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The series I really want is a Baroque Cycle series. With Virtual Backgrounds, I think it could be really really immersive.
by InTheArena 6y ago
The series I really want is a Baroque Cycle series. With Virtual Backgrounds, I think it could be really really immersive.
- Arubis 6y agoAs much as this might be an impossible sell, I’m inclined to agree. Strongly suspect Baroque Cycle would actually be more watchable than it was readable. I got through the series and it was well worth the slog, but that was at a time in my life when ploughing through 50 books in a year came naturally and I had time to burn. If I started now (30s, have kids) I’d burn out early in The Confusion—but being able to compress things a bit into a more easily consumed medium would help.
- JeremyNT 6y ago> The series I really want is a Baroque Cycle series. With Virtual Backgrounds, I think it could be really really immersive. I recently finished the Baroque Cycle after having bounced off of it a few years ago - this time around I appreciated it so much more. It's his masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I'd love to see it as a series, but good lord... how long would it have to be to actually do it justice? How many scenes of Isaac and Daniel talking about geometry or philosophy? It's so difficult for me to imagine somebody actually making such a sprawling thing because I feel like the attention span of modern viewers could not tolerate it. I feel like we could only be left with an elided "adventures of Jack Shaftoe" version which gives short shrift to the court drama and scientific conversations, resulting in a partial and unworthy adaptation.
- InTheArena 6y agoI don't think Court Drama would be hard. The science stuff would be hard, but a unique challenge. Plus, I want to see Jack in India.