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Can we just give Red Mars a TV series already?

posted 8 years ago by dmjv85
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As I was watching this, I just pretended it was actually a TV adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy books (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars), and I started calling the characters names from the books, rather than the name's the show gave them ("There's Frank Chalmers." "Oh, that's totally John Boone." "Hey, it's Hiroko!!"). Didn't last long though, and it just made me want to finish reading the books (I'm on Green Mars).
I thought it was a decent show (or what I've seen of it so far), minus the "documentary" part of it. I'd prefer it just be a drama based on the colonization of Mars; we have enough Mars documentaries already. Though if a true full Mars TV drama were to be produced, I don't think it would gain very much attention (like this hadn't) unless it had an interesting enough story arc with well developed characters we'd enjoy tuning into every week/whenever, and the best way you're gonna do that is to finally adapt KSR's Mars trilogy into a series, at least 3 seasons long (for Red, Green & Blue Mars).

[–] fredgarv79 8 years ago

man, your so right, it's just GOTTA happen! the first book and the best, red mars is a classic. such a great great story. would make a great netflix series or HBO.

I read the book so long ago, I remember the indian character who finds the cliff dwellings but is this the book where the idea of exploring mars is split between the radical enviromentalists who want to keep mars pristine and not touch it at all, and the groups that want to change things, terraform it to make it habitable for humans to live, to turn it into another earth? or is that some other book I am thinking about?

I always thought that was a very fascinating debate, you could make good points on both sides. for lots of different reasons.

[–] dmjv85 8 years ago

That's the one! I only just finished Red Mars, I'm on Green Mars now. Definitely not as great as Red, but it all makes up one badass saga.

[–] creatorof2002 8 years ago

I wish the author had just stuck with space exploration and did not delve into totally unrealistic Bull$hit like "immortality drugs".

One thing those books could never properly deal with is the simple fact that Mars has TOO LITTLE GRAVITY TO SUPPORT HUMAN LIFE. The human body needs gravity and Mars does not have enough.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6545) 4 years ago

Spike TV was going to do it for a while, but for some reason the project, got, uh, spiked.