“Syfi have ruined many classics imho including Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld. Maybe they’ll get one right.”
You’re right, it sucked major wind but to do it right would have cost a lot.
I thought it broke major wind. Pew!
PJF must have rolled in his grave.
You’re right, it sucked major wind but to do it right would have cost a lot.I'm not so sure budget was the cause. They did an adequate job with the grail stones, the riverboat, the zeppelin and big ticket special effects like the dark tower. (I've seen enough low budget sci fi movies to excuse anything for a good story). It was the missing story elements and charterers that turned me off. If you don't have the cojones to tell the story Farmer wrote, why bother? Leaving Yeshewa out of the mix was a cop out imho to avoid angering viewers perhaps, but that was a major element of Farmer's extended series. And where was Herman Göring and cowboy actor Tom Mix? I didn't necessarily love Farmer's plots on a personal level (the Jesus stuff was disturbing), but, the Riverworld novels were still a major literary accomplishment and SyFy whittled away at so much of the story and charterers that it didn't even rise to the level of "Cliff's Notes". Although Man In The High Castle was relatively short compared to "Riverworld" it was not politically correct. I doubt a single charterer will utter the word "Jap".