they read as mythical and pain-filled and somehow very true in the same way that The Hobbit did for me.
In many ways, more so. What the protagonists do, in pride or ignorance, is far beyond any error Bilbo would ever make.
Kaylee: You're nice, too. Mal: No, I'm not. I'm a mean old man.
'Serenity'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Consuela - Dec 07, 2004 6:06:47 pm PST #8786 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
JenP - Dec 07, 2004 6:23:57 pm PST #8787 of 10000
I'd be hard pressed to suggest something more worthy of reading.
That's a rec I will take, then. I'm surprised I'd never heard of it, actually. (Edited to remove babbling. Sometimes I use too many words.)
Consuela - Dec 07, 2004 6:42:25 pm PST #8788 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, you've heard of LeGuin, I assume, yeah?
IIRC, one or more of the Earthsea novels won the Newberry award back in the early 70s.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2004 7:26:06 pm PST #8789 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Consuela - Dec 07, 2004 7:57:19 pm PST #8790 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Point taken. But they're still wrong as a wrong thing. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
My god, these girls have barrettes! t flails in disgust
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2004 7:59:59 pm PST #8791 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't care what you dress Kristin Kreuk in -- she's going to ... god, she sounded awful.
Katie M - Dec 07, 2004 8:10:11 pm PST #8792 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
I never really loved Earthsea, so I don't have the kind of gut-level picture of it that I do of Tolkien, but I remember the Tombs of Atuan and man, I never pictured it as even vaguely faux-medieval. More... I dunno. Greek, if anything.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2004 8:12:41 pm PST #8793 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I do remember envisioning it as bare -- robes, not dresses, you know?
Consuela - Dec 07, 2004 8:34:16 pm PST #8794 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yup. Barefoot, desert, black robes, spare, ascetic. Withered trees and dust, and little oil lamps and wrinkled apples. Gruel and bread with grit in it.
Not veils and prissy dresses and candalabras. Bleah.
Nutty - Dec 08, 2004 4:30:48 am PST #8795 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The funny part is, the source texts are basically a "How to Confound Hollywood" manual, you know? Hero is black, as are almost all the supporting characters. (The only white people are barbarian invaders, and one guy in the third novel.) Major actions -- Ged becoming a dragonlord, e.g. -- happen between one novel and the next, and are never flashed back to. The climax of the first book is the hero's surrender. Ged goes on a quest and meets a pretty girl, and takes her home with him, and she ends up... becoming an obscure farm-wife to somebody not named Ged.
I'm secure in the knowledge that even the faithfullest filmmaker would have huge difficulty making a good film out of the novels, so knowing that unfaithful filmmakers are making a bad film out of it -- I don't feel the need to care.