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Fair or not, when reading _Perdido Street Station_ I couldn't help but think about how, in both structure and style, it seemed to have the sensibilities one would appreciate in a graphic novel. Some of the things that I found tiresome after a spell -- e.g., baroque descriptions, indulgently detailed environments, thinly-drawn characters -- would actually work quite well in an illustrated trade.
Not sure where you get a grassroots vibe, Perdo. I don't see anything that suggests a legion of fankids spontaneously (or even through direction) began creating sites vaguely alluding to the film.
What I do see is a startlingly thorough attempt to create both a buzz-generator _and_ a narrative adjunct to the movie. So, yeah, it's yet another product created by the consumerist Entertainment Industry. At the same time, I find it to be a surprisingly well-formed exploration of alinear narrative -- and something that is unique to the Web.
I say, who needs the movie. This enterprise itself is pretty damn entertaining.
{Robot Frank is yet another example of an alarming trend wherein self-loathing robots play clowns to the fears of organic sentients. Robot Frank, Bender, and their ilk should invest some cycles in highlighting the positive influence robots effect every day.}
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Fair or not, when reading _Perdido Street Station_ I couldn't help but think about how, in both structure and style, it seemed to have the sensibilities one would appreciate in a graphic novel. Some of the things that I found tiresome after a spell -- e.g., baroque descriptions, indulgently detailed environments, thinly-drawn characters -- would actually work quite well in an illustrated trade.
Not sure where you get a grassroots vibe, Perdo. I don't see anything that suggests a legion of fankids spontaneously (or even through direction) began creating sites vaguely alluding to the film. What I do see is a startlingly thorough attempt to create both a buzz-generator _and_ a narrative adjunct to the movie. So, yeah, it's yet another product created by the consumerist Entertainment Industry. At the same time, I find it to be a surprisingly well-formed exploration of alinear narrative -- and something that is unique to the Web. I say, who needs the movie. This enterprise itself is pretty damn entertaining.
{Robot Frank is yet another example of an alarming trend wherein self-loathing robots play clowns to the fears of organic sentients. Robot Frank, Bender, and their ilk should invest some cycles in highlighting the positive influence robots effect every day.}