Wasted opportunities in media.

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AlbertoDeSanta

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Robot Number V said:
The Walking Dead. The first episode was the best part of the show by far, so...That was the missed opportunity. The show would've been about a thousand times better if it had just been about Rick, the crazy sheriff traveling the country, searching for his family. (Who is obviously dead, but he's in denial and like I said, a bit crazy) He could meet different people over time, but eventually he'd always end up on his own again.

Yeah, I know that doesn't happen in the comics. Well, so what? The show already diverges from the source material anyway. Might as well do it in a way that makes it better instead of worse.
I'd love to see a Zombie/Post-Apoc TV series actually do this and run with it the WHOLE WAY. Until in the final episode he discovers that he was just daydreaming OR he discovers his family dead. Would be entertaining.
 

MrBaskerville

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tippy2k2 said:
The Purge

Now I suppose in fairness to it, I did not bother seeing it after everyone stated what I thought it looked like; a generic "A KILLER IS IN THE HOUSE!!!!!" slasher flick with an incredibly awesome backdrop that is completely wasted to explain the "why don't they call the cops?" problem of most slasher films. Maybe every single person who saw it is wrong but everything in the trailer screams shitty...

I really hope someone can take that concept (24 hours law free) and runs with it. There's a good movie in there somewhere, we just need the right hands to draw it out.
Funny, i thought it was a decent "A killer is in the house" flick (A bit like Panic Room, only not rubbish),in my eyes the premise is the worst part of it all. It just seems so silly and stupid and i'm kinda amazed that they managed to make something halfway decent with it.

The Spirit was a wasted opportunity, they could have made a faithful adaptation of one of the few interesting superhero comics but instead they made a comedic version of Sin City that had nothing in common with the source material. Everything was wrong about this movie and to top it all if, it kinda sucked...

And while Oblivion was a pretty terrible film i must admit that i liked a lot of ideas. I loved the whole concept of an alien AI trying to overtake the planet. Silly plot twists aside, there were some good stuff in there and a more talented writer/director could probably have done something worthwhile with it. But as it is now, e movie was pretty damn awful and honestly quite boring and shallow.
 

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Really Offensive Name said:
Making the Stargate public knowledge. The series would have gone from what it was to a new kind of star trek. Humanity taking its first steps into the great unknown... It would have been amazing.

Instead we got more false gods...
Oh, even better. Really boring false gods who are just basically advanced human televangelism and NO CHARACTER. Seriously, everything out of everybody's mouth on the Ori side could be replaced with DERP and be more interesting. And the great and wonderful message we take from that is that heavily-enlightened and evolved energy beings are all pretencious dickheads, and so are their enemies.

But I digress.

Here's a wasted opportunity: Not cancelling Megas XLR. Oh yes. Went there with a vengeance.
 

Nickolai77

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Mirrors Edge: A very interesting looking game which had a generalised lack of proper development- both technical and artistically. The game play mechanics could have done with further refinement (how about making it actually possible to disarm someone when not in slowmotion?) and the setting, narrative and characters, whilst looking very promising on paper, didn't live up to their full potential.

I still liked the game though, but i felt from playing Mirrors Edge there was a lot of wasted potential. I really hope that Mirrors Edge 2 can live up to what the game series can achieve.
 

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DC Comics New 52 on so many levels. It's marketing was laughable, it pushed for quantity over quality, the reboot was unnecessary, and the majority of its creative talent has either quit or let go due to the choke chain of their editorial staff. I would call this a failure of style over substance but it even fucks up in the style department too.
 

XMark

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I love Game of Thrones, but there are many occasions where you can see the limitations of a TV budget negatively affecting it, especially if you've read the books. For example, they avoided filming an entire battle scene in season 1 by having Tyrion get knocked unconscious and wake up after the battle is over.

The Battle of Blackwater Bay in season two would have required an enormous budget to do it any kind of justice. It is somewhat impressive what they did with their comparatively small budget, but the battle described in the books would have been absolutely jaw-dropping with the whole "bridge of boats" section.