# The Dark Is Rising trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dark-is-rising-trailer/411468 "2007-07-12T05:44:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dark-is-rising-trailer/411468/21 "2007-07-12T20:33:29Z")
At work, I always recommend buying and reading _The Dark is Rising_ before _Over Sea, Under Stone_. The stories are separate until _Greenwitch_, and _Dark_ is a better fantasy set-up. I think I read them first when I was ten or eleven. My husband just read them a few months ago, and loved them, but was disappointed with the ending of _Silver on the Tree_. It’s an enjoyable series for adults. On rewatching the trailer, I see sort of old-looking building, but still no intimation that Will travels through space as well as time, i.e. to England. The whole point of him first encountering the Walker and the Rider on Oldway Lane is that it’s been used by the light for centuries! Back through the Dark Ages! And the Rider can’t harm him on it! And Will’s just turned eleven, and isn’t even interested in girls yet!/despairing wail Merriman should be over six feet tall, and have white hair. And be really craggy. And the only girl that really features in the first book is Mary, Will’s slightly older sister. I’m sure I sound exactly like all the Tolkien purists when the first movie trailers were released. The difference is that as a minor Tolkien purist, I thought the _feel_ of the movies was right, and the feel of this is all wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dark-is-rising-trailer/411468/22 "2007-07-13T00:25:46Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] You may want to look for some of the Charles DeLint books. They are classified as Urban Fantasy but have the feel of Susan Cooper books written for adults. I especially recommend Moonheart (1984), Greenmantle (1988) & Yarrow (1986). He is fairly obscure but excellent. Jim [/QUOTE] Seconded. [QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] I’m sure I sound exactly like all the Tolkien purists when the first movie trailers were released. The difference is that as a minor Tolkien purist, I thought the feel of the movies was right, and the _feel_ of this is all wrong. [/QUOTE] I agree, both on this and on LOTR. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dark-is-rising-trailer/411468/23 "2007-07-13T03:37:04Z")
Susan Cooper is still writing. I think it’s out of print, but I quite enjoyed her YA novel _Seaward_, which should be available from abebooks or Amazon. Charles De Lint is a good writer. I think he’s better-known in Canada. I also recommend _The LIttle Country_, and _Memory and Dream_. I sent a friend who’s a huge _Dark_ fan the link, and he stopped watching in disgust after Will pushed his brother (Max? James? Paul? Couldn’t be Stephen) down the stairs. [QUOTE=WhyNot] But all the good stuff takes place in Wales, where Will Stanton is a fish-out-of-water visitor. (Remember his Welsh language lesson with Bran? Hysterical! “I expect all Welsh babies dribble a lot.”) I don’t see why their FOOW can’t be American instead. It’s not like Will is the Son of Arthur or anything. [/QUOTE] Not all. Two of the books take place in Cornwall, and there’s a plot point nvolving the villagers not talking to Will’s American aunt, because she’s American, when they’re quite friendly with Will and the Drews. I promise to stop wailing. I just loved the books so much, and it’s like watching my favourite childhood toy be stomped on. /melodrama off. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dark-is-rising-trailer/411468/24 "2007-07-13T05:27:27Z")
I might hold off reading the book so I can enjoy the movie better. Because the movie looks pretty cool by itself. I actually started reading The Dark is Rising but for some reason lost interest in it somewhere in the middle. Can’t remember why. I suppose I’ll give it another try, maybe after I see the movie. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dark-is-rising-trailer/411468/25 "2007-07-13T13:09:59Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] … Charles De Lint is a good writer. I think he’s better-known in Canada. I also recommend _The LIttle Country_, and _Memory and Dream_. … [/QUOTE] Yes, to both of these, I could not remember the title of The Little Country yesterday. Thank you. Jim [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dark-is-rising-trailer/411468.md?page=1)