Does Van Morrison constantly wirting songs about how he hates being famous and expected to be a performer and wants tobe left alone count as a “fuck you”?
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VCO3: What were King’s real words? It’s kinda hard to get behind your rant if I can’t even be sure of exactly what King said.
Well… We know that Book worked for tha alliance, probably had high ranking clearance. We find this out when he’s wounded and they alliance drops everything to help him once they get his ident card. The merc who breaks onto Serenity also says of the Shepherd “He’s no shepherd.” In the episode where they rescue Mal from torture, Book knows how to use a rifle pretty well. In the episode where the crew is transporting a supposed corpse of an old war buddy, Book knows enough about the aliance military protocol to totally stymie a rogue agent who’s chasing them.
All of this taken together is quite tantalizing, and part of Book’s character was that he was mysterious.
But, if I had to hypothesize:
Book was an assasin for the alliance, much like the assasin from the movie. That would explain his knowledge of the alliance, his high ranking clearance, as well as the reason he decided to become a shepherd, most likely to attone for his sins.
I’m not sure that I can legally reprint the whole thing here, or that I’d even want to, as it’s long, so here are a few choice nuggets:
He talks about how he’s told his story, now it’s finally the ending, and on and on -
That’s condensing 2 pages down to a paragraph via choice lines.
I forgot, the whole “You’re a bunch of losers, and stay away from my house” stuff comes in the “Author’s Note” at the end, a few pages later.
Translation - “How dare you expect an actual ending after 25 years and seven books?”
This is not quite what you wanted, but every band/musician who has a Flash-only web site are saying “Fuck You” to a portion of their fans and potential fans. My reaction to bands/musicians I don’t know is to say “Well, fuck you back” and I never go to their web sites, even though I personally can access it. It’s just rude to not provide text links to text-based information (like biography, tour dates, discography).
Wow. Thanks very much for showing me the actual text, I thought you were being totally hyperbolic. What a fucking [insert pit worthy phrase] King is! I’ve loved that series for a while but didn’t get a chance to pick up any books after Wizard and Glass. Now I won’t touch any of them. I’m not about to give another dime to him.
Grrr. I, the reader, damn well want to know the destination no matter how much some holier-than-thou schmuck tells me what I should like, and outright insults me if I don’t. I, the reader have the choice of where to spend my hard earned reader-dollar, and it sure as hell won’t be for someone who spits in my face as he takes my money. Grrrrrrrr.
For the record, I thought the ending of the Dark Tower series was fantastic.
You know those times where they set up a longrunning “unrequited love”/“we know they’re made for each other” plotlines, and never resolve it, or have the characters end up with other people? I wouldn’t say it’s always a “fuck you,” or that it’s never appropriate for the story, but it seems like a nice little sucker punch most of the time.
And…every time Star Trek destroyed a Galaxy-class starship, from 1994 after. (Phil Farrand was with me on this one, as I remember.)
Are you referring to the last episodes of the series, the condensed stand-alone video, or the End of Evangelion movie?
I think the final two episodes are the “big fuck you to my fans”. Why he did this I don’t know.
Nigel Kneale wrote four British TV miniseries about Professor Bernard Quatermass. The first three were remade as films, and they are excellent examples of science fiction. Quatermass and the Pit (Five Million Years to Earth) is one of my all-time favorites. (I can live without the fourth Quatermass series). He also wrote the screenplay for the Harryhausen film First Men in the Moon.
But Kneale hates science fiction fans, apparently, and has gone on record saying so. I think he’s also put a pretty mean caraicature of a comic-book-guy-like fan in one of his works.
A friend of mine was infuriated at the last episode of Quantum Leap.
Sam never gets to go home.
Bart Simpson’s rock-singer fantasy: “I’d loik to play me latest chaht-toppah. It’s called Me Fans Are Stupid Pigs.”
Stephen King worked another “screw you” moment into a teleplay he wrote for a November 1987 episode of Tales From the Darkside titled “Sorry, Right Number”. One of the characters is a writer of horror fiction who gives his name to a telephone operator, who immediately starts gushing over him, prompting him to eventually hang up on her. It’s totally irrelevant to the larger story, and while I understand King’s fans can get annoying (with that guy who broke into King’s house and claimed he had a bomb topping the list), this seemed petty and childish.
Re: The Dark Tower series - boy, am I glad I quit reading it less than halfway through Wizard and Glass. That book was such a crashing bore I just couldn’t go on. Now I know I’m not missing anything.
Otto and FinnAgain,
Agreed on both points. Still, the line I quoted was directed to the fans, I think, and he never did explictly tie up that loose end. More of a “winking goad” than and “FU”, I think.
And I think you really ahve to read the whole of King’s intriduction. IMHO, he comes off as much more regretful and apologetic about the ending. He knows it sucks, but it’s the only thing that felt true to the world and the character. And I agreed.
Now Mordred, and that artist guy, those were really bad. But just sucking isn’t exactly an insult to the fans.
Okay, this one’s false, but I’ll include it anyway.
In Harry Potter fandom, there’s a contingent that thinks Harry ought to end up with Hermione. One of their main points of evidence is that the two took a ride together on Buckbeak the hippogriff, which symbolizes their love somehow (despite the fact that Hermione didn’t enjoy it at all and both had more pressing concerns than romance).
Anyway, in Book Six, it’s made explict what attentive fans had been able to tell for many books now: Hermione and Ron are to be a couple, and Harry turns to another woman. What’s more Buckbeak returns, but he’s been renamed Witherwings. Thus symbolizing, say the Harry/Hermione 'shippers, how their love has “withered” and a big middle finger to their group. Never mind that the “withers” is the part of a horse where Buckbeak’s wings would be coming from.
Then again, no matter the fandom, 'shippers are rarely rational about their chosen obsession in any case…
The ending to “Roseanne.” Fuck you deluxe.
[hijack]I doubt we will get a satisfying ending, but it looks like the Dark Tower series is not quite over.[/hijack]
I know the WarhammerVerse, but not the Enemy Within Campaign.
What happened?
-Joe
Not only that, but on Knotts Landing, the Dallas spin-off, Bobby remained dead!