Curt McGirt Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Craig Ferguson's doing a show on the History Channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Ignore the comic, and it's not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APO Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 So, American Crime is going to end with one of these kids dying this season, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Ignore the comic, and it's not bad. You don't just ignore shit like this so that Fox can have its procedural: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 I think the only way to not hate it is to treat it as fully separate. It's not an adaptation of Gaiman/Carey's Lucifer Morningstar in anyway that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Yeah but having seen it I've gotta wonder why they even bothered to call it an adaptation. There's the "devil went down to LA" premise and from then on they're completely different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Yeah but having seen it I've gotta wonder why they even bothered to call it an adaptation. There's the "devil went down to LA" premise and from then on they're completely different. I'd guess it started life as more of an adaptation and then the network/studio notes came in: "make it more like things that people watch. Maybe a police procedural?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 I'm spiteful enough to hope that they eventually do Scott Pilgrim as one of those Disney Channel Tween shows like Dog With a Blog with the horrible laugh tracks and adults acting stupid.Then I would be a pal and give you the "keep it separate" talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Fair point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 So, American Crime is going to end with one of these kids dying this season, isn't it?Probably. I love the concept of the show - using the same cast to tell a different in-depth crime story every season. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Craig Ferguson's doing a show on the History Channel. http://deadline.com/2016/01/join-or-die-craig-ferguson-premiere-date-historytca-1201676991/ Anything that gets Craig Ferguson back on TV (and no I'm not counting that awful game show) is alright in my book 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 The Lucifer comic series is splendid. I hope more people will give it a shot now, even though it's obviously very different from the direction of the show. Everything about the Lucifer tv adaptation screams Castle/Bones/Sleepy Hollow run-of-the-mil, case-of-the-week procedural. Those shows are rarely 100 percent horrible, but they become repetitive and dull very quickly to me. I know they wouldn't (or even couldn't) do a direct adaptation of it, but this show looks very uninspired. I might give the pilot a shot for fairness sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 The pilot was exactly that. It's fine, but it's got nothing to do with the comic. Lucifer in it is a standard issue smartass antihero finding he *gasp* cares about some humans, and needing to deal with these issues. While helping solve homicides. Mike Carey doesn't even have a credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hopefully he got a paycheck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Admittedly, Gaiman created this version. But the devil is also a public domain character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Gaiman, Keith and Drigenberg all do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Even Mike Carey's Lucifer is different than Gaiman's in Sandman. I think he's more cruel in Sandman. The people behind the tv show didn't go with a Bowie, lookalike for Lucifer. Probably a good move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 They aren't that different. Its just that Lucifer no longer has a need to play his own stereotype of what people at large think he should be. Look at how he mellowed after handing over the keys of Hell to Morpheus aand his reappearance at the end of Seasons of Mist and again during The Kindly Ones. Who he was during his first appearance is not who he is at the end of Sandman. The version at the end of Sandman is the version Carey expands upon. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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