Great TV
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Banshee's baaack. Bigger and hairier than ever for one last season.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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I'm pissed because of who they killed. Banshee has an unfortunate habit of killing that type of character over and over and over and over and it's even more annoying that they are essentially basing the entire season on it. I'll still watch it, because it still promises to be good despite that; but for fuck's sake, man, it would not be hard to avoid.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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Yeah, that's an issue with other shows as well, although it can involve different types in each of them. I could name The Walking Dead as an infamous example.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel said:
Yeah, that's an issue with other shows as well, although it can involve different types in each of them. I could name The Walking Dead as an infamous example.
And I call those shows out too. But in Banshee's case, it's a very common version of it that requires little to no thought on the writers's part.
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While I wouldn't speculate to it being "great TV", I still though @Arkandel should know.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@Coin I read about that this morning. I dunno - it will come down to how much money they're willing to spend, I think. The Wheel of Time saga would require a hell of a lot of special effects to be pulled off, plus different sets (there are many locales, different civilizations, cultures etc) would make the production costs skyrocket.
If it's a cheap knockoff of Game of Thrones I'll be a sad panda. On the other hand the series is finished, Robert Jordan is long dead and they can simply have Sanderson write some of their scripts - it's not like he's not a robot who can match any deadline they can possibly set.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Coin I read about that this morning. I dunno - it will come down to how much money they're willing to spend, I think. The Wheel of Time saga would require a hell of a lot of special effects to be pulled off, plus different sets (there are many locales, different civilizations, cultures etc) would make the production costs skyrocket.
If it's a cheap knockoff of Game of Thrones I'll be a sad panda. On the other hand the series is finished, Robert Jordan is long dead and they can simply have Sanderson write some of their scripts - it's not like he's not a robot who can match any deadline they can possibly set.
I haven't actually read any Sanderson before, but I have listened to the first three or so seasons of Writing Excuses and I've read about his stuff and it basically seems like he is a robot who just churns out product of passable quality consistently.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@Coin Yeah, other than the Stormlight Archive - which I thoroughly enjoyed - none of his stuff was really good, but it never failed to be at least fun to read.
For the uninitiated, after Robert Jordan, the author of the Wheel of Time series passed away his estate brought Sanderson in to finish it. He actually did a very good job wrapping threads up - the guy is a first class world builder, and the general consensus was he handled the material pretty gracefully.
He also writes faster than anyone I've ever seen. Holy shit. It's unreal.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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Double post!
This is for @Coin and other Labyrinth fans. It's not mine, there's a 'what is your favorite fan theory' speculative thread on reddit that's produced/gathered a few gems.
My sister asked if the events of “The Labyrinth” are meant to be Sarah dreaming, or are they real? Although my primary reaction was that she shouldn’t put that much thought into any children’s movie (or any instance of David Bowie in tight pants), I’d like to take this opportunity to put so much thought into this children’s movie, that it’ll blow your mind.
So why is David Bowie kidnapping a child from an underage Jennifer Connelley?
In a time long long ago a sorcerer named Jareth fell in love with a girl named Sarah. Sarah’s father and step-mother would not let her marry Jareth because they wanted her to keep her, as a servant, to care for their other child. In a fit of rage Jareth kidnapped this other child and spirited it away to the fairy world. In this new world Jareth built a palace for his Sarah. He turned the spoiled child into a goblin, and kept it to be a servant.
Many stories of the fairy world tell us that time moves differently there than in our world (Rip Van Winkle for one). In the time it took for Jareth to build his kingdom, which he may have thought was little more than a few years, Sarah grew old and died.
Overcome by grief and addled by a lifetime spent in a strange world filled with monsters, Jareth goes mad. He refuses to believe that he has lost his love. He searches the mortal world from his castle, looking for her.Sarah is Hebrew name. So, it is common, and has been in use for thousands and thousands of years. It does not take long (for him) to find a dark haired girl named Sarah, who has a younger sibling, and who feels that she is treated unfairly by her step mother. In a fit of rage he kidnaps this other child and spirits it away to the fairy world. Perhaps this new Sarah dies in the quest to find the child, perhaps she wins her sibling back and flees.
Jareth searches the mortal world from his from his castle, looking for her. It does not take long to find a dark haired girl named Sarah…This is how Jareth becomes the goblin king. Every goblin in the goblin city is a child Jareth has stolen, who was not recovered by a Sarah. (he told the current Sarah that Toby would become a goblin if she did not find him in time)
This is why he builds the maze. The magic bog, the junk yard of useless treasures, all tricks to slow Sarah down. Because if he can only have his Sarah for the time it takes for her to regain the stolen child, he will make it take as long as possible, keep her as long as possible.
This is why there exists in our world a book containing the story.Because it has happened before. So many times. At some point some lucky Sarah must have returned to our world to tell the story. This is why when the most recent Sarah first meets Hoggle at the start of the labyrinth, and introduces herself; “I’m Sarah”, Hoggle responds “That’s what I figured.”
Because of course she’s Sarah.
They were all Sarah.- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel That's pretty good, actually.
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- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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I admit to both loving him in DD S2 but not being super interested in his own solo series.
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Killjoys and Dark Matter are coming back.
http://tvline.com/2016/04/29/killjoys-season-2-premiere-date-syfy-dark-matter/
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Black Sails is back. YAY!
The Expanse is back. YAY!
That was all.
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Ignore me, clicked zee wrong link.
Ahem. I will use this space to cheer noisily along with @lordbelh re: Black Sails, though!
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I admit to both loving him in DD S2 but not being super interested in his own solo series.
I kinda sorta feel that way about Iron Fist.
I have the feeling (and I hope I'm wrong) it'll be the first Netflix/Marvel series I won't really like. Obviously I'll watch it anyway, though.
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This is just another post of me going, "OMG, Black Sails, you magnificent bastard of a show."
It surprises me more than most shows do, I have to admit, but even when I can see a certain turn of events coming from a mile away, when they deliver on it, holy shit do they ever.
Everybody carry on and ignore my fangirling.
(I kinda guess at this point said endless fangirling makes it obvious as fuck-all what that general setting/concept for 'a frontier setting game in or around 1715 + some supernatural weirdness' is about. <cough cough cough>)
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality DAMN. Just damn. Black Sails keeps being awesome.
ETA: Im a few days late, I know. But I didnt have time to catch the newest episode until right now.
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Black Sails is rocking pretty hard, yeah. I was surprised at some choices, but it's good surprise.
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It's not Angels In America but When We Rise is heartbreakingly good.
