Poll of the week

[featherynscale]

[Poll #1240475]

Comments

[pwned-kisa.livejournal.com]

So, basically, my quarrel with the WoT series is the same issue I had with Tolken's stuff - he's just too damn wordy. Dude, really, you don't need to take up five pages to describe a mountain. I ended up skipping most of LotR, to get to the actual story. But then, when I watched the movies, it was insta-love, just add great cinematography. So, then, maybe it would be survivable, if they cut out most of the words by putting in pictures.

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...and don't I sound intelligent, now.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Heh. My favorite part of any of the Tolkien stuff is when he stops the main story to have a character sing or tell another story. Apparently, this is the stuff that everybody else skips. But, as mentioned above, I'm a mutant. I'm also an obsessive world-builder, so I think I dig the wordiness that establishes that there's a rich background, it's not just some characters moving a plot through empty space.

For contrast, I liked the movies, but thought they were waaaaaay too long. My attention span for visual media is extremely minimal.

[theslice.livejournal.com]

I'm with pwnedkitten above... I really, REALLY don't need to know a particular character's linage up to eleventy generations ago unless it has some bearing on a) the plot itself or b) how a character acts or reacts in a situation.

And the 3-page-long songs that have nothing to do with anything? Shorten to "The Fellowship sang some truly awesome First Age tunes for the remainder of the trip to keep themselves amused." Done and DONE.

[vediskoerner.livejournal.com]

Of course I would LOVE to be brilliant, but I'm not, so artistically talented would be a good second.

[auraseer.livejournal.com]

My first thought about WOT films was that they'd have to cut a metric assload of material to fit any of the books into a watchable movie. The shortest of them is what, 700 pages? On consideration, though, I recall how very many of those pages are filled with boring painstaking descriptions of dresses and furniture and hairstyles. That stuff could make the costume designers' lives a hell, but won't take any screen time at all. It might actually be possible to cover the main plot threads in "only" 13 movies.

A better idea might be to make it a cable TV series. There are easily several seasons worth of material there, and WOT could make good use of all that room for extended plotting and scheming and backstory. I'm visualizing soap opera-style voiceovers for exposition, and for recapping what has happened in the last two years since we saw these characters. ("Who's that guy with the beard and the hammer?")

Either way, there's the distressingly high probability that the material would be Hollywoodified into unrecognizable garbage, but one can always hope.

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

This may sound incredibly vain or tacky, but having lived for five decades now being wonderfully artistically creative, reasonably intelligent, attractive, sexy and clever...I'd really REALLY love a chance to try throwing money at all the rest of the stuff for a change.

I'm always up for a completely novel experience and that would be it.