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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9854933" data-attributes="member: 18">In season 1? I doubt it. You don't get those kind of numbers, nor is your production that competent, in a season 1, typically.And that's assuming a lot. This is a show with several potential points to fall down on:1) Not giving a compelling onboarding point to people unfamiliar with the game story, which is pretty insanely dramatic. This is going to be a show about people who just saved the world. If they were just retelling the game story, I think it'd be a lot, lot easier to onboard people, but that's not the road they've chosen. And this is an easy place to fall down - competent people have done before. It'll take some quite skilful writing to do this right.2) Ideas beyond their budget. This show is a fundamentally expensive proposition. If we assume the original companions are the leads, which seems to be the case, we've already got two cast members needing extremely serious prosthetics, and everyone except Gale needs some. Then you have to do a lot of location shooting and FX shooting if the show isn't going to look like trash, and there are likely to be tons more prosthetics and so extensive costuming for all the guest stars, recurring characters and extras. And a bunch of FX for magic which is much more aggressively deployed in D&D than in most fantasy settings in TV/movies. If they don't get the budget to do that, it's going to make the show look cheap and audiences, even ones unfamiliar with the game, will notice.3) Misreading or miscasting any of the characters. Sure, people who played the game won't be the core audience, just part of it, but if they don't nail and each and every one of the main characters in both casting and writing, people, including countless people who never played the game, are going to be talking about it. A lot. 4) Not telling a compelling story. I think there probably is a story of "We saved the world, now what?!?" that you can tell here, but will they? Again instead of taking the obvious option, which could probably have given them an easy three seasons (and the settings would even have fit with the increasing budget you'd get over time!), they're setting it post-game.5) All the pitfalls any other show has. They're just in addition to these!Plus the FR/BG isn't as accessible or obvious or relatable a setting as Game of Thrones had. GoT is very close to historical fiction in a lot of ways, so relatively easy to relate to (esp. S1-4). The FR is... not that.TLDR, but I think you're really going for an outside bet there lol.</blockquote>

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