Geek confessions

[mouseferatu]

I hold several opinions that would make me unpopular in the Geek World. I shall reveal a number of them here, so people may get together and lynch me en masse, rather than stepping on each other's toes trying to do it separately.

1) Most (not all, but most) of the changes made to the Lord of the Rings movies were improvements upon the source material.

2) The two Matrix sequels improved upon the original, in as much as the first Matrix is much better when viewed through the lens of (and info presented in) the other two.

3) The new Forgotten Realms setting is more interesting overall--again, not in all ways, but more so than not--than it was pre-reboot.

4) A Song of Ice and Fire is not the Second Coming of fantasy fiction.

5) Sean Connery is not the best James Bond ever.

6) The new Battlestar Galactica is not the best sci-fi TV show ever made. Depending on how broadly one defines sci-fi, it's not even in the top five.

7) Tom Baker is not the best Doctor ever.

8) Darth Maul, while great for fight scenes, was a boring character who did not deserve more screen time.

9) Conan was not Robert Howard's greatest creation.

I could come up with more, but those should get me tarred and feathered right nicely. Maybe more later.

Comments

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

Roger Moore. Roger Morrison was an Olympic rower I met in gradeschool. I've had trouble with the two names ever since.

[mouseferatu.livejournal.com]

Well, I think we're not going to see eye-to-eye on the Robert Howard issue. ;-)

I think Solomon Kane is a far more interesting character, and while there are indeed some bad SK stories, I've found that the better ones are better than the better Conan stories, and the average is of a higher quality as well.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

I keep hearing so much good about the Kane stories that I know I should get back to reading them. I have a feeling I started off with some of the less impressive stories and it's a little hard to get over that first impression.

Unfortunately, I barely read lately, and finishing Reaper's Gale comes long before starting anything else.