Comments on: Reamde to Get Television Adaptation, Presumably With Kickass Female Characters Included

By: Ivie League

Ivie League — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:53:00 +0000

I hope they don’t whitewash it. That would be a nice change of pace. One of the things I loved, as a fan of color, was getting to read about women of color being bad ass.

By: sixteenthnote

sixteenthnote — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:51:00 +0000

I sorta felt this way about Snow Crash, too. It was good in theory, but way too disorganized.

By: Magic Xylophone

Magic Xylophone — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:49:00 +0000

I can’t even begin to comprehend how they’ll incorporate Stephenson’s trademark infodumps. Still, I am excited!

By: ChuckB

ChuckB — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:40:00 +0000

I think you hit on why this was a mess of a novel. Too many characters to care about any of them, coincidences that are so utterly improbable that they jar you out of the story, gratuitously complicated back stories for *everybody*, and an ending that you quite aptly called a swamp. The early promise that the MMORPG could be the setting for major conflict was forgotten, only to be limply tacked on at the end. Meanwhile he throws in every irrelevant factoid in his notebook to inflate the word count. Make a movie of Anathem, or nearly any of his other books, and I’m on board. Just not this train wreck.

By: Jo Chiang

Jo Chiang — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:57:00 +0000

Oh my lord, POC in leading roles. Christmas has come early.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:52:00 +0000

Gee, there’s such a deficit of ethnicity in this plot description. /sarcasm

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:31:00 +0000

We taking any best on how little of that plot’s gonna be left in the final product?

By: allreb

allreb — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:30:00 +0000

All three are women of color, no less, and they’re all *so awesome*. I can’t imagine adapting this into a TV show, but I’m willing to give it the benefit of a doubt.