If you are scoffing at Buffy, then there is no way you could have possibly watched enough yet. In the future try listening to the dialogue while still enjoying the nice perky breasts.
I watched season 1 and half of season 2 before it got too boring and went nowhere. Watched a bit of last week's episode where the Gap looking vampire guy lost his mind or something. Whatever. I'm sure it's a great show. But it got old. That's probably why it'll be cancelled after this season. Nowhere to go with it.
Yeah that's cool to each his own, and I can see where Buffy is not for everyone.
As for Kevin's view of fantasy fiction, even Tolkien is derivitive. I agree he did it better than most. I'm somewhat surprised that Kevin likes LoTR so much considering his almost homophobic fear of video games with pastel colors and dislike of movies with kids as leads...liking a book where the main character prances and sings on a table and Tom Bombadil dances through the woods seems inconsistent. And let's not forget Frodo and Sam's somewhat ambiguous relationship.
I don't fear games with fruity themes and pastel colors any more than I fear homosexuals. There's a very large difference between disliking something and fearing it.
Samwise and Frodo are best friends who have grown up in an extremely isolated world free of adventure...they rely on each other because they've been thrust into a world full of dark, powerful magic and horrific creatures they could never have imagined. Nothing ambiguous about their relationship from where I sit.
9 books in the WoT series. If you've only read up to book 7, then don't bother reading 8 or 9 until 10 comes out (assuming its good) as they're as good as the rest of the series.
Also, Treebeard is scooping up Pippen. Sam and Frodo never meet the ents. Well, actually, they might meet the ents towards the very end of the series on the way back to the Shire when they drop by Isengard, I don't really remember.
"I'm somewhat surprised that Kevin likes LoTR so much considering his almost homophobic fear of video games with pastel colors and dislike of movies with kids as leads...liking a book where the main character prances and sings on a table and Tom Bombadil dances through the woods seems inconsistent. And let's not forget Frodo and Sam's somewhat ambiguous relationship."
You can skip over the cheesy songs and Tom Bombadil without missing anything major in the plot, but you can't skip over all the stuff involving kids in Harry Potter without missing most, if not all of the plot (unless Harry grows up somewhere along the way).
TheMad
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The light at the end of the tunnel has been shut down due to budget cuts.
Oh yeah, that was Pippen. D'oh! Memory's a little hazy...it was junior high when I last read the LOTR books.
The thing is, people are trying to justify having liked the Harry Potter movie by saying "Hey, you obviously didn't read the books!" Meanwhile, you don't have to read the Lord of the Rings to love the movies and appreciate them for the great works they are, in and of themselves. The first Potter movie was bad on many levels and peoples' enjoyment of the books have colored their opinions of the film, I think...in the same way hard-core Tolkien fans have had THEIR opinions of the LOTR films colored.
As for the WOT series, I think I got halfway through the sixth book before I quit...just haven't had time to sit down and read something that big. I started the series during a trip to Hawaii and had a lot of time to read, but in the years since my life's gotten a lot more hectic!
The ending to the sixth book is one of the best in the series, IMO. Thats something I liked about the WoT series, the books have really great endings (discounting books 8&9). There always ends up being some huge battle involving every main character in some way or another where, in the end, some major bad guy dies or is defeated.
TheMad
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The light at the end of the tunnel has been shut down due to budget cuts.
The Harry Potter movie wasn't a bad movie. You could have easily watched it without having read the book. The second one will be even better. More of a darker tone than the first one. Plus as each year goes by, these kids get older and better with their magic. By the 4th book, there are major magic battles and deaths involved and it turns towards a more adult oriented story arc.
I think that's what people like Kevin, who are turned off by HP don't realize, is that this story ends up getting more and more 'adult' with each book. More magic, more gruesome, more plot twists, and more scares.
I'm sure by the 7th and last book Harry will have banged half the chicks in the school with his magic wand, ripped out enemies skulls and drank their blood. All while keeping an extremely diversified stock portfolio.
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