Secret Level - Amazon Anthology Series by

The first 8 episodes are out now, including the Warhammer episode.

I watched the first five episodes and the Warhammer, Unreal Tournament, and the Sifu episodes were my favorite. I didn’t know anything about Sifu but it was a great episode, even though it’s a short episode.

Don’t really know what warhammer is but that episode was incredibly badass and if they’re making a show about it with the same tone of that, would be incredible.

The PAC Man one was nuts

Enjoyed the one with Arnold

Unreal Tournament was great too.

I don’t even know what this is about, but based on the comments alone I’m in. I may not even watch the trailer. LD+R is awesome, so that’s just another reason that I’m in.

What the range on how long episodes last?

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He likes 40k just as much as The Witcher and he should have more creative control this time around.

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I feel like he likes The Witcher but LOVES 40k.

Warhammer has off the charts on-screen potential. One potential issue is that there are just SO many characters that if they try to give every faction some time in the spotlight they will spread themselves too thin. So I feel like you either have to focus on one squad fighting aliens, or you have to do the Heresy storyline and maybe focus on a couple of Primarchs from each "side" (Sanguinis, Guilliman, probably see a lot of Dorn too, definitely Magnus on the traitor side and probably Angron).

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I went in having hardly seen anything either and they run from 15-25 minutes I feel like.

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So it’s still short-ish episodes similar to LD+R. That’s what I was getting at. Cool, thanks. I may start this tonight actually depending on when I get home.

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Horus Heresy would be badass, but there are so many characters and storylines, I think it would be tough for non fans to follow. Maybe focusing on a single loyal units fight against chaos during the heresy would be pretty legit. Throw in a few appearances by some of the primarchs along the way.

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Yeah thats the issue, you either have to zoom WAY in on a few characters or zoom WAY out and do the Heresy. Because without the context of the heresy a lot of characters' actions and motivations won't make a lot of sense.

You can't really tell a story about Blood Angels or Iron Hands without the context of what happened to their Primarchs.

Fulgrim, Angron, Magnus/Ahriman, and Lorgar are interesting thematically because of what happened to them before, during, and after the heresy.... if you show them without showing the Heresy then they are just big bad demon dudes. Which I guess might be fine for wide audience, but I think the "fallen angels" type stories they have are what make them interesting. And Cavill + GW seem really intent on doing the universe justice.

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quote:Unreal Tournament

Used to play the hell out of that game.

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Looks cool but nothing like the game I played. Maybe I played a different version? Or I just didn’t pay a lot of attention to the plot of the game way back then (25 years ago? Ffs :/ )

Watched the first 6 last night. Thought it was pretty good. Warhammer was my favorite even though I saw the ending coming. Very well done. Didn't realize this was from the creators of LDR. Makes sense though.

That absolutely is not the Horus Heresy lol.

The Horus Hersey takes place 10,000 before 40k and is a giant crazy civil war about how the forward thinking atheist scientific state turned into a theological fscist state that is the imperium. 40k takes place in the aftermath, a broken galaxy with no hope.

40k is more biting satire. There are heroic people in it but as the saying goes, there are no good guys, just a bunch of factions trying to stop the inevitable.

I prefer 40k (and age of Sigmar FWIW) more than Horus Hersey IMO. Horus Hersey is much more superheroes like and it’s mainly big battles between space marines and your occasional group of demons. I feel justified in saying that having read like fricking 30 HH books and just finding them ok

40k as of right now has way more aliens and various weird stuff in it.

All of this obviously is in support of the tabletop wargames and miniature painting which I love to do. Even if you don’t play games, it’s very releasing and a good de-stresser to paint stuff up