I've heard of the comic book when it first came out when I was in high school, but I never read it. I'm interested in watching.
Y: The Last Man
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Y: The last man is the kind of book that I have zero faith can currently be adapted to the screen today. It would take somebody big, who gives a shit, doing it on an actual budget for it to work out.
Put me down for $20 on it being hamfisted cringeworthy diversity messaging holding up a cobbled together plot full of holes and inconsistent acting that diverges significantly away the books. I looked up the cast, crew and the fact that its FX/Hulu. My magic eightball says Bleeeegh. Actually put me down for another $15 that they'll change the plot from the books somehow to try to copy The Handmaids tale.
Who knows, hopefully I'm wrong..or it'll get canceled after the second season.
Put me down for $20 on it being hamfisted cringeworthy diversity messaging holding up a cobbled together plot full of holes and inconsistent acting that diverges significantly away the books. I looked up the cast, crew and the fact that its FX/Hulu. My magic eightball says Bleeeegh. Actually put me down for another $15 that they'll change the plot from the books somehow to try to copy The Handmaids tale.
Who knows, hopefully I'm wrong..or it'll get canceled after the second season.
This was one of the first non-superhero comic books I ever read, and I really enjoyed it. The trailer can't be viewed in my country apparently, which is a great sign! The fact that I've been hearing about this show coming out the whole time I've been in college does not bolster my confidence in it doing well, but I hope it's at least passable.
Really hoping it'll stay away from that kind of shit, but I totally see that happening.
Genetic diversity is actually very important. Even more so in a situation like this.
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Personally I prefer Saga when it comes to work by Brian K. Vaughan but Y: The Last Man is pretty good, which reminds me I left it half-way and should probably finish reading it, I feel like this could be horribly misinterpreted when it comes to adaptation so let's hope it's well done.
I read Y the Last Man for a while, it was ok. It did some interesting things with the premise but, it just didn't keep my attention for very long. The one thing that I recall distinctly as being like "oh...wow, yeah I hadn't thought of that." Was when one woman explained why she was always pissed.
And I remembered that putting the entire framework of the premise into a new perspective for me. Which I thought was neat.
Still didn't keep reading it though.
Basically she was constantly pissed off, and when Y asked her about it, she started off by snapping "It's been 3 months since all males died." And Y was like "...um...yes? And?" And she just snapped and was like "The *Insert Animal Species Name of some small rodent* have a life span of 3 months! So they're all dead now! That species is extinct! And in 2 months, the *insert other animal name* will be extinct! Entire chunks of the ecosystem are just GONE ALREADY!! Because EVERY male creature died, not just humans!! " She was some form of scientist that dealt with animal species, I forget the details, but she was just very familiar with the life cycles of a lot of species, and so every day, she'd recall some other animal that was just....dead now. Never to return. And it was eating her up.
Still didn't keep reading it though.