Because paladins should genocide X people or lose their powers or batman does not have free will and other silly assertations like that that’ll invariably pop up. It doesnt hold up beyond a surface level glance and almost never even actually matters, but people have really long and exhausting debates over it anyway.
I’d absolutely love to see the whole heresy play out on the screen, but it would be hundreds or thousands of hours to show it all lol. I’ve been reading through it at a pretty good pace and after a year in only about halfway through lol.
Looking forward to seeing what Cavill does with 40k. I heard they only got the rights to 40k though, not 30k or fantasy, so it’s possible someone else gets those rights.
Not the asshole. They are trying to get something for nothing it sounds like. You had evry right to do and say what you did. “Sorry, you have to do your own job” shouldn’t be something that you have to say, but you will need to say it, probably more than once.
It's not terrible, it's just incredibly underwhelming. It's a movie where occasionally things happen. Sometimes fantasy things happen. But somehow in the most boring way possible. Eventually the movie ended.
NPR stays pretty lean on the editorials and opinions. I’m not big on the panel discussion from the 24/7 news companies like Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc. Not that they don’t have a bias, but they more or less let you make up your own mind.
I feel the reason why cnn or fox have panel discusions is because they are made for tv and with for profit motive. While Npr is a nonptofit and made for radio. Radio allows npr to easily and cheaply role the news live practically 24/7 and it just opens them up to do more. While with tv news its more expensive, and they dont really have as much freedom but the auduence is larger. Tv news has to more desperately make the money back they spent.
Health related bullshit like a “cleanse” and other woowoo health shit, especially when people talk authoritatively about it. Look, Jenny, you obviously don’t know shit about what you are talking about because you wouldn’t be talking about it if you did.
If you need a cleanse, your fucking kidneys and liver are broken. Seek help.
I’ve long wanted Terry Pratchett’s Discworld to be made into a series. I used to think it wouldn’t be possible because of how much the humour relies on the narrator, but after seeing the (IMO successful) Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events, I think it is possible.
I’d like to do a series that takes place after the books where Vimes son goes to the Assasins academy and befriends a fellow student who doesnt realize he is a born wizard. I envision five seasons with each season taking up about 3 to 5 years in story. This allows the actors to age gracefully and gives time for quality writing instead of rushing to get a season out before someone gets pregnant or starts balding.
Each season would follow them through their late teens and 20s as they live and thrive in Anhk-Morport. First season would be them at the academy. Second would be them in the Watch. Third would have them part ways as young Sam advances in the Watch while the other starts working covertly for the Patrician.
It’d generally be villain of the week with some over-arching storylines, showing them solving the same mystery from different perspectives, while mostly having each others back even when its not obvious.
Eventually it would culminate in young Sam taking over the watch from Carrot, while his friend finally faces the music and joins UU.
I’d like to throw Carrot and Angua’s daughter in there too, but that might get in the way of one of the potential storylines. Also I don’t want it to be a Harry Potter clone.
My entry into Discworld was Guards! Guards! and I’d love to see a really good rendition of that. I know a lot of people loves Vimes, and I do too, but I also love Carrot and his werewolf girlfriend and I’d like to see Carrot being Carrot.
I think Susan’s story as the grand-daughter of Death could be great, too.
I know Neil Gaiman has a great deal on his plate shepherding his own works onto the screen, but I wish he magically had a bit of extra time and energy to do something (besides Good Omens) of Pratchett’s.
Nutrition. I spent years reading about nutrition to the point of being afraid to eat basically anything, I went to a “nutritionist” school with a strong anti animal product bent.
I don’t want to hear your nutrition “facts.” If it works for you, good for you! If you want my advice about what works for me, I’ll freely give it when asked. But literally every research based bit of nutrition advice can be contradicted with another bit of research based nutrition advice and most people are working with a model of nutrition science from about 1995.
I swear if I have to listen to one more emotional to the point of tears monologue about the perils of soy/dairy/meat/gluten/carbs/cholesterol/saturated fat/vegetables/“modern fruits”/grains/unfermented foods/bioaccumulated whatevers/etc WHILE I’M TRYING TO EAT, I may take advantage of my pointy food weapons.
Eat what makes you feel vibrant and leave everyone else alone.
I reckon you’ve been downvoted for the agenda comment, but you’re absolutely right about it being bullshit. They fucking ruined it. Imo it’s less about ‘agenda’ and more about the arrogance of the directing team.
Literally all they had to do was replicate the stories for the screen, but they couldn’t resist putting ‘their stamp on it’. What a missed open goal.
Don’t really care, if people can’t see that the director is pushing her agenda into the thing and kinda forgets about actually adapting the source material, it’s their problem, not mine.
The Witcher books talk about a lot of issues that are relevant today (like racism, the price of being neutral, colonialism and many more), I personally also love the medieval politics bit (you can see that Sapkowski really loves history in those parts) and I think it deserves a proper adaptation, not this hacked together bullshit that just likes to push every modern agenda in there.
You (the general you) can dislike my opinion as much as you want, that’s really up to you, but IMO one of those things lines pretending it works with societal issues, while the other one truly presents them as such.
I’ve never read the books, huge fan of the game series. I love reading, but what’s put me off is Sapkowski’s reputation for being an arsehole. I dunno, I’ve always been a bit resistant to consuming media if I don’t like the creator.
Like, I can enjoy Michael Jackson songs, but if I discovered him today with all the baggage attached I might never have formed an attachment to his music. Think I’ll see if I can find any Witcher books in the library and then if I don’t enjoy, I’ve not wasted any money.
Well, he is an arsehole a bit, but not on the level I’d consider turning away from his books. I probably wouldn’t want to be friends with him, but he’s not such a big arsehole that I would lose sleep over supporting him financially. I truly recommend the books, though I’ve heard that the English translations leave a lot to be desired.
We had a Shannara series! Despite the creative license taken with some characters / the lore (Manu Bennett is an awesome actor but Allanon, the tall rangey ancient wizard? Really?), I was gutted that it got cancelled.
Only got two seasons unfortunately. Maybe if they didn’t do a Witcher and were more faithful to the lore it would’ve picked up all the OG fans: epguides.com/ShannaraChronicles/
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