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Randomness VIII: The Great Green Arkleseizure

Froggy the Great

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Honestly, I'll probably end up selling most of the bones 2 and bones 3 core sets. I like the bones material but my tastes have changed so much over the last year, I don't see myself ever getting around to most of them. The big ones, I'll keep. Love the larger bones minis.

 

I stashed mine along with my metals.  My interest in fantasy (of all media forms) is presently super dead.  Will probably come back, which is why I'm holding onto them.

 

I've been painting Flames of War and watching war movies (and also The Pacific and Band of Brothers), but as much as I love Return of the King (which is really rather a lot) I don't think I could sit through it right now if you offered me 1000 bucks.

 

Even in American bucks.

 

 

You should dig out a nice quasi-Aryan looking knigget ...set him on a plinth, ...paint him as a statue, ...to make a middle-of-the-town-square terrain piece.

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Sister had to be taken to the emergency room today. Severe headache and nausea. She is okay, they just need to up her pain meds and steroids. Neurosurgeon says all looks fine. No more scares.

 

Good to hear things are going well after all.

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I've mixed feelings about that. I've some of the animated adaptations and a live action adaptation on disc and I don't feel they captured the magic of Pratchetts writing very well.

I know that there's been others, Hogswatch for one, so I guess it's just a matter of keeping ones fingers crossed.

The animated versions were done early and on the cheap. Like for example, they did the common practice of every voice actor recording their lines in complete isolation, which meant that no one could respond to the tone of anyone else and so a lot of what were supposed to be jokes, funny lines, and banter fell flat. Also the drawing was hasty and crude. And really, there is no way to film a satire of rock music without using actual rock music somewhere in it.

I appreciated that the cartoons were there, but they felt like they were holding places for something better to come.

I feel like Hogfather was orders of magnitude better, really worthy of annual holiday watching. And of course there are any number of live theatrical adaptations, although I haven't seen a production.

Which live action production do you have?

The Color of Magic with David Jason, Sean Aston, Tim Curry, and featuring Christopher Lee as the VOICE OF DEATH.

With that cast you'd think it would be better than it turned out. I think part of it was that it felt like many of the actors were miscast in their roles.

As an aside, I was a fan of David Jason in A Touch Of Frost mystery series and always thought he'd make a great Sam Vimes. Seeing him cast as Rincewind just didn't seem right. He's much too old for the part.

I've never seen Hogswatch but I've heard good things about it.

Wow. You know, I had totally forgotten about that production.

And that's saying something.

"The Colour of Magic", the first of the Discworld books, is in my opinion among the weakest and worst of all of them. When recommending the series to people I usually suggest they skip it since it is so very different from so many of the later, more powerful, funnier books as to give an utterly false impression of whether the readers would like the rest of the series or not.

Rincewind I always envisioned as a relatively young, perennial grad student. Not some greybeard old Gandalf-type, but more of a tall, underfed young fellow built for running, with a scraggly beard and sandals.

There are also aspects of the story which make me a little uneasy. Twoflower is very obviously meant to be a far East Asian satire, but a horrendously stereotypical one. Having an Asian actor playing him would feel creepy, but having a white actor screwing up his face to play him feels worse.

In Hogfather they cast Constable Visit the Heathen With Explanatory Pamphlets (a paraphrase of his full name) into an Indian-Pakistani rather than the pilgrim-Puritan he so obviously was. I'm okay with that -- he's not a jmajor character there. But why whitewash Twoflower?

I think nowadays it's very difficult to come up with an exotic nationality without the potential of crossing stereotypical boundaries.

Still, casting Sean Astin is about as mundane as one could get. Wish they had taken a chance with that casting.

And I really need to find a place locally where I can pickup those other movies on disc.

 

 

 

 

I spotted a Darsc in the usual Randomness tonight. I was getting worried that he had crossed over into the Ordered portions of the forum, never to be seen again but nope, he's still around. And that's Greeaaaat!

 

I sense you may not be taking my ghost bunny sighting seriously. <_<

Two Darsc sightings in one day!

 

But seriously, I was merely taking the opportunity to poke fun at you a bit and welcome you back to Random.

 

ETA: Also, how often has anything been taken all that seriously in Randomness? ::P:

If there's anything I've learned from the randomness there's two topics to be taken seriously.

Ghost Bunnies and Coffee. :;):

 

EDIT: and Bacon.

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I spotted a Darsc in the usual Randomness tonight. I was getting worried that he had crossed over into the Ordered portions of the forum, never to be seen again but nope, he's still around. And that's Greeaaaat!

I sense you may not be taking my ghost bunny sighting seriously. <_<

Two Darsc sightings in one day!

 

But seriously, I was merely taking the opportunity to poke fun at you a bit and welcome you back to Random.

 

ETA: Also, how often has anything been taken all that seriously in Randomness? ::P:

 

If there's anything I've learned from the randomness there's two topics to be taken seriously.

Ghost Bunnies and Coffee. :;):

 

EDIT: and Bacon.

 

And Glitter.  People get really bent out of shape about glitter.

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I pre-ordered some of the new Happy Seppuku stamps including the new Sinister Hive stamp, so I've been prying the Bathalians off their bases so I can rebase them with that.  I just stabbed myself in the joint where my thumb meets my hand with the sculpting tool I was prying them off the display bases with.  I actually impressed myself with the breadth and depth of my blue streak to the point that I forgot about the pain.

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