Cding in the rain,
Just coding in the rain...
What a wonderfull feeling...
Oh, damn. My PC shorted out.
--Ben
S.Isaac Dealey wrote:
>>Personally, I can no longer suspend disbelief whenever the
>>characters in a musical break into song. :-)
>
> Why's that? You know, I find that nothing
hia Dunning
-Original Message-
From: G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:24 AM
To: CF-Community
....Subject: Re: [QUARRANTINE]Re: The Ents are going to war.
I don't know.perhaps it has to do with the fact that I can't look out
> Personally, I can no longer suspend disbelief whenever the
> characters in a musical break into song. :-)
Why's that? You know, I find that nothing really diffuses a difficult
situation quite like a suddenly improvised ditty (with the requisite
backup band standing by of course).
Oh Ben, Oh be
> I don't know.perhaps it has to do with the fact that I
> can't look out the front window of my house and see hobbits,
> elves, etc.but I can look out and see plenty of trees
> and they aint marchin ta war.
> It's probably not a good reason, but I just can't help but
> feeling cheated
Ents aren't "trees come alive" any more than we're "monkeys who shaved".
Ents are the guardians of the trees, and spirits of the woods, rather
than being trees themselves. Which also means that there are plenty of
trees which aren't Ents. Normally, you don't see them. They live
quietly in deep
I don't know.perhaps it has to do with the fact that I can't look out
the front window of my house and see hobbits, elves, etc.but I can look
out and see plenty of treesand they aint marchin ta war.
It's probably not a good reason, but I just can't help but feeling cheated
somehow w
I guess I'm just trying to figure out why you had a problem with Ents,
but not hobbits, elves, Sauron, Gandalf, etc.
Personally, I can no longer suspend disbelief whenever the characters in
a musical break into song. :-)
--Ben
G wrote:
> All movies must grapple with believability, even fantasy.
All movies must grapple with believability, even fantasy. You create your
fantasy world, then your characters must operate within that world. If you
believe in the world, the fantasy works. If the world is unbelievable to
start with, or if the story continually muddies that world, you run the ri
> shore up the plot. Tolkien couldn't figure out how to destroy Isingard (i
> think i have that name right, with butchered spelling i'm sure) using
> believable aspects/characters of the story, so he invents walking trees to
'Cause, you know, a more-or-less imortal sorcerer manifested as a gian
