Lit MACLUNKY -- The Lit Forum Maclunky Thread, v3

...Man, I am so here for using Grievous/the CIS in general to mock the hell out of Lost Cause BS that it's not even funny.

 

Right around the time the original Battlefront II was really popular we were watching the Civil War movie Glory in our history class, and at the end when they've lost the battle and the Confederate flag is being raised, I turned to my friend and said "The Confederacy is in control of another command post", which cause a lot of inappropriate laughter.

 

Cowboy Grievous spinning pistols to showboat and intimidate in a high-noon shootout, like this but with four blasters at once:

 

Now I'm imagining Indiana Jones just rolling his eyes and stabbing him with a sword.

 

Because I'm Gamiel:

@Charlemagne19 based on how many referenes and bad puns you used in your "the Anchor" setting am I surprised that you did not have a "Trader Jawa's" store/chain


by the way of http://shirtigo.co/trader-jawa/

 

Oh, I love bad puns and references.

They're the basis of Jane Doe's adventures in I WAS A TEENAGE WEREDEER. She works at the Deerlightful Diner with her dad Buck.

 

That Jawa doesn’t look very happy, didn’t want to be in the picture?

 

Any Twin Peaks fans floating around Lit? My wife and I finally got our hands on the season three bluray and have been working through it. Just finished "Gotta Light?" and my mind is too blown to actually construct any coherent thought about it. All I can think of is how far the series has come from the days when it was basically an off-kilter soap opera / murder mystery.

 

Twin Peaks is an amazing experience and inspired me to write my Bright Falls Mysteries novels. The show's first season was amazing and roughly half of the second season was also an incredible series of events (along with half a season of truly terrible episodes). Fire Walk With Me is an underrated classic, IMHPO. Twin Peaks: The Return was even more crazy and outlandish but I loved it too.

Spoiler

Sadly, I feel like the ending was even more cliffhangery than the original.

 

TP also inspired me to write back in high school (and continues to be a never-ending font of inspiration even today). That first season and a third or so is amazing, Fire Walk With Me is a gem, and the third season so far is a wild, weird experience that I'm enjoying a great deal despite having almost no idea whatsoever what's going on (which is all par for the course with a Lynch project so no points deducted for that). The latter two thirds or so of season two are a rough patch, no doubt about it, but at least the finale gives it a nice recovery. As far as a cliffhanger ending for season 3 goes, it can't possibly be worse than the one for season 2, right? ...Right?

 

Dude, YES!

Game of Thrones doing The Dance of the Dragons!

http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2019/09/hbo-to-order-second-game-of-thrones.html

 

Awesome!

I'm just wrapping up Season 8 so I'm excited to explore more of GoT

 

"Ryan Condal, who was recently developing Amazon's Conan the Barbarian TV series before they passed on it, is developing the pilot"

I'm still really bitter about this not happening. Would have taken Conan over WoT or LotR series in a heartbeat. Love fantasy. Love "walk the earth" TV shows... and unto this: CONAN.

Oh well.

Anyway, cool. I wonder if they'll feel beholden to the GoT continuity. I would assume so. Kind of a shame. I want a better looking Iron Throne. (I appreciate that's "ironic"** and stuff but it's so piddly. Dany's Dragonstone Throne was a much better size: just cover that in swords!)

EDIT: On the subject of WoT, here's a photo of the principal cast together:



For all the bellyaching (belly...whistling?) about "forced diversity", I notice that the actors playing Mat, Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve (the only four for whom it matters) actually do all look like they could come from the same general region. So that particular objection no longer seems to have much of a leg to stand on.


** EDIT: Ahaha the "ironic throne". I meant "iconic", obviously, but I'll leave it as is.

 

Speaking of "Continuity" I'm so curious to see the aesthetic choices they make for the LOTR Second Age tv show.

 

Yeah, me too. I'm kind of hoping they blaze their own trail but I think it's fairly likely it'll be really Jacksonish. Grapevine seems to think Weta is already involved, too?

 

A Conan show would have been incredible. I want some Belit on tv!

 

I am making an attempt to read through all or some of the Dune books. Who else has read these? Is there a point where I should stop? I heard the Brian Herbert/KJ Anderson ones suck. Should I stop before then?

Dune was just as good as I remember it, but I just got through Dune 2: Messiah and that sucked pretty bad. Without going into too many spoilers, in my version Brian gave an introduction explaining that Messiah didn't do well with neither critics nor fans, and he claims it was because they didn't understand the plot because they wanted Paul to be a faultless hero. But I kinda disagree with him since every darned page of the book says "Paul's gonna mess up" and even Paul says it fifty million times. Rather, Dune 2 performs the cardinal literary sin of introducing far too many characters and plots at the beginning that don't go anywhere, and kills half the cast offscreen.

I'm about a third of the way through Dune 3: Children of Dune now, and I'm not sure what to make of the series. It's still not as good as Dune 1, but at least Jessica's back so there's one logically thinking person in the cast again, and they've shut Paul up for the moment so he's not all "hey guys I suck at the hero thing, oh woe is me, I'm gonna messiah-drive us all over a cliff like lemmings".

The main thing I like about Dunes 2 and 3, which wasn't much of a message in Dune 1, is the whole "don't live your life through premonitions". It's like Dooku's obsession of predicting the future in the new Master & Apprentice book. There is a Frank Herbert quotable quote that floats out there, "The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience", that I rather like and sums this theme up. The obsession with trying to predict the future in order to control it drives many to madness.

So speaking about knowing the future, does the rest of the Dune series suck post-Frank?

 

Time for an inevitable avatar change.

 

Since it's not official it's not worth it's own thread....yet....but from Hollywood Reporter

 

Can people who have Twitter accounts please report the fake Ian McDiarmid twitter, https://twitter.com/ianmcdiarmid_ ?



"I don't have any social media accounts, so if you think you're contacting me on Facebook and Twitter or any other site, you're not. It's all of these people pretending to be me, which is kind of odd, but in a way, a kind of tribute too, but, no, if you come across me, apparently me, on social media, it's not me."

 

THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND.

 

So, about that new Picard novel....


RRP £16.99 !?

No.

I've enjoyed the run on Trek books for the last few years, but that was when they were £6.99 paperbacks. Then they went up to £10.99, now £16.99. Nope, time to bail.

 

Because I am Gamiel I wonder if anybody have used the Blazing Chain pirates from SW SAGA RPG supplement Unknown Regions and if so: in which part of the UR did you place them?

 

This is the first time the Avengers game has actually looked decent.