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  1. 5 hours ago, 2nd Rate Forsaken said:

    Well answer the question of favorite character, my two obvious picks are Mat and Nyeneve.  It's hard for me to choose a favorite. I also liked Elayne a lot on my first readthrough. I was surprised when I saw how much she was disliked. Personally, I like her because she reminds me of Reese Witherspoon from Legally Blonde. The humor in this series really hits my sweet spot and she had a lot of great moments for me.  

     

    As for other series I like, I've got a few.  Before I started reading these books I was really into the Shanara books.  Two very different writing styles there but I like both series a lot.  I haven't read ASOIF in a while but I like those books as well.  Brandon Sanderson's books aren't my absolute favorite but they're pretty good.  One of my all time favorites is Nancy Farmer's Sea of Trolls books.  They really got me into fantasy and I still love them 10 years later.

    Mat is always a good choice but I'll admit Elayne is...not one of my favorites.

     

    I like the Shanara books too although I haven't read them all.

    Did you read the Jerle Shanara trilogy? The one with the Airship? Those ones are my favorite.

    I also really like the Landover series by Brooks as well.

     

    Never heard of the Sea of Trolls.

    Kind of sounds like a YA series?

    I'd have to say my favorite YA series is the Edge Chronicles.

  2. I actually have yet to read WoT all the way through.

    Rereading it every time a new book came out burned me out so by the time the last book came out I read it and never looked back.

    One day I would like to read the series cover to cover though.

     

    What other fantasy series do you enjoy?

     

    Also, welcome to the forums! Hope you enjoy it here.

  3. Watched this a few weeks ago and it was actually very good. 

    Highly recommend it. Also IDK how historically accurate it is or not so if you're a history buff don't blame me if it deviates because I don't know.

    All I know is that it was an entertaining mini series.

     

     

  4. That's it then.

     

    Ok so I have two big problems with how the season ended.



     

    1) First and foremost was Eugene turning traitor on Negan. Say what you will about former friendships and blah blah blah Eugene's character is "smart coward". With Negan he no longer had to be a coward and he had someone who actually appreciated his skills and didn't just put him down (ok Negan did a little of that but it wasn't in the way Rick's crew did). Eugene had power and respect and a purpose as one of Negan's Lieutenants. Not only that but Eugene was let in on Negan's master plan and knew it would work. The only reason it didn't was Eugene's sabotage. It makes no sense whatsoever in my opinion. You can say oh but Eugene was still friends with Rick's crew all you want. Eugene's character has always been to be a loner and look out for himself he wouldn't risk his position for Rick and his people even if they WERE his friends. Call it character development if you want I call it Eugene Ex Machina and in so doing they ruined what credibility the show had left to tell a good story IMO.

     

    2) Second is Rick's "quadruple cross" as I call it. This one isn't as egregious as Eugene and they did set it up to a certain degree with Carl's letter but even so it managed to ruin Rick's character for me as well. They spent a lot of time breaking Rick down these past couple seasons. To the point where he's started to do obviously evil things. Even before he read the letter he had a basic idea of what it said and he knew that Carl didn't want him to kill Negan. And yet he continued killing Negan's men anyway and promised to kill Negan himself. So I don't believe for a second that actually reading the letter should have changed his mind. With all that said we come to the "quadruple cross". I call it that because the writers had us think that Rick was going to kill Negan, then they had us believe that actually Rick was going to be able to reason with Negan into working with Rick's group, then they had us believe that Rick tricked Negan and actually killed him, oh but just kidding we're going to stitch his neck up (before he bled out? yeah right) and let him live but only in a cell not how Carl wanted. Tee hee such good writing amirite guys? You all thought you knew what was going to happen but then it didn't but then it did but then it didn't again but then it actually did but not how you thought hahaha wow we're so clever. Seriously though there is something to be said for surprising an audience and then there's just flipping the story on it's head several times so no one has any idea wtf is going to happen because nothing is following the flow of the arc set forth from the beginning anymore. A Rick gone rogue, an evil Rick, could have been genuinely interesting. How would other characters relate to the things he was doing? A Rick gone bad and then gone good again is boring. We've done this for 8 seasons now and all we got out of it was a beard and Carl's death. I don't know about the rest of you but I probably wont be watching next season.

     

    P.S. That bit at the end with Maggie getting a group together to kill Negan makes no sense to me. Why was Jesus there? Isn't he always the one saying not to kill people and all that? Am I forgetting something? It should have been a one on one with Daryl.

  5. 5 minutes ago, Gentled Ben said:

    Oh man, I was so totally cheering for her to take his hand and do exactly that. That would have been an amazing plot twist and something I could really get behind. The series could have gone in so many wonderful directions at that point, even back to Sith vs Jedi eventually if that's what they really wanted, but to not take the detour at all after slowing down to read the sign, wow, that really sucked.

    I think maybe someone wanted to take it in that direction but the heads of Disney maybe shut it down and said stick to the formula. Because it seems so weird that entire movie was pushing towards that twist and then it just did a 180 out of nowhere. Like why build Rey and Kylo's relationship like that? Why kill Snoke with so little payoff? It all seems boring and pointless...unless someone was planning to take the story in the direction we're theorizing about and it just didn't happen.

     

    I don't write fanfics but if I did this is the fanfic I would write about.

  6. Really? I can't say I experienced that myself with AC.

    I think the only problem I had with the show really was the romance between Takeshi and Quell.

    It seemed kind of forced to me and their relationship felt very unnatural.

    But it wasn't at the forefront except for maybe one episode so it's easy to overlook that.

  7. 11 hours ago, Krakalakachkn said:

    Nah.  

     

     

    Should I?

    You like Sci Fi? Murder Mystery? Gratuitous sex, violence, nudity?

    If yes to any 2/3 then yeah probably.

     

    9 hours ago, 2RiversFan said:

    I watched it as well.  As Netflix originals go, it was one of the better ones, but still falls FAR short of something like Game of Thrones.

    GoT has better acting but I wouldn't say the acting in AC was bad, just mostly mediocre.

  8. 2 minutes ago, SinisterDeath said:

    Sci-Fantasy Magic shields that keep air in but lets matter fly out.

    How do the bombs even DROP in a ship in Space? Wth wouldn't you.. umm. Launch them with some form of propellant so they move faster than your artificial gravity?!? 

    Seriously, space bombers like that is the most retarded things I've seen in a movie in a while.

    To the first part, no shield was shown.

     

    Secondly you're right but I can overlook that. Maybe the bombs are kind of launched when they're dropped idk.

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