Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuromancer

Re:Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuro... by quadrifoliate on Friday December 16, 2022 @03:16PM (#34019698)

What are your precise criticisms about the adaptation?

I am seriously unsure of whether I like it or not. Some ways in which I have gone back and forth:

- It's visually on point (I think) in conveying the vastness of Asimov's imagined Galaxy.

- The storyline is bent out of shape; but not enough to make it seem like a totally different series.

- Then again, Salvor Hardin's character and others are much more action-oriented whereas in the books they are depicted as thinking and strategizing a lot more (from what I can remember, I really need to re-read the books).

So I don't really have any substantive criticisms apart from a vague feeling of "this could have been better". Do you?

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Re:Apple TV+ to adapt William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Neuro... by Jayschwa on Friday December 16, 2022 @03:50PM (#34020162)

I didn't finish the TV show (I got maybe halfway through), but my main problem was the changes to Hardin. In the book, Hardin is a shrewd politician, and there's nothing magical or blessed about him. He "defeats" Anacreon by exploiting their own dim beliefs in magic against them. In the TV show, Hardin is a warrior with a special "magical" connection to the Vault. That conveys a very different, almost contradictory message compared to the book.

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