The story's great, and the world they've created is engrossing and serious (proper hard sci fi). The technical parts are done well. Unfortunately, the dialogue and character reactions to events are really poor. They needed several more drafts of the dialogue (or a better editor), in particular when the characters were reacting to extreme situations (of which there are many). You can tell it was wrote really fast. If it were a TV series, I'd have dropped it already. But you can get away with a lot on the written page ... you can imagine it's more believable that it is. Thankfully, someone else (other than the author's) has scripted the TV series, so it stands a chance. Also makes you appreciate the attention to detail that GRRM puts into every sentence. No matter how extreme and ridiculous ASOFAI got (like Expanse), I don't remember that many really horrible dialogue sections (unlike Expanse).
Looks like there's going to be a lot of Sci Fi coming up:
Microsoft are making TV series out of Halo, and another series called Humans about humanoid robot workers.
Plus the TV remake of the Expanse series ... which could be awesome. I'm just finishing the first part after a recommendation from the Book thread. The story's great, and the world they've created is engrossing and serious (proper hard sci fi). The technical parts are done well. Unfortunately, the dialogue and character reactions to events are really poor. They needed several more drafts of the dialogue (or a better editor), in particular when the characters were reacting to extreme situations (of which there are many). You can tell it was wrote really fast. If it were a TV series, I'd have dropped it already. But you can get away with a lot on the written page ... you can imagine it's more believable that it is. Thankfully, someone else (other than the author's) has scripted the TV series, so it stands a chance. Also makes you appreciate the attention to detail that GRRM puts into every sentence. No matter how extreme and ridiculous ASOFAI got (like Expanse), I don't remember that many really horrible dialogue sections (unlike Expanse).
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