Riverworld

[EzInKy]

Farmer's Riverworld is on SciFi channel at 9pm Eastern tonight. Don't know how it will be, but the novels were great.

 

[puglover]

What's it about?

 

[EzInKy]

Originally posted by puglover
What's it about?

It's about everybody ever born being reincarnated on a single planet all at the same time.

 

[EzInKy]

Acting's not great, but pretty good start compared to what I remember of the first book.

 

[Greadius]

Let me guess; there are a lot of Rivers there?

 

[Greadius]

I turned in to mock it for a minute, now I'm hooked. Whats with those canisters they're all carrying?

 

[EzInKy]

Originally posted by Greadius
I turned in to mock it for a minute, now I'm hooked. Whats with those canisters they're all carrying?

I'm sure you figured it out by now...grails for food and such. They've condensed the story so much, Herman Goering is an important character in it...read the series if you get a chance.

 

[EzInKy]

Thought there might be a part 2 but there's not...just a repeat.

 

[Greadius]

I stopped watching it... kind of started to degenerate into a cliche story.

Its an interesting concept, but I felt like I'd seen everything before and the production values weren't high enough to hold my interest. Perhaps at 4am I'd watch

 

[Plexus]

Is it just me or is Waterworld on SciFi before Riverworld?

 

[EzInKy]

Originally posted by Greadius
I stopped watching it... kind of started to degenerate into a cliche story.

Its an interesting concept, but I felt like I'd seen everything before and the production values weren't high enough to hold my interest. Perhaps at 4am I'd watch

They weren't, but I wasn't expecting that...they ruined the whole concept by straying too far from the original tale. Not even a hint of the "suicide express" until the end, when in the book his major mode of travel was to drown himself and be resurrected elsewhere. The neanderthal was also very important in the book as it contrasted his primitive behaviour with the Victorian era woman (think bears and woods here).

 

[EzInKy]

Originally posted by Plexus
Is it just me or is Waterworld on SciFi before Riverworld?

Yes, I believe it was. Was never really crazy about that movie. I did like The Postman though because the post-apopcolypse premise was more realistic.

 

[Kakashi]

i thought waterworld was cool liek it was feeding nicoteen into my eyes or something i watched it uuntil the credits were over
and afterwards i thought i sucked

 

[Plexus]

Hmm... I'm liking it so far. Kindy trippy...

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Greadius
Let me guess; there are a lot of Rivers there?

Its an artificialy constructed world with one long river flows sinuously around it (using some artificial gravity technology to get it back uphill in places)

 

[Greadius]

Originally posted by EzInKy
Not even a hint of the "suicide express" until the end, when in the book his major mode of travel was to drown himself and be resurrected elsewhere.

I was meaning to ask that too... why are they afraid of death if they're already dead? I would imagine a world where everyone is immortal would be quite violent... heck, suicide would probably be a sport.

 

[EzInKy]

Originally posted by Greadius
I was meaning to ask that too... why are they afraid of death if they're already dead? I would imagine a world where everyone is immortal would be quite violent... heck, suicide would probably be a sport.

They didn't know they would be resurrected again, and death still involved physical pain.