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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Eddie Teach

A River Runs Through It. A pretty, uneventful movie.
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Syt

Star Trek: First Contact was released today 25 years ago. Yes, it's already a quarter of a century old.

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PDH!

HVC

Watched The wheel of time. It's inoffensive, but not exactly good. Only three episodes in so can get better. The multi-ethnics remote medieval village was an odd casting choice, but mainly from a distracting "how the hell does that work" sort of way, but its not a big deal.

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

garbon

Quote from: HVC on November 22, 2021, 02:00:31 PM
Watched The wheel of time. It's inoffensive, but not exactly good. Only three episodes in so can get better. The multi-ethnics remote medieval village was an odd casting choice, but mainly from a distracting "how the hell does that work" sort of way, but its not a big deal.



I'd say the opposite and found it fairly enjoyable, well just the first two eps. I don't really have hang ups about race though. :)
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Grey Fox

The Wheel of time is not medieval, a common misconception, it is post-apocalyptic.
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Zoupa

I doubt I'll continue. Seeing it on screen, it's even more obvious how LOTR-derivative the Wheel of Time is.

crazy canuck

Quote from: garbon on November 22, 2021, 02:06:41 PM
Quote from: HVC on November 22, 2021, 02:00:31 PM
Watched The wheel of time. It's inoffensive, but not exactly good. Only three episodes in so can get better. The multi-ethnics remote medieval village was an odd casting choice, but mainly from a distracting "how the hell does that work" sort of way, but its not a big deal.



I'd say the opposite and found it fairly enjoyable, well just the first two eps. I don't really have hang ups about race though. :)

I thought it was a bit odd seeing someone so white in that village - the whole notion is that the lineage of those villagers goes back into the mists of time - through all those generations of intermarriage within an isolated community, how the hell did he pop into the genetic mix?

Grey Fox

Quote from: crazy canuck on November 22, 2021, 02:32:11 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 22, 2021, 02:06:41 PM
Quote from: HVC on November 22, 2021, 02:00:31 PM
Watched The wheel of time. It's inoffensive, but not exactly good. Only three episodes in so can get better. The multi-ethnics remote medieval village was an odd casting choice, but mainly from a distracting "how the hell does that work" sort of way, but its not a big deal.



I'd say the opposite and found it fairly enjoyable, well just the first two eps. I don't really have hang ups about race though. :)

I thought it was a bit odd seeing someone so white in that village - the whole notion is that the lineage of those villagers goes back into the mists of time - through all those generations of intermarriage within an isolated community, how the hell did he pop into the genetic mix?

A great question, eh!
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

celedhring

I agree with HVC's appraisal of the show. Not good, but harmlessly watchable.

HVC

That's my point, there were too many different races (including too many white people Garb :P ), i questioned it for a bit, because it seemed off then kind of ignored it after.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

The Brain

Quote from: crazy canuck on November 22, 2021, 02:32:11 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 22, 2021, 02:06:41 PM
Quote from: HVC on November 22, 2021, 02:00:31 PM
Watched The wheel of time. It's inoffensive, but not exactly good. Only three episodes in so can get better. The multi-ethnics remote medieval village was an odd casting choice, but mainly from a distracting "how the hell does that work" sort of way, but its not a big deal.



I'd say the opposite and found it fairly enjoyable, well just the first two eps. I don't really have hang ups about race though. :)

I thought it was a bit odd seeing someone so white in that village - the whole notion is that the lineage of those villagers goes back into the mists of time - through all those generations of intermarriage within an isolated community, how the hell did he pop into the genetic mix?

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HVC

Quote from: Grey Fox on November 22, 2021, 02:23:20 PM
The Wheel of time is not medieval, a common misconception, it is post-apocalyptic.

medieval like, then :P
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Zoupa

I had the same reaction when watching the 1st episode of Foundation. How does Jared Harris exist 10 000 years in the future? Everyone should be more or less the same shade of brown by then.

garbon

So as I said I don't have racial hangups like apparently multiple white people do on this forum. ;)
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.