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indigi posted:if the broad dies as the inciting incident how is it 1k pages It's a mystery, the main character is a private investigator, and every book starts with someone dying
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how the christ does she get 1200 pages out of "well so much for the tolerant left"
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loquacius posted:It's a mystery, the main character is a private investigator, and every book starts with someone dying what, really? all the promotional material I've seen explicitly mentions that the killer(s) was an SJW, where is the mystery
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I assume it'd 50% that the explicit identity of the murderer is unknown and 50% that critics don't give a poo poo about spoiling it
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quote:“I should make it really clear after some of the things that have happened the last year that this is not depicting [that],” she said.
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indigi posted:what, really? all the promotional material I've seen explicitly mentions that the killer(s) was an SJW, where is the mystery The mystery is which SJW Caricature ultimately did it. Was it the neon haired pixie with purple lipstick who works at a vegan bookstore? Was it the Soy Boy who makes money crafting "birth certificates" for people's pets? OR WAS IT THE EVIL MAN WHO WEARS A SKIRT AND SAYS HE'S A WOMAN! IT WAS HIM HE'S SO EVIL I HATE HIM! Zero percent chance the "mystery" part of the mystery novel actually makes sense and it's just 1000 pages of her screaming about how evil some "trans" strawman is.
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Aug 30, 2022 19:53
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Rowling is also still publishing under her Robert Galbraith pen name and presumably doesn't understand the irony.
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1stGear posted:Rowling is also still publishing under her Robert Galbraith pen name and presumably doesn't understand the irony. That's probably a financial decision at this point. The Rowling name on a bookjacket right now would be infinitely more poisonous to sales
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:That's probably a financial decision at this point. Imagining the guy who just buys all these books completely unaware of who's writing them
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StashAugustine posted:Imagining the guy who just buys all these books completely unaware of who's writing them there are approximately zero people reading those books who aren't fully aware it's JKR; they "leaked" her identity pretty much instantly and it's intricately tied to the series' branding
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this week I read the first trade for Maniac of New York read the preview to see a very accurate portrayal of how a slasher would play out in our reality.
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Crain posted:Literally: "What if I, Joanne Rowling, were the actual victim of transphobia, and that I, the hero of reality, were the one facing attacks that trans activists are currently facing in reality? " uhhhh it's called having an imagination!!!! last time i checked i thought that was a good thing!!!!
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Variety/status/1564674573261586442
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Zendaya is Meechee???
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GET THAT BAG MR GANDHI
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Is For All Mankind trash? A friend of mine started watching it but I can't bring myself to do it, knowing that it will just be obnoxious.
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its not trash but it has ups and downs and the third season is more downs than ups the ratio for the first two is a lot better
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Reread the past few pages and it was missing this gif https://i.imgur.com/gN3vAnY.gifv
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Hypnolobster posted:Is For All Mankind trash? A friend of mine started watching it but I can't bring myself to do it, knowing that it will just be obnoxious. Seasons 1 and 2 are excellent. I haven't seen the 3rd yet.
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I just started it and its mostly good if you're into the subject matter. Agree with earlier assessment that the writing is kinda corny tbh
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watched the first ep and while probably accurate to the time it was hard not to laugh at americans weeping seeing footage of a cosmonaut on the moon proclaiming the superiority of the marxist leninist way of life
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Fellatio del Toro posted:watched the first ep and while probably accurate to the time it was hard not to laugh at americans weeping seeing footage of a cosmonaut on the moon proclaiming the superiority of the marxist leninist way of life Wait'll you see what gets the spooky cliffhanger music at the end of episode 2 lmao
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I liked For All Mankind but pooped out in the second season. the writing and characters remind me of Friday Night Lights and I like keeping track of the diverging timeline. the politics are lame but the actual science poo poo is neat
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Fellatio del Toro posted:watched the first ep and while probably accurate to the time it was hard not to laugh at americans weeping seeing footage of a cosmonaut on the moon proclaiming the superiority of the marxist leninist way of life the politics work really well when the soviets are this incomprehensible alien other but the quality of their depiction drops dramatically when they graduate from guests to regulars in season three
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:she did "regime change" the east and leave it entirely destabilized when it was no longer conducive to her goals so... yeah that all tracks. They wrote it off as ‘Oh ya she just send a single stud mercenary back to take care of everything, bing bong so simple.’ When what should have happened is them abandoning Westeros for the east. I mean were making it pretty obvious that her quest was an obsession based on long dead dynasty and no one even remembered her in the west. Meanwhile the western families were about to be destroyed by whitewalkers which were basically a lesson in the hubris of politics and conniving in the face of absolute annihilation. Call them a stand in for climate change or whatever. I was hoping that the whitewalkers would just.. win. And our heroes would be forced to abandon Westeros for their established dominion in the east. Danny would refuse and would either die by ice zombies with all the other throne obsessed idiots, or her own men after turning on them for defying her. Anyways I’ll have a chocolate frosty
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There were just so many established themes, worldbuilding, and rules they ignored or forgot like a Starbucks cup left in the frame. Even single scenes like when Danny’s dragon sees her dead, sees Jon over the body, and decides it’s the THRONE’S fault, and melts it alone to teach everyone a valuable lesson on the pursuits of power and flies back to its home planet. OR it could have roasted EVERYTHING because it’s a rage filled murder machine avenging its mother, and we remember that true Targaeryns are fireproof, and Jon is a Targaeryn! He then emerges from the ashes a defeated man and fucks off to the wall. A tragic ending using poo poo they drilled into our heads over 8 seasons that they completely forgot about. Durf has issued a correction as of 09:30 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Dany going crazy is like a lot of big media that gets released any more where it's thematically interesting and for some people that will be enough but it's let down by the people making it just sort of filming their first draft and not doing any of the hard work of getting the story to wotk. It's the same thing with The Last Jedi, The Matrix 4, a lot of MCU movies.
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Also this better have people clipping through roads and cops appearing out of thin air https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqIas3bYhg
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Durf posted:There were just so many established themes, worldbuilding, and rules they ignored or forgot like a Starbucks cup left in the frame. "Themes are for eighth-grade book reports" -David Benioff The reason the show went to poo poo after they ran out of book material is because, for all his faults, GRRM does understand how storytelling works. Benioff and Weiss do not.
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Mantis42 posted:Dany going crazy is like a lot of big media that gets released any more where it's thematically interesting and for some people that will be enough but it's let down by the people making it just sort of filming their first draft and not doing any of the hard work of getting the story to wotk. It's the same thing with The Last Jedi, The Matrix 4, a lot of MCU movies. Any time a villain has understandable motivations or even has a good point, they must suddenly go crazy and decide everyone needs to die, justifying extreme action being taken against them. It’s lazy as gently caress. Without it Batman would just be another cop jailing and beating up the mentally ill. 1stGear posted:"Themes are for eighth-grade book reports" -David Benioff Oh WOW Let’s put our billion dollar franchise in the hands of a real life Garth Marenghi
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:The first scene I said "ok actually that was stupid" was when Dany crowd surfed amongst coloureds. That may have been S3. Unfortunately it began to quickly get bad at that point. I came to the realization of where the show was going and bailed when they invented some random goon with double daggers to 1v1 John Snow in Craster's keep like a video game mini-boss for no reason at all.
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1stGear posted:"Themes are for eighth-grade book reports" -David Benioff 
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watching hapthor bjornsson lifting videos gets 100% of the good game of thrones content across while being much less obnoxious to listen to
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Zvahl posted:watching hapthor bjornsson lifting videos gets 100% of the good game of thrones content across while being much less obnoxious to listen to unless hapthor bjornsson is the redhead wild lady and they lift topless I disagree that it gets 100% of the good GoT content
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i only the other day learned that Matthew Holness, the alter ego of Garth Marenghi, actually is a pretty good horror author and also directed the hosed up movie Possum.
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loquacius posted:Reread the past few pages and it was missing this gif lol
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