THE BEARD MUST GO

Self reply addendum: This show also managed to do it over THE COURSE OF THE WHOLE FUCKING SHOW and not 'episode three: we are all bros now' like some shit writers do.

When the "oh whine whine I come from a society that still uses rockets!" pitiful odd-boy-out....

Zakalwe enfranchised;
Those lazy curls of smoke above the city,
black wormholes in the air of noontime's bright Ground Zero;
Did they tell you what you wanted to be told?
Or rain-skinned on a concrete fastness,
fortress island in the flood;

You walked among the smashed machines,
and looked trough undrugged eyes
for engines of…

Can I start in on Sanderson here? or do is there a better introduction to his author/his world?

Or its a chance to bring in a new cast of 'mortals' each season as the machines get older and eccentric.

The Culture Series by Ian M Banks

okay. must. try. this.

Would I watch the hell out of that show?

I would be curious how the show would reconcile the current political state of China with the envisioned political state as seen from the early 90s.

How about an episodic two season HBO show? I feel like that could work for UoW

Banks novels in general lends themselves to hour long episodic story telling, better yet those stories are so compelling that you just binge read for eight hours strait.

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I get to be one of the lucky humans who gets to see this for the first time today.

A star trek show with no spaceships?

So do they give Khan a trial for crimes against humanity?

Goddamnit it I thought this was going to be a serious thing, started to enjoy... then...

Bungie says they took the idea from Banks. Different scale & different behavior.

I was going to post the Home Orbital from Player of Games, mainly because 'Hub' has such an interesting personality.

A question for people who have been looking into this subject more than I have: