Apple Inks Deal for Dystopian Series 'Wool'

cmaier said:
Is that right? I don’t recall them saying the name of the party responsible, but it’s been a couple years since I finished reading all the books.
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I read the first book before any of the others were published. I never heard that it was intended to be a multiple book series.
 
EdT said:
I read the first book before any of the others were published. I never heard that it was intended to be a multiple book series.
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Yeah, i read the first one before the others existed, then read the others all at once.
 
Mac Fly (film) said:
TV Shows should be minimum 22 episodes per “season”. This 10-episode business is not even half a season a few short years ago.
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Terrible idea. It’s not a coincidence the best long form made tv drama maxes out around 10-13 eps.

22 eps is only suitable for monster of the week/melodramas/procedural garbage, 30-50% of which is filler to populate the tv schedule. Thankfully I haven’t had to suffer such rubbish since Sopranos gave tv a kick up the butt and downloading/streaming the cream of the crop became a thing.
 
Sounds interesting, I like that they are just continuing to add to the stable. I know its not for all, but personally, I have enjoyed a good amount of what has been produced.
 
yegon said:
Terrible idea. It’s not a coincidence the best long form made tv drama maxes out around 10-13 eps.

22 eps is only suitable for monster of the week/melodramas/procedural garbage, 30-50% of which is filler to populate the tv schedule. Thankfully I haven’t had to suffer such rubbish since Sopranos gave tv a kick up the butt and downloading/streaming the cream of the crop became a thing.
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The Walking Dead or more appropriately The Talking Dead comes to mind here.

I'd rather have eight to thirteen episodes of good entertainment rather than 22 episodes where half of it is just crap.
 
cmaier said:
So you’d rather that the story-teller be forced to add in 12 additional episodes full of crap? Maybe a flashback episode? A musical episode? The episode where they go to a beach and jump over a shark on a surfboard?
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I mean in his defense I get what he’s saying. It’s either 10 episodes at a high production value or 20 episodes at a lesser value. I still watch some network tv and there are plenty of good shows comedy and serious shows that are 20 episodes long. I like that my 20 episode series last most of the year. It can be a bit disappointing when the 10 episodes series are over in roughly 2 months. Just cause there are more episodes doesn’t mean it’s of lesser overall quality. But you are right that depending on the series there is some filler episodes. Both of these formats can co-exist. House of cards usually had 13 episodes a season and I think that’s a good sweet spot.
 
I don't think you can say less episodes are always better - LOST, Person of Interest, and Fringe - all three had long seasons and maybe there were one or two useless episodes - but each was a quality production (erm, maybe not the last few seasons of LOST... :D). I do agree the shorter seasons tend to be better - but with them, it often feels like just as a season is getting good it ends - on a cliffhanger usually - with many questions unanswered. I realize this is a technique used to generate interest, it often feels like a means to an end.

Also... while is true POI and Fringe had their "monster of a week episodes", they always seemed to weave them into the overall story arc that they felt connected/part of the series and not just "monster of the week".

As for Wool, really enjoyed the first book, haven't read the others but added them to my list.
 
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I wish someone would pick up and produce The Passage trilogy. Now, that's an epic story in every sense of the word. Fox tried it as a TV series a couple of years ago and failed miserably.
 
cmaier said:
Is that right? I don’t recall them saying the name of the party responsible, but it’s been a couple years since I finished reading all the books.
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Naw... personal bias factors into what you project onto that.
 
Book 1 was quite good as it doesn't explain much and keeps you guessing about what the heck is going on. Book 2 was meh. Book 3 was better than 2, but not as good as 1, but book 3 answers all the questions/mysteries raised by 1 and 2.
 
bassjunky said:
I wish someone would pick up and produce The Passage trilogy. Now, that's an epic story in every sense of the word. Fox tried it as a TV series a couple of years ago and failed miserably.
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Not a failure as such (though could have been better). It did quite well with audience figures but I think the post apocalyptic world of The Twelve and City of Mirrors would have been expensive to create (the Passage being relatively low budget).
 
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