I don’t think so. I think Ishido really overplayed his hand here. Considering what an uproar it apparently would have caused among the noble families if he’d let Mariko kill herself, I don’t think any of them are going to buy any polite fictions that this was the work of anyone else.

That scene where Hiromatsu commits seppuku really left me gutted. See what I did there?

I find it interesting that they seem to have decided to drop all mention of the “Eta” or Untouchable caste of the time, although it came up multiple times in the book and original show, most notably when Blackthorne attempts to reunite with his shipmates. In the book and original show, aside from them being filthy drun…

Ya, the recapper has this wrong. The seppuku was not meant to get his underlings to keep fighting. It was to really, REALLY convince even his own people that he was serious about surrendering and getting their pledge to do so as well. He needs this to convince Ishido and Ochiba as that signed pledge was what was…

Ochiba also says at the start before Ishido proposes marriage that she won’t celebrate or buy that Toranaga isn’t up to something until Toranaga is actually there with his forehead touching the floor in submission. The Hiromatsu thing convinced her

Last point, I think Ochiba genuflecting is meant to show that she’s fully bought that Toranaga is surrending and that the plan succeeded. She was being told that she picked the wrong one between Toranaga and Ishido and that Ishido wasn’t cut out to win this war, all while she doesn’t trust Toranaga and assumes he must…

You’re right, I mixed myself up. In the story, Bailey is the agoraphobe, cowering under the naked sun and all.

Yeah , I honestly liked it , and it was trying to both be a continuation of the original show , and its own thing which is a tricky line to do .

I liked it a lot and I was honestly hoping that they accidentally brought back Sam Beckett instead, but I would have loved the dynamics of a Season 3.

I didn’t know the book was a fix-up going into but findout out afterwards makes so much sense. I still liked it though.

“Beacon 23’s attempts to be both a distinctly episodic offering as well as a serialized narrative centered on Halan (whose military past yet again finds its way into his present situation) are only intermittently successful.”

Hopefully “Stranger in a Strange Land” is never turned into a film.  Plus, the PBS adaptation of “The Lathe of Heaven” was excellent, in my opinion, considering they had like a $5 budget.

I’m curious: why call Caves of Steel unfilmable? It’s 99% indoor scenes that could be done on soundstages or full green screen. Not a significantly large cast, and not calling for any out of the ordinary special effects; if anything, it would be rather toned down compared to most scifi, and the plot is quite…

I can’t believe the author didn’t have Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous With Rama in this list. It has to be in the top of fantastic classic science fiction novels never adapted into a movie. It’s #1 on my list.

Earthsea had a major impact on me, and I’m still pissed that it was bungled so badly by the SciFi Channel.

Only if Verhoeven does it

I’m guessing we never get a film of Stranger In a Strange Land until Scientology abandons Hollywood.

With the loose exception of George Roy Hill’s Slaughterhouse-Five (which Vonnegut himself was a vocal fan of) the results of attempted adaptations have trended far more toward the disastrous...

I don’t know if you would consider Stranger in a Strange Land “unfilmable” but the a lot of the story elements would still cause outrage today

I’d like to see an anthology series based on Asimov’s robot short stories, with the overlap of characters you could weave those short stories into a larger narrative if you wanted. Just don’t turn it into an action movie like the Will Smith version of “I, Robot.”