Well, DBO sure blew up for a bit there, didn't it? (Destiny)

by Leviathan , Hotel Zanzibar, Friday, July 31, 2015, 16:04 (3409 days ago) @ Avateur

So let's try to bridge gaps and get to know each other a bit better. Let's try to create some understanding with one another. I know, this might seem a bit laughable coming from me, but why not?

First, how about your likes?

Hmm...I'll just pick a couple of currently active ones.

-I'm really excited by the comic East of West by Johnathan Hickman. It's really telling a unique story and using the medium well. It's full to the brim of ideas and passion, which is what art is all about to me.

-Also in the comic book realm, I'm bummed that Phil Noto's two year run on Black Widow just ended. They took a character I've never liked and has always been exploited as a one-dimensional seductress and turned her into a living, breathing character. The art is subtle and descriptive, the paneling flowing and exciting. The balance of colors in a spread is insightful. I accidentally bought two copies of an issue one time so my OCD allowed me to take one apart and pin up the pages on my bulletin board to study.

-I can't stop listening to My Morning Jacket's The Waterfall album. I continually daydream/plan a sequence for my comic to the track "Believe" while I'm driving. Going to be seeing the band live in August for the first time and I'm pretty excited about that. It's pretty easy to find passionate songs full of depression and despair; it's a lot harder to find passionate songs full of hope and contentment. A few of their songs especially helped me out of a dark place a couple of years ago.

-I really enjoy 'Art of' books. Even if I don't care for the film.

-And, reminded by your dislike :), The Hobbit films, and the Extended Editions at that. I would have taken 4 more hours of dwarves hiking and singing, too!

I'm glad we're getting beyond the 2 or 3 hour traditional film/tv adaption. I've always thought it was fairly arbitrary how certain mediums equal certain quantities of a another. A 450 page book gets 2 1/2 hours of a film or six issues of a comic or four episodes of a mini-series. Why? Obviously you can make sense out of it from a production stand-point, but I think it should really be up to the adapter, their style, and how they're interpreting the work, not to mention the content and style of the original work itself, to determine the length (if it's something that should be determined at all and not just something that 'happens' as you make it).

The first season of Game of Thrones took 11 hours to adapt the first book in that series and that felt great. 9 hours for the Hobbit + sequences from the LOTR Appendices is a dream come true for my middle school self who used to doodle those obscure Appendices scenes in his notebook, never thinking they'd get a live-action go. :)

So, how about dislikes?

-The fact that Lord of the Rings is only 3 films. 7 films seems about right by my calculation: at least one for each of the six 'Books', plus a two-hour cool-down film at the end that's just shots of mountains and trees...I'm only kind of joking.

-The editing style and soundtracks of reality television. I think I might be able to watch a show like Survivor without gouging my eyes out if it was just presented in a completely different format.

-Forerunner Dogs.

-Hearing the bass of somebody's loud music through the wall, whether they're in the room beyond or in a passing car. If I had been exposed to Gamma radiation, this would be my trigger.

What's your favorite video gaming console or handheld device of all time?

Probably PS1. I played Final Fantasy V-IX on that, plus Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo, and not least of all, Mega Man Legends 1 and 2. While I played my brothers' Atari, Nintendo, and Genesis consoles before that, the PS1 was the first console that was actually mine and it came at a perfect time.

The first XBox is snuggled up there with it, too. Halo 1 and 2 and the Knights of the Old Republic... Good times.

Cake or pie?

I have a messed up digestive system so I usually have to avoid both.

Whose posts do you always find yourself clicking on?

I think it's less who and more what. Any post that deals with lore is a must-click, as well as a fan-creations and 'look what just happened in Destiny last night' posts.

It's hard not to read Claude's posts. I mean he won the "Claude Errera Award". In fact, I'll go out on a limb here and say he's the best Claude Errera I've ever met.