H+ Intriguing new Cyber-punk typed TV series.
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This is looking likely it'll be pretty interesting series. A bit Deus Ex, a bit more Snow Crash. A bit awesome.
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pcmag.com wrote:In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity has forsaken smartphones and the trappings of technology for "HPlus," a direct connection to the Internet via a neural transmitter.
And then someone uploads a virus. All of the world's HPlus users, a full third of the world's population, suddenly die.
If this sounds intriguing, you're not alone. Bryan Singer (The X-Men movies, The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns) is serving as producer for the second Warner Premiere Digital Web series, made in conjunction with Dolphin Entertainment. Warner Premiere is expected to show the final episode of its first Web series, the live-action "Mortal Kombat: Legacy," at the Comic-Con show this week in Los Angeles.
"H+: The Digital Series" will debut its trailer at Comic-Con today, and it's likely that the trailer will show up on the series' Facebook page shortly thereafter.
PcMag.com sat in on a teleconference where director Stewart Hendler (Sorority Row) and writer/creator John Cabrera talked about the upcoming series. Unfortunately, we couldn't identify who was who, but we know a bit more about the plot. We also don't know when the series will debut.
Here's the crux of it, though:
"Kenneth," one of the protagonists of the show, is deeply grounded in computer sciences and is responsible for many of the advances behind HPlus, a microscopic piece of nanotechnology that is embedded inside a person's nervous system. Users with an embedded HPlus system hear music directly in their ears, and hallucinate movies. (Very Snow Crash.)Other clips will feature a Finnish woman, "Marta," one of the world's top hackers, who is caught up in the story. Neither, apparently, chose to adopt HPlus.
But then a virus wipes them all out. What then? The survivors pick up the pieces, and humanity goes on. Not surprisingly, one of the key characters is a Luddite, someone who has rejected the trappings of technology.
HPlus refers to "humanity plus," a reference to transhumanism (which, according to Wikipedia, is apparently abbreviated as "H+"). Transhumanism explores ways in which humans can overcome their physical limitations, and what effects those things have.
Originally, the series was supposed to cover 2.5 hours of filmed material, sliced and diced into video clips for the Web. The series creators said they had at least two goals in mind: create "A+" content for the Web that could compete with existing films on Netflix and the like, and come up with a format that could take advantage of the Web in its narrative structure.
In practice, that sounds like the show will offer a "Lost"-like narrative of flashbacks, set in various locales around the world. Characters will talk in their native languages (Finnish, Russian) and the video was shot in both the United States and Chile. Each clip will open with a "point-of-view" shot that won't immediately identify the narrator until a short time later.
It also means that users will be able to watch the clips in their scripted order, then go back and watch them by character, or even chronologically, the creators said.
What's our take? Singer's pedigree gives this credibility, but geeks thrive on nitpicking technical details, especially around computers and technology. On the other hand, it sounds like the show's planning will allow for a second season, if the demand is there.
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H+ = G+? :O
anyways, looks pretty cool - just a little worried that we are getting too much pro-apocalypse, anti-science in our pop culture nowadays.
Haha glynn. Soon enough.
I kinda rolled my eyes when I saw.. 'ohh.. technology results in the end of the world for us yet again'.
Hopefully it's merely used as a backdrop and is used as more of a character development tool.
The kind which goes "Science has failed us" which sounds alot like "We should not be playing God" stigma which has plagues the Sci genre for a while.
Also, looks like G+ has a Surrogate.
It's also a dig at the Humanity+ people, only they made it an upside-down cross. Looks like another religious propaganda hollywood piece to me.
I can't even count how many movies/shows with this theme I've seen in the last 10-15 years or so.
Didn't grab me too much. The story is nothing new (ooh, technology is evil) and the cinematography and cast are ugly IMO.
Seconded. I'm just over all tired of this particular theme the implanted humans with cool technology everything goes to shit theme. Hollywood needs something fresh, but that's a given.
This does look interesting though.
Flashforward has nothing to do with technology, not the implanted 'oh we are getting too pally with technology' kind anyway. Its a superb show, and maybe now Camelot is cancelled, the main dude can come back to it if Flashforwards is ever un-cancelled
I wasnt using it as an example for technology. Its similar in that something bad happens to the whole population. Biblical stuff.
let's just hope the game doesn't suck