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Netflix Begins "Choose Your Adventure" Programming
NBC New Mexico ^ | 6/23

Posted on 06/24/2017 6:24:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway

If you don’t like the way a story ends, why not change it?

That’s exactly what Netflix is encouraging viewers do with a brand new children’s show called “Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale.”

As the show progresses, kids get to make a series of choices to move the story in any direction.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; TV/Movies
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1 posted on 06/24/2017 6:24:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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As a reading experience, good. On tv, bad ... because it’s another reason for children not to pick up a book.

I like the concept, though. One of our family pastimes is alternate histories. What if “this” went differently? Then what? It makes everyone think.


2 posted on 06/24/2017 6:30:05 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The Golden Rule. Just that.)
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To: Tax-chick

You mean life Jane Curtin?


3 posted on 06/24/2017 6:33:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Garbled, does not compute.


4 posted on 06/24/2017 6:39:48 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The Golden Rule. Just that.)
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Another crappy movie.


5 posted on 06/24/2017 6:40:09 PM PDT by Rannug (When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.)
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Kind of reminds me of the ending to Season 3 of Fargo that just finished (SPOILER ALERT!).

5 years after the story ends, the humble female cop now works for DHS, and is interrogating the evil mastermind in Brussels. She tells him, “in five minutes three men will come through that door, put you on a plane to NYC and take you to Rikers Island where you will be charged with 1st degree murder and income tax evasion, and I’ll go home and take my son to the State Fair for fried Snickers”.

He says “I’ll tell you what will happen, in less than five minutes a man who you will be powerless to stop will walk through that door with an order for me to be released”.

She thinks for a second, then says, “Nope, Rikers and Snickers”. He just smiles at her and the camera shows the door and fades out. The viewer is left to decide how it ends, and by extension what kind of world we really live in.


6 posted on 06/24/2017 6:40:26 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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“Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else’s vision. The fact of the matter is, since the beginning of time, you could buy a Picasso and change the colors. That’s trivial. But you don’t because you’re buying a piece of Picasso’s $&#**^% soul. That’s the definition of art: Art is one person’s ego trip.”
- Penn Jillette


7 posted on 06/24/2017 6:44:17 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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Yeah, but what does Teller have to say about it?


8 posted on 06/24/2017 6:51:14 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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I picture director and film crew scrambling out constantly to reshoot certain scenes with every kids request.


9 posted on 06/24/2017 6:54:40 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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That’s a pretty good “The Lady or the Tiger”-type of ending.


10 posted on 06/24/2017 6:55:22 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: nickcarraway

There was a scene from the movie Fahrenheit 451 where the TV had a story, and at points in the drama the narrator would stop and ask the viewers what was supposed to happen.


11 posted on 06/24/2017 6:57:42 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Tax-chick
Jane Curtin had a show on SNL called What If.

"What if Superman were born in Germany?" (You might see a future senator)

Also, "What if Napolean Had a B-52 Bomber?" "What if Eleanor Roosevelt Could Fly?" "What if Spartacus Had a Piper Cub?"

12 posted on 06/24/2017 6:59:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Oh, now I get it. I did not know that. My SNL experience was very limited.


13 posted on 06/24/2017 7:02:29 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The Golden Rule. Just that.)
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I can scarcely believe that I never saw that one.

It must have run when I was living overseas.

Rather daring actually, by today’s standards.

Thanks for that link.


14 posted on 06/24/2017 7:11:36 PM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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“What if hillary was human?”


15 posted on 06/24/2017 7:30:56 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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16 posted on 06/24/2017 8:36:45 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: Hugin

You’ll have to wait until the end of the movie to find out.


17 posted on 06/24/2017 8:38:27 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: nickcarraway

Only one choice: “Sit in front of the monitor”.

Heh, well intentioned, maybe.
Probably end up a “Black Mirror” episode.


18 posted on 06/24/2017 8:44:39 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Wow! What a reminder of how great SNL once was. Thanks for the link.


19 posted on 06/24/2017 9:02:24 PM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: nickcarraway

Didn’t the Tom Hanks character come up with this idea in the movie “BIG”?

How times change.


20 posted on 06/25/2017 3:43:59 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Trump: What to do now I can't repeal Obamacare? I know, lets start a war with Russia!)
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