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[Bucket1]

9 hours ago, spike382 said:

It’s interesting that you bring up Dune, there was a lot of comparisons made between the two back in the day, they had some very interesting similarities.  I’m not sure if Robert Jordan ever said one way or the other, but he seemed to be inspired by at least the themes and world building of the first Dune.

Oddly enough both Herbert and Jordan died before finishing their series.  

The Spice must flow

[Albert1434]

Aloha Bucket

[raven1]

4 minutes ago, spike382 said:

Hey Terry, I read the first book to that series right around the time there was a tv mini series adaptation of it.  I actually enjoyed it, but some parts felt a little over my head.

Good Morning Spike. That's what you get for being a young man Spike.  I actually had the same problem until I had read the first four Dune books.  I loved the first movie, but thought it left out too much of the story and was confusing because of that.  Of course I was in lust for Patrick Duffy and Sting (sexy as a redheaded bad boy).

[Bucket1]

8 hours ago, raven1 said:

By day four he was stomping around the house complaining he was bored, completely cured and wanted to go out.  I had more problems with him getting well than being sick.

There are a few of us that are bad patients

[raven1]

Just now, Bucket1 said:

There are a few of us that are bad patients

Impatient patient?😛

[Bucket1]

8 hours ago, raven1 said:

I thought the weather might be too cold there for the murderous beasties to be out and about. 

That’s what I thought, way too cold but nope, there it was staring at me

[Bucket1]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

Have any of you seen 

 

Never seen it

[Bucket1]

Hello young Albert

I had a spider free day today  

[Drew Espinosa]

13 hours ago, spike382 said:

It wasn’t his brother, it was just another author that was selected by his widow.  For me some parts of it worked some definitely did not.  Part of the issue is that it was hard to tell how much of the end story was the original author and how much was someone else filling in the blanks.

IIRC, Jordan left a lot of notes and actually wrote out certain sections before he died.

[Bucket1]

13 minutes ago, raven1 said:

Good Morning Spike. That's what you get for being a young man Spike.  I actually had the same problem until I had read the first four Dune books.  I loved the first movie, but thought it left out too much of the story and was confusing because of that.  Of course I was in lust for Patrick Duffy and Sting (sexy as a redheaded bad boy).

The first movie made no sense at all unless you had read the books. The whole Dune universe is a complicated set up with secrets and half truths making life difficult for the new reader. The Sisters, the Navigators and spice messed up with the noble houses are a challenge but worth it…

Sting's speedo was worth a look 

[Bucket1]

12 minutes ago, raven1 said:

Impatient patient?😛

That's me

Grumpy because I was sick, grumpy because I didn’t get well immediately, grumpy because I missed out on doing stuff, grumpy… well you get the story…

[Bucket1]

6 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

IIRC, Jordan left a lot of notes and actually wrote out certain sections before he died.

It can work sometimes

[Drew Espinosa]

Yayo Update: well, Yayo really wants to play with the other cats, but the problem is Yayo is a very energetic kitten, while the others would rather laze away. So what ends up happening is that Yayo would sneak up on one of them and suddenly launch his attack on his unsuspecting prey... let's just say his victims are less than enthusiastic participants in his games.  

Edited July 19, 2022 by Drew Espinosa

[Drew Espinosa]

15 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

I was a big fan of the wheel of time till the last two book. The Aurthor had died and his brother wrote the last two books which if I may say They Sucked!

I loved the last two books.

[raven1]

2 minutes ago, Bucket1 said:

Never seen it

Me also.  I looked it up.  It was made a year before I was born.  Wikipedia describes it as this.

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The overall construction is an allegorical anti-war story, with the message that war always damages children.

As a teacher this has been a very huge concern of mine for decades, but that's too long of a story to tell here. 

[spike382]

2 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

IIRC, Jordan left a lot of notes and actually wrote out certain sections before he died.

He did, but from what I recall it was way more heavily detailed in some sections than others.  There was one plot point where one of the main characters was supposed to become a king, but no details for how that was supposed to happen.  There had been foreshadowing and an obvious set up for this for several books, and then it’s just randomly dropped in a few paragraphs.  So that plot ends up going in a totally different direction that made little sense.  I don’t know if anyone has ever asked about it and found out if that was Sanderson or Jordan.

6 minutes ago, Bucket1 said:

The first movie made no sense at all unless you had read the books. The whole Dune universe is a complicated set up with secrets and half truths making life difficult for the new reader. The Sisters, the Navigators and spice messed up with the noble houses are a challenge but worth it…

Sting's speedo was worth a look 

Yeah the first film was a David Lynch thing, I remember trying to watch it multiple times and thinking I needed to be taking the “spice” myself to understand what was going on. 

[raven1]

Hey Drewster!  Love the Yayo tales!  Kittens are so much fun to watch, especially when irritating their elders.   

[Drew Espinosa]

5 minutes ago, spike382 said:

There had been foreshadowing and an obvious set up for this for several books, and then it’s just randomly dropped in a few paragraphs.

Is it Lan you're talking about?

[raven1]

6 minutes ago, spike382 said:

He did, but from what I recall it was way more heavily detailed in some sections than others.  There was one plot point where one of the main characters was supposed to become a king, but no details for how that was supposed to happen.  There had been foreshadowing and an obvious set up for this for several books, and then it’s just randomly dropped in a few paragraphs.  So that plot ends up going in a totally different direction that made little sense.  I don’t know if anyone has ever asked about it and found out if that was Sanderson or Jordan.

Yeah the first film was a David Lynch thing, I remember trying to watch it multiple times and thinking I needed to be taking the “spice” myself to understand what was going on. 

It does help if you get stoned. 🤪

[Drew Espinosa]

1 minute ago, raven1 said:

Hey Drewster!  Love the Yayo tales!  Kittens are so much fun to watch, especially when irritating their elders.   

Hey Terry!  And yep, this past weekend, it looked like Beast, Missy, and Mr. Meow had had enough so they were about to gang up on Yayo...  

[spike382]

4 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Is it Lan you're talking about?

No it was Perrin.  Lan’s final arc was luckily set in motion in the last book that Jordan wrote before he died.  I don’t think Sanderson had a way to screw that up too much. 

[raven1]

9 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Hey Terry!  And yep, this past weekend, it looked like Beast, Missy, and Mr. Meow had had enough so they were about to gang up on Yayo...  

Kittens are survivors.  If I were the old cats I'd be worried about the Revenge of Yayo. Maybe you could write a short story with this title.  You know, get back into writing.  I know it would be a fun read with your sense of humor.

[Drew Espinosa]

6 minutes ago, spike382 said:

No it was Perrin.  Lan’s final arc was luckily set in motion in the last book that Jordan wrote before he died.  I don’t think Sanderson had a way to screw that up too much. 

Ohh... yeah Perrin's arc is something I'd rather forget, especially because of his "emo phase" during the middle books, lol.

[clochette]

43 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Yayo Update: well, Yayo really wants to play with the other cats, but the problem is Yayo is a very energetic kitten, while the others would rather laze away. So what ends up happening is that Yayo would sneak up on one of them and suddenly launch his attack on his unsuspecting prey... let's just say his victims are less than enthusiastic participants in his games.  

Makes me think of someone, their nukes and their "less than enthusiastic victims"  

[Drew Espinosa]

3 minutes ago, clochette said:

Makes me think of someone, their nukes and their "less than enthusiastic victims"