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Jim's stand on fic?
Infamous as Elle!:
--- Quote from: DragonFire on January 19, 2009, 10:11:26 PM ---My biggest probelm with Matrix Reloaded?
The completely gratuitous Zion orgy scene.
I mean, wtf??
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You mean you need to have a plot around porn.....err....orgy scenes?
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: Elle de Valois on January 19, 2009, 10:14:01 PM ---You mean you need to have a plot around porn.....err....orgy scenes?
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Not if it's a porn movie.
Otherwise, yeah, I'd like to know why, exactly, my characters feel the need to suddenly engage in massive, indiscriminate dance party sex.
The one time I'll relax that stand is the movie is about anthropomorphic bunnies.
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: Shecky on January 19, 2009, 10:13:31 PM ---I've tried, but I always fail to be able to see it this way. I saw it as Jordan creating a real world, with real things and real complications. To me, it made MORE sense for the world to bog itself down into politics and details in order for Tarmon Gai'don to be a REAL Big Deal. Real people lose themselves in the daily minutiae until the Big Deal steps up and nails them all collectively with the Almost Too Late stick. It just wouldn't have the same impact for me if Rand HAD united all the nations and gotten them primed and ready for TG; lessons from real-world wars and the inwardly-turned focus leading up to them are apparent in Jordan's writing.
PS: Oh, and the part-2 giggity? Yeah, that was useless.
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The problems with Elayne claiming the throne, I could see.
Some of Rand's problems, I could.
The crap with Perrin running around going 'Faile!!!!!".....no.
The sniffing, the crap with all the women with 'strong personalities' trying to push each other around....
It was just boring.
And it wasn't that it was there...that can be dealt with. It was more that the plot did not ADVANCE at all, and all this crap was around for 3 books. Nothing changed. Nothing got better. Nothing was resolved for good or ill.
I can see the real world lessons you're talking about but.....it's a fantast book series. It does contain an element of just hand waving away stuff that 'wouldn't happen in the real world'.
Infamous as Elle!:
--- Quote from: DragonFire on January 19, 2009, 10:29:38 PM ---The one time I'll relax that stand is the movie is about anthropomorphic bunnies.
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I must have really missed that one! :o
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: Elle de Valois on January 19, 2009, 10:35:38 PM ---I must have really missed that one! :o
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Umm..hopefully it has not, and will never be, made.
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