How would an HBO space sci fi show be different from a Netflix one?

[Lorgar Aurelian]

I'll have to look up this hick bickers guide to the galaxy. Is it anything like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Only auto correct will ever know.

[Notshauna]

Nudity and more extreme violence, it'd also probably be more about terrible people than a Netflix one.

[jimboa24]

Battlestar Galactica (the remake, not the original 70's cheese) did a pretty damn good job at portraying space as something vast, empty, desolate, horrific, terrifying, untamable, etc. I would even call it borderline cosmic horror. Some episodes were purely about how basic resources (like water, food, etc) are dwindling and there's little hope of finding it anywhere because space is essentially a gigantic desert with resources being few and far between. Even habitable planets tended to be shitholes. Any network that wants to do a serious, epic space show has their work cut out for them to set themselves apart from nBSG's shadow.

[Pipboi]

you clearly have never seen the wire if you think its sex and boobs.

I binge watched all 5 seasons of The Wire over the summer and I can only remember one single scene with nudity, McNulty drunk as fuck plowing some hooker on the hood of his car. It wasn't sexy, it wasn't erotic, but it did a great job of showing how low the character had sunk as a result of his alcoholism.

[RobertoCarlos]

Mate you don't remember it that well then

I was gonna say boardwalk empire. But even that has sex scenes with boobs. So I'm willing to concede HBO does like to use sex for a extra little punch.

[Morae]

Tried to watch both. Perhaps I should have given them a chance, but I could barely watch one episode. Both reached extreme levels of "i dont care about all this emotional shit". I want the action. I want stuff to happen and not people complaing how sad their lives are and then have it go a bit more sad.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

Shows on HBO are going to be more sexual and more violent because the network allows it. So odds are if you wanted to pitch something more sexual and violent than normal TV allows you would make a good run at producing it on HBO. If it is backed up by a strong book or something like that the odds increase. If you can air it on normal TV than you would go for it.

[RobertoCarlos]

Carnivàle which was absolutely stellar (just far too expensive to make) had a lot of sex but tbh I struggle to think of any that was gratuitous.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned probably the worst offender.....entourage

[RobertoCarlos]

Would it be gratuitous there though? It cannot detract from the series when it's the point of the series. Could e.g. sex scenes detract from Sex and the City?

Its true that part of the story of being a famous young good looking actor is that you get a lot of attention from girls, it was more the way they went about it with having different actresses to be the slut or gf for an episode and they just went through every working actress in hollywood.

[CmdrShep2154]

it'd be incredibly childishly edgy and borderline porn, because HBO is apparently run by hormonal teenagers.

Would you call the romance scenes from the new Mass Effect Andromeda porn or borderline porn?

[AcidicSyn]

I actually think the best way to go on HBO/Netflix would be amping up the brutality of space, and the isolation. Make it a genuinely horrifying show for the levels of madness people get into.

It's a great big nothing out there, man, and I think most sci-fi shows romanticize it too much. Including and especially Star Trek.

Amping up the brutality and isolation?
Make it genuinely horrifying?

Sounds like we need an HBO scifi show within the universe of the Xenomorph!

Or MassEffect I guess. Not like an HBO series of ME would screw up the franchise any more than it's already been, so that works too.

[CmdrShep2154]

Amping up the brutality and isolation?
Make it genuinely horrifying?

Sounds like we need an HBO scifi show within the universe of the Xenomorph!

Or MassEffect I guess. Not like an HBO series of ME would screw up the franchise any more than it's already been, so that works too.

Would you want epic space battles in it?

[Zeta333]

Suppose if HBO and Netflix thought competing with Star Trek Discovery and The Expanse was a good idea, what would their space sci fi shows be like? Would a style and story reminiscent of Mass Effect be good for HBO? Or would a colorful humorous Guardians of the Galaxy style of show be better for Netflix?

I dont see how its competeing. watching one wont keep you from watching the other. We need more scifi shows. Since the scifi channel pretty much let everyone fucking down in the past 10 years theres hardly been shit. The expanse, star trek, hopefully stargate. We are getting old mans war soon.

[Risale]

Suppose if HBO and Netflix thought competing with Star Trek Discovery and The Expanse was a good idea, what would their space sci fi shows be like? Would a style and story reminiscent of Mass Effect be good for HBO? Or would a colorful humorous Guardians of the Galaxy style of show be better for Netflix?

Putting ST and The Expanse on the same level is wrong to begin with, at least for me.
George R.R. Martin is currently working on a scifi show for HBO based on a novel called "Who Fears Death" by the author Nnedi Okorafor.
Also Westworld is from HBO and is a scifi show and therefor already competing with The Expanse.

[xuros]

Boobs and many many moneys thrown at it by HBO. Also, did I mention boobs?

[AcidicSyn]

Would you want epic space battles in it?

If going with mass effect as the franchise then yes. Mandatory epic space battles.

If going into the realm of the Xenomorph beast then space battles are less necessary and writers can focus more on the horror elements of space, just with +Xenomorph.


EDIT: Just noticed your name. Would your favorite store be featured I wonder?

[derpkitteh]

Would you call the romance scenes from the new Mass Effect Andromeda porn or borderline porn?

no, because they're few and far between.

hbo show it's every other episode.

[baskev]

What is it and people saying HBO is just sex? Do they only watch game of thrones and missed series like the wire?

Nope. but lets see what serie's they made the last year or so:
GoT: Boobs and Gore
Westworld: Boobs and Gore...( its literally been made into a sex and kill park :S)
True blood: Twilight with boobs.

Yes there have been some other great shows. But most of them have been boobs and gore.
And the wire ended like 10 years ago...

[McFuu]

An HBO space show would likely be a political space opera. It would be a way the shows writers would explore modern issues but with a sci-fi twist.

A Netflix space show would likely be a dark and gritty more personal affair, with hints at a bigger world, but budgeting stopping it from being realized. More Pitch Black than Chronicles.

[CmdrShep2154]

An HBO space show would likely be a political space opera. It would be a way the shows writers would explore modern issues but with a sci-fi twist.

A Netflix space show would likely be a dark and gritty more personal affair, with hints at a bigger world, but budgeting stopping it from being realized. More Pitch Black than Chronicles.

A political space opera? Like The Expanse?


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