If "The Elder Scrolls" Were......

[LeoStarDragon1]

.....adapted into a long running television series, albeit in this economy that would seem unlikely, considering how many shows are getting cancelled due to budget concerns, where do you think it should start at? Or, where do you think the story should begin? With one of the lore books found in the game? Or one of the games itself? "Arena" was first, right? Not having played the other games, I impulsively want to start with the "Oblivion" storyline, and then maybe work back to the other stories. But of course, I know better than to give in to that urge. One should always start at the beginning. But is the very beginning the first game, or one of the lore books found in a game? Like the story of how Nirn came to be in the first place, for instance?

What say you forum folks?

EDIT: Who would your ideal crew and cast be?

[SupaCat]

I never really thought 'Elders scrolls' was great because of the storyline. It's the adventuring that makes those games. If you would really want to make a show out of it, I'd go with Morrowind, even though you would probably be better off with just remaking 'Dune'.

The problem with shows however is that you really can't put in the backgroundstories and those are actually a lot better than the mainstory lines.

[LeoStarDragon1]

Hi, SupaCat!

I never really thought 'Elders scrolls' was great because of the storyline. It's the adventuring that makes those games. If you would really want to make a show out of it, I'd go with Morrowind, even though you would probably be better off with just remaking 'Dune'.

The problem with shows however is that you really can't put in the backgroundstories and those are actually a lot better than the mainstory lines.

I was going to add in, who would you want the crew and cast to be?!

"Dune" has been remade already. But I haven't seen the remake yet.

But anyway, heheh, I wasn't thinking of it in game terms, but in either movie, mini-series, or regular long-run series terms. "LONG TERM" is the one option I thought the best. Why? Because of the background stories! Hence, why I asked where would you start. How far back within Planet Nirn history would one have to go though, to tell the whole story from the beginning?

In game terms, what you do as a player affects the story. Ignore the gaming elements now and just think of how would you adapt it into one cohesive story with no do-overs, or resets. I started playing the series with "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion". Once I got through the basics of how it plays and such, I began to think about how could it be officially adapted into a novel, or series of novels, and then that lead to thinking of adapting it into a long-run television series. Why? Because as I played the game, I wondered what was the original intended sequence that the game writers came up with, for it to make sense to them in their minds, before they then had to adjust it into a playable game.

Does one person really take over every guild? I didn't resort to using my official game guide for a long time, because I wanted to test myself and see how much I could guess right on my own, et al. So at first, before I knew better, I thought the intent was that you do take over each guild, and then sort of merge them into an "Imperial Secret Service" type organisation, and then establish yourself as either the new council head with Ocato becoming the new emperor, or your player character becomes the first in a new line of rulers, as either emperor or empress. But then that would negate a sequel game wouldn't it? So of course you don't become the new emperor or empress, or even chancellor. Just the future anonymous "Champion of Cyrodiil". Like how the main characters from previous games are referred to anonymously in the game now. There is a default character and he has a name! See here now: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Bendu_Olo

But in a TV-series that wouldn't make sense, lore wise, as he has already had his glory days as the King of Anvil. Or would it?! Perhaps he disappeared from history, because he got tossed into the opening scene prison cell! (Magic and time-travel or suspension, may have to be used.) Then it that context, perhaps he could be made the new Emperor after all, either in the sequel game, or the hypothetical TV-series.

So I don't see why the games and their background stories couldn't reasonably be adopted into a long-running TV-series, or even a cable-series. the latter probably due to the sex and violence, ala "Deadwood". (I don't have cable access, but I do have "Band of Brothers" and all 3 seasons of "Deadwood", both "HBO" series, as a relative guide to what cable fare is like.) Of course there's the money issue. But there isn't a lack of source material and to get it all out there, I don't know how long it would take. Writing a lot of words down to describe something, supposedly 1,000 words, takes up more space in a book story, than it might when depicted as a single scene in a motion-picture story. Describing what a character looks like and what he, she, or it, is wearing, also takes longer with text, than with pictures.

So does describing the action. So taking a thick book and adapting it into a screenplay, doesn't mean the screenplay will be just as thick, as we've seen.

Well, that's all for now.