They've made a TV series of The Sword of Truth.
Oh yes.
WHOA :D
I mean, that does not necessarily have to be entirely bad, right?
Quote from: Cain on January 25, 2010, 10:10:48 PM
They've made a TV series of The Sword of Truth.
Oh yes.
~~~Payne: Has been downloading Season One for three days already
Who else read the title of this thread as: Payne, your favourite series ever just took a medium shit? I can't possibly be the only one.
Why would they do this?
Felix,
They won't make it past the first book, in all optimism.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on January 26, 2010, 01:21:04 AM
Who else read the title of this thread as: Payne, your favourite series ever just took a medium shit? I can't possibly be the only one.
I did.
And guess what, it still holds just as true!
It started airing in New Zealand in March '09. It's horrible. HORRIBLE.
Is it worse than that awful SciFi SyFy Channel Earthsea mini series? Because that was pretty gag-inducing.
It's the production company that did Hercules and Xena, but they actually learned not to be (too) cheesy. The TV plot is half-way through book 2, with some alteration and embellishment. Zedd is hilarious, and our 10 yr old watches it whenever he can catch it.
I wonder how they will deal with the insanity of the later books? The chicken that is not a chicken scene will be an instant Youtube classic.
What, a Lovecraftian chicken from beyond Space?
QuoteHissing, hackles lifting, the chicken's head rose.
Kahlan pulled back.
Its claws digging into stiff dead flesh, the chicken slowly turned to face her. It cocked its head, making its comb flop, its wattles sway.
"Shoo," Kahlan heard herself whisper.
There wasn't enough light, and besides, the side of its beak was covered with gore, so she couldn't tell if it had the dark spot. But she didn't need to see it.
"Dear spirits, help me," she prayed under her breath.
The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken.
This was evil manifest.
Bonus points for using a racial slur for the name of an entire tribe of people, in addition to hyperbolic nonsense about demonic chickens.
No. I will NOT ask for a link to pdf files.
NO.
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Randroid fantasy fiction stories with important human themes FTL
This is worse that me getting bored and reading Left Behind, isn't it?
Probably. Up to book three is a tolerable Robert Jordan rip-off. From book five until Naked Empire its Full-Metal-Randroid, and then it gets a bit more normal again. Or so I hear
I only read the first book and I really did enjoy it. I heard it got worse after that. Even if it didn't get worse after that, I can totally imagine it getting rather tedious, just for the fact that it goes on and on and on and on.
Quote from: Cain on January 26, 2010, 08:27:14 PM
Probably. Up to book three is a tolerable Robert Jordan rip-off. From book five until Naked Empire its Full-Metal-Randroid, and then it gets a bit more normal again. Or so I hear
No, book five until the end is the same story, but in reverse.
eh, there are worse ways to spend your time.
I liked the first book, when I read it in my early teens.
I usually hate the things I used to like. Usually.
Huh?
I haven't a clue, but they all have the correct names and number in their filenames, so its not really an issue.
I enjoyed Wizard's First Rule. It was well written, even though there wasn't a single original idea in the whole book.
I love how every sci-fi or fantasy series at some point becomes a vehicle for the author's brand of perversion. For example, the Mord Sith.
Can you imagine if in the real world, Osama Bin Laden was protected by an order of red-leather wearing hot bitch interrogators? It just doesn't make any goddamn sense!
Despite my enjoyment of the first book, I couldn't keep reading Goodkind's attempt to generically rehash every sword & sorcery fantasy novel ever written.
Fortunately, those red leather wearing dominatrixes interrogators are also included in the TV series. Hurrah for author appeal/fan service.
yeah when I heard they were making a TV series I was like, "oh sweet, more bdsm in the mainstream media!"
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I don't recall this from the books, but I am not complaining:
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Top pic, did they steal the backdrop from the old Dr Who episodes?
Also, the chicks in leather need less leather. I'm thinking red leather bikinis.
Quote from: Cramulus on January 27, 2010, 05:22:17 PM
I don't recall this from the books, but I am not complaining:
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There were indeed two lesbian Mord Sith in the books. One of them died of the plague.
Red leather not bloodcaked enough.
Quote from: Cramulus on January 27, 2010, 04:55:21 PM
I enjoyed Wizard's First Rule. It was well written, even though there wasn't a single original idea in the whole book.
really? which author did the "hypnotize an 8-year old boy that is buried up to his head into believing he is drinking warm blueberry surprise sauce instead of hot molten lead pouring down his throat" theme originally, then?
it's probably on TVTropes, though.
That was Goodkind, if memory serves.
Isn't that awful?
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 28, 2010, 08:59:20 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 27, 2010, 04:55:21 PM
I enjoyed Wizard's First Rule. It was well written, even though there wasn't a single original idea in the whole book.
really? which author did the "hypnotize an 8-year old boy that is buried up to his head into believing he is drinking warm blueberry surprise sauce instead of hot molten lead pouring down his throat" theme originally, then?
it's probably on TVTropes, though.
Pretty much every hack writer of the 19th century did a horror story about the abuses of hypnosis.
A variation on Mind Rape (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MindRape), perhaps?
Quote from: Cramulus on January 27, 2010, 04:55:21 PM
Can you imagine if in the real world, Osama Bin Laden was protected by an order of red-leather wearing hot bitch interrogators? It just doesn't make any goddamn sense!
How about Colonel Gaddafi (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1192494/More-make-hair-dye-40-virgin-bodyguards-Gaddafi-murderous-menace.html)?
QuoteBut it was the gun-toting female bodyguards in their khaki uniforms and red berets in the 67-year old dictator's entourage, girls who wear Kalashnikovs like Gucci fashion accessories, who stole the show.
Gaddafi is one of the maddest dictators on Earth and he doesn't like being upstaged - unless it's by this 40-strong troupe of well-equipped, all virgin minders.
Admiteddly, its not quite in the dominatrix league, but for an Islamic country in north Africa, its pretty damn close.
:lulz: wowwwwwwwwwwwww, truth really is stranger than fiction!
We will start with just one finger.
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