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That's where Bauer's supposed to go all Denzel and call John Goodman to bring him enough to save the world.
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Jon Do posted:That's where Bauer's supposed to go all Denzel and call John Goodman to bring him enough to save the world. *tense, orchestral arrangement of "Feelin' Alright" swells*
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Trailer for MTV's fantasy foray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDR8b1SpoSc Production values look alright. All I know about the books is that they're supposed to be loving terrible.
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zoux posted:Trailer for MTV's fantasy foray. From what I know they're hackey LOTR ripoffs that the guy admits he was poo poo at writing when he started.
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zoux posted:Trailer for MTV's fantasy foray. I've not heard of this series, but that trailer has me interested. High fantasy in a post-apocalyptic world? Is that essentially the gist? Why are the books bad?
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IRQ posted:From what I know they're hackey LOTR ripoffs that the guy admits he was poo poo at writing when he started. Which is funny because he's still coming out with those books.
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Aug 31, 2015 15:17
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And only the first one was a LotR ripoff. The rest of the series is a lot different (yes it has 'elves' and 'dwarves' but so do a lot of other stories).
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I heard it got better as it went along once the guy got past the whole LOTR-ripoff thing. No idea how true that is, but I don't think they have a bad reputation like, say, Sword of Truth. I really like what I've seen of the show. It looks pretty impressive for TV just in terms of art design and production value.
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zoux posted:Trailer for MTV's fantasy foray. drat, Favreu, season 12 of Revolution is looking pretty fuckin' dope.
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Shannara was only a LOTR clone for the first book. The second book started to have it's own identity (which is where this show is apparently starting). The main issue with the books is that there are way too many of them, and I just completely lost interest. But while they were good, they were pretty drat good. So if each season equals a book, I wouldn't start to lose interest until like season 10 or 12 or something. Which it probably won't get anyway, so I'm in.Tuxedo Jack posted:I've not heard of this series, but that trailer has me interested. High fantasy in a post-apocalyptic world? Is that essentially the gist? Kind of. (super high-level spoiler-y description of the world, but just in case) For most of the books it's just a background setting (magic used to be everywhere, magic disappeared, modern times happen, apocalypse comes, magic comes back), and is mainly seen through the wreckage of the former world. It's rarely a plot point, though it does happen here and there. My favorite book in the series involves (plot description of book...I want to say 9) our characters (standard fantasy group) coming across an old A.I. that reactivates and tries killing them with futuristic technology. Fun spin on both sci-fi and fantasy, to me. I'll be watching, but I'm not expecting prestige drama. Looks like fun fantasy, though, like the books were. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Aug 31, 2015 |
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zoux posted:Trailer for MTV's fantasy foray. The trailer and description make it sound like they just threw as many fantasy tropes as possible in a blender. On the plus side, it has Manu Bennett in it.
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hcreight posted:The trailer and description make it sound like they just threw as many fantasy tropes as possible in a blender. On the plus side, it has Manu Bennett in it. It's just being true to the material.
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GreenNight posted:Hopefully it lasts longer than Legend of the Seeker. Legend of the Seeker lasted exactly 43 episodes longer than it had any right to.
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Tuxedo Jack posted:I've not heard of this series, but that trailer has me interested. High fantasy in a post-apocalyptic world? Is that essentially the gist? Why are you saying this as though this is somehow different from literally every popular YA series and probably most of the unpopular ones from like the last decade?
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Wait, what YA series have dwarves and elves fighting Skynet?
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Mu Zeta posted:Wait, what YA series have dwarves and elves fighting Skynet? Highly highly doubt the series will shows this unless we get to season 6+
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GreenNight posted:Hopefully it lasts longer than Legend of the Seeker. Wizard's First Rule was the only good book in the 3-4 I somehow read. How many times do you have to 'save' Kahlan from the author (not) writing in a rape, before you're tipping your fedora and calling her M'Mother Confessor? Also retarded BDSM torture nuns. Technically it had the potential to be a better show. Technically. I saw some of it and never bothered to watch the whole thing, it seemed terrible.
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Not saying the books were any good past the first couple, but the show was fun in a Hercules/Xena sort of way.
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Jon Do posted:Wizard's First Rule was the only good book in the 3-4 I somehow read. How many times do you have to 'save' Kahlan from the author (not) writing in a rape, before you're tipping your fedora and calling her M'Mother Confessor? Also retarded BDSM torture nuns.
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Who cares about the rampant rape and misogyny, literally a third of the first book was about "very dangerous mud people". And before you counter with "well maybe he didn't mean it that way..." he's a big follower of Objectivism. He knew exactly what he was writing.
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You know it's called the Sword of Truth because it literally says truth on the handle.
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in the final book they put all the MOOCHERS and LEECHES and LIBERALS that were ruining their fantasy land into a portal to a hellish nightmare world which is *dun dun dun* OUR WORLD
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Jon Do posted:Wizard's First Rule was the only good book in the 3-4 I somehow read. How many times do you have to 'save' Kahlan from the author (not) writing in a rape, before you're tipping your fedora and calling her M'Mother Confessor? Also retarded BDSM torture nuns. Believe it or not they got even worse! So, so much worse. The series climaxed with a soccer riot.
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IRQ posted:Believe it or not they got even worse! So, so much worse. Isn't that how we all climax.
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corn in the bible posted:in the final book they put all the MOOCHERS and LEECHES and LIBERALS that were ruining their fantasy land into a portal to a hellish nightmare world which is *dun dun dun* OUR WORLD gently caress you. I refuse to believe anyone good enough to get published is bad enough to write that.
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DivisionPost posted:gently caress you. I refuse to believe anyone good enough to get published is bad enough to write that. Possibly not as a first book but as the 15th or whatever of a best selling series? Sure.
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DivisionPost posted:gently caress you. I refuse to believe anyone good enough to get published is bad enough to write that. we live in an amazing world where anything is possible
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DivisionPost posted:gently caress you. I refuse to believe anyone good enough to get published is bad enough to write that. dude Crooked Little Vein got published
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DivisionPost posted:gently caress you. I refuse to believe anyone good enough to get published is bad enough to write that. Glenn Beck has written a few books last I checked.
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corn in the bible posted:we live in an amazing world where anything is possible Except season 4 of Hannibal
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DivisionPost posted:gently caress you. I refuse to believe anyone good enough to get published is bad enough to write that. It was actually everyone who wasn't magical, primarily, but also people who wanted a fair world without magic people. The author is a randroid shitlord, that should make corn in the bible's statement make a bit more sense.
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Gene Hackman Fan posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PilHB8f9c This was amazing. "Shoot the base of the fire, where its brains are!" Super psyched about it.
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Sober posted:Glenn Beck has written a few books last I checked. Oh God, I actually saw one of his fiction books in the supermarket a year ago -- Agenda 21 -- and laughed out loud reading the jacket. Some copywriter at the house that published Agenda 21 actually posted:A postapocalyptic thriller from #1 bestselling author Glenn Beck. I honestly would've bought it for laughs if I thought I was going to read the whole thing.
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DivisionPost posted:gently caress you. I refuse to believe anyone good enough to get published is bad enough to write that. You rang?  Check out the book forums thread on his particular brand of insanity. The dude looooooves some Ayn Rand. EDIT: And the poster above correctly pinpointed the best of the Shannara books. Its up and down in quality, but it had a progressively bonkers and melo-dramatic darkness as it went along (all the way to the loving Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse boss battles.
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Shageletic posted:EDIT: And the poster above correctly pinpointed the best of the Shannara books. Its up and down in quality, but it had a progressively bonkers and melo-dramatic darkness as it went along (all the way to the loving Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse boss battles. I remember enjoying the poo poo out of those parts (and the build-up to them) when I was a kid. He really grabbed that distilled essence of 'Trek to Mt. Doom' foreboding/anticipation.
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You wanna get nuts? ALL RIGHT, LET'S GET NUTSquote:This is the heart of the "Fundamental Question of Ethics" that appears at the very start of the Chronicles, which can be rephrased as "Do one's actions in dreams have any real significance?" Covenant's despicable act early in the first book (the rape of a young woman who befriends him when he first arrives in the Land) has consequences throughout the story and can be seen as an attempt to test this theory. The First Chronicles sees the reality of the Land eventually 'proven' to Covenant; another interpretation of Covenant's eventual decision to aid the Land is the realization that, whether the Land is real or not, it matters to him.
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Yeah, I tried to read those books, upon someone's reccomendation. They warned me about that part, and said as much about the repercussions and morality. They still creeped me the gently caress out. I don't even remember, but there were multiple other creepy moments. IIRC, he falls in love with his rape victim's daughter (mother?) or something and there's this awkward period where she doesn't know... and likes him.
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precision posted:You wanna get nuts? ALL RIGHT, LET'S GET NUTS I have those books too. Thomas Convenant the Unbeliever. I'm surprised David Eddings hasn't been made into anything yet since he is dead and all.
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