In the past forty years, science fiction literature master William Gibson (William Gibson 2) has become the world-renowned "big prophet". He accurately depicts the World Wide Web (WWW) and predicts what will happen after Internet celebrities are deified. Of course, this "father of the cyberpunk sports" (cyberpunk is a subcategory of science fiction novels), has repeatedly stated in public that, like other science fiction novelists, "almost all of them have written wrongly" about the future.
William Gibson
Adapted to adapt William Gibson's works into film and television dramas has always been a difficult task. But such challenging work has attracted many Hollywood Hollywood giants, but so far, most of the adaptations are not successful. For example, "Defending Confidential" (1995) and "New Rose Hotel" (1998), based on his early works "Sprawl Trilogy", although they are star-studded and William Gibson is involved in the screenwriter, both reputation and box office are basically in a state of failure. For this reason, although the copyrights of representative works such as "Zero Earl" and "Restart Mona Lisa" were bought early, the movie adaptation plan has been in its early stages.
After several personal participation in film and television adaptation, William Gibson probably understood the difference between science fiction literature and science fiction film and television scripts. The subsequent participation in "X Files" was a great success. He himself also played a supporting role in the play who flashed by and got a bento.
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"The Peripheral" launched by Amazon streaming is another film and television adaptation of William Gibson's work. Judging from the two episodes that have been launched, it seems that the drama critics are still not very interested. In Rotten Tomatoes, their professional score is only 64%. Fortunately, the average audience gave a quasi-high score of 89%.
On Rotten Tomatoes, "Fringe World"'s professional score is only 64%
Amazon , which believes in the "no short of money" strategy, has launched many high-budget dramas this year, such as the indescribable version of "Lord of the Rings", and the same is true for "Fringe World". The drama critic can accuse "Fringe World" of mystery and clichés, but it just cannot criticize the production itself. Whether it is the action scenes or the visual effects, it can be said to be just right.
For some audiences and drama critics, this also needs to go back to the novel itself. The original novel was published in 2014. Although it is not long in terms of time, there are some settings in the book. Now, it is indeed a bit of a big deal - parallel world, the mutual influence between world A and world B, and the vague area between virtual and reality. Let’s put it this way, if you are interested in looking at the starting point, you can find N similar works in minutes.
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However, in today's streaming era, "Fringe World" still maintains the speed of weekly single updates (the first two episodes were launched on October 21, and one episode will be updated every week from October 28), which makes some suspenseful delays reveal, such as which war the heroine's younger brother participated in in the play was to suffer from PTSD, and what the heroine's mother had. What a disease, for example, the more the timeline of 2032 and the timeline of 2099 are intersected, the more the audience is confused from the perspective of God, that is, in theory, people in 2099 should be "omniscient" about 2032, but they seem "ignorant"...
In order to clarify the plot, the author quickly read the novel and first came to a conclusion that the series has been quite restored to the original work so far. The two episodes currently broadcast have basically finished filming the first fifty pages of the book.
The following is an overview of the author when trying not to spoil the spoiler:
The 2032 timeline where the heroine Flynne is located can be said to be the end of modern human civilization.
2099 timeline is the post-apocalypse of human civilization that blends technology and monarchy after the restart of human civilization. This storyline basically takes place in a place similar to London (let’s call it New London for now).
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Flynne entered the virtual world through VR games is in New London. The future she encountered involves nanotechnology, robots, etc.
There is a point in time between 2032 and 2099 - the destruction of civilization caused by climate change, epidemics, wars, etc.
Can "The Chosen Daughter" Flynne change his fate for humans against the will of heaven?
In short, this is a " player number " with a core of "The Matrix".
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British drama critic Rachael Sigee commented on "Fringe World" this way: This drama is written by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joey, who produced " Westworld ". You should not forget the fact that "Westworld" opened high and ended low, right?
In my opinion, compared with "Westworld", "Friendly World" has at least an original novel that has been completed. Of course, it is a matter of whether the ending of the family fun in the book can be satisfactory. I won’t spoil it here. The author only has one sentence - there is a logical bug at the end of the novel, which can be said to be “there are too many slots and no mouths.”
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