This year alone I have rewatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Burn Notice, and am currently maybe one third through the fourth season of Fringe. I don't think I'll rewatch anything else this year since most of the shows are coming back soon. But I think next year might actually be a Stargate SG-1 kinda year...
@fatefan said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
@Coin Would/could Blood Drive as a theme work well with something like an Atomic Highway RPG framework?
Dunno, never read that system.
Does everyone get random Iraqi dudes trying to friend them on FB? Like is that the norm?
Not me. Maybe for women? 
I know a lot of women down here who get friend requests from Iraqis, Algerians, Saudi Arabians, etc. a lot; but then there's also the Europeans, too. It can get crazy.
AND GOD DAMMIT, three:
Grindhouse as a genre survives on appealing superficially to an audience (like it does to me when I think 'a character that feeds people to their car as fuel') with its superficial sensationalist gore, while subtly delivering social commentary funneled through that sensationalist appeal. That's the entire point of Grindhouse in general, and those Grindhouse flicks that miss this and that eschew the social commentary are often the ones most forgotten by fans, because they lack the nuance that is hidden behind the blood and guts and gore.
GOD DAMMIT. THAT IS THE LAST ONE.
God dammit, and to answer the actual question:
My approval of Blood Drive as a setting for a MU is mostly because the idea of playing a character who feeds people to their car as fuel just fucking tickles my macabre fancy, not because I think its actual narrative infrastructure would make it a decent candidate for a MU.
In short: its superficial trappings (blood-fueled cars, orgy-making drugs, rage-inducing addictive candy bars, etc.) would be fine in a MU, but its narrative structure would not.
@Thenomain said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
Hey, I can make a point on the OP even through thread drift. (Something something drift car through crowd of bodies blood gore etc. etc.)
The problem with Blood Drive specifically as a MU setting, and the Grindhouse "genre" as a MU setting, is that they rely almost exclusively on two things: over the top sensationalism, often in the form of gore; and satire.
These are two things that cannot be centrail to a MU because of the overwhelming variety of players that inhabit any MU of a decent size (30-ish players).
"Space faring politics", "high fantasy quests", "gritty urban supernatural horror" are all things you can work with with a variety of players; but "gore-laden satire" just isn't. They're too subjective (far more than even the subjective "gritty" or "urban" or "horror").
Look no further than the polarizing views of the movie Starship Troopers. I see a scathing satire of the direction society is going; but I know people who just see "war movie with space marines being BAD ASS against da bugz!" To the point that when I point out the bugs are actually defending themselves, and a clear comparison to the Middle East and other locations where U.S. American imperialism has decided to land, they just nod and continue missing the point.
And I'm not saying I'm categorically right, nor am I going to debate the polarizing opinions about Starship Troopers in this thread--but it's a good way to exemplify how satire is far too complicated to form the backbone of a MU.
@Thenomain said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
Yeah, but how do you sustain that for a Mu*?
I don't really think you do. You just hope your players are aware of it. But satire is hit or miss to begin with anyway.
This thread has long devolved from "settings/properties that are actually, structurally well-suited for an online MU environment" and into "settings/properties we'd totes play in awyissss", and Blood Drive, like the majority of the other suggestions, is the latter.
@Ominous said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
I have no idea if it's any good. I have a strong distaste for anything that turns dehumanizing slaughter into a spectacle.
Well, it does that, but it also subverts it by having a protagonist who rallies against it.
Like most Grindhouse-style things, it's steeped in the satire common of the era it's produced in.
@DarkDeleria said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
@Coin said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
@Ghost said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
Blood Drive....
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
I've never seen this movie. This clip makes me kick myself for not seeing this movie. I need to see this movie ASAP.
It's not a movie. It's a TV show on SyFy. It recently aired its first season finale. We're still waiting for it to get renewed.
@Ghost said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
Blood Drive....
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
Gandhi was a piece of shit, though, whose relationship between what he preached and what he practiced was dichotomous at best and hypocritical at worst.
I mean, I understand what he's trying to say and don't think he's wrong (per se, superficially speaking, though I have long and involved opinions on the harms of religion as a whole unto society which I don't regularly go on rants about because why bother) but I find it ironic that he'd be the one saying that sort of thing.
Just as a tangent, I guess.
@Arkandel I should start demanding pay-to-click/request explanation tolls.
"If you want an explanation, bring a muffin."
And then they'll give Matt Damon a major role.
That movie was so boring every time he was on screen. It was otherwise a fun action romp without much plot. His character could easily have been some Chinese dude wanting some other thing. There was absolutely no need.
@surreality said in Good TV:
I would also love for them to do some East Asian or even Indian stuff. That would be fucking fantastic. Or some of the South American stuff would be great. Honestly, they could use a little diversity, especially since their flagship show is now Ash vs. Evil Dead, which is great, but very slapstick and a half-hour show.
Don't they have American Gods now, though? Or is that somebody else? (I get all the networks confused every so often.)
Henry VIII has been done, pirates done, Spartacus done, time traveling through Scotland is done, Versailles has been done, there was Deadwood and the dustbowl with Carnivale -- a lot of the interesting periods have been covered by the networks in recent years. Netflix has Marco Polo, too. There was the (goofy) DaVinci's Demons. HBO did Rome an age ago but I still love it.
I am still hoping somebody picks up Nightbreed for a series. It looks increasingly unlikely, but every so often it gets kicked around as a notion.
Netflix had Marco Polo, they canceled it.
And you're right, American Gods is Starz.
Someone should fucking do some Romance of the Three Kingdoms up in this bitch, though. God that would be amazing. Segway into Journey to the West... nnfff...
@Coin I think GoT's success was just a perfect storm. Great books (YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH) , casting that just worked from day one (I can't imagine a better choice for Tyrion), producers who care a great deal about the material and stayed the course without burning out or losing their shit, money thrown liberally at the project which shows in the production values, and timing.
Can they recreate it? Who knows, but I do know D&D aren't going to be involved in the spinoffs since they said so.
I don't actually know if the books are shit or great or whatever. I just have no desire to read a bunch of doorstoppers when I already know the broadstrokes of the story and so many of the details, given how many other books I want to read.
Also I read some pages and his prose style makes me wanna sleep.
I've never read Harry Potter either. Nor will I ever, probably.
Speaking of prequels, did you hear they're doing one for Game of Thrones? George Martin is involved, but hopefully it won't depend on him to write stuff.
I'm hoping for Dunk and Egg but it could be anything. Freed from the shackles (and advantages) of the books it could go either way... but they really want to keep that massive GoT cash cow goin'.
I heard they've got like four spin-offs in the works, yeah.
I haven't actually (and probably won't ever) read A Song of Ice and Fire.
I can guarantee you none of the spin-offs will have the same viewership and massive success of Game of Thrones, but they'll probably do well enough to justify at least two seasons of each.
Honestly, if the History Channel hadn't gotten to Vikings first, that's what I'd want Starz to tackle next for their historical fiction narratives. They did spectacular work with both Spartacus and Black Sails.
I would also love for them to do some East Asian or even Indian stuff. That would be fucking fantastic. Or some of the South American stuff would be great. Honestly, they could use a little diversity, especially since their flagship show is now Ash vs. Evil Dead, which is great, but very slapstick and a half-hour show.
@surreality said in Good TV:
@Coin I'd love to see them do a prequel surrounding... damn, I am forgetting his name, but the first pirate that they all constantly refer to as the origin of 'the black spot', and the initial foundation of the pirates and their culture in Nassau, from roughly a half-generation or so before.
I'm kind of meh about a prequel-of-a-prequel, though. give me a long-running brutal version of Treasure Island where everyone's an asshole, please.
@surreality said in Good TV:
@Arkandel It's not Black Sails, but I suppose it will do.
<ducks and runs away very fast>
(Sorry, had to. I'm gonna miss the shit out of that show. I hope some day they do something similarish, like a prequel or something. There was brief talk of such a thing, but I don't think it got anywhere. Though three cheers for any series that has a target ending goal and doesn't just putter along past it, and instead ends the way they mean it to, when they mean it to.)
Honestly, I hope they do Treasure Island and bring back the acto for Long-John with a musty fucking grey beard. Since Black Sails is literally a historically-influenced prequel of Treasure Island.
But it's okay for people to like different things.
Bull fucking shit,. You fucking heathen. How dare you let people have their own opinions and tastes. INFIDEL.
