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JD said:
Because it sounds like there's enough drama with just the residents of Atilan and the Royal Family alone to get plenty of stories for a show like this.
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Pure story considerations are fine for prose or comics, but on television, it's always a matter of what you can afford, and what unimaginative, cautious executives can be talked into taking a chance on. This is why so many fantasy and comics-based shows are police procedurals. This is why Syfy's Flash Gordon spent most of the first half of its season on Earth rather than Mongo. This is why the MCU began on television with a show about non-powered government agents, and why Netflix saved the most fantasy-based of its four Marvel shows for last. Network execs -- and the general audiences they're programming for -- need to be eased into exotic or unusual premises. Even a show that plans to go somewhere wild and way out needs to start in a more grounded place, or the execs will be spooked and afraid to risk spending money on it.

So yeah, it's possible The Inhumans could do a season set mostly or entirely in Attilan -- but I don't think it would be their first season.
 
Well, that probably depends on how out there they go with Attilan. They also have the advantage of having already introduced the concept of Inhumans on AoS, so now they can just jump in a lot quicker without needing quite as much exposition as they would if this was a totally new concept for TV audiences. I know they will need a bit still, but now it'll be more of a recap than a complete introduction.
 
JD said:
Well, that probably depends on how out there they go with Attilan. They also have the advantage of having already introduced the concept of Inhumans on AoS, so now they can just jump in a lot quicker without needing quite as much exposition as they would if this was a totally new concept for TV audiences. I know they will need a bit still, but now it'll be more of a recap than a complete introduction.
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The impression I get is that they aren't connecting it very closely to AoS. After all, they're debuting its first two episodes as a sort-of movie, so it's targeted at a feature audience as well as a TV audience. And we know that Marvel features are made with the assumption that their audiences are unfamiliar with the TV shows, which is why Joss Whedon approached Age of Ultron as if Coulson were still dead even though he created the show that resurrected the guy.

So even if it's in continuity with AoS, it will still probably be made with the assumption that its audience is unfamiliar with the Inhumans.
 
Possibly. At this point I don't think we know enough to really say for sure, but I definitely look forward to finding out.
 
Christopher said:
But why do you expect that? It seems counterintuitive. Doing it that way would be more expensive and less accessible to casual audiences -- both strikes against it from the perspective of a TV executive.
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It's cheaper to film on set rather than location. If Attilan is a set, I suspect they'd film there more than out in public.
 
Alidar Jarok said:
It's cheaper to film on set rather than location. If Attilan is a set, I suspect they'd film there more than out in public.
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But the whole thing that started this conversation was a set of production photos of the cast shooting on location, out on city streets. So we know they are doing that.

And yes, as a rule it's cheaper to film on sets, but it's cheaper to film normal-looking humans than actors in prosthetic makeup, and it's cheaper to dress your actors in off-the-rack clothes and put together your sets with everyday furnishings and materials and dress them with everyday props and set dressings and the like than it is to do a show where everything has to be newly created. That's why the original Star Trek came up with so many ridiculous excuses for Earth-duplicate cultures on alien worlds. That's why there have been more SFTV shows set on present-day Earth -- or in alien societies that inexplicably resemble present-day Earth, like the Battlestar Galactica remake -- than ones set in entirely alien environments.
 
JD said:
Because it sounds like there's enough drama with just the residents of Atilan and the Royal Family alone to get plenty of stories for a show like this.
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I was thinking they might be trying for a Game Thrones vibe with less violence, sex and blood.
 
Christopher said:
But the whole thing that started this conversation was a set of production photos of the cast shooting on location, out on city streets. So we know they are doing that.
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I thought the debate was how they were going to handle Attilan, though. I figured the scenes on location aren't Attilan. Certainly, not the Black Bolt and Crystal stuff.
 
Alidar Jarok said:
I thought the debate was how they were going to handle Attilan, though. I figured the scenes on location aren't Attilan. Certainly, not the Black Bolt and Crystal stuff.
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Yes, that was exactly my point -- that their use of location shooting is evidence that the show won't be set entirely in Attilan. Someone else tried to argue that a real location could somehow be passed off as Attilan, but I think that's extremely unlikely.
 
Well, Hawaii it is.

If they make it scenic enough, that could be worth the Imax ticket alone. Seriously.
 
Inhumans...fractured, chasing mysteries , saving the world and Lost in Hawaii

Hugo - Locke-jaw... think about it!
 
...Oh dear. I hope that's just an unflattering photo, but everything about that looks really cheap. Like Smallville bare minimum effort cheap.

That aside, I'm just not digging Medusa's design. No knock against the actor playing her or anything, it's just the look of the hair is so flat and unnatural looking. I know the constantly moving hair from the comics is a no-go on a TV budget, but surely they could have something that looked at least a little more dynamic, even if it's just a static do.

I get why the wanted to avoid the ski-mask with the tuning fork headgear for Black Bolt, but I think there's a happy medium to be found. I mean he's a King, no? So how about a crown/circlet thing with the tuning fork design incorporated in?

Also, from a casting point of view I think getting a former GoT actor to play basically the same character in what is essentially "Game of Thrones in Space" (but without the space, apparently?!) may have been somewhat too on the nose, yes?
 
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JD said:
I'm surprised it's actually Hawaii in the show, I would have expected them to be in LA or somewhere like that.
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If they're filming in Hawai'i, it's a waste not to take advantage of that. And I don't think anyone would mistake Hawai'i for Southern California. It's a location TV shows generally only use if their setting is either Hawai'i itself or some other Pacific island location like in LOST, Fantasy Island, or Tales of the Gold Monkey (anyone remember that?).
 
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