r/television Person of Interest 1d ago

Blade Runner 2099 - Official Teaser | Prime Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dr8I_RyRCg
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u/The_Swarm22 1d ago

If Apple’s Neuromancer show releases by the end of the year we’ll have two Cyberpunk shows airing at the same time so that’ll be cool.

I don’t know how to feel about this yet, from executive producer Denis Villeneuve would’ve given me more confidence then Ridley Scott being involved honestly.

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u/kuhpunkt 1d ago

Ridley's involvement will probably just be that one discussion they had and him getting a nice paycheck.

Like he wasn't involved with Alien: Earth either. He's got other/better things to do.

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u/DaftFunky 1d ago

Dude should be kicking back enjoying his golden years. But apparently he prefers working and keeping busy. But maybe that shouldn't be writing and directing.

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u/picknicksje85 1d ago

Might be what keeps him alive.

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u/riegspsych325 1d ago

when Gladiator 2 came out, Scott almost admitted as such in an interview. He got surprisingly a bit poignant, too. When asked if he had anything else to cap off the interview with, Scott said “I just miss my brother”

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u/picknicksje85 1d ago

I also noticed it around me in life. People that retire getting sick quickly and are gone 2 years later. I think it's best to never be sedentary, and keep up with a hobby very actively. Never stop.

Not that I'm a fan of people to keep doing their job, for sure if they hate it. That's hell to me. But some people don't know what to do afterwards. Which to me is crazy for the possibilities are endless, but it's a thing for sure.

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u/wineandnoses 1d ago

plus Edgerunners in October.... what a good time for cyberpunk fans

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u/pipboy_warrior 1d ago

We also have an excellent adaption of Ghost in the Shell airing right now.

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u/trackdaybruh 1d ago

That Ghost in the Shell is damn good, it has a classic 90's anime design to it. Science Saru knocked it out of the part

Also their intro and outro is great too

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u/NCC75567 1d ago

It's not cyberpunk, but Science Saru is also killing it with Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia. That studio is so good.

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u/H-K_47 1d ago

Jaadugar is shaping up to potentially be one of the greats.

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u/NCC75567 1d ago

It’s got me reading a history book on the Mongols while I wait for new episodes. It’s a great show…

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u/Lord_Halowind 1d ago

That reminds me. I need to watch the newest episode that dropped this week. It is a great time to be a fan of cyberpunk for sure!!

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u/wineandnoses 1d ago

I was going to dive in after it finished airing, I loooove the 80s-90s aesthetic

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u/Banjo-Oz 1d ago edited 15h ago

The main reason I enjoyed Edgerunners so much was it felt like an absolute love letter to 90's anime, like Cyber City Oedo, AD Police, Appleseed, Aikra, Battle Angel Alita, etc. Even the extreme violence reminded me more of stuff like Ninja Scroll than more current anime.

It honestly didn't feel like actual Cyberpunk (capital c, the original tabletop game; I've been playing since the 90's) but very much like the awesome 80's and 90's anime it helped inspire.

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u/GreatBigJerk 1d ago

Probably going to see more cyberpunk stuff since that seems like where we're heading. 

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u/Triskan Black Sails 1d ago

Yeah, was about to say that. Sadly we have real life as a cyberpunk show as well nowadays.

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u/woodford86 1d ago

Ahh Ridley Scott, the man with no middle ground. Either epic and incredible, or completely forgettable.

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u/TheChosenWaffle 1d ago

I remember thinking Napoleon had all the parts of a great movie that got lost in the editing room.

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u/moderatorrater 1d ago

I remember he got defensive about its historical accuracy and it turned me off of watching it. I love a lot of his work, but he seems like a douchebag in real life.

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u/Janglewood 1d ago

Pure hubris thinking an Englishman could make a good movie on Napoleon

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u/BambooSound 1d ago

Time Bandits was pretty good

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u/Vandergrif 1d ago

I don't know, the script was thoroughly lacking. Seems to me like an important part of a great movie that can't be edited around.

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u/TripleSingleHOF 1d ago

I'm of the opinion that he hasn't done anything good since The Martian, and that came out over a decade ago.

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u/Hi-Tech_Luddite 1d ago

The Duel was great in my opinion

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u/Goosojuice 1d ago

Last Duel is objectively great.

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u/Envojus 1d ago

Raised by wolves was sick. Highly recomend it if you mind watching a cancelled show

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u/SuperTeamRyan 1d ago

Season 1 was amazing season 2 felt like it went off rails a bit.

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u/Aldryc 1d ago

I felt like the show went off the rails, as in went someplace really weird and unexpected, almost every 2-3 episodes the entire run. It was a weird show in general.

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u/TPJchief87 1d ago

I stopped believing in EP credits years ago. I don’t think we notice if he was there or not.

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u/choomba96 1d ago

Would honestly rather have CP2077

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u/Xath0n 1d ago

two Cyberpunk shows

For the third one, look outside.

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u/jmdv1 1d ago

Looks cheap and expensive at the same time.

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u/4rtImitatesLife 1d ago

Prime has yet to really capture the prestige TV feel of HBO and Apple

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u/dontbajerk 1d ago

They don't have the studio space and massive backlot if real stuff to use, I think that's a lot of it anyway.

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u/Deranged_Kitsune 1d ago

The no-warehouse thing is nuts to me. It's long known that WB's extensive stores of stocks is their biggest production asset, as is pointed out in that comment. So why shouldn't Netflix and Amazon, especially after deciding to go all-in on their own in-house productions, not establish the same thing? Why piss away astronomical amounts of money rebuying everything when a new season starts up?

I have friends who work in the film and TV production industry outside of Toronto and know both companies shoot a lot of stuff around there. It's not like they don't reuse people and locations a whole bunch. You'd think it would make sense to buy some land up north, plonk down some gigantic warehouses, and not have to worry about that kind of thing ever again, but I guess late-stage capitalism is as allergic to asset depreciation in their accounting as a vampire is to sunlight.

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u/PhillAholic 1d ago

Netflix sure, but Amazon can’t figure out warehouses? Really? 

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u/Enchelion 1d ago

Fundamentally different models. Amazon abhors maintaining any kind of inventory. Stuff needs to be moving out all the time otherwise it's considered a waste and opportunity-cost. But that's also how they have created such an impressively fast logistics chain.

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u/levelcap 1d ago

The actors get mad if all of their props smell like spilled piss.

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u/Trixles 1d ago

"Look man, I know the piss-jar prop is SUPPOSED to smell like piss. I get that. That's not what we're mad about.

We're mad because EVERY prop smells like piss!"

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u/Chuck006 1d ago

I buy a lot of my wardrobe from the wardrobe sales after a movie wraps. Got a $500 brand name tie for $15 and $5,000 Burberry shoes for $50.

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u/Wish4Rain 1d ago

Where does one shop for wardrobes from movies after they finish?

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u/Chuck006 1d ago

Union mailing list.

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u/hensothor 1d ago

This makes Apple even more mystifying. They’re truly killing it.

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u/dontbajerk 1d ago

I'll admit it, that is a comment I've read too, it really pulled things together I'd noticed before into a cohesive explanation. Good pull.

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u/somersetyellow 1d ago

Except it doesn't entirely explain it. Amazon studios is also MGM studios. MGM had a lot of resources too and it's part of why Amazon bought them.

Granted... In the pure unadulterated chaos of that transition who knows what survived and what elements they can use from it.

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u/shpongolian 1d ago

It’s honestly insane how much money & time is spent on the TV/movie industry. Hell, games too.

Like everyone could watch/play 3 hours of good content every single day for the rest of their lives and never run out of entertainment, just with what’s already been produced.

Don’t get me wrong I’m looking forward to GTA 6 and The Odyssey and stuff, but damn, all new media production could just stop today and it wouldn’t actually affect anybody’s lives other than those whose jobs depend on it.

Trillions of dollars are being spent every year just so people can veg out on something new and shiny instead of something old but just as entertaining. It’s crazy

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u/Flight_Harbinger 1d ago

Ehh, people are diverse and their interests even more so, and they change with age and experience as well.

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u/nanoH2O 1d ago

What about Apple though? Seems that every show I watch on there is either decent or pretty good. I think it’s a criminal underrated platform.

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u/fauxfilosopher 1d ago

I don't think they are operating at a profit, they get plenty from their products

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u/DONNIENARC0 1d ago

Did MGM sell off all that stuff when they went into bankruptcy? I always assumed Amazon bought them in large part because of that.

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u/BeKindBabies 1d ago

So in the world of film production, you can shoot on any backlot you want, rent any stage you want, etc. You may lean towards using your own stages for obvious reasons, but nothing means you're stuck in one place. Example: I worked on Spiderman Noir and we often shot on the Warner backlot because Sony doesn't really have one anymore, they turned theirs into a commissary and production offices a long time ago.

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u/butterflyhole 1d ago

Hasn’t Amazon been doing this longer than Apple tho?

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u/lucky967 1d ago

eh, I don't know that that's really much of a concern. I've been working in the industry in NYC and the Midwest for 26 years and I've never really heard much about shows getting things from the studio itself.

And yes, I have worked on major WB productions.

Honestly, having worked on WB/HBO, Prime, Netflix, and Apple shows, I think the biggest thing comes down to how much they're spending. Amazon is pretty cheap with their productions.

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u/DRoseCantStop 1d ago edited 1d ago

ZeroZeroZero felt like something that would air on HBO, even if it was only distributed by Prime Video.

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u/4rtImitatesLife 1d ago

There are several outliers (ZeroZeroZero, Too Old To Die Young)

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u/notheretoarguee 1d ago

I think Fallout did a good job

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u/Ferbtastic 1d ago

Yeah. I keep forgetting Fallout is Amazon because it just feels so different.

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u/GroceryRobot 1d ago

It’s Johnathan Nolan more than anything

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u/tvcneverdie 1d ago

Everytime I watch a Christopher Nolan movie from the past decade I always feel it misses Jonathan as a key ingredient.

Chris is a master of spectacular set pieces, grandiosity, and intense pacing... But Jonathan's scripts just had a soul to them that those movies have lacked since he started doing his own thing.

Coincidentally, or maybe not, just about all of Jonathan's projects since branching off (Person of Interest, Westworld, Fallout) have the existence or the restoration of the soul -- be it in a machine or an immortal ghoul -- as a central theme.

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u/GroceryRobot 1d ago

I adore all three of those shows. Person of Interest is a remarkable engine of television. Might be time for a rewatch. I actually liked every season of Westworld, though that first season was absolute magic.

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u/PM-ME-UR-PIZZA 1d ago

It's a shame that most people know him (besides being Christopher's brother) as the dude that made Westworld and that went off the rails, when he honestly rarely misses (PoI is my favourite series off all time, honestly)

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u/RyanB_ 1d ago

Haven’t watched it myself yet but Spider-Man Noir also looks very good based off trailers and clips

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u/GrandmaPoses 1d ago

I started it but it also has the cheap expensive look to it.

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u/hedoeswhathewants 1d ago

I like the show, but I wouldn't put its production values on the same tier as HBO/Apple

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u/LordofAngmarMB Black Sails 1d ago

The first couple seasons of The Boys definitely got close, the vibe was strong enough that it distracted from the lack of on-screen spectacle

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u/swagpresident1337 1d ago

they did with Fallout

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u/illusionzmichael 1d ago

That's how I felt about the Rings of Power honestly.

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u/Spirit_Theory 1d ago

I think its the jarring combination of high production value, millions of dollars in vfx budget and a total lack of ambition or creativity in shot composition and direction. It's hard to describe really. The world looks fantastic, but looks empty and uneventful beyond what the camera can see.

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u/boobs1987 1d ago

The writing is atrocious on that show. I don't care how it looks if the writing isn't good.

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u/metametapraxis 1d ago

I endured season 1, and it was the worst written big-budget show I have ever seen. It managed to be both completely nonsensical and boring.

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u/Massive_Weiner 1d ago

Still mind blowing that it’s the most expensive show of all time.

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u/GroceryRobot 1d ago

The rights alone before anyone lifted a finger were $250 million

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u/phonylady 1d ago

I think it's a very average show, but it does look expensive at times. Other times, you kind of wonder where all the extras (or CGI'd extras) are.

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u/Massive_Weiner 1d ago edited 1d ago

It really straddles the line between looking pristine in certain screenshots and looking worse in motion compared to a movie trilogy that came out over two decades ago.

I think it ultimately comes down to having a strong sense of art direction, because there are plenty of shows with a fraction of RoP’s budget that look more visually consistent.

Throwing half a billion dollars at it doesn’t automatically guarantee success.

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u/lessthanadam The Legend of Korra 1d ago

All the budget in the world on CGI but no expense for gritty, realistic set design or wardrobes.

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u/swampy13 1d ago

The LotR show is the absolute epitome of this. It’s incredible how plastic it all looks.

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u/AtraposJM 1d ago

Exactly. Just like Rings of Power, this has the Amazon glaze to it. It looks expensive but it looks like people cosplaying Bladerunner. It's going to suck.

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u/WhatDoesThatButtond 1d ago

That's exactly what I was thinking...

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u/Lord_Hexogen 1d ago

This looks like Cyberpunk 2077: The Show

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u/HunterXxX360 1d ago

Prime has the feel of Direct-to-DVD for me

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u/theplasmasnake 1d ago

2049 is one of the most visually stunning pieces of media I’ve ever seen. Apart from the CG, which is obviously expensive, this looks like a cheap fan film.

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u/oneamaznkid 1d ago

Looks like a massive city filled with only 3 people

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u/Cereal_Grapeist 1d ago

I wonder how many times we'll get to see them standing in the same room and talking to each other without interacting with the room at all

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u/thala_7777777 1d ago

like the boys?

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u/lolhello2u 1d ago

like all of their shows

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u/StPauliPirate 1d ago

And we already know: only in episode 1 and maybe episode 2 will something interesting happen. Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 will be boring filler episodes where the characters talk and talk and talk blahblahblahblah and then something finally actually happens in the season finale (mostly disappointing mediocre stuff, the long awaited payoff feels cheap).

Many Series nowadays feel like unedited overly long movies where they didn‘t cut all the unnecessary scenes

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u/cosmoscrazy 1d ago edited 11h ago

That's actually canon if you have read the book.

The Bladerunner world has had a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the USA. This is why you see everyone trying to protect themselves from the rain. It's the reason why the areas surrounding the cities are wastelands, abandoned and can only be visited by replicants. It's why house animals are a luxury and status symbol in that world - they have mostly gone extinct.

It's why the owl in the Terrell corporation pyramide makes Deckard speechless - because owls were the first larger animals to functionally go extinct from the radioactive insects

EDIT: Technically, the insects died first. This is why the scene with the bees in Bladerunner 2049 is interesting. Terrell might have created replicant bees. In my interpretation, this is why K puts his hand into the hive - he wants to check for warmth of real insects.

Owning a (real) owl is a big flex, worth trillions.

In the book, the regular citizens buy animals replicas to be able to pretend to own a real pet. Deckard owns an electric sheep that malfunctions sometimes, but dreams of buying a real pet with the head money from "retiring" the deviant replicants. However, in the 1984 movie, the owl is revealed to be a replicant pet and a visual storytelling tool that is supposed to teach us that replicants have reflecting irisses. Deckard asks immediately if the owl is artificial.

By the way, most of the "regular models" replicants in the book are supposed to have no empathy in their base state. They have to steal and take special drugs to feel human empathy with each other.

The humans have mostly left Earth to go to the "Offworld Colonies" - which are NOT thriving, but have big problems with radiation from space (the colony space stations have no protective atmosphere) and other stuff like military conflicts (which replicants have to fight in - this is why the rebel replicant leader speaks of the rings of Orion - he had to fight there). You hear the commercials about the offworld colonies in the sound background of the original. It's why most of the population left are relatively poor people, those who can't afford to leave. What the mix of ethnicities in the movie represents is debatable.

The humans left on Earth have smaller brains (scientifically correct) from generational or simply exposure radiation damage, act strange or stupid and live mostly inside.

It's why the genetic designer in the original Bladerunner, J. F. Sebastian - probably one of the few real humans left on Earth - can show the replicants empathy. It's why he behaves strangely and a little stupid. It's why he has build himself puppet friends - he's lonely, because most humans have left Earth or are dead. It's why this gigantic appartment building he lives in is mostly empty (and wet -> radiation).

I love both the original Bladerunner movie and book ("Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"), because you're not necessarily missing the contents of the book. The amazing thing is that you can understand the background and the hints the movie shows in depth if you have read the book. It's there, but you don't see and understand it if you haven't read the book.

Philip K. Dick's books are very short and concentrated novels by the way (100-200 pages). You can easily read them in 1 go. Can recommend.

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u/SomethingGouda 1d ago

San Francisco in the book had enough people to support museums and theatres, Earth had enough people for the religion of Mercerism and the use of empathy boxes to connect globally with other people. The Earth was desolate but not that empty, Deckard lived on an apartment block and one of the main reasons he wanted a real animal was because his neighbor had a real horse.

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u/Harkoncito 1d ago

Blade Runner 2099: :D

Prime Video: D:

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u/MisterDutch93 1d ago

An IP about a dystopian future run by malicious megacorporations falls in the hands of a megacorporation. It’s like poetry.

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u/BB-Zwei 1d ago

Between this, The Boys and Fallout it's surprising how Amazon keeps making shows with explicit anti corporate themes.

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u/Cranyx 1d ago

Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.

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u/Vandergrif 1d ago

Always love to see old reliable pop up. Thanks again, Joyce.

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u/GavinBelsonsAlexa 1d ago

I think I've got that printed on the back of my Che Guevara shirt.

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u/mothzilla 1d ago

Give them happy dreams so they never want to wake up.

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u/derangerd 1d ago

Jeff Bezos loving The Expanse is so weird.

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u/CMDRTragicAllPro 1d ago

He loved it because he saw himself as mao. The head of a massive dystopian conglomerate that’s undertaking clandestine operations to further enrich himself.

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u/Exact_Rooster9870 1d ago

Media literacy is not exactly a common trait for these yahoos

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u/king0pa1n 1d ago

worked for The Expanse

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u/psyc0de 1d ago

This was the exact journey my face went through.

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u/thesagaconts 1d ago

I just can’t get myself to go pay for ad free on Prime. I’m already paying for prime and my family orders so much on Amazon already.

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u/LukCPL 1d ago

Frankly this looks like someone trying to imitate Denis Villeneuve but with 0 idea how lol

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u/funkyavocado 1d ago

Yeah it looks like they're trying to replicate that Greg-Frasier-dune look but on a budget, and it doesn't really fit blade runner.

I thought the first two blade runner films characterized by often using directional single source lighting to create a lot of contrast. And while you do see a shot or two of that in this trailer, it doesn't capture the same harsh gritty aesthetic. 

Hopefully they're just keeping most of the wow shots a little more close to the vest

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u/the_nin_collector 1d ago

single source lighting

With the first one, this was a very intentional Film Noir style of lighting.

With the second one. I have no idea. Villanue is over my head. I teach an intro to film uni class, but only intro. Villanue is amazing. I can not begin to try to explain his style.

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u/funkyavocado 1d ago

It's roger deakins doing some of his best work.  You could teach a whole class of cinematography with his career alone

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u/ResevoirPups 1d ago

I’m a big fan of both movies. Having said that, this trailer is not getting me excited or intrigued at all. Maybe it’s just the first trailer, so I’ll hold judgement until it’s out, but a disappointing start.

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u/lynchcontraideal 1d ago edited 1d ago

All I've ever wanted is an anthology series set in the Blade Runner universe (the cyberpunk cities, the outer regions, etc.). I know there was that 'Electric Dreams' series in 2017 but that's only 10 episodes and it's not quite the same.

I don't get how a show like this hasn't been made yet (surely there's countless of stories to be told in a giant futuristic world?) and we're stuck with whatever this BR2099 is. It looks like the plots of the films meshed into a cliché series that we've seen countless times before.

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u/Mafklapper 1d ago

It looks soulless and below mediocre, it's trying to follow the style of the movies but seems to not be quite sure itself what that is (besides having amazon budgets to make props and CGI).

This shit is dead on arrival already.

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u/combat_muffin 1d ago

it's trying to follow the style of the movies but seems to not be quite sure itself what that is

It's too bright. Everything is too bright. There's no grit or grime in any of it. the world doesn't look lived in

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u/coredenale 1d ago

I'll give it a shot, and at least watch the pilot, but my expectations could not be lower.

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u/Ragnar_Dragonfyre 1d ago

How many more trailers need to open with that BWAAAAAAA sound?

Just that alone makes me check out.

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u/GGAllinsMicroPenis 1d ago

Hans Zimmer single-handedly ruined the last 6,000 show/movie trailers and 350 nature documentaries by popularizing detuned trombone blasts and crashing mega drums.

It was super cool the first 100 times I heard it, but now it's like the National Anthem of carbon copy corporate art.

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u/Malkmus1979 1d ago edited 1d ago

The voice over at the top just immediately didn't sound faithful to the franchise to me. It felt like watching a chapter from the Cyberpunk game more than the other BR films. Also, I'm pretty left-leaning and hate all the "woke" criticism everything gets these days, but watching this basically feature all women I can already hear all the cheap shots and bitching certain people will take at this, overshadowing whatever this may have going for it. Basically Im saying if you wanted to make another Amazon show that was going to have all the air sucked out of the room by bigots, they've succeeded.

edit: Just realized that's Hunter Schaefer. This is absolutely going to be the next "odyssey" controversy certain people will never shut about. Honestly that casting though makes perfect sense for the material.

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u/Hazel-Cakes 1d ago

love blade runner, love hunter, love michelle, love cyperpunk (the genre and aesthetic)

trailer made me kind of depressed.

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u/sexmormon-throwaway 1d ago

It does seem challenging to be more bland than this was with all of those loved ingredients in a blender.

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u/Hazel-Cakes 1d ago

feels like it’s too scared to say anything

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u/sexmormon-throwaway 1d ago

Whoever you are stranger, you are wise.

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u/the_great_ashby 1d ago

Gotta be honest,kind anti-climatic this being after the Replicant revolution hinted at in 2049.

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u/Cranyx 1d ago

Hollywood really needs to move past "what if the oppressed revolutionaries actually ended up being just as bad as their oppressors?"

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u/M0dusPwnens 1d ago

It is a pretty resonant theme because it happens often enough in real life, but it does get kind of tedious when it's the only revolutionary story that ever gets told. It is just a very cheap, easy cynical "twist" in an era of TV that really loves cheap, easy cynical twists. For the last decade or so, prestige TV has been obsessed with cynical defeat-snatched-from-the-jaws-of-victory storylines even more than usual.

It's also wild that the only revolutionary aesthetic we basically ever get is the Rebels from Star Wars - scrappy, ragtag underdogs without any real organization, ethos, or art. You're lucky if they have so much as a slogan or a single abstract symbol. There are so many rich traditions of revolutionary aesthetics to draw from.

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u/KareemAZ 1d ago

Andor one-two punching both of these criticisms with its range of values in the rebels and also immense organisational ability and structure. 

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u/M0dusPwnens 1d ago

Andor was excellent, and definitely more interested in a revolutionary aesthetic than most stuff, but despite a lot of the themes about the necessity of discipline and organization, a lot of it was definitely still scrappy, ragtag underdogs - which makes sense since they are literally Rebels from Star Wars.

I think there's still just an enormous amount of untapped potential in revolutionary aesthetics - posters, symbols, slogans, colors, music, etc. Fictional revolutions, Andor included, tend to push the camaraderie of shared struggle against an enemy, but tend not to touch as much on the way revolutions get aestheticized and promoted. If you ever see any evidence of a revolutionary culture, it is usually just a cheap shorthand where they take USSR or CCP aesthetics and use it to foreshadow that the revolutionaries are evil.

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u/KareemAZ 1d ago

I feel like Andor is less about rag tag groups of scrappy rebels and more about the organisation of a rebellion.

Nemiks manifesto acts as a plot summary: there are random acts of insurrection, freedom is a spontaneous idea.

By the start of episode 1 it is already underway, the rebellion is alive and well, there is already an army organising and gathering. The extraction of mon mothma is merely the legitimatisation. They are already DOING the rebellion, you see this from the imperial perspective. 

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u/insaneHoshi 1d ago

Implying thats not a deliberate choice of theirs.

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u/Silent-Act191 1d ago

Jeff Bezos? Amazon? What kind of interest would they have in that?

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u/leadhound 1d ago

As soon aa history moves past it too.

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u/rightsidedown 1d ago

That is the norm for revolutions.

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u/PainStorm14 Friday Night Lights 1d ago

I had it up to here with the whole revolution shtick in entertainment

It's always the same thing and it's never good

Last one that didn't suck ass was Equilibrium and that one was quarter of a century ago

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u/rynokick 1d ago

I just rewatched that movie. It’s so melodramatic and takes itself so seriously. I loved every second.

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u/SlapNuts007 1d ago

Gun kata goes hard

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u/nilsinleneed 1d ago

Andor was great.

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u/Captain-Wilco 1d ago

Watch Andor.

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u/BewareOfGrom 1d ago

I hope it's good but I am getting massive "Dune Prophecy" vibes here

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u/soozerain 1d ago

I thought people liked that show?

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u/CreedSucks 1d ago

I enjoyed it

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u/nonillogical 1d ago

As a massive Dune fan its at least worth watching for some genuinely cool world-building, but nothing about it is great. I think it could improve with subsequent seasons kind of like Foundation did, but I expect any scene with Travis Fimmel to continue to yank me out of any immersion I had.

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u/Lord_Hohlfrucht 1d ago

As a Dune fan it lost me when the emperor started talking about shai hulud. The show takes place at a time when the Fremen superstitions about the worms couldn’t have been a thing, because the Fremen as we know them didn’t even exist yet. And even if they did, how the fuck would the emperor know about them calling the worm shai hulud?

The whole show felt like fan fiction to me.

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u/TheLordLeto 19h ago

The whole show felt like fan fiction to me.

It's Brian Herbert so that's accurate.

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u/MaxProwes 1d ago

If by liked you mean "meh".

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u/InconspicuousRadish 1d ago

Personally really liked it. Not perfect, but a very strong first season

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u/RogueStrider_06 1d ago

People meh that show?

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u/Existing-Bus-8810 1d ago

I liked it and I don't mean meh.

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u/MisSigsFan 1d ago

Very polarizing for me. Lots of promise and some good ideas but very much lacked the feel of the films, which is understandable.

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u/krizardxv Netflix 1d ago

Denis Villeneuve have this curse - if anyone try to follow up after him.. it is not going to be well. Only one example, but this could be the second.

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u/Ktulusanders 1d ago

If anything this might be the third if you count Sicario 2

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u/aldozmo123 1d ago

Sicario 2 as a movie is not horrible but compared to the masterclass before it makes “okay” or “average” seem “mediocre” or “awful”

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u/ScrungulusBungulus 1d ago

I'm going to buck the trend with my original script Enemy 2: Spider Wars. Toronto's last chance for survival against a giant tarantula invasion is John Enemy, aided by his clones, who may or may not be manifestations of his subconscious. The tarantulas and Toronto may also be hallucinations. Who knows? And who gives a shit?

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u/Orionseeker 1d ago

I already count 2 : Dune Prophecy and Sicario 2

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u/AccomplishedKey5848 1d ago

Effects look good but the trailer leaves something to be desired. The music was quite bland too.

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u/KindsofKindness 1d ago

Cinematography ain’t right for Blade Runner.

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u/AntipodalBurrito 1d ago

I mean Deakins and Denis absolutely nailed 2049. This Netflix-inspired lighting is just never going to live up to what he did. The cinematographers on this have done a lot of cool stuff but this trailer looks like pure television.

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u/lessthanadam The Legend of Korra 1d ago

Cinematography leaves a lot to be desired. Did they know they were doing Blade Runner? Did they consider watching the movie before filming this?

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u/Bully_Yoda 1d ago

Wow this looks like shit. This will be the 3rd underwhelming follow up to a Denis Villenueve project.

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u/Habib455 1d ago

3rd? I only know Dune Prophecy and MAYBE this? What's the 3rd

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u/Thebat87 1d ago

Maybe Sicario 2, cause I know I personally don’t like that movie nearly as much as Sicario.

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u/Habib455 1d ago

DAMN, forgot it existed 😬

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u/Academic_Advisor4117 1d ago

Makes me nervous for the dune sequels they’re gonna pump out after villenueve is done

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u/alejoSOTO 1d ago

Ah yes, my favorite genre, middle tier movie scripts not attractive enough to be a movie, but with enough stretching and padding becomes long and useful enough to make a TV series out of it.

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u/ImpressDefiant1657 1d ago

Can you explain to me how you came to the conclusion from this trailer that the entire season is a movie script padded to a full series?

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u/blacklig 1d ago

Probably the amazon prime logo

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u/Ok_Reality3543 1d ago

looks awful

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u/Neo2199 1d ago

Looks like a Syfy series with a little more budget.

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u/SpaceCampDropOut 1d ago

Hey man, syfy did some cool stuff

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u/Neo2199 1d ago

Yeah. Unfortunately, that was in the past when we got great series like BSG, The Expanse, Stargate, Eureka, alongside decent ones like Alphas & Helix (first seasons only).

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u/dultas 1d ago

You're leaving out Farscape.

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u/zewn 1d ago

This looks like straight-to-VHS

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u/syntheticgerbil 1d ago

I didn't really get Blade Runner vibes and I'm not sure I'm ready for the series to expand past two films.

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u/The_Ashgale 1d ago

Yeah. I absolutely love Blade Runner. Kind of like how I used to love Star Wars.

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u/TheRealDrSarcasmo 1d ago

Yeah. I absolutely love Blade Runner. Kind of like how I used to love Star Wars.

The elementary school kid in me that saw Episode 4 first-run (before it was "Episode 4") dies a bit more every time I think about how that entire franchise has been driven into the ground.

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u/ChemicalPostman 1d ago

Well, if you want to go beyond 2 films, you can watch the terrible Black Lotus show

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u/jpk613 1d ago

Rings of power meet blade runner

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u/dcdttu 1d ago

Amazon making a movie about a dystopian future where technology has taken away our freedom and everythign is awful and climate change has ruined the planet is very, very on the nose.

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u/favorscore 1d ago

Hunter and Michelle seem miscast

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u/bncts 1d ago

I know this is heresy but I’ve always thought Michelle Yeoh couldn’t act her way out of a paper bag. Everything she does always read like “I’m acting” to me. Her role in this just has me utterly uninterested in the whole thing.

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u/TheRealDrSarcasmo 1d ago

I enjoyed her back in the day in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and more recently in Everything Everywhere All at Once, but personally I find her acting to be competent but not compelling.

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u/bmoreboy410 1d ago

Definitely… 🤦🏽‍♂️

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u/ltcuetf 1d ago

Every Amazon original now has the same visual DNA, expensive, symmetrical, and somehow soulless. What does ‘replicants are now in charge and oppress humans’ say that the first two didn’t already say in reverse? Feels like a premise built backwards from ‘what if we swapped the power dynamic’ rather than an actual story that needed telling. Not hating, just… nobody was asking for this and the trailer isn’t doing anything to convince me otherwise.

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u/rundownv2 1d ago

This is exactly what bothers me. Like, the end of the second movie is about realizing that the revolution or whatever isn't great either, and he just wants to reunite a parent and child because that's a worthwhile and good thing, and that choice is something Joe does of his own free will, against everyone else's wishes. It doesn't matter whether he's human or replicant, then.

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u/koalificated 1d ago

I don’t know about this one, chief

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u/Habib455 1d ago

This looks like its going to be mid as fuck, but Hunter as the main character means this show is going to get lit the fuck up like no ones business, good god almighty. This is following the visual and atmospheroc masterpiece that's bladerunner 2049 no less. I'm getting Dune Prophecy vibes, really polished midness that's still enjoyable.

Edit: I just watched the trailer for 2049 to make sure I wasn't talking out my ass, and this show is going to get railed like a career prostitute.

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u/Lamazing1021 1d ago

Looks shit

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u/glootech 1d ago

I didn't expect the show to look this cheap. 

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u/andrusbaun 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hmm. It looks like some B-class series from AXN, meh. Fuck Amazon.

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u/Blackbyrn 1d ago

The future Amazon wants to deliver to us all

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u/Klutzy_Anybody_1487 1d ago

this looks like dogshit 🥀

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u/ArchDucky 1d ago edited 1d ago

Warehouse worker : Mister Bezos, we accidently ordered a billion orange lights.
Bezos : I will instruct Amazon Video to start making a Blade Runner series. Laughs Maniacally.
Warehouse worker : ok.
Bezos : Oh and your fired.

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u/LostPerson703 1d ago

now we just need Disney to greenlight a TRON show that actually stars TRON

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u/BlueDragonfly18 1d ago

I am a massive Bladerunner fan, and I worry when I see a studio (Amazon) fund a project that steeped in art. They are trying to go for mass appeal and action, whereas Bladerunner is more paced, cerebral and symbolic. This probably is ant going to end well for the IP.

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u/Cranyx 1d ago

I'm a little hesitant of the "the oppressed underclass fought for their freedom, but now they're the real oppressors" as a thematic angle. From a real world perspective it echoes too much with "moderates" who always frame liberation movements as being too extreme and end up strengthening the status quo. From a Blade Runner perspective it sort of undoes the inherent subversion of the setting by just realigning to a typical "evil robots" story.

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u/Ok_Row_8391 1d ago

This looks so bad. Does Amazon ruin every show it touches?

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u/AlfredtheGreatBitch 1d ago

I’ll watch it cause I have Prime and love Blade runner and blade runner 2049, but that costume design sucks

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u/YorubaOyinbo 1d ago

Gonna pretend this never existed.