{"id":46479,"date":"2019-01-25T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46479"},"modified":"2020-08-10T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:01:17","slug":"not-sure-how-to-feel-about-renetflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46479","title":{"rendered":"Not sure how to feel about RE:Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in 2002, I really, really enjoyed the first Resident Evil<\/em> film, starring Milla Jovovich.\u00a0 What I really liked about it was that it was almost an entirely independent story that took place inside the RE world, with unique characters, and only featured tertiary concepts and adversaries from the game itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then with each successive sequel, the franchise began shoe-horning more and more actual RE characters into a storyline that wasn\u2019t really intended to have them be a part of in the first place, and the series as a whole began to get really ridiculous, disjointed and have Swiss cheese sized plot holes, not to mention the casting of all the actual characters seemed so very inappropriately bad in most cases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, my enthusiasm for the series dwindled with every sequel, and by the time The Final Chapter<\/em> came about, I didn\u2019t even see it in a theater, and watched a pirated copy of it on the internet for free, and still wanted my money back afterwards.\u00a0 It was the movie-watching epitome of a mercy kill, and the only real good thing about it was the fact that I could have closure to the movie franchise, and wouldn\u2019t have to watch this any later in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

That being said, when I found out about how Netflix wants to release a live-action Resident Evil series<\/a>, my blood kind of goes cold, and I\u2019m left with this crippling feeling of not knowing how to feel.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one hand, I\u2019m still scarred from just how poorly the movie franchise (de-)escalated into this abominable avalanche of bullshit, and I never want anyone in existence to ever try to act out the story of one of my favorite video game franchises in history.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But in the other hand, it\u2019s Netflix, and they\u2019ve built up a lot of equity and developed this reputation of putting out (mostly) nothing but hits when it comes to their original programming.\u00a0 I can\u2019t ever really say I cared much about Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage<\/em> or Jessica Jones<\/em> when I was an avid comic book reader, but their shows on Netflix are easily some of my favorite things to watch, and I\u2019ve always made time to binge their stories, even when I should be doing other things with my spare time.<\/span><\/p>\n

If anyone\u2019s going to do an original Resident Evil story right in long-form show format, it\u2019s got to be Netflix, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, it\u2019s still way too early to tell.\u00a0 The only thing that\u2019s really been announced is that Netflix has intention of doing this RE project.\u00a0 There\u2019s literally nothing else really mentioned on production house, directors, or writers, and there\u2019s no idea of characters or actors.\u00a0 There\u2019s not even a definitive call on whether it\u2019s going to be original characters in the RE world, or if they\u2019re going to try to retell the story of the canon series and use existing characters. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefully, it\u2019s the former and not the latter, because the former\u2019s format has been shown to be able to work, and objectively speaking, the actual RE canon does go a little off the rails as the sequels began to mount, which is why the series has kind of pumped its breaks and focused on remakes instead of trying to remotely extend the main story even further.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, I still don\u2019t know how to feel upon hearing this news.\u00a0 Writing out my thoughts hasn\u2019t really helped come to any sort of conclusion.\u00a0 If I had to guess, I\u2019m probably at like a 45-55; it\u2019ll probably not be great, but I went into Daredevil not thinking I\u2019d have much care for it, but then becoming sucked right into the Hell\u2019s Kitchen universe that they established and have watched literally every single episode of Netflix:Marvel programming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So here\u2019s hoping that Netflix can absolve the series of the sins created by the horrific avalanche caused by Sony Pictures, but I\u2019m not going to really try that hard to hold my breath.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 2002, I really, really enjoyed the first Resident Evil film, starring Milla Jovovich.\u00a0 What I really liked about it was that it was almost an entirely independent story that took place inside the RE world, with unique characters, and only featured tertiary concepts and adversaries from the game itself. And then with each … Continue reading Not sure how to feel about RE:Netflix<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,39,69],"class_list":["post-46479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-resident-evil","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46481,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46479\/revisions\/46481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}