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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 2397875" data-attributes="member: 4826">I cannot recapture the sense of bemusement that accompanied my first game of D&D but the sense of wonder has definitely returned. I can't put my finger on exactly why but I really have had the best gaming of my life, over the last three years. Maybe it's because I have a better grasp of the new rules than I did of old 1e but I doubt that's it. A friend and colleague once said he envied my 'childlike' appreciation of just about anything. Maybe that's it.You mentioned the difference between your earliest memories of Star Wars and your experience of the LotR films. My experience is almost the reverse. I was thirteen when Star Wars launched in the UK. I went to the cinema almost every week for a year to watch it, again and again. I lapped up expensively imported American special effects magazines like Cinefantastique and Cinefex. I read interviews with matte painters and modellers talking about their painstaking work, about motion control and optical printing. My antennae picked up every rumour about forthcoming film releases and I knew as much as any lay person about them by the time of their release.Now, it's quite the opposite. I love the LotR movies but I couldn't tell you much about the technology behind their production - and I have watched all the DVD extras. I watched Return of the King again the other week and not once did I think of how a particular shot might have been achieved. The only time my mind wandered from the unfolding story was when I swtiched DVDs half-way and caught myself hoping that I would get to see The Hobbit given the same treatment.I have changed, of course. But despite being deeply suspicious of yet another superhero comic transition to film (ie The Fantastic Four), I'll check it out. (Really, do FF comics still sell, to kids?) Meanwhile, I'm eagerly looking forward to an opportunity to see the new War of the Worlds, Serenity and the Christmas return of Dr Who.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />[mumble] Not to mention the HDTV Tales of Known Space/Ringworld mini-series I've been patiently awaiting since the last millennium. [/mumble]</blockquote>

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