Yes, at one point her own legs in tadash, and another time she has Mia’s white legs.
There is a whole lot of cringe associated with the Susannah character and her multiple personalities. If the Dark Tower ever gets made into a film or series, it will be a challenge to make Detta Walker’s dialect not seem ridiculous. King also glosses over her ambulatory issues when she doesn’t have a wheelchair. It would be pretty funny if scrabbles like a crab all over the place.
My theory is that the Matrix is just the Machines taking the Zeroth Law and concluding that was the best way of protecting humanity from itself. Remember the Matrix was originally Paradise as opposed to a simulation of the real world, but it’s inhabitants simply couldn’t tolerate utopia.
Soren’s plan to get back to the Nexus in Star Trek Generations. Why not just get a ship and fly into it? I hate when a character acts out of character like that Why in the world did he think his plan to get the Nexus to run into him was better than a plan he already knew worked?
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but didn’t the Nexus trash the first two ships at the beginning of the movie before they could get in? And part of the newest Enterprise? Soren was probably thinking a planet was more substantial.
That’s what bothers you about the Osgiliath scene? Not Frodo deciding to go face to fucking face with a Nazgul, thus revealing the location of the One Ring? Forgetting that the entire fucking point of the Fellowship of the Ring was for him to sneak in to Mordor undetected?
But it’s okay, because it apparently slipped the Nazgul’s mind to report back to Sauron, “Dude. I just spotted one of those Hobbit guys you’re always obsessing about, doing some weird shit in Osgiliath. Looked like he was headed east -y’know, towards Minas Morgul. Thought you’d want to know.”
I guess that’s not a mundane detail, but it was the only difference between the books and the movie that really really pissed me off.
You mean like Pol Pot, Mao or Stalin?
Sam: We’re not even supposed to be here…
Well, Frodo wasn’t quite in his right mind at the moment. And for all we know, the Nazgul did report back to Sauron, and Sauron assumed that he was taking the ring to Minas Tirith. I can’t remember if it’s explicitly mentioned in the movie, but I know the book flat out says that Sauron would never have imagined that anyone would try to destroy the ring instead of using it. He just didn’t get it until he saw Frodo put the ring on right at the Cracks of Doom.
Still, I really didn’t care for the Osgiliath bit in the movie at all. The whole thing seemed overly dramatic and a bastardization of Faramir’s character. But I didn’t consider any resulting Nazgul intelligence as a plot hole.
That wouldn’t describe the latter two, if you look at the numbers. It’s not even close. That’s not really a point in their favor as such, but let’s keep it in perspective.
It’s not about absolute numbers, it’s about evil dictators not necessarily thinking things through (although I’d argue that the Holodomor was precisely this, even more than the Killing Fields.)
yeah, I was thinking maybe she had leapt to her feet at one of those times, but apparently not. Well, I guess this was a win for King in my case, because I was too shocked at Eddie’s death to notice this huge faux pas. Finding a suitable double amputee black actress would be IMO the second biggest problem in filming this series. The first would be, assuming the studio wants to make and release one film a year rather than film all of them at once before seeing if the first one flops, that you would need a new Jake for each film.
Or they could digitally remove her lower legs, a la Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump.
Tested by Mythbusters, found to be possible. The jump from the plane, at least.
Well, Tolkien was always very meticulous about only using old idioms, but he was an etymologist, so that should be no surprise.
What always jarred for me about Middle Earth was the tobacco. And the potatoes. Two species from the New World in a world that has no analogue for the Americas.
There are other continents westwards. The Numernoreans sailed to them looking for a route back to Valinor.
Pipeweed, not tobacco, but in any case Middle Earth isnt Europe.
Tolkien also, despite his dislike for and distrust of science, has his Wizards know about gunpowder* and that white light is composed of other colors. His Middle-earth also shows a debt to paleontology and archaeology – the flying mounts of the Nazgul are described as being very like pterosaurs (although not depicted as such in the Jackson film, they certainly do look like that in the Brothers Hildebrant illustrations, and in Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings – they were following Tolkien’s descriptions very closely). Furthermore,m Lake-Town (Esgaroth), being built on pilings extending over the Long Lake is a cdead ringer for early 20th century reconstructions of the supposed Swiss Lake-Towns from prehistoric times:
When I was a kid, depictions of these were ubiquitous. There was a diorama of one at the Field Museum in Chicago. I understand that the reconstruction is now thought to be erroneous – now they think that the houses were built on the edge of the lake, and that the supposed house-supports were actually a protective palisade. Whatever the reality, I have no doubt that Tolkien drew his image of Lake-Town from these reconstructions of prehistoric villages.
*Gandalf must, of course, have known about gunpowder and pyrotechnics if he made fireworks, which he was famous for. Most people don’t think about fireworks being completely anachronistic if the world of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth is thought to be a close analogy to our own Middle Ages. Saruman has gunpowder, too, which he gives to his Uruk-Hai to use in blowing a breach in Helm’s Deep.
I guess we can all be thankful that Tolkien didn’t see fit to let them use nuclear or thermonuclear devices. Or antimatter bombs.
Gunpowder was used in China for hundreds of years for fireworks before being made into any sort of effective weapon. Quite possible the known formula was one of those that didnt make for a decent weapon and or Sulfur was rare. It also seems like the only two who had made use of it was the two Wizards, so maybe it wasnt commonly known or needed magic to work. And if you read the descriptions of Gandalfs fireworks, it certainly appears he used more than just skill at pyrotechnics to make some of them.
You can fanwank however you want, but gunpowder was not a Thing in medieval Europe or earlier (fantasies like 300 to the contrary notwithstanding), which is my point.
I think Tolkien just liked the idea of Gandalf benignly using gunpowder for fun and contrasting it with Saruman’s destructive use of it. Even if he aided it with magic*, Tolkien still called it “fireworks”. He could’ve as easily simply called what Gandalf and Saruman did “magic”, and described it thus. For some reason he tied it firmly to gunpowder by his terminology.
*Gandalf certainly seems to have used magic to help shape his “smoke rings”, as described in the book, and as depicted in the film.
By the way, here are more of those Swiss Lake Village reconstructions:
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Roger Bacon and Marcus Graecus had fireworks in around 1267- 1300, so that’s certainly medieval.
