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@Crimson: Please tell me they use the 24-hour showing to actually show complete series.
^^^ The Dutch version of Space Crusade is absolutely fucking glorious.
You could only show a handful of complete series in a 24-hour period, so it'd feel like kind of a waste of time.
Though it might be interesting if it was all short OVA series and movies and the like.
^^^Aside from OVA's or short 6-episode series, we don't show entire series.
^That's generally what we show, unless someone has a request.
@Nova: Oh, yeah, I meant that going to see your father is probably not a good idea.
Granted, I don't remember if you said he was one of the screwed-up members of your family, but still.
He used to be, but he sorted himself out, and he's a decent guy now.
Albeit, he's built himself a family in Brisbane, and I don't want to interfere with that.
. . . Your school does this? Man, mine barely lasts an hour because we only show one episode, and we don't even get to talk about it. There's talk of eventually having a movie night, but that'll probably be only one movie.
I would so love to show the first half of Rebuild to my anime club. Ah, well. At least I get to show AnoHana tomorrow. And we'll get to go to cons and stuff.
@Nova: Yeah, just write him a letter instead or something.
Lovely, my thighs are sore and I have to show up at the theater at Noon to bust my ass for upwards of eight whole hours.
...Now I'm paranoid I did it wrong
So, I just read Alex's review of the Witcher TV series. Let's say I do not agree with his... ghhh... opinion on- GHHHAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH-
WHAAAAT YOOOU SAAAAY?! THIIIIS HORRIFYING TRAAAVESTYYYY?!
FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOUUUEEEAARRRGHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRR *foam*
So, ahem. I am told the series was negligibly better than the full-length film. But still, I wouldn't risk a claim I'd enjoy it. I'm not even sure I'd enjoy it outright for the so-bad-it's-good factor.
Summerjazz crew introductory borrel was great: cool to see there is still board-ish stuff for people five years older than me. Also saw some dudettes from a board I did past semester, gotta do a reunion gig soonish so I can finally get my Simpsons beer opener back. Also, saw an office chair dumped for the garbage bros because of one minor tear in the leather on the way home, so I pilfered that stuff like a hobo. Arm hurts like hell from pulling it while biking, but sitting in front of the comp now is so goddamn worth it.
Yeah, The Witcher TV series certainly is something, isn't it? It's certainly far below the books and games in quality, but it seems kind of unfair to judge it entirely based on them. Taken in its own, the TV series is a mediocre swords-and-sorcery show that can be kind of fun if you like that kind of thing. It holds up a lot worse in relation to the other Witcher materials, but I suspect that 5/10 rating would make a lot more sense to people who've never read any of the books/played any of the games.
Or, basically, the series is bad because it makes stupid lore changes to a highly exceptional setting to the extent that they detract from the awesome series that could have potentially existed. But if you're unaware of those changes, it's just a completely average show.
But, hey, Gacek. If it makes you feel better, how about we list dumb changes we didn't like?
Over to you, Gacek.
First four points, nothing to add.
I don't know if there's a reason why women aren't witchers (seems to be a cultural thing mostly), but at least we know their elixirs make a mess out of a girl's hormonal development. If you ask me, I'd say that if women can become witchers, they will look like East German swimmers. When it comes to spellcasting - nowhere did I see it stated that men are any less capable magicians than women. One sorceress argues it is as you said, but as far as I know, third book of the Saga hasn't been translated yet? There are lots of powerful sorceresses, but given the rest, I'm gonna wager it's about the story's focus, not any sex's talents.
The samurai look seems to be a pure awkward attempt to shoehorn some Rule of Cool. Instant Awesome, Just Add Samurai. Or something of this kind.
As for kissy-kissy, I remember that Geralt got several girls in the short stories. I'd wager not in every one, so I'm willing to agree it's exaggerated. Not every was about ripping monsters anyway, if I remember that right. The series is based on the short stories.
Dandelion was tall and lean in the writing, he's short and fat in TV.
Fall of Kaer Morhen - you mean as some sort of introduction?
What else is there to complain about? Oh my... Id' make a general pick for the ridiculously low quality. These things make the Deathstalker films look like Jackson's work on Tolkien. Rubber zeugl. Pseudo-animatronic dragon. Elves who look like random low-on-money college students, told to dress like Indians from cheap western. So I'd call it sub-average, at best.
http://screenrant.com/ryan-reynolds-highlander-rob-182636/
Ryan Reynolds has been cast as Connor in the Highlander remake. Oi.
I'm gonna go with Cracked on it: don't remake films that don't need to be remade.
The third novel hasn't, no. The third book (as in, the first novel after the two short story compilations) has been. Strangely, the translators decided to skip right from the first compilation to the first novel. Which kinda sucks. The saga seems a bit more "amateur" to me than the short stories, which had to come right down to the point and pretty quickly. But within the saga, there's a lot of room to meander around and sometimes it seems overlong and pointless. Mind you, I've only read the first novel published after the short story compilations, so it could be Andrzej finding his feet in a context with much more freedom.
These all serve the narrative and are appropriate for their placement, though. It was only examined if it had any relevance. So if Geralt was just being cheeky and sleeping around, the writing treated it like cheeky promiscuity. The series loves to use swelling music every time Geralt has sex with a female character, whether we know anything about her or not, and ensures this happens at least once an episode.
That would probably have been better than using Geralt's childhood. But even if they stuck with the childhood introduction for the first episode, there has to be a time in between then and "now" when Kaer Morhen sees the wrong side of a few thousand sword blades. So it might be an introduction or an episode in and of itself. Although I'm not precisely sure when Kaer Morhen fell, since neither of the translated books or either of the games give you a precise indication. Or perhaps I'm just letting the games imprint an idea on me and Kaer Morhen didn't fall until well into the novels, and I'm just assuming it happened before the first short stories.
In any case, it would have been a cool thing.
This doesn't actually bother me so much, since budget limitations are always going to be a huge issue with a fantasy series. Even Game of Thrones, as great as it is, only barely avoids some of those issues. So I can look past all the quality issues that came from time constraints and simply not having enough money to pull it off. What gets me is that they decided to change perfectly workable elements of the books for no reason and the potential stories suffered for that.
In summary, all hail CD Projekt Red.
I am not sure now when Kaer Morhen fell, but it always felt like at least a couple of dozens of years ago.
As for the quality - Xena and Hercules series weren't high-budget, were they? I mean, if somebody cared at all, it could've looked better. But nobody did. Random fun fact: the guy who provided funding for the film is nowadays synonymous with illegal lobbying and other kinds of shady deals between big business and politicians.
I heard that one of our guys was there when CD Projekt looked for motion capture models. Apparently the way he did his German school techniques wasn't "cinematic" enough.
And of course, I fully agree on the hailing.
If you go back and look at them, they don't actually look any better than The Witcher series. In fact, The Witcher actually does really well with its props and costumes, failing technically when it comes supernatural stuff. You could mistake The Witcher TV series for a historical work if you only saw it at the right times, but Xena and Hercules looks like TV fantasy from beginning to end.
And I'm not surprised that The Witcher film was funded by a shady investor. I mean, it's kind of like the Polish equivalent of Batman or Star Wars, or so I'm led to believe, so it seems like the series is popular in many strata of society. That it randomly happened to get funded by a crook just seems more likely than something less culturally well-known, especially given that a Witcher film is theoretically an awesome investment given its popularity there.
That's kind of funny, because I'm sure the developers at CD Projekt Red have used the relationship between Geralt's animations and historical swordsmanship as a selling point. What makes this worse is that the combat system's major downfall is its inconsistency; Geralt's attacks don't follow consistent timings or pathings, so tough battles are even tougher because you might randomly get an animation that hands your enemy the advantage when you could have just as easily gotten the one you wanted.
The animations being less cinematic would make the game tangibly better, I think.
They used historical fencing as a basis, just from a HEMA group who, so to say, knew how to use it to make use of it on stage.
Lemme try my hand at a translation of that:
"Shitheads who drag the whole HEMA undertaking down by making martial and academic validity a secondary concern to looking cool"?
Because we have those guys in Australia, too. The kind of group that plays dress-up and has very strict ranks. And uses knightly pronouns to refer to one-another. Kind of like ARMA with kangaroos.
I mean, there's the local brand of ARMA, the splitt-offs of ARMA, and some other groups. That was one of the others; ARMA and the split-offs were too busy keeping it real to make it good enough for the games. Far from making it secondary concern, actually. As far as I know they're competent enough when they have to, just... I'd call them more business-oriented than we are.
Wait a second.
Are you saying these guys play it looser than ARMA?
Well, I just pulled my computer out of a two-day coma.
I also applied for volunteer work at the Powerhouse Museum. I'll be starting after the school holidays, so if you go to the Powerhouse Museum on a Friday then be on the lookout for a tall scrawny insomniac with unkempt shoulder-length brown hair.
Back from day 2 of orientation. Today's was pretty much about not getting people killed.
Anyway, I always thought Publix didn't have security and saw that as a bit of an oversight. Turns out, they do. They're disguised as customers.
That is awesome.
> get interested in Nana Mizuki's music thanks to Take a Shot, Innocent Starter, and Secret Ambition
> be shown a ton of her albums
> disappoint when not as interested in a random selection of other tracks by her
Nana Mizuki's voice saying "Aa! Okaeri!" whenever I log into Windows is pretty much the best thing ever.
I haven't listened to many of her songs though and I don't really feel like I need to change that.
She is a good voice actor though.
It's easier when it becomes your job to remind your parents who's who every time. The first two episodes are kind of slow, I liked them, they do a great job introducing the cast and setting the mood, but my folks were pretty bored.
We were only there for 4-5 hours, yay.