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The Peripheral (2022) S1 E8
frauschnider -3 points 3 months ago.

I can see why they cut the show. It’s a great concept, unfortunately they only thought one step into the plot and filled the holes with kungfu and guns. And there was zero explanation as to why a teenage girl’s kungfu was so much more developed than everybody else who lives in this world.

mikebcarguy 1 points 3 months ago*.

“The primary reason for the cancellation was the ongoing strikes by writers and actors, which significantly disrupted production and increased costs,” is what I just read.
Also read the consensus is she did not know how to fight in real life, but:

  • “Her fighting ability comes from her high-level skills as a gamer, which translates into an almost supernatural ability to control combat via a remote “peripheral” body. “

I Really liked the show, but, IF they’d continued it on the cheap would I still? Dunno, but that’s how these companies are making decisions now.
It’s a trilogy of books, and, someday I hope to make it through them (only got fifty pages in).


edit: while looking for the brand of vodka in the post-credit scene I found many comments of people who’d read the book… Are P.O.’d, at how much the story threw out, and how it caters to the lowest common denominator (of corporate exectives rules for adaptations).