> From: Matt Grimaldi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It premiers on March 22 at 9PM ET/PT: > > http://www.scifi.com/onair/scifipictures/riverworld/
Thanks for the info. However, I'm not too hopeful. The following is my dissection of the summary on the website. OK. I'm being a bit pedantic as I'm a big fan but some of this is ridiculous... Spoiler space... (Not sure if it is needed but just in case.) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >From the website: > Welcome to legendary author Philip Jos� Farmer's Earthlike afterlife, > where people from every era have been reborn young and healthy - and > where an astronaut and a motley assortment of allies battle an ancient > Roman emperor and a Viking warlord for the soul of humanity. So far so good... > In the year 2009, a meteor shower above Earth claims the life of > astronaut Jeff Hale. He awakens in an ocean of jade-green > geodesic bubbles, as a mysterious cloaked figure pierces him with a pike. Who? OK. I guess it's OK that it's not Sir Richard Burton. I can handle that. I'm not so sure about the pike thing though. > Dazed and in pain, he soon finds himself crawling onto a beach > littered with canisters of clothing. Ah. I wondered how they would handle the nudity issue. In the books, the people were completely nude (and hairless) for several weeks (months?) after awakening. > Soon dozens of people from different lands and eras emerge from the water. Wait a minute. Emerge from the water? > Remarkably, they understand each other's language Huh? One of the most interesting things was the interaction of the various languages. OK. It's TV. I guess they'd have to do it that way. Too bad though. > all except for the lone Neanderthal man, who is killed by the ancient > Roman Lucius Domitus Ahenobarbus who became infamous under another name.... Ah, Kaz. It seems you are not destined to be in the movie for long... > Suddenly: hoofbeats! Horses? Horses? What? Other than making Debbie happy (:-), there aren't any land animals on the Riverworld!!! Certainly not horses. > The warlord Valdemar thunders in with an army, to announce that > he is the ruler of Riverworld Wait a minute. Everyone didn't wake up at the same time...? > and that the newcomers are to be soldiers, workers or slaves. > Soon Hale and a band of compatriots - among them the now beautiful > and young octogenarian Alice Liddell Hargreaves, a famous writer > and Mississippi riverboat captain named Samuel, concentration-camp > victim Lev Ruach, stunning African priestess Mali and the alien > Monat,who died on Earth - fight for their freedom and to learn the > secret of RIVERWORLD. I'm OK with most of these. Actually I think they are excellent choices of characters from the books to bring together. Too bad there's no Joe Miller though... - jmh _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
