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TFIW Reboot!
Topic Started: May 17 2016, 05:32 PM (876 Views)
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As much as I don't want to say it, I think this is going to go down the road of the TV show at worst, at best Neil Degrasse Tyson's cosmos. The words "action adventure" and "mobile games" makes this highly suspect. There is always a chance this won't even get of the ground, but we'll have to wait and see. Who knows, maybe we will all be pleasantly surprised.
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May 17 2016, 07:10 PM
Even if they don't make completely new creatures I'd be fine with edits or changes to them. Especially name changes, most names were two words put together.
Some were cool though, like "falconfly" and "carakiller". But yeah, most were like you are saying, and some were downright lazy. "Scrofa". C'mon, isn't the scientific name of the wild boar Sus scrofa?
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May 17 2016, 08:02 PM
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May 17 2016, 07:10 PM
Even if they don't make completely new creatures I'd be fine with edits or changes to them. Especially name changes, most names were two words put together.
Some were cool though, like "falconfly" and "carakiller". But yeah, most were like you are saying, and some were downright lazy. "Scrofa". C'mon, isn't the scientific name of the wild boar Sus scrofa?
Yes it is, to be honest falcon fly was okay, it rolls of the tongue, as with carakiller, but snow stalker just seems lazy.
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The words "action adventure" and "mobile games" makes this highly suspect.

Talking about it, that just remides me about the guy that offered counseling for a TFIW simulation, that guy with the CGarts.com address.
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May 17 2016, 07:44 PM
at best Neil Degrasse Tyson's cosmos.
That's not a very high standard of best, honestly. It was a poor tribute to the original and mostly unnecessary air time for that prick.
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Dr Nitwhite
May 17 2016, 07:44 PM
at best Neil Degrasse Tyson's cosmos.
That's not a very high standard of best, honestly. It was a poor tribute to the original and mostly unnecessary air time for that prick.
That's the point, nitwhite doesn't think it'll be good at all.
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I'm looking forward to this even if I don't know what to expect-- it's not every day that we see a television series based on speculative evolution. I loved the original when it first came out in '02 or '03; along with Dixon's books and The Flight of Dragons, it was my first introduction to the concept of speculative biology.

Sliver
May 17 2016, 07:10 PM
Even if they don't make completely new creatures I'd be fine with edits or changes to them. Especially name changes, most names were two words put together.
This might be too much to hope for, but maybe they'll revise some of the creatures to make them a bit more plausible.
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May 17 2016, 09:53 PM
This might be too much to hope for, but maybe they'll revise some of the creatures to make them a bit more plausible.
That's not very much to hope for, to be honest it's expected with reboots.
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May 17 2016, 08:02 PM
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May 17 2016, 07:10 PM
Even if they don't make completely new creatures I'd be fine with edits or changes to them. Especially name changes, most names were two words put together.
Some were cool though, like "falconfly" and "carakiller". But yeah, most were like you are saying, and some were downright lazy. "Scrofa". C'mon, isn't the scientific name of the wild boar Sus scrofa?
I dunno, carakiller is just a couple of syllables away from carahumankiller…
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May 17 2016, 11:45 PM
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May 17 2016, 08:02 PM
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May 17 2016, 07:10 PM
Even if they don't make completely new creatures I'd be fine with edits or changes to them. Especially name changes, most names were two words put together.
Some were cool though, like "falconfly" and "carakiller". But yeah, most were like you are saying, and some were downright lazy. "Scrofa". C'mon, isn't the scientific name of the wild boar Sus scrofa?
I dunno, carakiller is just a couple of syllables away from carahumankiller…
So is the word "human."
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May 17 2016, 09:51 PM
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Dr Nitwhite
May 17 2016, 07:44 PM
at best Neil Degrasse Tyson's cosmos.
That's not a very high standard of best, honestly. It was a poor tribute to the original and mostly unnecessary air time for that prick.
That's the point, nitwhite doesn't think it'll be good at all.
Took the words straight out of my mouth. Though I thought the new cosmos was okay, it wasn't great. As such, I think the best we can hope for is something so equally low-end mediocre. But, as I said before, maybe it better than even we could ever hope for. Very strong emphasis on maybe.
Edited by Dr Nitwhite, May 18 2016, 05:24 AM.
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May 17 2016, 08:50 PM
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The words "action adventure" and "mobile games" makes this highly suspect.

Talking about it, that just remides me about the guy that offered counseling for a TFIW simulation, that guy with the CGarts.com address.
Lol I remembered this guy.
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