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Thetimmybaby t1_ix94b72 wrote

If there is one thing I like my fantasy to be, its low budget.

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sgthombre t1_ix988mx wrote

Tired: Streaming services trying to make the next Game of Thrones

Wired: Streaming services trying to make the next Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

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Similar-Collar1007 t1_ix99u86 wrote

Politics aside it might actually have a good budget they are apparently spending 100 million on childrens content they probably raised a bunch of money for these shows

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jyper t1_ixb1upp wrote

I don't know, I think you can make low budget fantasy work with some good writing. It may look a bit cheesy but you can lean into it. That said I do not expect good writing

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BallsMahoganey t1_ix9gu6z wrote

Amazon Prime kinda proved super high budget doesn't exactly work either to be fair.

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Schmilsson1 t1_ix9prps wrote

well, best not give hundreds of millions of dollars to people who never made a single episode of TV before

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Rarietty t1_ix8yto3 wrote

If this were to get a huge gay shipping fandom a la Merlin it would be hilarious

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TheSeventhAnimorph t1_ix9uxif wrote

Unless they ended up being the entity that would finally try actually suing the major fanfic sites over it... :/

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HermansSpecialMilk t1_ix96bwf wrote

That is so not the Pendragon news I’ve been asking for for almost 20 years

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synapsebondfire t1_ix9i0ri wrote

I’m envisioning a pre set meeting each day where someone from the Daily Wire calls in and tells the entire crew they’re idiots for getting a Liberal Arts degree instead of all learning to weld, shortly after, a brisk clap and an “alright now let’s get to work,” followed by lots of confused looks.

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sgthombre t1_ix9jz0e wrote

The right yelling for decades about how much they hate Hollywood and the television/film establishment is just them trying to cover for how desperately they want to be part of that establishment.

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altera_goodciv t1_ixa56ft wrote

Why else would they vote for someone whose only success was being a reality t.v. star?

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DamonLazer t1_ix9e45r wrote

Great, maybe we can get Newsmax to finish the Chronicles of Narnia.

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sgthombre t1_ix985k2 wrote

  1. Death

  2. Taxes

  3. Some ambitious producer with too much money and not enough sense doing a King Arthur adaptation that no one particularly wanted

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danrod17 t1_ix99xh1 wrote

The books are really good. Arthur doesn’t even show up until the third or fourth book.

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Dangerous-Hawk16 t1_ix9f8bq wrote

I don’t want be that guy, but does anyone really watch daily wire stuff like that.

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SageOfTheWise t1_ix9km6o wrote

For a moment I thought this was the YA scifi/fantasy book series Pendragon and was utterly confused. Now I'm just normal confused.

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Similar-Collar1007 t1_ix9padh wrote

Anyone read the books by the way they any good ?

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lizifer93 t1_ixa70qm wrote

I've read them, they're actually pretty good! They do lean into the Christianity at some points but they aren't as egregious as most Christian lit. The author balances it well with Celtic druid beliefs and I don't remember them being too over the top religious (I haven't read the whole series in a long time but I did reread Taliesin last year).

Taliesin was probably my fave of the series, it has a lot of interesting detail on Celtic life, druidism and also has an interesting beginning storyline set in Atlantis. I enjoyed it, and the Christian stuff only comes up towards the end and is fairly easy to skip if you want.

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boringdude00 t1_ixacxu5 wrote

IMO, they're pretty average. There are better retellings of Arthurian fantasy, but there are also worse. I read them as a teenager in the 90s because they were one of the few series on the store's shelves, but I doubt I'd read them again with so much other and more accessible media available these days.

The only really interesting novel by Lawhead I've read was Byzantium, a story of Irish monks on a pilgrimage drawn into an extended series of adventures.

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LoudTsu t1_ixa465q wrote

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danrod17 t1_ix99tsu wrote

I actually read these when I was a kid. I really enjoyed them. Lol.

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