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pukunui reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with
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Jon being a Targaryan was pretty obvious from the first novel, too. -
pukunui replied to the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?.I know that within the context of the story, he was a hidden prince, but from the viewer's perspective, he spent the entire show with a...
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I'm pretty sure Azuth would like to have his finger back, and even if it was used for evil, destroying it seems pretty mean. :cry:
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pukunui reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Honestly, seems very probable and more likely than a successful TV show.
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pukunui reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
Discworld by Sir Terry Pratchett.
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pukunui reacted to DrunkonDuty's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
Hard agree. Discworld is definitely one of those fantasy series that doesn't romanticise the past. Can you imagine Granny Weatherwax...
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pukunui reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
The big counterexample is Discworld, where a significant portion of the books are about making the world (or at least Ankh-Morpork)...
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pukunui reacted to Zaukrie's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
If GoT really wanted to subvert things, he could have had the women win, even in this world. They were headed that way in every nation...
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pukunui reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Deciding for other people why the are okay with something (as in, "because fantasy") is rude, and apt to be incorrect. And annoying...
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pukunui reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
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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pukunui reacted to mamba's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
to me it wasn’t so much that they ended up where they did, as you wrote it has been foreshadowed for a while, but how abrupt it was. If...
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pukunui reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Yup, painted into a corner. A good ending would have betrayed the point of writing the novels, a bad ending betrays the audience who has...
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pukunui reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
I mean, the thing about the controversies around the end of the show? The stuff people don't like is really clearly where the books have...
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pukunui reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
I will point out that the original GoT author hasn't been able to adapt the story competently either. The trouble with setting out to...
