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For Wheel of Time, a long-form animated show like Frieren: Beyond Journey's end would be a much better model than GoT. Probably the... -
Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?.I think that they could stick fairly close to the main story - it’s pretty simple, which is better for TV. But we know that all the...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?.I think the opposite is true. It’s the toxic fanbase that is running the show down. On its own, it’s a slight, but very pretty-looking...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?.It’s not “great” but it’s entertaining enough, and I’m enjoying it more than I enjoyed GoT and WoT. Of course the “huge LotR fans” are...
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It got famously review bombed. Anybody coming to conclusions about its “success” or lack thereof based on reviews is not paying attention.
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The critical consensus on Rotten Tomato and Metacritic for both seasons is positive, and per Amazon they have made nearly $400 million...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past.True - and not fantasy. False. Even if you are claiming “modern fantasy grew from Tolkien” (not true but a common misconception) he...
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I find phrases like “not gonna lie", “I gotta be honest here”, or the dreaded “I’m just telling it like it is” to be quite useful. All...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General Settings of Hope vs Settings of Despair.That’s the movie version, in the book Merry is the sensible one, even compared to Frodo.
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why).I think any comparison to the UN fails when they start threatening genocide.
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General Talking Animals.I once had a player play as a donkey barbarian for a session. They couldn’t talk though.
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General Settings of Hope vs Settings of Despair.Pippin is - he is the son of the Thane. Hence the Gondorians are technically correct referring to him as “the prince of the halflings”...
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Really, only the people in charge of the show can say if it failed or not because they are the ones who set the metric for what is a...
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If bodybuilders with dwarfism start saying that halflings with 20 strengths are offensive to them, we should listen. Until then, it's a...
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Paul Farquhar replied to the thread Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why).Quite. But not definitely not the "win" that the movie presents the outcome as.