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My thoughts on the latest Netflix abortion.
Ray Coffman’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SigDrv1D6EM
Weaponized Nerd Rage’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdmEQCIV9RM&t=263s
Score PN’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jsdIYFTzEA
Score PN’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG0dGjpr-J4
Original: What can I say other than “Why?” or “For the love of God, Video Games, and Lemmy, why?”The premise sounds...not awful--that would probably cause people to confuse it for current political discourse--but it is more like a bad attempt at expensive fanfiction. Kinda like Disney Star Wars.They call the zombies “zeros” and an antidepressant “joy”...god this makes me want to try crack or whatever it is they snort, at least then maybe I can understand what the writers were thinking when they wrote this tripe.
For some reason Umbrella still exists while the BSAA and the DSO are absent--not that they did much, outside of the main cast their agents tend to be as fragile as tissue paper-- as are Chris, Jill, Claire, and Leon. In addition to the setting being more closer to a milquetoast Walking Dead. They are basically taking Wesker and making him a parent as well as a subplot in a school drama.
Which is more aggravating when you remember Wesker already had a kid: its name was Jake. And his debut was treated with a reception as ambiguous as Michael Jackson’s sexuality. But even he sounds more interesting by comparison to the Wesker children Netflix has in mind. But instead of him we have to follow the misadventures of two daughters forced into existence for this Frankenstein of a story that no one asked to be galvanized. For the record I’m not the biggest Resident Evil fan. I’ve played 5, 4, Umbrella and Darkside chronicles, 6, 7, and operation Racoon City. But I’m not a uber fan overall. Despite that, however, even I think netflix’s Resident Evil sounds about as interesting as the prospect of seeing Zoey Quinn nudes or watching paint dry and a bastardization of the beloved series--especially of Wesker, whose character they basically seek to bend over a barrel, if recent trends in shows like Picard are any indication. This is why real fans of the franchises need to become more involved in the adaptations of video games and comics to live-action series. And by that I mean actual fans, not a bunch of hollywood dinguses who claim to be fans every once-and-awhile. Hell, Ray Coffman had a superior idea--build up to the mansion incident with the disappearances in the Arklay mountains and ending with RCPD losing contact with Bravo Team--which should have been an obvious choice for a writer with a functioning brain cell, but apparently its rocket science for the Netflix writers. In terms of another problem in what they are supposedly preparing (and I hope they’re not) is one I mentioned earlier and Weaponized Nerd Rage said it best (though I’m probably paraphrasing) in regards to their intentions for Albert Wesker--who they want to make a complicated father--when Wesker works as an unrepentant villain. Making him a sympathetic character sounds like a BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD idea and farce, as well as exposing a lack of an understanding for the series. I would also have to agree with him that it sounds like it was another story originally then they grafted Resident Evil onto it like James Dean in the future Finding Jack movie. Actually I think this will become a new trend in Hollywood and Netflix and other companies like Netflix--similarly to reboots and remakes--to where they want to use fanbases like a rich vein and mine it dry before the indian curse can righteously strike them down by the grace of god, given how creatively bankrupt most of the hacks in Hollywood are. Hopefully I’m wrong, but I want that on record as my prediction if I’m right. If it was up to me I would just make the series like the CGI movies. That or if they want to make a story about a character whose complex and do a character study they could focus on someone in Wesker’s organization--maybe a original character or Krauser around the time he joined Wesker, or a what-if story concerning Steve Burnside. I always liked the idea of Steve actually working with Wesker, would have been a good twist for a future game with Claire, and they could do that for a live action or CGI series--we could see the development of an antagonist or villain under Wesker’s tutelage over the years. But no, instead we get this wankfest. Honestly, after what they did with Alucard in Castlevania and Triss in Witcher, and creating that ‘Cuties’ abomination, I kinda want to see how far they push this dumpster fire; because they have lost their minds more progressively over the years that they deserve to go the way of Game Trailers for their hubris. Overall my final thought is this: it sounds bad, like it will make the Alice movies seem like Citizen Kane by comparison and that it has the capacity to be as bad as the last Doom movie (if not as ulcer inducing).
