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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4331278" data-attributes="member: 40961">I... didn't like it that much.  Some of it seemed forced.If you're going to say something like "so and so could drink the blood from a person's body at 100 paces with only a stare," you need... I don't know.  It seemed like these things were being stated with a matter-of-fact manner, when it needed to sound... more epic?  I dunno.  Like, don't TELL me that so and so's voice caused people near her to be struck dead and rise as zombies.  Just baldly stating it doesn't feel cool.  Instead, show me.  Or allude to it.  Like maybe so and so never speaks in public because she made a pact with SOMETHING UNKNOWN, and the last time she spoke since then SOMETHING REALLY BAD happened that no one talks about.  Ever.  And now people don't speak about  her, and they don't speak about the REALLY BAD THING that happened, and everyone's terrified of her.I dunno.  It felt kind of like... imagine if the very first thing that the Aliens movie did was show you a full scale picture of the Alien standing in a clean, well lit room, viewable from multiple angles.  It would make things less cool.I... I don't like raining on people's parades, so this is the only post I'll probably make here.  I'll read replies though, so don't think its a drive by.</blockquote>