The Sword and Laser discussion

Based on The Peripheral by William Gibson. The first two episodes are streaming on Amazon Prime Video. I just watched the first episode and it was terrific. (view spoiler)[I'm not a video game player but I recall being drawn into the novel by Gibson's prose in the same way that I found myself drawn into this first episode. I hope they can keep pulling me along with the story. (hide spoiler)]

I watched the first two episodes last night and enjoyed them both.

I am going to be heretical and say (view spoiler)[ that it was a lot more engaging than the Amazon Rings of Power Friday night show that has just finished. (hide spoiler)]

Regarding the episodes themselves - (view spoiler)[ The opening teaser was good and the main characters were interesting across all the different locations. The main story has been nicely revealed so far and I look forward to more of that.

I felt that the US side of the story was patchy - the first half was a social commentary as much as anything else which I enjoyed immensely - the characters felt nuanced and "real"; sadly the second episode was a basically bog-standard military fare, which I found disappointing.

It was the story and life in the UK side in "the sim" that grabbed my attention and held it. In particular being familiar with London the scenes set there were especially interesting and I look forward to finding out more about that world (hide spoiler)]

Overall I would say it was a good start and I will watch the next episode next week.

I have not read Gibson's novel but am tempted to once the show is finished.

I note that my second spoiler tag was not respected in the daily email digest - sorry everyone :-(

Just watched episode 1, and will probably watch the second tomorrow. I really liked it. More than I was expecting to. I've read a fair amount of Gibson, but not this series. I mentioned over on Discord that I found the Virtual world parts very much how I pictured them from Stephenson's Snow Crash. And I found that a bit interesting.

Also (view spoiler)[ I'm a bit surprised that Amazon brought this story to life now considering how similar the plot (at least in the first episode) seems to Paper Girls. Not because they canceled that, but because they are coming out fairly close together. Honestly it almost felt like a mix of that and the adaptation of Altered Carbon. And since I liked that as well, I'm cool with that. (hide spoiler)]

I noticed the same similarities, but find the different takes very interesting. Big tears to see they cancelled Paper Girls, but I also feel like they didn't really push the advertising for that one. It flew under a lot of people's radar.
Shame, but an excuse for me to finally get the comics.

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Welcome back to the sim.

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Just watched 3 episodes last night and enjoyed it. I've always liked Chloë Grace Moretz since she was Hit-Girl in Kick Ass.

Is it CyberCozy?

More CyberGrimdark I would say; especially those sections set in the UK

John wrote: "More CyberGrimdark I would say; especially those sections set in the UK"

RainDark
FogCozy
GrimBlimey

Trike wrote: "John wrote: "More CyberGrimdark I would say; especially those sections set in the UK"

RainDark
FogCozy
GrimBlimey"

No.

I like that her setting is a slightly-future-version of rural America, and a commentary on how manipulative big G government is towards that population.

While, at the same time, the future world is a meagre dystopia carefully masked to be a lot more idyllic than it really is.

Trike wrote: "John wrote: "More CyberGrimdark I would say; especially those sections set in the UK"

RainDark
FogCozy
GrimBlimey"

Yep all of those would work too!