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The Nevers

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Magical Realist Offline
Caught the first episode of Joss Whedon's written, produced and directed new HBO series. Definitely hooked in for the longhaul!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWdpBQFgdxQ

"In the last years of Victoria’s reign, London is beset by the “Touched”: people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True (Laura Donnelly), a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair (Ann Skelly), a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place." #HBO​ #TheNevers
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Syne Offline
So...we're overlooking Whedon's recently publicized behavior?
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(Apr 15, 2021 06:04 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Caught the first episode of Joss Whedon's written, produced and directed new HBO series. Definitely hooked in for the longhaul!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWdpBQFgdxQ

  "In the last years of Victoria’s reign, London is beset by the “Touched”: people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True (Laura Donnelly), a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair (Ann Skelly), a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place." #HBO #TheNevers

About time they had steampunk superheroes. Though there was that forgotten, Victorian The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003. Maybe this was even inspired by that in a reverse gender way. (Unlike the former, there doesn't seem to be a comic book "The Nevers" is derived from).

Joss Whedon apparently quit due to either the extra travails of the pandemic or the sexual misconduct accusations swirling about. Philippa Goslett took over as showrunner for the tail-end of the season, so the series wound up with a Brit even overseeing it.

Since it's HBO (which requires at least one F or C bomb every two minutes), hopefully they'll use the vulgarities applicable to that era and their actual frequency. Rather than anachronistically recruiting from the 21st-century. But that won't happen anymore than it did on Deadwood. Not that time-displaced references really matter anymore than they do on wry SyFy stuff.
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(Apr 15, 2021 07:04 AM)C C Wrote:
(Apr 15, 2021 06:04 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Caught the first episode of Joss Whedon's written, produced and directed new HBO series. Definitely hooked in for the longhaul!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWdpBQFgdxQ

  "In the last years of Victoria’s reign, London is beset by the “Touched”: people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True (Laura Donnelly), a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair (Ann Skelly), a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place." #HBO #TheNevers

About time they had steampunk superheroes. Though there was that forgotten, Victorian The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003. Maybe this was even inspired by that in a reverse gender way. (Unlike the former, there doesn't seem to be a comic book "The Nevers" is derived from). 

Joss Whedon apparently quit due to either the extra travails of the pandemic or the sexual misconduct accusations swirling about. Philippa Goslett took over as showrunner for the tail-end of the season, so the series wound up with a Brit even overseeing it.

Since it's HBO (which requires at least one F or C bomb every two minutes), hopefully they'll use the vulgarities applicable to that era and their actual frequency. Rather than anachronistically recruiting from the 21st-century. But that won't happen anymore than it did on Deadwood. Not that time-displaced references really matter anymore than they do on wry SyFy stuff.

Yeah, I was hoping for some good steampunk action. One of the lead characters is an inventor of electrical devices, so we may see more of her inventions as the series progresses. As for HBO, yeah, there was some gratuitous flashes of breast and ass in the Lord Swan bedroom scene. But nothing shocking. He IS the head of a polyamorous secret club though, so there's that..lol
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(Apr 15, 2021 07:23 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Yeah, I was hoping for some good steampunk action. One of the lead characters is an inventor of electrical devices, so we may see more of her inventions as the series progresses. As for HBO, yeah, there was some gratuitous flashes of breast and ass in the Lord Swan bedroom scene. But nothing shocking. He IS the head of a polyamorous secret club though, so there's that..lol


Ah, reminds me... It's set in the 1890s, so an encounter with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is possible, along with a teenage or twenty-ish Aleister Crowley.

I forgot about Penny Dreadful, but it was limited to classic horror characters as potential Victorian "super-villains". Arguably "Dark Shadows" would even count as that over fifty years ago, especially in the time travel episodes.

Only place you'd ever see bad-guys gradually change into good-guys and vice-versa back then was on the soaps (like Dark Shadows). Julia Hoffman was almost as gray in morality as Barnabas. One week she would be saving somebody and the next week mesmerizing a Maggie Evans type to suffer partial amnesia about being the prisoner of a vampire or a nutcase.

The soaps were hilarious sometimes because they didn't have time to re-shoot anything that went wrong before airing (and the story-writing was often filled with crazy inconsistencies). But they were also highly underrated in terms of what they could get away with respect to controversial issues; and the only genre where characters had a chance of evolving. In contrast to the prime time shows of the era that would reset to the same static situation every week.
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