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If you’re interested in a more in-depth look at the 12 Monkeys universe, check out the excellent TV series of the same title.
by Cyph0n 8y ago
If you’re interested in a more in-depth look at the 12 Monkeys universe, check out the excellent TV series of the same title.
- morganvachon 8y agoAs the article stated though, they aren't really the same story and don't share continuity. The show is good but it's not an adaptation of the film in any meaningful way.
- adetrest 8y agoExactly, the show was ok but the film is much better. While the show takes place in a similar universe, it's not a continuity.
- hackinthebochs 8y agoThe opposite is true to me. The film was OK, but the show was excellent.
- stevenwoo 8y agoI rewatched both 12 Monkeys the film and Brazil and they both share an incredibly unbelievable romance - in the first the scientist falls in love with a homeless man and kisses him passionately over the span of about 10 minutes of screen time after thinking he was insane and finding proof he was a time traveler (homeless people are humans, too, but if Cole had been living like a homeless person long enough to appear like that he would have had a pretty foul odor) and in Brazil, Sam Lowry and the female lead are arguing and he singled handedly ends her career and in the next(?) scene we see them together they are in bed pre/post consummation ( though of course that scene makes more sense if it's only in his head after we watch the end of the movie). The TV series also manages to top Brad Pitt's crazy guy, that I thought was going to be impossible after hearing about the TV series initially.
- Cyph0n 8y agoI got the impression that the plague arc early in the show was an adaptation of the film — sharing several key characters — but the rest of it was not covered by the film. And if you watch the last season of the series, you get to see an adaptation of the ending of the movie. Anyways, I think the series was excellent, even on its own.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoThe TV series was truly awful and utterly unrelated to the movie, except the weak linking to try and force it to be related in the first one or two episodes.
- Cyph0n 8y agoUtterly unrelated? How much of the show did you watch? I don’t want to spoil much, but the focal point throughout the whole show was the relationship between the 12 Monkeys and the plague, just like it was in the movie.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoI loved the movie enough that I wanted to love the series too. It helped that SyFy have turned out some great programming. I didn't reach the end of the first TV series. I tried, and definitely got past half way - maybe 8 or 9 episodes. For me, it just kept reinforcing the thought that it wasn't a patch on the movie and felt more like any old time travel series. I couldn't connect with it or relate it to the film like I could with say Stargate or Star Trek film vs TV. Maybe I should give it another go sometime. :)
- okonomiyaki3000 8y agoLol, no. The TV series has nothing to do withe movie other than the basic premise. It throws the best thing about the movie right out the window immediately.
- Cyph0n 8y agoDid you watch the entire series? See my reply to a similar claim below. And what “best part” are you referring to, exactly?