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[Cra5y Pineapple]

Mass Effect is more movie material in my opinion.

[Wolverfrog]

magnetite wrote...

Since SG-1 and Atlantis are over with...

And Stargate Universe is on its second season, and in my opinion Universe is better than SG-1 and Atlantis.

[Fdingo]

A Mass Effect TV series would probably be the most expensive show ever made.

[Stickyblah]

It'd be a horrible idea. Leave it as a game series, and perhaps a movie one as well. When you go farther than that the door opens for it to be milked and beaten to the point where it's unrecognizable. Look at Star Wars.

[KenLyns]

I think the show will work on premium cable (think "Rome" and "Generation Kill"). That way it will have a proper budget and less censorship.

[KenLyns]

Stickyblah wrote...

It'd be a horrible idea. Leave it as a game series, and perhaps a movie one as well. When you go farther than that the door opens for it to be milked and beaten to the point where it's unrecognizable. Look at Star Wars.

What's really wrong with Star Wars? The Clone Wars TV series is better than 90% of the cartoons out there.

[Stickyblah]

KenLyns wrote...

Stickyblah wrote...

It'd be a horrible idea. Leave it as a game series, and perhaps a movie one as well. When you go farther than that the door opens for it to be milked and beaten to the point where it's unrecognizable. Look at Star Wars.

What's really wrong with Star Wars? The Clone Wars TV series is better than 90% of the cartoons out there.

It's good simply in comparison to other cartoons. The Clone Wars cartoon did spawn that absolutely awful cinematic movie, which was atrocious compared to the other Star Wars movies. That's what will probably happen, It starts with the Mass Effect games, then expands to movies, then people want a TV show so they get that, and it's alright, then you get a game based on the alright TV series, which turns out to be trash, etc. etc.

[AtrophyOffline]

In general I think it would be a horrible idea for a regular tv series spanning multiple seasons.



For starters what would be the plot? The current ME story is unfinished - and an earlier timeline just doesn't seem very interesting. The first contact war? Only a few skirmishes. The rachni war and krogan uprising likewise seem pretty dull. Maybe something that takes place after ME 3 - but at this point all that would do is spoil the storyline.



To get the aliens right, some of them would have to be cgi - which would be very costly from episode to episode - unless you used them sparingly (but then what would be the point). A human in a krogan suit would look ridonkulous - unless it was a ridiculously well made and expensive suit.



Also good luck selling a plot based on a video-game to a network. Tv shows sometimes spawn games, but rarely if ever does it work the other way around.



A miniseries would be more within the realm of possibility, but still nowhere near as realistic as a ME movie. Personally I think this universe is meant to exist a game (the reading material is fine though). A movie wouldn't be a bad idea. But a tv show would just demean it imo.



That said the Dune miniseries was pretty good, best sf miniseries I've ever seen.

[Phategod1]

Severyx wrote...

I really don't think a TV series is even necessary. Mass Effect already has a huge media base from games to comics and even a movie in the works. I have a certain amount of faith that the movie can be epic for two reasons: 1. Legendary Pictures and 2. Mass Effect really does have a cinematic atmosphere.

I think having a TV series will simply water the IP down to the mindless bunk standards of today's typical TV shows. Mass Effect does not deserve that kind of death.

Why Does Everyone think Legendary Pictures = Gold 

Here are some of the more Lesser films 

Superman Returns (2006)
Lady in the Water (2006)The Ant Bully (2006)Beerfest (2006)We Are Marshall (2006)
10,000 BC (2008)
Observe and Report (2009)
Trick 'r Treat (2009)Ninja Assassin (2009)Clash of the Titans (2010)Jonah Hex (2010)
[/list]Now this may be opinion on some of those, but those are some real stinkers, And I removed less then half off the list, and you wonder about guys who hire Shamalan and Emmerich.

[Severyx]

KenLyns wrote...

Stickyblah wrote...

It'd be a horrible idea. Leave it as a game series, and perhaps a movie one as well. When you go farther than that the door opens for it to be milked and beaten to the point where it's unrecognizable. Look at Star Wars.

What's really wrong with Star Wars? The Clone Wars TV series is better than 90% of the cartoons out there.

Try not to die in a fire on your way around the internet.

Wait a minute. Strike that, reverse it, thank you.

Oh, and sorry, but Ninja Assassin wasn't that bad.

Modifié par Severyx, 03 novembre 2010 - 11:46 .

[ifander]

TV-shows need big audiences for the networks to make a profit, and I just don't see ME succeeding with that. It would have to be a big-budget show for it to succeed, and it would have to attract the uninitiated audience for it to break-even. Looking at the latest ratings of other sci-fi shows, just over one million watched Stargate:U last week. That's a pretty crappy rating, and the only reason it was renewed for this season is because it's on a weak network with low ratings to begin with (SyFy). On other networks it wouldn't fly. Smallville was just under 3 mil, and Fringe, probably the strongest sci-fi show at the moment, only managed 5 million. The Event managed 6 million, pretty weak considering how hard NBC is pushing that show (and surprising, seeing as how it sucks balls). My point here being that it's hard for sci-fi shows to attract an audience, and the more sci, the harder it gets (let's face it, ME would be pretty far out there compared to other sci-fi shows). 

Then there's the presentation. Asari would be fairly simple to mimic with some prosthetics and make-up. But krogans and turians (quarians might work, but then there's the legs) would be nigh-impossible without using CG, and as we probably all know, CG in TV-shows tends to look like ****. Space sequences and battles are one thing, but when you combine CG with live footage, then you have a problem. Most shows can barely pull off a stationary helicopter on the ground without it being obviously CG, much less living characters. 

Sorry, but a movie is all we can really hope for. Just look at V, all the scenes in the ship are done on green screen, entirely CG. It looks horrible. Just thinking about ME getting that kind of treatment puts shivers in me.

[suprhomre]

Operative84 wrote...

suprhomre wrote...

I think a TV series is a great idea. I hardly watch any movies these days as I think most movies are a waste of time and it only last for about 90-180 minutes which is too short.I prefer to watch a TV series as it gives more deep with the characters and its plots. So, yes for games and TV show. But, also yes to epic movies like the lord of the rings trilogy.

Also depends on the network airing it, Fox is bad about airing something new that gets a decent following but doesnt out perform everything else so they can it. Firefly anyone?

HBO, AMC, Starz- I cant see a tv show of Mass Effect being on anything less than these networks, it'd be odd to play the games, see the movie(s) and then see a TV Show on fox or abc censored all to hell.

I would prefer HBO.

Modifié par suprhomre, 04 novembre 2010 - 12:00 .

[KenLyns]

Stickyblah wrote...
It's good simply in comparison to other cartoons.

I think that's all you can ask for, because it's subject to the limitations of the medium. Any Mass Effect TV show will be limited by a linear, non-customizable story, budget, censorship, etc. However, as long as it's better than any of the sci-fi shows on the air today, I'd probably watch it.

The Clone Wars cartoon did spawn that absolutely awful cinematic movie, which was atrocious compared to the other Star Wars movies. That's what will probably happen, It starts with the Mass Effect games, then expands to movies, then people want a TV show so they get that, and it's alright, then you get a game based on the alright TV series, which turns out to be trash, etc. etc.

The cinematic movie preceded the TV series, did it not? And none of the Clone Wars creations represent the low point in the SW franchise. You seem to be forgetting (or trying to forget ) the Holiday Special.

Modifié par KenLyns, 04 novembre 2010 - 02:17 .

[SheppardJohn]

They could start with first conntact war and show us everything from beggining of that mars ruins what really happend +how the allaince was forming and events on earth that we are not alone in the universe and so on. And start building seasons from there to the destructions of the reapers.  this would be great, and alot of seasons for this since the stargate star trek, battlestargalatcita is no more there is nothing more to wahtch for me on SYFAIL execpt some shows. :innocent:wishfull thinking but idea is great.

Modifié par SheppardJohn, 28 octobre 2011 - 11:54 .

[Black Raptor]

Jesus freaking christ!!

Clearly nobody gives a **** about this any more, why the hell would you necro it?

[someone else]

best justification I have heard yet for a Reaper invasion...

[Comm1Sheppard]

First make a movie abaut Mars discovery and then series to tell events that will follow after the discovery on Mars.Like first contact war, how humans establish new colonies and so on.... this is good for abaut 5 seasons i think, then focus on Shepard story for another 5 seasons and end it with a big kicking ass movie lets see to send Harbinger back to hell where is belong xd. and here you have 10 season for 10 years xd. You allready have scenarios from books, comic, games just need to sit down with the right tv network and talk abaut it and make it happen. I know i would done this.

Modifié par Comm1Sheppard, 29 août 2012 - 10:48 .

[LucianaIV]

Since it's been necroed anyway a month ago, I figured I may as well add my own two cents..

While a TV series would be interesting, you shouldn't start on one with the intend of copying for example Stargate or Star Trek, because then anyone that remotely likes those series will scream blasphemy, probably the Trekkies mostly.

Since the TV crowd is completely different from the game crowd, they'd probably have to start from the beginning with indeed the Mars discovery, how Earth uses that, the first contact war, maybe Anderson's failed attempt to become a Spectre and then finally, Shepard's story.

Hell, they could start with the ending of the last cycle, the extinction of the Protheans at the hands of the Reapers, anything is viable as long as they don't just start either with Shepard's story or worse, post ME3 and expect the TV crowd to understand what's going on.