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OT: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Thread - SPOILERS Part Three

And not just dinosaurs with sword arms, UNDEAD dinosaurs with sword arms.

I knocked out a good chunk tonight before the game. I actually had to force myself to stop reading because I would have kept going until 10:00 and still not made dinner.

Random stream of consciousness while I watch the game:

Shit is starting to pop off. K'chain Che'Malle are popping up all over the place, as are the T'Lan Imass gathering for the Gathering. Tool's conversation with his sister was heartbreaking. Envy and her crew made it to the Domin and have started absolutely slaughtering dudes. They tore apart the temple at the border and started some wholesale slaughter in Bastion. Toc is trying to nope out, though. When I stopped reading he had just turned onto a street full of zealots.


We learned why Quick Ben has access to so many warrens, despite most people thinking he's just some average mage and witnessed the birth of the Bridgeburners. That whole trek across the desert was some Chain of Dogs level shit, and Whiskeyjack just casually tells the story in about 15 pages.


Gruntle and Co were just barely saved by the T'Lann Imass and Grey Swords (who put up an absolutely insane charge against a K'chain earlier, I really want to see them in action against some conventional enemies).




All of that is a sideshow, though. The real concern is the Burn/Chained One situation. It won't matter what happens in Capustan if Burn dies and the whole planet gets turned into a tinderbox.
I loved reading Quick Ben's backstory/origin story, that was such a rad reveal.

Also, f***ing brutal siege at capstan. A massive army sustaining itself self on cannibalism? Shit's messed up.
 
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I don't know how a live action adaptation would ever do it justice. There are so many out there ideas that visually it would be a massive effort to reproduce.

Maybe as an animation? I could see that.
CGI out of the ass but maybe no more than a marvel movie like Dr Strange
 
Man, Memories of Ice is a f***ing beefy book lol. I'm not quite halfway through and my kindle is telling me I've got 10+ hours left to finish it. Wikipedia says it's ~346,000 words. I've got through part 2, thoughts below.


Toc ditched Envy and crew and 'joined' up with the Pannin Domin lead by the Children of the Dead Seed kid (who is creepy as hell btw). Now he's getting absolutely abused by the Seer (who is somebody piloting a corpse around), constantly being crushed, but also healed at the same time. Dude can't catch a break. I really hope he and Tool and reunite. Second best bromance in the series AINEC. Also, the Trygalle carriages exiting a warren in a giant explosion of blood is metal as hell.

Dujek/Brood and company are making their way to Capustan, and the Mhybe is not having a good time. She's deteriorating fast, even with Kruppe (THE GOAT) giving her some help. Whiskeyjack is about to clap some Tiste Andii cheeks, so good for him. Kallor is looking like a traitor, though, and has started working with the Crippled God.

The Bridgeburners, featuring Trotts, have made nice with the Barghast following a brutal duel and a f***ing tracheotomy. The spirits helped Mallet access his warren to heal Trotts.


And the situation in Capustan is injuriating as hell. The Masked Council or whatever they're called are morons. Let's play politics and infight while a giant army of cannibal rapists are about to knock down our doors! What could go wrong?
 
Basically everyone that followed thought "fast cuts and shaking....good?" without giving a thought to much else. It was a bad time.

Fast cuts and shaking can be unbelievably lazy and editor’s salvaging crap footage…..or well choreographed and storyboarded. It’s just a matter of whose hands it’s in. That’s all action. The best action scenes maintain a sense of geography — you know where everything is. I’m NOT a fan of shaky cam and fast cuts, and yet the Greengrass Bourne movies are phenomenal at it. It’s actually not easy to nail.
 
Fast cuts and shaking can be unbelievably lazy and editor’s salvaging crap footage…..or well choreographed and storyboarded. It’s just a matter of whose hands it’s in. That’s all action. The best action scenes maintain a sense of geography — you know where everything is. I’m NOT a fan of shaky cam and fast cuts, and yet the Greengrass Bourne movies are phenomenal at it. It’s actually not easy to nail.

I don't remember what 2010s slop I was watching. It was an action film that wasn't worth checking the title.

The low point was a low shot as vehicles drove by. It could and should have been a steady shot. For reasons completely unclear, they made sure to wave the camera around a bit. It dind't match anything with the score either, they were just waving the camera about.

It was the low point of all human expression.
 
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The fault of the Bourne movies
The fault of the mid 2000’s. Everything’s up close and shaky.

Wow it was actually the Bourne movies that created shaky cam.
I thought I hated that movie solely for dismantling embassy marines like they were goons without name tags, now I have another reason to hate it.
 
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Whiskeyjack just got merked. I knew that bum leg was gonna come back to haunt him. Kallor needs to DIE.

Man, is the whole series going to be this traumatizing?
 
I don't remember what 2010s slop I was watching. It was an action film that wasn't worth checking the title.

The low point was a low shot as vehicles drove by. It could and should have been a steady shot. For reasons completely unclear, they made sure to wave the camera around a bit. It dind't match anything with the score either, they were just waving the camera about.

It was the low point of all human expression.


Hell even a lot of 'crappy' b-movies from the 70s/80s/90s (well early to maybe mid) have better car chases and pyro work than much of the fake CGI in multi-hundred million budget movies today.
 
No context, just a name. Who’s your favorite character so far? Can’t be Toc the Younger
I just finished Memories of Ice, and I'd like to add Itkovian, Gruntle, Paran, and the twin marines who looked after Silverfox to my previous list.


Hood's marble balls on an anvil that was a book. But now... I am done.
 

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