Thoughts on Worm: A brief review of the web serial by Wildbow
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Keith does an overview of the web serial "Worm" by John C. "Wildbow" McCrae. He gives his first impressions of the premise and protagonist. He also speculates on prospects for a TV or movie adaptation.
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I just want to petition a streaming service to pick this up and go with it. There are so many people who would likely fall in love with the series if they just had exposure to it.
I could not agree more.
@@SDMediaGroup A streaming service would screw it up completely. Just look at Wheel of Time, Rings of Power, the new Star Trek shows, Kenobi, the list goes on.
WORM has always been pretty tolerant and diverse (for better or worse), but the woke dial would be turned up all the way to eleven, and they would mess everything up.
No, keep the corpo-rats out of the production process. Any adaptation of Wildbow's fascinating work will have to be done by and with people he can trust not to alter his vision and source material beyond their original scope and themes.
I'm not a huge fan of his work, I wouldn't even call myself a fan, but I do find it interesting. I know it has a passionate, loyal fandom, and my heart would break to see an otherwise decent and original work by a skilled author get desecrated by uncaring, soulless,money-grubbing b-ast-ar-ds.
Apparantly WildBlow was aproached for a TV series (or a film? can't recall exactly), but turned them down after reading some of the spoken lines because they tried to hamfistedly force the word "Worm" into a spoken line (By either Sophia Hess or the Main character).
There is someone (or some group) trying create a 3D animation of it -> www.youtube.com/@adaptationvfx
Worm is possibly my favourite superhero media ever (fighting Megamind for the title), and I love the way that the explanation for the powers ties into the character's personalities so neatly, as well as explaining so many different superhero tropes and cliches at the same time. Unfortunately, I doubt that there will be any adaptation, but I do think an anime/Into the Spiderverse style animation would be amazing.
The powers themselves are so well thought out.
No live action. I don't think it'll work. Great if done right. But animation, particularly anime-like animation would be right. Get the people that did One Punch Man and Mob Psycho.
Thanks for your comment! I tend to agree that animation is probably the most practical way to get a show produced. I personally know nothing about anime. But perhaps others would like to chime in on your suggestion. :)
Hope you're joining us for our arc-by-arc reviews!
100% i wouldn't want an attempt to be made in live action. I fear the corners they'd cut to make it work would be huge.
@@SDMediaGroup Definitely animation. One season per narrative arc, interludes included. With one caveat - they'll have to animate the events that occur during the timeskip, even if only in a brief, special long episode.
Skipping over those events remains one of Wildbow's biggest narrative screwups, in my opinion.
I haven't read the novel, but I do know about it in broad lines from the many fanfics I've read.
Oh yeah, Studio Bones would kill it
I'm actually of the opinion that live action would work best when done right
I was thinking that worm might be too expensive to produce. But I realized that the relatively more down-to-earth earlier arcs would lend themselves well to a Daredevil type adaptation. If those are successful you can justify the expense of the later arcs.
But I don't think it's gonna get adapted any time soon. It hasn't even gotten properly published. Some of the biggest names in speculative fiction, like Red Rising, Realm of the Elderlings and First Law (even the Cosmere, but that'll change soon) are nowhere near an adaptation either. There has also been no precedent for a web work getting adapted (other than maybe some manhua with mixed reception). The chances of Worm getting adapted are less than the chances of winning the lottery, but that's just an adaptation. A GOOD adaptation would be astronomically unlikely.
Wildbow has been approached by Netflix and some of the big anime publishers asking to make adaptation so there was definitely interest it's just hard to get the goal rolling when wildbow isn't interested in an adaptation.
Definitely the best Superhero story ever written
An Arcane style adaption would be a masterpiece, Taylor's story is that of escalation & necessity, and how good intentions pave the road to Hell, the story is super grimdark so if that isn't anyone's cup of teas, on space battles there is a mountain of Worm fanfic, something for everyone
Arcane has a ton of diversity and doesn't address any identity politics period. I think your pre-judgement is misplaced. It'll eventually picked up in the next 10 years.
Read Sui Ishida's Choujin X. It's basically the Worm of manga.
Something that a friend pointed out is how well wildbow captures the female voice. Taylor analyzes the shit out of everything but she slides right into her relationship with Brian.
The more we talk about it, the more likely the adaptation becomes. Thank you and keep up!
Actually, Wildbow had already been approached by some entertainment media companies interested in adapting his serial. But he’s doubtful that his work would be able to be adapted properly.
Though he is very right to be concerned. You need only examples like Netflix’s The Witcher, Amazon's Rings of Power, and HBO’s Velma to see how far American entertainment has fallen.
We’re living in an extremely bizarre time in which profoundly talentless, unimaginative, tone deaf, and unintelligent people are getting paid millions (hundreds of millions, even) to willfully produce mediocrity and draw negative attention to venerated franchises. Usually in the name of political ideology and rapacious self-gratification.
I certainly understand his being protective of his work. I guess all we can do is hope Wildbow and some courageous network can work something out.
@@SDMediaGroup as long as that “courageous network” isn’t Netflix, HBO, The CW, or Amazon, the adaptation may have a chance. Though it would be fine if the roles of said networks were limited to only being publishers and not production/development
One of my favorite pieces of capeshit out there.
One of a few good modern ones, definitely. Other good mentions are Invincible and Kick-Ass.
@@mirceazaharia2094 And The Boys.
If you loved Worm, I highly recommend Curveball by C.B. Wright. The hero in that one is like Tattletale mixed with Captain America
My guy, you gotta read ward!
Worm as anything but an animated tv series with multiple seasons with one arc being a season would be way too expensive to do it the justice it so deserves. I got into Worm via a crossover with another series fanfiction I was reading. At first, I didn't even know the premise nor liked it out of ignorance. Other than a "super hero" web serial, I knew nothing about it. So to familiarize myself with the story and the premise to enjoy the crossovers with it, I picked it up and started reading, and kept reading, and reading. It took me well over a week of almost nonstop reading, only stopping to eat, sleep, and use the restroom, but I can only say that this book is definitely up there with Tolkien, George Martin, Robert Jordan, etc. I LOVED it. So much in fact, that I actively started looking for fics and crossovers for Worm rather than the other way around. Taylor as a character is someone that captivated me to such an extent that one of my favorite types of fanfics are altpower!Taylor. Worm is definitely a world, a frachise that can only truly shine as an animated series due to the diversity of powers, the scale of certain conflicts, storytelling, etc.
read pact/pale
I would love to see Heimdall from God of war Ragnarok have a few words with Emma Sophia and Madison. he would absolutely destroy them.
just wondering why this guy gets so hung up on politics like why it's got nothing to do with politics and this guy devotes so much time to it like whyyyyyy he sounds like one of those guys who don't want top hearing about it but won't stop talking about it just caught me so off guard
Worm is the 天龙八部 of superhero fiction. If you understand this please like this.
What is this?
@@DiogenesDworkinson this comment. You have to be Chinese to get what I'm saying, or speak the language.
@@enminghee2926 1) Chinese is not a language.
2) You wrote. You did not speak.
3) Translation programs exist.
4) People read works in foreign languages frequently. See point 3.
5) Your silly elitism just comes off as being a ridiculous dick. Why post at all?
@@enminghee2926 Or I could just use Google Translate and find out that it means "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" a wuxia novel from the 1960s.
You touch on Idpol and I think it's justified because women are easier to traumatize
That means they're more likely to awaken their powers after stressful events
It's a lot more nuanced than that. Women are more likely to express their feelings (their very hormones make them more likely to cry), but men kill themselves a lot more than women... in fact, expressing one's feelings is often a way of *escaping* trauma.
Women are disproportionately likely to get raped, but men are disproportionally likely to go to war.
And there are exceptions to all of this! It's a very complicated topic, and I don't think it should be reduced to a stereotype.
Wildbow does a great job of making his characters human first and women/men/other second.
By listing Dagny Taggart, I take it you read Ayn Rand.
Yes, I have. My list is by no means meant to be comprehensive. I just wanted to show the kind of company I see the character of Taylor Hebert belonging to. Each of those characters resonated with me within their story.
I was pretty hype to find more worm content until he went on a rant about "muh politics!" I often forget that people with terrible opinions can like the same things I do, and this was a helpful reminder.
Thank you for taking time to watch the video. Worm really is a great story. The fact folks with different views can enjoy it is a tribute to Wildbow. 🙂