Wow seems like no one is posting now, well hope this gets the creative juices flowing again.
It always struck me as a little convenient that Legolas choked at the battle of Helms Deep. It's something that is indicative of bad writing. I mean to have the guy who can hit a moving goblin on a wrog at 500 yards with a bow miss a running goblin with a torch at 50 yards is just too much of a stretch for me. Thankfully there are not many instances of bad writing in LoTR.
I hope this games doesn't suck. But I know it will, that's why I haven't posted anything about it yet, but after seeing the remix with the G1 soundtrack I just had to.
The oldest thing I can hear myself saying is "Back on dial-up". The wonderful thing about technology is that we advance with it so fast, it's also the worst thing. I'm not sure if everyone had a set, but i remember when we had an entire set of encyclopedias, I also remember our first Microsoft "Encarta" disk which made those books worthless. Now we can have any information we want with just a few keystrokes, and it's a shame that almost no one realizes it.
Writing a story is hard. Writing a good story is almost impossible. Writing characters and the events in their lives in an engaging way then, must be some kind of miracle. They say that the best kind of writing is the kind that can draw an emotional response from the reader. How difficult must it be then, to do the same with movies, and ever harder still to do it on a kids TV show. While attending early morning seminary I was the first to wake up in the morning. Beast-wars was on right before Gargoyles, and I'll admit that while fun I didn't give it the credit that was do to it, until Code of Hero. At this point Dinobot wasn't just a a character in a TV show. Dinobot was a person, he had a personality, he had flaws, he felt anger, loss, remorse. He had a soul. I've never been able to impart that much life to anything. Opining with Dinobot contemplating suicide for previous actions was not something to take lightly, it wasn't the first time that Dinobot portrayed his honor bound samurai-esq lifestyle, but it was the most extreme and character defining moment of his life. Resolved to correct the mistake and restore his honor he defeats a band of predicons and saves the proto-humans living in the valley they were attacking, alone. Badly damaged and running low on power he faces off against Megatron and with his last ounce of power destroys a golden disk that would have given Megatron the power to change the future and win the Beast-wars. The Maximals arrive and chase Megatron off but it's too late for Dinobot, his last words are haunting, noble, and strangely moving. Honoring their fallen comrade by flying in a missing man formation the Maximals disintegrate his body as his spark joins the matrix. It's still not possible for me to watch this episode without tearing up.
Guess this means I used up my post for the week. Orcana of Time routinely makes #1 on lots of peoples top ten lists of favorite video games, and it deserves to be there. Some one once said that stories we tell today will one day become the "Hercules" and "Beowulf" of the future. I can't speak for everyone but it brings a smile to my face to think that 100 years from now 12th grade English students will be reading "The legend of the hero of time" or what ever they are gonna end up calling it.
Wakening up the the realization that you are a grown up is a sobering moment in ones existence, I'm told. Looking back I don't feel older or even more mature. Oh and you can add this to your little text thing.
More new trilogy hate from me today. What happened to R2 and 3P0 in the new trilogy really makes me mad, 'specially 3PO, if Anikin is building him to help out his mom he is a special kind of stupid. It's a PROTOCOL droid. Something tells me that Mrs. (or is it MS.) Skywalker doesn't take part in any kind of diplomatic relations on Tantooine where she is a SLAVE, so what the crap is she gonna use a protocol droid for? But what happens to R2 is the worst. The guy bears witness to the inside story of the rise of the empire, who the players were, what they did, who was to blame. Instead of giving him an awesome undercover mission to steal info and get it to the beginnings of the rebel alliance, shadow Princess Leia and report to Obi-wan about what she is doing they give him rocket boosters and have him fly around at the end of ep. 3.
The cats almost killed me this morning trying to get me to go downstairs while both running around under my feet. It's funny how humans have some deep primal urge to keep and care for something that is so cute and playful and harmless, when in fact they really are little furry instruments of death and destruction.
I love the original trilogy. I love it so much that even the Special Editions don't really bother me. But The Battle of Endor really leaves something to be desired. Barry and I talked about it, and i don't understand why George didn't digitally add the thousands and thousands of Ewoks it would have taken to actually win the planet side battle, instead of that awful musical number in Jabbas palace.
It's things like this that really make me love anime. When it comes to teasers and trailers I can get pretty starry eyed. Thank goodness I'm immune to optimistic objective thinking.
