Let's Party!
Oct. 9th, 2008 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartTwo years ago we had great fun with this thing. So, I thought, why not give it another try?
It's called the Collapsed Threads Game, and the goal is to have so many comments that the individual threads would collapse. Deadline is October 9 (next Thursday), which is my 52nd birthday. Yes, I'm actually that old, at least on paper. *g*
Two years ago, we had 250+ comments. I aim to break the record this time. So, talk to me, ask questions, send people my way, have fun - the goal is to reach at least four pages. More were better, but four pages full of collapsed threads would be wonderful, too.
I won't have a birthday party in RL, so let's throw one in cyberspace and have a good time, eh?
Oh, and I'll bounce up the entry date each day till October 9, so that newcomers can join the party, too. The more, the merrier. *g*
Fazit:
Many heartfelt thanks to all those who came to my virtual party: those who generated interesting discussions, those who sent me virtual cake and those who just dropped by to brighten my day. I had great fun, I had inspiring discussions, and we have broken the record - thank you!
Special thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
altariel and the_wild_iris who sent many new, lovely visitors to the party - I hope some of you will drop by from time to time later.
Thanks again, it was great fun... the best party I could have imagined.
Addendum:
And lookie, I got a wonderful birthday ficlet from Larner! Am so pleased! It has been forever since anyone gifted a birthday fic upon me. *is happy*
It's called the Collapsed Threads Game, and the goal is to have so many comments that the individual threads would collapse. Deadline is October 9 (next Thursday), which is my 52nd birthday. Yes, I'm actually that old, at least on paper. *g*
Two years ago, we had 250+ comments. I aim to break the record this time. So, talk to me, ask questions, send people my way, have fun - the goal is to reach at least four pages. More were better, but four pages full of collapsed threads would be wonderful, too.
I won't have a birthday party in RL, so let's throw one in cyberspace and have a good time, eh?
Oh, and I'll bounce up the entry date each day till October 9, so that newcomers can join the party, too. The more, the merrier. *g*
Fazit:
Many heartfelt thanks to all those who came to my virtual party: those who generated interesting discussions, those who sent me virtual cake and those who just dropped by to brighten my day. I had great fun, I had inspiring discussions, and we have broken the record - thank you!
Special thanks to
altariel and the_wild_iris who sent many new, lovely visitors to the party - I hope some of you will drop by from time to time later.Thanks again, it was great fun... the best party I could have imagined.
Addendum:
And lookie, I got a wonderful birthday ficlet from Larner! Am so pleased! It has been forever since anyone gifted a birthday fic upon me. *is happy*
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Date: 2008-10-04 09:31 pm (UTC)When I think about it, B5 used to have a great deal of fantasy in it, despite the Sci-fi settings. All those First Ones and their crusade against the Shadows...
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Date: 2008-10-04 10:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-05 08:37 am (UTC)Actually, I'd have greatly preferred LOTR as a multiple-season fantasy TV-show, starting with The Hobbit, showing what Certain People (TM) did between The Hobbit and LOTR - Gandalf and Aragorn come to mind; the tale of Arwen and Aragorn could have been wonderfully romantic, IMO - and showing every single aspect of the trilogy, including the outrageous Tom Bombadil, the creepy Barrow-wights and the most important Scouring of the Shire. They could have used the same sets for at least five years, and afterwards still film two sequels, with stories of the First and Second Ages.
Actually, Helge Fauskanger, who happens to be the greatest Tolkien linguist of our time, suggested a possible plotline for a theoretical Second Age movie (http://www.uib.no/people/hnohf/num-intro.htm), which is, in my opinion, very intriguing. Of course, Mr. Fauskanger knows his stuff like very few people know - the least certain movie directors whose main interests are ugly monsters and bloody battles.
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Date: 2008-10-05 10:16 am (UTC)Are there any other good fantasy books (apart from LOTR) anyone might consider doing for tv? I'm not a big fantasy reader. I suppose the closest thing I reader to that right now is Terry Pratchett, and the adaptions for tv for his stuff is mostly good but a bit hit and miss too.
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Date: 2008-10-05 12:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-08 06:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-05 01:45 pm (UTC)I almost said "Earthsea", but they've already butchered that one, making most of the canonically dark-skinned characters lily white and hyperoxide blond, not to mention raping both the storylines and the spirit of the original, so it's a show best forgotten.
Opportunistic as I am, I've still bought aforementioned abomination on DVD, because, well, even cheap fantasy is better sometimes than no fantasy at all, but it's really a badly made show.
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Date: 2008-10-05 12:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-10-05 06:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-05 08:50 pm (UTC)The Westernesse movie idea is cool indeed, but I still think it would work a lot better as one TV-movie + a series.
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Date: 2008-10-05 09:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-06 03:03 am (UTC)Also, I would recommend the Pern series in general but the more recent ones which were written by Anne McCaffrey with her son Todd are not very good. There's also disagreement among fans about whether it's best to read the series in chronological order or the order they were released. I'd go with chronological order because it makes more sense but there's also a difference in writing styles between some of the books that were written first and those that were released later so the quality can vary. But they're still pretty good.
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Date: 2008-10-06 05:59 am (UTC)I wonder when that series would eventually come to Hungarian - or German - TV, and under which ridiculous title. They always rechristen the series in a way no one would recognize them by title alone. For example, Queer As Folk ran on Hungarian TV under the title "The Boys from the Club". It took me a season and a half until I recognized it.
The new series sounds interesting, though, despite Sam Raimi's involvement. Let's hope he doesn't screw up too much. As long as his little brother doesn't play a starring role... or any role, just to be on the safe side...
And it seems I really have to look out for that Pern series. If only the single English bookshop weren't on the other side of the town... and if I could reasonably hope that they would have any sci-fi or fantasy... Ah, well, we're planning to go to Vienna on the end of the month, perhaps I'll get lucky there. Although they tend to keep nothing but crap, too. We'll see.
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Date: 2008-10-06 11:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-07 07:10 am (UTC)BTW, did you know that the Germans call movies taking place in Ancient Greece and Rome "Sandal films"? I find it funny.
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Date: 2008-10-06 10:36 am (UTC)As for a Westernesse series, yeah, tht would work well as a series, wouldn't it? Really, I think from all Tolkien tales still to be told, I think it's one of these that would work best as a series. Or as a mini-series consisting of TV movie-length episodes (like "Taken".)
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Date: 2008-10-06 05:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-06 06:20 pm (UTC)If you don't have a library, I think it'd probably be best to pick one of the sub-series and read that for the moment, just so the monster series won't be all that monstrous. Or start with the single novels. I started with "Pyramids", which was a good starting place in hindsight since it takes place in a country that only appears in this novel... so it's introduced new in this book, no prior knowledge required.
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Date: 2008-10-06 06:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-10-07 10:19 am (UTC)List of books in reading order: http://www.lspace.de/dafp/reihenfolge.html
List of books in order they're published: http://testberichte.ebay.de/Terry-Pratchett-DIE-SCHEIBENWELT-BUCHERLISTE_W0QQugidZ10000000004203339?ssPageName=BUYGD:CAT:-1:SEARCH:1
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