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alcesverdes) wrote2007-12-13 08:05 pm
alcesverdes) wrote2007-12-13 08:05 pm
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Taking a longer break
* Buenos libros, malas películas - o "Descubriendo el hilo negro."
* This is weird enough per se (though absolutely SFW), but what disturbs me the most is the manga/anime-style recreation of the crime.
* Part six of Street Fighter: The Later Years! \o/ (this one does contain a nsfw scene XD)
I watched online the first five minutes of The Golden Compass but two and a half were enough for me to realize that it was heading down to be a mayor disappointment.
I really liked the first book. I found the second one to be a little meh, but then again, the middle parts of trilogies tend to be bland(er than the rest), thus right then I thought that not everything was lost yet. But the last book I didn't like at all. It was too dry and it failed to made me care about the characters, even if I had loved them before.
Lyra, for example, was now too whiny, too "Oh, Will" all the time. I just couldn't recognize her as the same girl who I loved despite all her flaws and lies, who worked her way though all those hardships in the first book. And, when Will appeared, I expected him to complement Lyra, but not to the point where they'd go all the way to the stereotypes of the boy-active, girl-pasive kind, which was what ended up happening. This could be possibly explained by saying that due his circumstances Will always was a protector and that Lyra came from a strongly patriarchal* society. Yet,
1) These books were written in the late 1990s.
2) I don't want to re-read and try to prove this theory or to find out what was actually at fault there. Unless I'm getting paid.My PayPal account is...
Another reason I didn't like the His Dark Materials series is the religion-bashing, but I will not go there, and you should be grateful because this would've ended up in tears and I don't want to use the 'i've wanked but it's your bloody fault' tag today. :P So, let's continue.
Oh, I just remembered a little else I found questionable too: once you reach puberty, your daemon can be just about any animal as long as its imagery is related to your personality! Unless you're from a family of servants or doomed to be one. But! Never worry! There are many dog breeds to choose from!
...
WHAT.
I mean, come on, that's an insult to dogs! I'll leave it at that; you draw your own social conclusions.
Let's just say that I didn't even finish the third book; I went to the Wiki to read the summary.
Well, as I'd said, when I saw the aforementioned clip with those first movie minutes I was very disappointed. Why? I couldn't pinpoint it then, but after thinking about it for a while I noticed: it was because the only think that had kept me reading, the curiosity about how that multiverse worked, is shot down and left for dead within the first two and a half minutes of the film.
They give you in the first two and a half minutes what it takes you two and a half books to learn! *winces*
That upset me because, now I'm aware of it, back then when I was reading, once I had the multiverse workings all figured out was when I fully stopped caring and went to the Wiki, as I'd previously mentioned.
Never mind the fact that it is Mrs. Coulter who's doing the narration. She's the villain in the first book.
Again:
WHAT.
___
* It hurt to use that word, but in this case it's true.
In short: I'm not sure I'm going to go watch it to the theater.
* This is weird enough per se (though absolutely SFW), but what disturbs me the most is the manga/anime-style recreation of the crime.
* Part six of Street Fighter: The Later Years! \o/ (this one does contain a nsfw scene XD)
I watched online the first five minutes of The Golden Compass but two and a half were enough for me to realize that it was heading down to be a mayor disappointment.
I really liked the first book. I found the second one to be a little meh, but then again, the middle parts of trilogies tend to be bland(er than the rest), thus right then I thought that not everything was lost yet. But the last book I didn't like at all. It was too dry and it failed to made me care about the characters, even if I had loved them before.
Lyra, for example, was now too whiny, too "Oh, Will" all the time. I just couldn't recognize her as the same girl who I loved despite all her flaws and lies, who worked her way though all those hardships in the first book. And, when Will appeared, I expected him to complement Lyra, but not to the point where they'd go all the way to the stereotypes of the boy-active, girl-pasive kind, which was what ended up happening. This could be possibly explained by saying that due his circumstances Will always was a protector and that Lyra came from a strongly patriarchal* society. Yet,
1) These books were written in the late 1990s.
2) I don't want to re-read and try to prove this theory or to find out what was actually at fault there. Unless I'm getting paid.
Another reason I didn't like the His Dark Materials series is the religion-bashing, but I will not go there, and you should be grateful because this would've ended up in tears and I don't want to use the 'i've wanked but it's your bloody fault' tag today. :P So, let's continue.
Oh, I just remembered a little else I found questionable too: once you reach puberty, your daemon can be just about any animal as long as its imagery is related to your personality! Unless you're from a family of servants or doomed to be one. But! Never worry! There are many dog breeds to choose from!
...
WHAT.
Let's just say that I didn't even finish the third book; I went to the Wiki to read the summary.
Well, as I'd said, when I saw the aforementioned clip with those first movie minutes I was very disappointed. Why? I couldn't pinpoint it then, but after thinking about it for a while I noticed: it was because the only think that had kept me reading, the curiosity about how that multiverse worked, is shot down and left for dead within the first two and a half minutes of the film.
They give you in the first two and a half minutes what it takes you two and a half books to learn! *winces*
That upset me because, now I'm aware of it, back then when I was reading, once I had the multiverse workings all figured out was when I fully stopped caring and went to the Wiki, as I'd previously mentioned.
Never mind the fact that it is Mrs. Coulter who's doing the narration. She's the villain in the first book.
Again:
WHAT.
___
* It hurt to use that word, but in this case it's true.
In short: I'm not sure I'm going to go watch it to the theater.
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Por favor conectate al msn o gmail please! *_*
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Y espero que tú te diviertas también cuando vayas. :P
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Lo de los perros fue un lol-what?! el pobre padre que tenia un escarabajo se podría decir que le gustaba jugar con la *blip* de otros?
A pesar de eso, si me gustó en parte el tercer libro porque a pesar de ser Bitch #1 Ms. Coulter aprendió lo que era ser madre y Lord Asriel también aunque haya sido a regañadientes.
De igual manera me adentro mucho en las historias que leo y al final solo salgo diciendo fangirleadas u_u
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Quizá, pero de todas formas pensaba en ella. Y, bueno, estar en otro mundo y tener la capacidad de abrir portales me parece a mí que es bastante distractor. XD
el pobre padre que tenia un escarabajo se podría decir que le gustaba jugar con la *blip* de otros?
Lo tenían como apestado porque su fetiche demasiado obvio. *corre*
a pesar de ser Bitch #1 Ms. Coulter aprendió lo que era ser madre
Eso me pareció un poco forzado. D: Tampoco me gustó cómo lo manejó Pullman.
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Ahora que lo pienso nunca dio señas de que alguien poseyera una vaca como compañero o algun otro animal de ese tipo, imagina lo que dirían de ell@s.
La que sentí más forzada fue la de Lord Asriel, pero de igual manera Pullman no detalla en que momento su percepción a Lyra empezó a cambiar.