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

by Avateur , Saturday, August 01, 2015, 00:35 (3409 days ago) @ Leviathan

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.

I haven't read it, but just about anything by Jonathan Hickman is amazing as far as I'm concerned. He's so masterful with his writing, and his plans are insane. He seriously visions things out years in advance, has mostly general to solid ideas about how they will play out over the course of those years of writing, and the payoff is still usually unbelievably fantastic. Dude's just amazing.

-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 feel you. A lot of Marvel writers are taking some time off or leaving potentially permanently to focus on their own independent work. There's nothing wrong with that, and I definitely say more power to them, but it sucks considering what some of them have been doing with characters who have never had a really great or even revolutionary treatment before.

-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. :)

I'll comment on this below...

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.

I agree. I don't know how well they would have been able to market double films, especially since it only seems to be acceptable for the final "chapter" of a series, but I'm still floored at how amazing the Lord of the Rings movies are. I think that's my problem with the Hobbit stuff. The Lord of the Rings films can be completely justified in not fitting within one movie each. I felt like two movies was more than enough for the Hobbit, but that they were filled with too much "fan fiction" so as to keep expanding it out. I couldn't shake the feeling that they were only doing it to make a third film to make more money, and I didn't like that feeling or the thought that the feeling might actually be true.

-Forerunner Dogs.

Haha.

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.

I've still never owned a Sony console, but a lot of my friends had the PS1, and it was super fun to play. Most of my Sony experiences occurred at friend's houses either watching, taking turns, or co-oping certain things. Some of the best gaming times I've had!

Cake or pie?

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

Boo! :(

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.

Not disputing anything you've said, but how many Claude Errera's have you met? I went to HBOMB and I'm fairly sure there was a Claude Errera Sasquatch lurking around the cabin (I think Rowboat fought one with his bare hands, as a matter of fact), but I didn't see one personally.