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viraptor on Sept 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon developing three new sci-fi series: Lazarus...

> “Snow Crash,” ..., is a one-hour science fiction drama ...

It sounds like it could be a very cut down version with just Hiro, Metaverse, maybe some sword swinging. I hope they'll go for more than just an extended action sequence in CGI world.

notatoad on Sept 29, 2017 [–]

a "one hour drama" probably means it's a show with hour-long episodes, not that the whole production is only an hour long.

"one hour drama" and "half-hour comedy" are fairly standard tv formats

viraptor on Sept 29, 2017 | [–]

Ah, today I learned...

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