Geek Confessional Thread 2024

[The Soloist]

I don't like Wrath of Khan. He is not super intelligent. I'm no pilot but understand space is in three dimensions. Montalban is Spanish, not Indian.

 

[trappedslider]

I don't like Wrath of Khan. He is not super intelligent. I'm no pilot but understand space is in three dimensions. Montalban is Spanish, not Indian.

It helps if you watched the TOS episode space seed imo

 

[TiQuinn]

I don't like Wrath of Khan. He is not super intelligent. I'm no pilot but understand space is in three dimensions. Montalban is Spanish, not Indian.

He tasks me! He tasks me and I shall have him!

I mean - just what a great line.

 

[The Soloist]

It helps if you watched the TOS episode space seed imo

I've seen it. I don't understand the Khan vibe everyone is buzzing about.

 

[The Soloist]

The Lovecraft mythos bores me. I read a novel and wasn’t scared or perturbed. Horror doesn’t work on me. I awn while turning the pages and can’t wait to finish the book.

 

[Zardnaar]

The Lovecraft mythos bores me. I read a novel and wasn’t scared or perturbed. Horror doesn’t work on me. I awn while turning the pages and can’t wait to finish the book.

Got further than me. Horror doesn't do it for me either.

 

[Theory of Games]

Big Bang Theory and Stranger Things and everything "Star Wars" since Episode 6 and ST:NG were TRASH.

And Brandon Sanderson's writing smacks of being trapped in an elevator with a schizophrenic crackhead.

 

[Dausuul]

The Lovecraft mythos bores me. I read a novel and wasn’t scared or perturbed. Horror doesn’t work on me. I awn while turning the pages and can’t wait to finish the book.

I like the Lovecraft vibe, but his actual writing does nothing for me. Other writers have done much better with his ideas than Lovecraft himself could. (My favorite is

Spoiler

Revival

by Stephen King. King does a lot of hat tips to Lovecraft, but it's rare for him to embrace the absolute existential despair at the heart of Lovecraft's worldview. That book is the exception.)

 

[Mannahnin]

I finally read The Dunwich Horror for the first time this week, on Lovecraft's birthday.

I can't say that I was scared, but I really found it evocative and enjoyable and could see its influence in later media/stories.

 

[Scribe]

I know its cool to hate on Tolkien, consider his influence overstated, blah blah blah....but you know what?

My wife and I have watched the first 2 movies in the last week, and people who think that are dead wrong.