Kids are incredibly picky. I know when I was a kid and I used to see adaptations of books I'd read over and over and over I would freak out "That's not how it goes. That's not right. They left that out. This is WRONG!"

I still do that...

I have to admit I did it a bit during FoTR. "but..but...that's not how Merry and Pippin ACT...they aren't so...but...they are more..."

"where is the poetry. Where is Sam's love for the elves? How can he leave out that. Sam's journey and character development is key to the story!"

Um, I'm a little too invested in Samwise Gamgee. But not in a porny way.

askye, I just noticed your tag. Yaaaaaay!

Wanna know how you know you're over-invested?

When you realize that, being as it's Thursday, that means that by late tonight, there will be the FF list up on Silverlake.

And that you look forward to it the way some people look forward to Christmas, or Must-See TV.

I'm going to try and devise a spear or some sort of Scola the Destroyer, or maybe a raygun. I'm not sure.

I'll admit that Jackson's a better storyteller than JRR was

I'll admit that if you'll put 'for the medium of film' at the end. But we have a thread for that sort of debate now, so I won't say any more.

PMM, I thought the mark of being over-invested in a character was when you heard their voice instead of yours in your head?

(I do that with Drusilla from time to time. Spooky.)

PMM, I thought the mark of being over-invested in a character was when you heard their voice instead of yours in your head?

I mean over-invested in the whole reading-writing-feedbacking circle of wank.

The other, well, it's par for the course. If I didn't hear the voices, I wouldn't write them (hush, Gunn, I've no time for you now).

reading-writing-feedbacking circle of wank

'Circle of Wank'. Yes! It's the latest new religion from Buffistas.com!

Join the Circle of Wank and be saved!

(Hail Eris!)

If I didn't hear the voices, I wouldn't write them

It's not the hearing voice wanting to be written that bothers me, it's hearing Drusilla's voice telling me to listen to the dolly because the moon is sing that bothers me. Of course, that could be Drusilla-speak for 'write me some hot Spike-snuff-porn'. You never know.

it's hearing Drusilla's voice telling me to listen to the dolly because the moon is sing that bothers me

You mean it's bad when you have voices like that? Because I listen to a small fanged stuffed bunny (who is TOO alive, quit looking at me like that, didn't any of you read The Velveteen Rabbit?)

You mean it's bad when you have voices like that?

Well, it's not too bad when they're fairly sane. I mean, hearing Xander telling me how much he wants to sleep with Spike is fine, good even. Hearing Luke Skywalker doesn't bother me. It's when it's Darth Vader and Drusilla I start to worry. I don't know why- it's pretty irrational.

After all, I don't worry about the fairies, or the gnomes, or the water sprities, or the wood nymphs, so why worry about vampires or the Sith? Really, I should worry less.