ME TV is about Shepard and the OT

[u/flasheswests]

This is the most recent Production Weekly Mass Effect blurb. Adds Doug Jung and fully confirms the series is based on the OT and Shepard. The original November announcement didn’t give this much of a description and left room for interpretation. Take it as you will.

[u/badfortheenvironment]

As someone who used to have a Production Weekly subscription and trawl these weekly, the summary early on isn't always indicative of the plot. Sometimes it's a placeholder for whatever IP is being adapted. The fact that it doesn't make use of any specific gendered pronouns makes me think this might be a temporary placeholder (whether it does end up being about Shepard or not).

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That’s what I’m thinking. This blurb doesn’t really prove that the show is going to be what OP suggests it will be. I mostly say this because that blurb reads almost exactly like something that would be on the back of the box on the game or something. It’s not very specific to the show or what the show is going to be. Just general summation of what the IP is.

[u/flasheswests → u/sexandliquor]

the first blurb (second pic) had no information and the most basic summation possible. PW would have kept that description if they didn’t receive and vet the updated description just put out. PW isn’t like a tabloid or gossip site. it is heavily used and trusted by the industry as a whole. They aren’t going to put out information they don’t have.

[u/linkenski → u/badfortheenvironment]

This definitely seems like a description of the license they've acquired rather than a plot synopsis of their adaptation on it.

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I hope that is the case here.

[u/KlinkerStinker → u/badfortheenvironment]

I honestly hope it’s not the OT. I think having a canonical story set in-universe separate from Shepards journey would be awesome. Maybe about Anderson?

[u/flasheswests → u/badfortheenvironment]

That’s what the original November post was, general placeholder of what the IP is. Now, with Dan Casey working on this since January and bringing Doug Jung on as the show runner, they’ve clearly locked down what story they are telling and it’s being put out.

[u/MrFightmonster118 → u/flasheswests]

Date on the screenshot says 11-14-24 though? I'm not familiar with this subscription but what does that mean?

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That’s the date PW first posted about Mass Effect (second pic) first pic is the update. That’s what the star means. New info.

[u/MrFightmonster118 → u/flasheswests]

Oh okay understood! What was the date posted for that most recent one? Do you know why it would have changed?

[u/flasheswests → u/MrFightmonster118]

it’s from june 12th. doug jung was announced as show runner so updating the blurb would mean they received more information about the series that led to the full updated description

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I also think they're not ready to reveal the plot without a trailer first.

[u/Deamonette → u/badfortheenvironment]

I hope you are right cause a straight adaptation of the trilogy would be an awful waste of an adaptation.

[u/manhothepooh → u/badfortheenvironment]

Doesn't really make sense to update a placeholder with a more detailed placeholder. Isn't it? Or is that normal practice on that?

[u/flasheswests → u/manhothepooh]

it doesn’t, which is likely why that isn’t a placeholder anymore and what production has pushed out.