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Blue Ghost,
The D&D movie... Oh, gods, the D&D movie.
Well, imagine if a bunch of script-writers, knowing that teens liked playing D&D, and knowing nothing else, take a crappy movie script out of someone's armpit and sprinkle some terms and names and add in even more crappy costuming and worse special effects...
"H&R Puffinstuff" was high production in comparison. That stupid purple/green dinosaur show was high production in comparison.
And it sucked so much they made a sequel, and, after that dog's breakfast, a tv series that sucked maggots out of moldy corpses.
And as to the whole Traveller movie thingy, not enough people out there know our game exists, let alone what it is all about, and have no idea over the commentary wars over all the little things that make Traveller, well, Traveller.
So, basically, one could skin Traveller and wear it as a suit, but that would be unfortunate. It would be so nice if the actual Traveller version of Traveller (whether Classical or Mongeesish, though I am a classisist, myself) was used as a basis, but well, probably more suited to a mini-series or a net show than a movie due to background, too much background.
Witness "The Orville." Supposedly no background, but within the first 10 seconds you go, "there's Star Trek music here..." And it is based off of ST and STNG (not the new movies, the series.)
Traveller is so different in it's initial presentation, that of frontier worlds under a benevolent (or not, hmmm) Imperial system, more British Empire and it's colonies and holdings than anything USA based (so not like Firefly. More like Space "Kipling" and "Dickens." (or as I see it, and remember the feeling that oozed out of the box so many years ago...))
And the focus on 'real science' with only some 'handwavium' (jump drive, really, that and maybe some other stuff, but mostly jump drive) makes it harder for normals to see, as they are used to seeing ships go swooshy like planes rather than having to do vector analysis.
Probably the same reasons that killed the "Honor Harrington" tv series that never got off the ground.
The D&D movie... Oh, gods, the D&D movie.
Well, imagine if a bunch of script-writers, knowing that teens liked playing D&D, and knowing nothing else, take a crappy movie script out of someone's armpit and sprinkle some terms and names and add in even more crappy costuming and worse special effects...
"H&R Puffinstuff" was high production in comparison. That stupid purple/green dinosaur show was high production in comparison.
And it sucked so much they made a sequel, and, after that dog's breakfast, a tv series that sucked maggots out of moldy corpses.
And as to the whole Traveller movie thingy, not enough people out there know our game exists, let alone what it is all about, and have no idea over the commentary wars over all the little things that make Traveller, well, Traveller.
So, basically, one could skin Traveller and wear it as a suit, but that would be unfortunate. It would be so nice if the actual Traveller version of Traveller (whether Classical or Mongeesish, though I am a classisist, myself) was used as a basis, but well, probably more suited to a mini-series or a net show than a movie due to background, too much background.
Witness "The Orville." Supposedly no background, but within the first 10 seconds you go, "there's Star Trek music here..." And it is based off of ST and STNG (not the new movies, the series.)
Traveller is so different in it's initial presentation, that of frontier worlds under a benevolent (or not, hmmm) Imperial system, more British Empire and it's colonies and holdings than anything USA based (so not like Firefly. More like Space "Kipling" and "Dickens." (or as I see it, and remember the feeling that oozed out of the box so many years ago...))
And the focus on 'real science' with only some 'handwavium' (jump drive, really, that and maybe some other stuff, but mostly jump drive) makes it harder for normals to see, as they are used to seeing ships go swooshy like planes rather than having to do vector analysis.
Probably the same reasons that killed the "Honor Harrington" tv series that never got off the ground.