For instance: why didn't they just ride the eagles to Mount Doom?
Yeah, that occurred to me too.
No. And yes. It's always sudden.
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tommyrot - Jan 06, 2010 11:51:02 am PST #5971 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Aims - Jan 06, 2010 11:51:16 am PST #5972 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
why didn't they just ride the eagles to Mount Doom?
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§ ita § - Jan 06, 2010 11:52:22 am PST #5973 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because then all the fanboys would have killed Mr. Jackson? That's a question for JRR, not Peter.
megan walker - Jan 06, 2010 11:53:10 am PST #5974 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I can pick a movie apart and still enjoy it. For instance: why didn't they just ride the eagles to Mount Doom?
Wasn't there a cartoon or YouTube thing about that very question?
msbelle - Jan 06, 2010 11:56:09 am PST #5975 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
same reason the bad guys just never shot Bond in the head. that wouldn't be much of a story, would it?
Typo Boy - Jan 06, 2010 11:56:52 am PST #5976 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
In terms of Werewolves as victims, yeah that is mostly true since Hollywood. (I've been told the whole mythology we are familiar with is pretty much a Hollywood invention - transmission by bite and so on. Shape-changing could be a curse. Wottisname in Greek mythology was turned into a wolf as punishment for something pretty awful - umm serving someone his own son in a stew so some such? But a lot of shapechangers (including lycnathracopes) were voluntary skin changers. Witches or people who owned a charmed skin of whatever animal they wanted to change into. I also remember a Victorian story in which a family of werewolves were actually a kind of undead. They were apparently buried without a proper service. They took human or wolf form at will, but were ultimately laid to rest by reading a proper Church of England burial service over their graves. Pretty sure the author made that one up, but who knows? The Church of England has been around enough for it to be incorporated into folk superstitions.
tommyrot - Jan 06, 2010 11:56:59 am PST #5977 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
same reason the bad guys just never shot bond in the head. that wouldn't be much of a story, would it?
It was when the Simpsons did it.
(Which is why it was so funny.)
OK, the Bond thing wasn't really the story on that Simpsons EP....
Laga - Jan 06, 2010 12:03:34 pm PST #5978 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Wasn't there a cartoon or YouTube thing about that very question?
How Lord of the Rings should have ended.
Also there's a bit on Family Guy where Chris complains to the clerk guy about it and he replies, "Don't see Krull."
Frankenbuddha - Jan 06, 2010 3:10:40 pm PST #5979 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
OK, the Bond thing wasn't really the story on that Simpsons EP....
No. That episode belonged to Hank Scorpio.
DavidS - Jan 06, 2010 3:31:12 pm PST #5980 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There's the reverse to Mott's Law, though, in that I don't want to analyze a movie (or TV show) and I resent Hubby when he insists on taking something I quite enjoyed and saying, "You know, it really wouldn't have worked that way, they should have done thus-and-so."
We call that, "pissing in the cornflakes." Basically just being a buzzkill.