Honestly, it feels like all the people saying a 40k tv show could never work just never read Gaunt's Ghosts or Ciaphas Cain.

Yeah, there’s just an insane amount of sex stuff in the comics (that I read) that seemed, I dunno, juvenile and kinda gross. So toned down in that way, I guess. Right, more humanizing of women.

Well, if I just sat here and spammed character names and tried to describe the plots and subplots they could effect, we’d be here longer than a post that was already too long. The point I was trying to make is that there are characters in all of these factions that stand above the melee itself that can be used…

I wouldn’t even say The Boys is watered down. It just has a clearer message about the role of power and fewer of Garth Ennis’s more chaotic-neutral tendencies left out of his usually chaotic-good work by humanizing the women more and removing Hughie as the main moral center of the story to allow more solidarity with…

I wish I had as much passion for anything as much as you seem to despise all things Warhammer.

I don’t know if you’ve read Black Library fiction lately, but the setting has been shifting for the last several years. Yes, the setting is a dark, terrible place. But, Game of Thrones was too and was still wildly successful for most of its run. The reason 40k, Fantasy, and AoS stories work is because the characters…

Easy solution: shows that show the rot within the Imperium and take the point of view from people within it who are being hurt by it. GW has stated it explicitly in their community posts that the Imperium are not “good guys.” They are a flawed, bloated bureaucracy with fascism, xenophobia, and a generally callous…

Counterpoint: Make a show about someone who is successful in bucking the system.

the fundamental issue with Space Marines, which I think you agree on, is that they’re barely even people

As a fellow 40k nerd with 5 less years experience, I respectfully disagree. While the scope and scale of the setting has gone from overwhelming to “WTF are these things now?!?!” the Black Library and Rogue Trader side of the fandom have proven that there is absolutely room for smaller stories involving dynamic…

I agree that it’s not a good universe for storytelling, I disagree on the reasons you’ve given though. You can absolutely tell a good story about bad people. There are plenty of solid series which revolve around villainous protagonists.

you’re overlooking the other 60% of novels and short stories if all you do is constantly point at the space marine novels.  seriously, you hate 40k.  we get it.  go ahead and go outside and yell at clouds by yourself and stop pissing in everyone else’s cheerios.

Yeah. A really interesting IP.

Cavill’s already expressed a serious interest in Eisenhorn; I think that’s the best way to introduce 40k to most people. It worked for my dad, who knows nothing about the game, but is now seriously into the books.

The Boys is kinda watered down from the comics, to an extent, but I think it benefits from it. But they otherwise seem to let whoever that showrunner is do whatever they want. So maybe they find a way to strike a balance and not shit all over the source material?

Perhaps the emphasis on how the forces of Chaos are wreaking havoc all throughout the galaxy.  Which means you will get Chaos Space Marines since you are focusing on the horror element. Yes, they do use demons from another realm as soldiers. So, now you have sort of like a slayer type of story lines. This means you…

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I would do the opposite full on positive propaganda for the first few stories, show the success for the 1% at the top, noble Space Marines ect. then pull back to the human level dark reality of the cost of that armor and success the hive level suffering of millions of planets. Really show the contrast and how…

They have to go with something more human than the Space Marines to start with, like an Inquisitor or a Rogue Trader. I think that also gives the audience perspective to start with, seeing how horrific the galaxy is for an ordinary human. It would give the later introduction of an Astartes as a member of the main…

God: “Ok Henry, you’re an angel among men, so after suffering the indignity of playing your third dream job, and then your second dream job, you finally deserve to be in your one true dream”