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Wasn't that supposed to be Quentyn's ace card? Didn't work out super-well when his face melted off.

I should think that if you were a dynastic line who's base of power relied upon the use of WMD...

Little further in, just hit some actual fetch-questing (i.e. go to point A for B, at point A meet C, who sends you to D for E, who might send you to X for Y to Z just so you can work your way back up...

Only a little ways into it (hard to tell by percentage since I don't know what the future holds, I'm guessing maybe 30-40% by plot structure guessing?) but so far, I'm enjoying it quite a bit. The...

Enjoying the show more than expected. Slightly confused though, who was the kid that the Jarl and his man took from Ragnar's farm and subsequently murdered? I thought at first that it was an hitherto...

You'll get more traction in the Anime subforum than in general TV.

As for the rest, it's a good thing.

I love that the theme to Star Blazers


http://youtu.be/QTY1i9F_7Yw

is entirely composed to the original theme for Yamato.

It's both respectful of the source and catchy! :D

WHUUUUAAAA? It's only been, like, a year or so. He must be feeling energetic. :D

The film version of Appaloosa is a damn near perfect adaptation of the novel. If you enjoyed it, there's three sequel novels that carry the story forward.

Isn't this the fella that was doing shooting sports therapy for PTSD vets, and one of them recently shot him and another fellow to death at the gun range? Frickin' ridiculous tragedy, this guy seemed...

Nope, the term has a bad reputation, but is inherently free of value judgements. An Archetype is the progenitor of a Stereotype... it's the original from which all others are derived. So for...

What you're identifying (from a technical writing perspective) is both a character stereotype as well as examples of characters lacking depth.

If someone is the "quiet, stoic badass" that's a...

Finished Book 11! It got much better towards the end, when the focus became less about characters plotting and more about characters doing. This series is much more fun when people are active. This...

Oh sure, anytime.

If you treat a comic like storyboards, you're right... there's nothing to gain.

But that's because you're making bad comics. When done well, comics have several advantages over film, not the least...

I'm about halfway through book 11 now, and I gotta say... if I weren't aiming to read Brandon's books, I'd give up again. I really, really want to slap the living shit out of almost every one of his...

It's true. I'm about halfway through 11 now, and it's picked up the pace considerably. There's even a fight scene, about 250 pages into it. -_-

It's possible I heard four weeks, and it's four months. I've not been tracking close because by the time I get to book 14, it'll probably be April. :)

Sanderson's a supporter of e-books, he's out...

It depends on who does it and how.

I'm all for graphic novels, but I hate abridgement, especially when the medium doesn't exactly force it the way films or television do. Given that few publishers...

Well, it sort of is that, but it uses that in illustrating its themes.

Gantz makes no apologies for being exploitative, but it shouldn't be dismissed just for exploiting sex and violence. It's an...

It's a Harriet thing (Jordan's widow). She wants a window. Plenty of people are upset about it, but the worst are those who are trashing the ratings on sites like Amazon because of this, and not...

Yeah, I'm further in, and it's still a thing. Sometimes I wonder if thematically Jordan wasn't trying to say something like, "this is what happens when people don't talk to each other," which I think...

With the falling numbers of print, I don't think there's a way to make a Shonen Jump-style anthology work anymore... it's been tried, probably most successfully with Shonen Jump. I think they're...

Slowly pushing through Knife of Dreams... I had wondered if my memory was fuzzy, but no... almost every woman in this series really does come off like a catty, manipulative, overconfident and...

Sanderson's also been an early adopter of offering free e-books to readers who purchase the hard-copy (or even just free) with books like Legion, The Emperor's Soul and Warbreaker.

It's the only series I consciously quit reading. I stuck through all the way until Book 10, the one where literally nothing of consequence happens. It's all the same events from the previous book...