Movies Resident Evil Movie & Netflix Series

Jormungandr

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They could've just set the whole thing in the Resident Evil world; just have it as one of Umbrella's subsidiaries with some links to Umbrella Europe and USA/Racoon City (e.g. shipping supplies, research).

Instead? "lolnope here's a woke abomination of your franchise".
 

JagerIV

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They could've just set the whole thing in the Resident Evil world; just have it as one of Umbrella's subsidiaries with some links to Umbrella Europe and USA/Racoon City (e.g. shipping supplies, research).

Instead? "lolnope here's a woke abomination of your franchise".

They could have, I'm just saying the thing they seemed to maybe actually want to create was interesting in its own right, and trying to so obviously crowbar resident evil into their original concept only hurts the concept.

Someone with two daughters who might not really be his daughters could be interesting. Trying to crow bar Wesker into that character doesn't work at all.

An evil ultra modern Californian style company could be interesting. That is not however Umbrella. Umbrella clearly has different, old east coast roots.

Which I guess adds to the general rootlessness of the thing. Its sets in South Africa, but that setting doesn't matter. The Zombie story line is in England and France, but that doesn't really matter either. Location doesn't matter.

Resident evil as a franchise has a lot of history, and even from the beginning with the mansion really suggests and points to a long historical connection of some sort, even if its not really there. They don't draw from any of that.

So, the show is extremely painfully current year with covid reference and such, but nothing in the show has a sense of being anywhere. Its current year, and no where.
 

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