Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams

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Anyone else watching this?

Me!

Yes. Love PKD

I am. I've been really looking forward to it.

Ahh excellent, another tv show using gratuitous sexual violence against women as entertainment

Can someone explain??

explain which bit?

Why are the hoods being sent to people?

To stir trouble most likely. The telepaths will want them for quiet, the normals to prevent listening in.

Thank you. Why are the people living in the sort of dormitory? (Sorry for questions but DH started blathering at me and I lost concentration!)

I got impression it is like a mental brothel somehow

What channel please?!?

Channel 4

Thanks

Looking forward to watching on catch up, had no idea this was coming out.

Sorting and odd looking I think the teeps are forced to live there because the normals don't want them wandering around amongst them.
Btw Has anyone worked out what teep stands for yet?

I take it pollution has reached horrific levels - either that or my eyesight has deteriorated in the last hour.

Holliday has cleaned up the market on Sunday evening dramas hasn't she!

Loving this, it's tense isn't it ?

I think telepaths were called Teeps in Babylon 5 too.

The setting had a bit of a 1940s aesthetic.

I liked the ambiguity of the ending.

Is it a different story each week?

I liked it. Although I wasnt sure why the Teeps were against the hoodmaker. Surely that would make their lives easier? I didnt get the impression that they saw their telepathic ability as something they wanted. It's one short story a week, I think.

I suppose while they can read people they have a value. If they can't read people their value is less and the may be in danger if they have no point. Though you'd think they could still be used for interrogating arrested people.

I really enjoyed it. Would have liked a proper ending though. Am old fashioned like that.

I was so annoyed and disappointed that it only lasts one week, which definitely means I enjoyed it. Will watch next week.

Still hated the sex/rape kind of scene though, although it showed how they were oppressed I wish it could have happened without degrading the women.

Enjoyed it, although it came across as a mash up of Minority Report and Bladerunner but I guess that's hard to avoid given the source material. I agree that a 'proper' ending would've been good.

I'd love to see then make Palmer Eldritch or Ubik (neither of which are short stories though so not suitable for this anthology, I guess). The PKD stuff that's made it to the screen tends to be a bit hit and miss though.

Not having a proper ending is very much in keeping with PKD, though. Most of his stories seem to end like that. I always thought The Man in the High Castle was best left as a single series.