Counterpoint: Castlevania. IIRC Warren Ellis says he deliberately avoided playing the games, and only read the plot in broad strokes. Turns out you can do that and people will still love your show if it’s just plain good. The look is right, the vibe is right, and they picked the perfect writer for complex villains amid freaky demon shit.
Borderlands flopped because it was a shite product. Popularity-based casting, miserable lazy writing, hilariously bad cinematography and editing. A soulless cash grab from beginning to end. It should’ve been a Mad Max knockoff where every new sci-fi gun makes men in the audience do grabbyhands. Instead it’s nonstop schlock for the sake of schlock.
Counterpoint: Castlevania. IIRC Warren Ellis says he deliberately avoided playing the games, and only read the plot in broad strokes. Turns out you can do that and people will still love your show if it’s just plain good. The look is right, the vibe is right, and they picked the perfect writer for complex villains amid freaky demon shit.
Borderlands flopped because it was a shite product. Popularity-based casting, miserable lazy writing, hilariously bad cinematography and editing. A soulless cash grab from beginning to end. It should’ve been a Mad Max knockoff where every new sci-fi gun makes men in the audience do grabbyhands. Instead it’s nonstop schlock for the sake of schlock.