Gaah. Forgot you cannot edit posts and how awful that was. If I remember tight indeed...

You made me remember one horror movie I did like. The Abominable Dr. Phibes, with Vincent Price. That was pretty twisted to watch as a kid. A serial murderer bent on revenge killing his victims based on the ten biblical plagues. Though if I remember tight one guy was killed by a giant unicorn statue, so maybe I'm misremembering that. Don't recall the plague of unicorns from the Bible anyway.

Not sure I can recommend it, but it does certainly have a Tarantino flavour and Kurt Russell is as stomach churning as he is in Death Proof, so if you are a fan...

The Hateful Eight is sort of horror, sort of camping, and has a real mafia-game feel to it in the middle section, between the incredibly dull start and bizarre ending.

Oooh, I have seen that one. That was quite funny.

Em, Pocahontas? Or there was that weird film with Adam Driver, 65, that was mostly in woods. Sort of. Predator? That was pretty good.

Don't watch horror films, cannot answer sorry.

Hi de hi, fellow campers 🙂

Thank you for asking, and risking the wrath of the Gods of Battleships 🙂 I was worried that the AI had been reading WoT and she would start crossing her arms beneath her breasts, tugging her braid and fidgeting with the neckline of her dress trying to contain her overabundance of bosom, lol. Anyway, metal images aside, 1 or 2? Maybe we should try to solve the puzzle ourselves before asking Nyra.

Does anyone else have any idea what Nyra looks like? She was just a shape at first, then had wings and now she is kneeling, laying her hand on her chest and narrowing her eyes. Has she become tinker bell or does it just get confused sometimes when describíng a female entity?

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Overwhelming restoration does sound a bit intimidating. I vote for using our bestest girl.

One of you guys has hacked my TV, during the Hamilton game it was pushing that on my homepage (do TVs have homepages?) and then when I took a break from the Action Hero one it was Con Air (my character's film). I don't even have Disney. But kind of freaky coincidences.

Well, this is a bit of the problem that the show faces. One camp of people demand internal consistency within the show. Due to the show being rewritten after Barney quit (or whatever), the Emond Field boys were never with Lan, no scenes of any training. In the show, Rand had at that point not done much more than hold the sword. For him to defeat a Blademaster would be ridiculous, immersion destroying and completely confusing for people that had not read the book, goes such an argument. Another camp of people want to see one of their favourite scenes like it was in the book. The way it panned out there was no way to satisfy both camps. To me, having Rand menacingly use the One Power, with a nod to the way he made the assassins bow to him in tDR, in a scene that both showcased the Seanchan mentality and splendour and took up very little time, was a good solution. Not least because in the book it was already stretching credulity that Rand could win the fight - the only saving grace being that it was more presented as Rand's battle with himself and Saidin - something they simply could not film anyway. That is my subjective opinion on it. If I am reading between the lines correctly, your subjective opinion is that it wasn't a good solution.

There is also things like Cressida Cowell's How to Train your Dragon, where they took a successful book, the character names and rough setting and made a completely different story. The original dragons sat on your shoulder, and Toothless was, well, toothless. The show is definitely trying to tell the same story.

But that isn't how it works - you cannot only cut things from a story and expect it to be coherent. That doesn't mean that they have necessarily made great decisions, of course not. And no one is under any obligation to enjoy the show or agree with any changes made. Things like Steppin being added to illustrate the Warder bond when there was already so much time spent on Lan and Moiraine seems a strange decision to me. The whole concept of the show with a greater role for Moiraine for example meant that changes at least in perspective were coming. I don't think it works that if you are selling a certain pitch in terms of seasons that you can just go back on that and actually plan 50% more seasons. I would imagine, not being an expert myself admittedly, that one of the things that helps getting future seasons greenlit is appearing to be complying with what has been already agreed. The show definitely has issues, I cannot see how even the most ardent fan of it would not admit this. But no matter how much of a "purist" anyone is, you still have to accept that these matters are subjective opinion. There was never any chance of a completely faithful adaptation, there is nowhere near enough time allotted or budget. My hopes were that the show would be able to convey the same themes (and of course in art, we can all take and prioritise different themes, such as for me the supernatural was never a main theme - everything is about human behaviour, so me and Flinn_Myth take very different things out of the book there) and broad thrust of the story, while also being entertaining TV sprinkled with the iconic scenes from the book. And for me they have partially managed this, and have managed to create an enjoyable experience.

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1 or 4?

Sorry, used the wrong term. Must have been translating in my head, lol.

Works for me 🙂

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