In the book too. That puff of mist rising from his body just screams sequel - remember Saruman was of Gandalf's ilk and Gandalf got better after a nasty bout of death. And, case in point, we all know Tolkein wasn't above writing sequels - seeing as we're all talking about Hobbit II: There and Back Again Again anyway. It's as inevitable as another Friday the Thirteenth movie - don't fight it, just buy it.
Beyond the Fall of Night is perhaps one of the greatest crimes against literature ever perpetrated. Not even amazon astroturfing gives it over two stars. It really butchered the style and meaning of the earlier work, and the ending is like something a 12 year old might write (In fact, when I was twelve, I think I did - at least I consigned mine to the dustbin of history). Has Benford ever actually done anything worth reading? This travesty scared me off him.
According to Clarke, the novel was begun first, worked on concurrently with much cross-fertilisation of ideas, and appeared for public consumption last. I suspect that merely doesn't scan as well as 'based on the screenplay'.
5. Legolas carries one knife (TTT p.146). Jackson has Legolas carry two knives.
Because it's, y'know, important. Damn that Jackson and his perverse bastardisation.
From memory: (at work - but it's lunchtime)
Share and Enjoy, Share and Enjoy
Journey through life with a plastic boy
Or Girl by your side, let your pal be your guide
And when it breaks down or starts to annoy
Or grinds when it moves and gives you no joy
Cos it eats up your hat or has sex with your cat
Bled oil on your floor or ripped off your door
And you get to the point you can't stand any more
Bring it to us, we won't give a fig
We'll tell you, 'Go stick your head in a pig
Thank you, ladies and gentlement. I'll be here all week. Try the veal, it's rumptastic.
Amusingly enough, I knew one guy who started playing Everquest purely because of its addictive qualities. He figured he was spending too much time and money in bars and so he purchased a copy and prepared to swap addictions. It worked for at least two years (that I know of - I lost touch with him when he shifted cities) and AFAIK he only played drunk twice. Of course, he did tell me about how once, playing on e, he ended up practically itemless at 30th level, having given all his stuff away.
Bullet time 'spider sense - I think that's more showing how his reaction time has sped up - he has the speed and strength of a spider - which is a completely separate power best shown in bullet time, even if the two are often used in conjunction.
The muscles and the mirror scene - any teenager who works out spends an inordinate amount of time staring at the mirror. A newly buffed teen would spend exponentially longer. This was practically cinema verit.
Um, a friend of mine who pays attention to these things reckons you've got him confused with Dr Doom, the villainous dictator of Latveria. . I, of course, can only take their word for it.
Fiordland is a rainforest, and thus you are disproven. Of course, it's colder than the other side of a/. reader's bed meaning the beaches down there are more the windswept, frozen, sub-antarctic variety - so whether you'd actually want to go beach->mountain->rainforest is another matter.
Also, Bombadill is more a part of 'the sequel to The Hobbit' than LoTR as a separate entity. Notice how all his speech is in a particular meter? Very The Hobbit - where even goblins are known to burst into song.
Actually, that's not true. Mr Jackson has brought various actors back over the past year for reshoots. I myself have seen hobbits walking past my window at work carrying mysterious paper bags. Further evidence here because I know you won't take my word on it. From what I hear (and everyone in this city knows at least one person involved in LoTR) the tricky thing is making them look the same as they did during the primary shooting.
Oh well. At least the Return of the King probably won't suck.
Sorry. Actually, it will suck. I have a friend who works at Weta Digital who's seen most of it in sections. He tells me that about halfway through the money disappeared along with Peter Jackson and they had to squeeze out the final battle using three c64s and a betamax someone had lying around. Sauron is being played by a sock puppet (a white gym sock, if you can believe it!) and Aragorn had to be recast with Danny DeVito. What money they did have left they put into making the trailors to trick people into coming. It's all a bit embarassing really. And now revolutions sucks? This is a sad, sad time for geekdom.
the dreams and hopes of an unborn baby, who was, for whatever reason, never going to be born.
There's the idea. Wow, Babies, even unborn ones, have the capacity to hope and dream. Maybe now, maybe later. And now that idea is out in the wild. Shock, horror. Don't tell the pro-lifers or we'll never hear the end of it. Jeez, so much for Mr Gaiman's PC credentials.
Because it's so underhand and does most of its damage under wraps making it hard to find and remove, I propose we call it *underware* - because it's utter pants.
I'd like to see your "stupidity" arguement hold up under the concepts of evolution and survival of the species. Makes homosexuality out to be "stupidity" really.
No, it only demonstrates your inability to see the larger picture. As you may not be aware, organism populations tend to expand to fill their available food source supplies - in terms of holding back our population growth (and our population is still growing despite homosexuality) non-breeders are actually doing us a favour by pushing backward the event of wider scarcity, permitting those genes with a desire to replicate the ability to do so with greater opportunity, comfort and chance of success.
I suppose you could argue that their lack of breeding potential prevents possible successful mutations from entering the gene pool, but that assumes a) homosexuals don't breed (which is obviously a lie - take Oscar Wilde as a counter example, or babies created from frozen gametes) and b) that celibacy, vasectomies and hysterectomies are all in the same boat - which totally ignores the fact that the processes of evolution and survival are not always best served by mass spawnage alone (especially as we have little in the way of culling predators), but also by controlling the environment (for example, by agriculture) so that the genes of each generation are in a situation most conducive to survival (ie not necessarily an uncontrolled, overcrowded one where life is cheap).
None of which has anything to do with the fact the fact that Eddie Izzard would undeniably be a good choice for the doctor (amongst other, equally good choices) so long as he didn't drag it up - I'm not sure the world (as indicated by the AC I replied to) is ready for that.
Apologies for the off-topicness, I just wanted to see if the argument did hold up.
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In the book too. That puff of mist rising from his body just screams sequel - remember Saruman was of Gandalf's ilk and Gandalf got better after a nasty bout of death. And, case in point, we all know Tolkein wasn't above writing sequels - seeing as we're all talking about Hobbit II: There and Back Again Again anyway. It's as inevitable as another Friday the Thirteenth movie - don't fight it, just buy it.
Then why are so called "art" movies always so butt-numbingly long? Or does it just seem that way owing to the glacial pacing? Riddle me that, Batman!
At a stretch - it also stands for XenoPhobia, which just fits.
Beyond the Fall of Night is perhaps one of the greatest crimes against literature ever perpetrated. Not even amazon astroturfing gives it over two stars. It really butchered the style and meaning of the earlier work, and the ending is like something a 12 year old might write (In fact, when I was twelve, I think I did - at least I consigned mine to the dustbin of history). Has Benford ever actually done anything worth reading? This travesty scared me off him.
According to Clarke, the novel was begun first, worked on concurrently with much cross-fertilisation of ideas, and appeared for public consumption last. I suspect that merely doesn't scan as well as 'based on the screenplay'.
5. Legolas carries one knife (TTT p.146). Jackson has Legolas carry two knives. Because it's, y'know, important. Damn that Jackson and his perverse bastardisation.
From memory: (at work - but it's lunchtime) Share and Enjoy, Share and Enjoy Journey through life with a plastic boy Or Girl by your side, let your pal be your guide And when it breaks down or starts to annoy Or grinds when it moves and gives you no joy Cos it eats up your hat or has sex with your cat Bled oil on your floor or ripped off your door And you get to the point you can't stand any more Bring it to us, we won't give a fig We'll tell you, 'Go stick your head in a pig Thank you, ladies and gentlement. I'll be here all week. Try the veal, it's rumptastic.
Add a video camera and a hard drive and you've got yourself some slow glass (as per Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes collection of stories. Hoopy.
Amusingly enough, I knew one guy who started playing Everquest purely because of its addictive qualities. He figured he was spending too much time and money in bars and so he purchased a copy and prepared to swap addictions. It worked for at least two years (that I know of - I lost touch with him when he shifted cities) and AFAIK he only played drunk twice. Of course, he did tell me about how once, playing on e, he ended up practically itemless at 30th level, having given all his stuff away.
Mmm. The sweet smell of defoliant on the astroturf in the morning.
Attempting to dequibblise somewhat...
Bullet time 'spider sense - I think that's more showing how his reaction time has sped up - he has the speed and strength of a spider - which is a completely separate power best shown in bullet time, even if the two are often used in conjunction.
The muscles and the mirror scene - any teenager who works out spends an inordinate amount of time staring at the mirror. A newly buffed teen would spend exponentially longer. This was practically cinema verit.
Um, a friend of mine who pays attention to these things reckons you've got him confused with Dr Doom, the villainous dictator of Latveria. . I, of course, can only take their word for it.
Your faith in free will is amusing, young meat machine.
Heh - I totally read that as apophallation. Those crazy banana slugs.
Good ghod - you're right. I'll be saving my money for the next Matrix sequel then. Thanks for the heads up.
Fiordland is a rainforest, and thus you are disproven. Of course, it's colder than the other side of a /. reader's bed meaning the beaches down there are more the windswept, frozen, sub-antarctic variety - so whether you'd actually want to go beach->mountain->rainforest is another matter.
Also, Bombadill is more a part of 'the sequel to The Hobbit' than LoTR as a separate entity. Notice how all his speech is in a particular meter? Very The Hobbit - where even goblins are known to burst into song.
Actually, that's not true. Mr Jackson has brought various actors back over the past year for reshoots. I myself have seen hobbits walking past my window at work carrying mysterious paper bags. Further evidence here because I know you won't take my word on it. From what I hear (and everyone in this city knows at least one person involved in LoTR) the tricky thing is making them look the same as they did during the primary shooting.
Sorry. Actually, it will suck. I have a friend who works at Weta Digital who's seen most of it in sections. He tells me that about halfway through the money disappeared along with Peter Jackson and they had to squeeze out the final battle using three c64s and a betamax someone had lying around. Sauron is being played by a sock puppet (a white gym sock, if you can believe it!) and Aragorn had to be recast with Danny DeVito. What money they did have left they put into making the trailors to trick people into coming. It's all a bit embarassing really. And now revolutions sucks? This is a sad, sad time for geekdom.
Oscar Wilde had a wife and two kids. Just thought I'd point that out.
There's the idea. Wow, Babies, even unborn ones, have the capacity to hope and dream. Maybe now, maybe later. And now that idea is out in the wild. Shock, horror. Don't tell the pro-lifers or we'll never hear the end of it. Jeez, so much for Mr Gaiman's PC credentials.
Because it's so underhand and does most of its damage under wraps making it hard to find and remove, I propose we call it *underware* - because it's utter pants.
I suppose you could argue that their lack of breeding potential prevents possible successful mutations from entering the gene pool, but that assumes a) homosexuals don't breed (which is obviously a lie - take Oscar Wilde as a counter example, or babies created from frozen gametes) and b) that celibacy, vasectomies and hysterectomies are all in the same boat - which totally ignores the fact that the processes of evolution and survival are not always best served by mass spawnage alone (especially as we have little in the way of culling predators), but also by controlling the environment (for example, by agriculture) so that the genes of each generation are in a situation most conducive to survival (ie not necessarily an uncontrolled, overcrowded one where life is cheap).
None of which has anything to do with the fact the fact that Eddie Izzard would undeniably be a good choice for the doctor (amongst other, equally good choices) so long as he didn't drag it up - I'm not sure the world (as indicated by the AC I replied to) is ready for that.
Apologies for the off-topicness, I just wanted to see if the argument did hold up.
Quite right. It's not homophobia - it's stupidity.