Time of the month

[andygates]

I really should learn not to schedule my breaks from nommy go pills at the same time as my continuous-wear contact lenses go dry and evil.  It means that I'm an absolute bear for a few days: headachey, eating crap, snarling and snarking.  This month, yours truly is being an aggressive materialist -- I'm rolling Will saves to avoid flipping boy-scout cake stands and bellowing, "Where is your God now?" before rounding on hippies for daring to mention aspartame or vaccines within a bat-fart's threshold of my Hard Science ear.  Hulk Grumble! Hulk Buy Chocolate!

What tipped me off was the slippery, centre-of-gravity shifty feeling that I might agree with something, anything, Ayn Rand might have said.  That's one of those "you are not yourself" triggers (Caution: Intellectualized juvenilia ahead!) that always pulls me up short.

Now, where's that chocolate?

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[ankaret.livejournal.com]

*chocolate*

Watch Legend of the Seeker instead. It's Ayn Rand lite! And come the second season, has a lawful evil party member who spends most of her time eyerolling at her chaotic good companions, which is worth the price of admission all on its own.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Sounds... painful in a good way. What are those names, though? Richard Cypher and Zip Zap Zomzoozlezizzy?

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

There is a particularly scary bit in the first one where Zip Zap Zoom is naked in the company of a chicken. Persevere: he doesn't do it again. (At least not yet: they haven't got up to the famous 'evil chicken' moment from the books)

The TV series actually makes Richard Cypher half-way likeable, mostly by vast deviations from the plot. I'd say that Terry Goodkind must be spinning in his grave except that I'm fairly certain he's still with us and gave the series his blessing.

[carldem.livejournal.com]

Terry helped them out with some of the script changes. I just wish the show wasn't done by the same director who did Hercules and Xena, with the same budget village models.
I keep waiting for them to jump out and save the day. A lot of the directing is done in the same style which doesn't help. SFx not to shabby for a budget, for TV, done in NewZealand production. Over some of the combat slo-mo though.

See I being so polite not poking fun at the silly Hard Science believer :)

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I could live without the Hercules / Xena homages as well, and did they have to hire Ted Raimi as a recurring guest star? but overall I'm really enjoying the series, which surprised me as I didn't get on that well with the books - I liked Kahlan and I thought it was an interesting twist to have a villain with good PR as opposed to the usual Dark Lord, but otherwise it wasn't my cup of tea and I gave up after the first volume.

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

What tipped me off was the slippery, centre-of-gravity shifty feeling that I might agree with something, anything, Ayn Rand might have said.

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." -- Kung Fu Monkey

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I need more Kung Fu Monkey.