@GreatDismal Just watched The Peripheral.
Pretty good... but it ended rather abruptly and with a couple of cliffhangers.
Will there be more, I wonder? #thePeripheral
#ThePeripheral
I read a news item about Amazon's TV adaptation of William Gibson's novel THE PERIPHERAL, and thought the idea sounded intriguing. The show got cancelled after a single season, so there's no point in watching it now -- I read the book instead.
In the book, protagonist Flynne Fisher lives in an economically-depressed rural area in a near-future US, with her mom Ella and her ex-military brother Burton. Burton is doing odd jobs, one of which is supposedly beta-testing a new VR game.
He lets Flynne sub for him in the game, where she's operating a drone in a futuristic city and during this, she witnesses an apparent murder. But it's not actually a game: the people of 70 years in the future, who live in a world of bioengineering and 3D-printed bodies, are using an unspecified mechanism to communicate with the past and outsource some tasks, like drone operation, to people in the past.
Now someone in the future would like to eliminate Flynne as a potential witness, and it turns into a proxy battle as the future people, with publicist Wilf Netherton as our POV character, begin manipulating the global economy of Flynne's time. To help with the investigation, Flynne dials into the future in a teleoperated body that's called a peripheral, giving the book its title.
Lots of clever ideas here, and Gibson's prose is excellent. Each chapter alternates between Flynne's familiar and increasingly risky world, and Wilf's exotic and unfamiliar one. Somewhere between Flynne and Wilf, there was a polycrisis event called the Jackpot that's an unspecified mix of climate change, technological disaster and political crisis that killed off 80% of humanity.
(Ha ha, those sci-fi writers with their whimsical escapist fantasies!)
Overall I liked the book, but it left me unsatisfied. Spoilers in the next post... (1/2)
#WilliamGibson #ThePeripheral #sf #mystery #books #bookstodon
Just finished season 1 of The Peripheral, based on a 2014 Gibson novel of the same name. It seems season 2 was cancelled, which is disappointing. But I'd still recommend it. Each of the 8 episodes has enough of an internal arc to make them satisfying to watch, while still wanting more, as does the season as a whole.
The Jackpot is starting. #ThePeripheral
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On this episode of Story & Craft podcast, I chat with actor Jack Reynor from the @Netflix show The Perfect Couple as well as the Amazon Prime Video show, The Peripheral!. We talk about his career and more!
Itโs on your fav pod app & https://www.StoryAndCraftPod.com
#podcast #Actor #JackReynor #ThePeripheral #PrimeVideo #Netflix #ThePerfectCouple #StoryAndCraft
Yesterday I finished "The Peripheral" by W.Gibson.
Without spoiling anything, I'll just say that I liked it, but in some parts I had trouble understanding certain scenes.
I had the feeling that the writer took for granted the knowledge of certain elements, or that he relied a little too much on the reader's imagination.
I'll definitely read its sequel, "Agency" because I want to know more about the characters and I want to see if some things are finally explained.
@BrambleBearGrrrauwling @504DR #Bioremediation on a global scale. Like the #scrubbers in #ThePeripheral. #Jackpot
Chloe Grace Moretz came out on her Instagram (yesterday, but I just saw it on the bird site). So i naturally texted my sister-in-law that niece should watch #ThePeripheral. Niece is 16 and gay.
So it turns out the most unrealistic aspect of Amazonโs adaptation of @GreatDismal #ThePeripheral; how nice, clean, ordered, and *undestroyed by climate damage* is the little (river) town of our protagonists (see banner image for link).
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/hurricane-helene-is-tied-to-climate-change-powerful-dont-care
So, I've watched the rest of #ThePeripheral and I think it was pretty well made, even if it deviates quite a bit from the original at the end.
Made me wanna give the novel a re-read, probably directly followed by the sequel. I hope the third installment isn't too long in coming, but I'm patient. @GreatDismal novels are always worth waiting for.
Watched half of #ThePeripheral.
(Late to the party, blabla, yeah.)
I like it. Not as much as the book, but I like it.
Currently rereading Patern recognition. I think I need to reread The Peripheral. The first time I read it I bounced off it hard because I felt it no longer represented the now in a future vision Gibson's earlier work did. Having lived in a post truth world where people seem to live in alternate realities and the ultra rich build end of the world compounds and use their influence to steer politics I'm not so sure anymore.
Sadness โฆ
Deep deep sadness today when I realised the amazing series The Peripheral, by @GreatDismal, had actually been cancelled and there will be no second season! ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
For โdetailsโ, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral_(TV_series
I'll admit it -- the news of the past few days has been a bit much for even me to believe. It's like we're in the middle of a #PerfectStorm where #Injustice, #Fascism, #ExtremeWeather, #Ecocide, #HumanRightsViolations and #CorporatePowerGrabs are happening all at once... Talk about #Polycrisis on so many levels. Is this the start of the #Jackpot? Seriously...!
#ThePeripheral #RealityBites
What's that all about?
I just discovered #Hellier
https://www.yidio.com/show/hellier
I didn't even research what is #ThePeripheral but i extrapolate #fringe lol!
I don't like to watch ongoing tv shows cause they get cancelled and you have to wait years for the ending and they usually go to shit.
But I accidentally started watching PrimeVideo's #Fallout and it's brilliant and now I'm hooked and Amazon, fuck, don't pull another #ThePeripheral on me
Having been blown away by The 3 Body Problem and in need of #SciFi to hold us over until #Fallout, we went back and revisited #ThePeripheral on #Prime.
We got 2 episodes in before we agreed we hadn't read the book (which is odd, because we are both very much fans of #WilliamGibson's work)
A friend said "It got worse the longer it went on", and I gotta agree. The last 3 or so episodes felt like one long, but rushed, exposition dump. Even bad theatre does a better job of Showing Not Telling than this poor writing did. It was so bad the closer it got to the end, I was left wondering if it was a Neil Stephenson story
If there's a 2nd season, I won't have any expectations, I won't care if it sucks and I decide to let it go.
So, on to Fallout! Geeze I hope this is as silly as the first couple of games were ๐
As always, if you're into a good series, especially good Sci Fi, leave a comment! I'll be all to happy to tell you why you're wrong for liking it ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
So is there a petition to get someone else to pick up season 2 of #ThePeripheral since Amazon dropped it, or what? Loved the novel (and follow up Agency) and was really looking forward to seeing more of it explored visually
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