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(Nov read- just one more and I can post my Dec book)
This was a great comeback from Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (and I enjoyed that one too just lot as much). This felt very nostalgic to me, and the writing was vastly different than Yumi. It definitely shows this author’s versatility.
This is a must read for anyone who likes Labyrinth, The Neverending Story, Legend (with Ton Cruise in the 80s or so), Stardust, and The Princess Bride. Maybe even The Last Unicorn (though I haven’t seen or read that yet, I’m just guessing) Those light fantasy stories.
This is about Tress who is very content to stay on her home island, and she collects teacups, and she is very content for her only worldly connection to be those cups. But one day, her life changes dramatically when she finds out her best friend is actually the Duke’s son and now he’s been sent away to get married and find a wife. Tress takes it upon herself to find him when the Duke comes back with someone he claims is his heir…but it’s not her friend. Her friend was apparently given to the Sorceress and Tress embarks on a journey to find him.
I love this book. I’m definitely going to be selling my copy, so that I can re-buy the hardcover edition. I love this one so much.
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behind the scenes: GINGER SNAPS BACK: THE BEGINNING (2004)
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I think that the 2010's media landscape of Buzzfeed articles about plotholes in disney movies, Cinemasins critiques, and Watchmojo Top Ten scenes in movies that make no sense has truely ruined a lot of media. People are afraid that their work will be torn down if they dare leave a single thing up in the air, if they dare ask their audience to suspend their disbelief.
All too often nowadays I see stories (especially fantasy), take the time to explain how every small aspect of the world works and how it all logically makes sense. The constant time stopped to explain why an event happened, how this object works, or why this is important to the characters. It's just really not needed and it honestly makes a lot of stories worse.
I am of the opinion that the best stories truly just drop you into their world and explain nothing. They just take you through the story of this world and you just have to accept it and continue on. "When he became king, the land became barren." I don't want the story to stop and explain why this is, or how it happened, I want us to move on so we can just assume that the king has such rancid vibes that everything died.
#simon says#i watched the Last Unicorn again recently and it fucking slaps#and I noticed a huge part of why it slapped is because it doesn't explain shit#same with a lot of other fantasy things from the 70's and 80's I've noticed#and even older stories all the way back to fairy tales and fables#they just tell you something and move on#and it works!#a lot of the time it feels far too hand-holdy or immersion breaking for the characters to stop and explain something for the audience#like these characters would not take the time to explain the aspects of their world in detail to other people who live in this world#this is clearly for the audience only and so that they can feel more satisfied with an answer#but it fucking sucks!!#it is bad writing!!#to presume your audience has no suspension of disbelief so you stop everything to explain how the world works for them alone is bad!#it makes the story feel awkward because it feels out of character for the people of the world to talk like that and it feels insulting tbh#like you really think the audience's ability to pick up details of the world from dialog and onscreen (or page) information is that poor??#and to some extent it is#lord knows we are having a serious media literacy and general literacy issue in the United States#but it's honestly just bad writing and it bugs me so much. my number 1 pet peeve in fantasy is overexplaining especially when it doesn't fit#like just fucking tell me that there's a magical world on the other side of this wall in a village and move on#i can just accept this fact#imagine if the Dark Crystal took the time to explain every aspect of the world#that movie is already jam packed with random story and world bits that you just have to accept and move on from#now imagine if they took a solid 2 minutes to explain what the fuck Fizzgig is.#i think leaving it at 'he's a friendly monster and Kira's friend!' is the perfect place to leave it at#we do not need a full explanation on Fizzgig's species and behavior and why he's friendly unlike other monsters#he's a friendly monster and he's Kira's friend! that's all we need to know! we got a dark crystal to put back together!!!
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Old-school sci-fi/fantasy/horror movie poster appreciation...uh, post?
Yes, kids. Believe it or not, movie posters used to be hand-drawn.
The Neverending Story (1984)
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Labyrinth (1986)
The Secret Of NIMH (1982)
Wizards (1977)
Return To Oz (1985)
Dragonslayer (1981)
Fire And Ice (1983)
Heavy Metal (1981)
Legend (1985)
Ladyhawke (1985)
Willow (1988)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Thing (1982)
Suspiria (1977)
Inferno (1980)
Phenomena (1985)
Re-Animator (1985)
Army Of Darkness (1992)
#movies#70's movies#80's movies#90's movies#films#movie poster#movie posters#cult cinema#cult films#animation#sci fi#sci fi/fantasy#fantasy#horror#traditional art#traditional poster art#sci-fi/fantasy/horror
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"TRAINED TO HANDLE EVERYTHING IN THE IMPERIAL GROUND ARSENAL..."
PIC(S) INFO: Part 2 of 2 -- Spotlight on behind-the-scenes shots of UK actors Paul Jericho and Ian Liston played the Imperial Walker pilots at Elstree Studio, UK, c. 1979
MINI-OVERVIEW: "The Empire’s combat drivers are trained to handle everything in the Imperial ground arsenal, but AT-AT pilots see themselves as elite, controlling their massive four-footed assault vehicles in combat against Rebel targets. While driving early models of their massive walking tanks, AT-AT pilots nearly annihilated the Ghost crew and three surviving clones on Seelos, and later obeyed General Veers’ orders during the Empire’s advance on Hoth’s Echo Base, destroying numerous snowspeeders and blasting apart the Rebels’ ground defenses."
-- STAR WARS (official)
Sources: https://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com/2020/10/an-empire-at-40-from-enemys-vantage.html & Star Wars (official site).
#STAR WARS: The Empire Strikes Back#TESB#Galatic Empire#AT-AT pilot#Super Seventies#Sci-fi/fantasy#1980s#Imperial Domination#STARS WARS II#Battle of Hoth#Empire Strikes Back#Elstree Studios UK#Empire#70s Sci-fi#Behind -the-Scenes#Costume Design#Sci-fi Fri#Sci-fi fantasy#Elstree Studios#The Empire Strikes Back#The Empire#Imperial Era#Sci-fi#The Battle of Hoth#Imperial AT-AT Pilot#Original Trilogy#80s#80s Movies#1979#STAR WARS
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"Growing up doesn't mean leaving childhood behind. It means seeing the world through childs eyes, but knowing how to rationally react with adult maturity."
- Unknown
#screenshots#quotes#fantasy horror#70s fantasy#80s movies#valerie and her week of wonders#the company of wolves#kinda makes sense though
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The phantom of the opera - theme song lyrics
Semra Ö'B🎃🌹@semra-world85
#the phantom of the opera#with#witchcraft#witch#tarot witch#70s movies#80s movies#movie news#atumn#welcome autumn#hollywood#old hollywood#dark academia#dark aesthetic#dark art#dark fantasy#fantastic four#fantasy#movies#movie#90s music#80s music#80s horror#semra ö'b#happy halloweeeeeeen#halloween#black twitter#twice#twitch#beatufiul
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How do you chose the movies you’re going to watch?
I honestly couldn't tell you. Vibes alone, lists, recs, stuff I have available locally. It makes for an interesting uh, watch experience. I have a bunch of stuff I swear I'm gonna get to (so says my drafts folder and said lists).
For tonight's movie The Coming Days I don't remember how I came across this one, maybe a wikipedia list on post apoc films. I've had it on an external drive for 5+ years, moved it to my computer last year and almost watched it a couple of times in the past 3 months (the fact that it's a subbed film requiring more of my attention stopped me). But tonight felt like the night. Tomorrow? who knows!
I do tend to do a couple of theme months (horror/noirvember, but I think I burnt out on the latter) every year. And I alternate, got a chunk of 60s-70s movies I really want to get through, and my deep love for scifi, and also horror, and big ideas and childhood favourites....
looking at the last 7 movies isn't even a representative sample, wow I veered a bit into camp the past 2 weeks
I am trying to learn to be able to just leave a bad movie or movie that don't interest me.
Does that answer your question? Did it raise more questions? (probably)
#asks#anon#on a side note I need to finish some of these historical/fantasy shows and put some SF in the mix. missing it.#anon asking one of the existential questions#and to be fair I did the 70s-80s movies projects. somewhere in there there's still a method
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masterpost of horror lists
here are all my horror lists in one place to make it easier to find! enjoy!
sub-genres
action horror
analog horror
animal horror
animated horror
anthology horror
aquatic horror
apocalyptic horror
backwoods horror
bubblegum horror
campy horror
cannibal horror
children’s horror
comedy horror
coming-of-age horror
corporate/work place horror
cult horror
dance horror
dark comedy horror
daylight horror
death games
domestic horror
ecological horror
erotic horror
experimental horror
fairytale horror
fantasy horror
folk horror
found footage horror
giallo horror
gothic horror
grief horror
historical horror
holiday horror
home invasion horror
house horror
indie horror
isolation horror
insect horror
lgbtqia+ horror
lovecraftian/cosmic horror
medical horror
meta horror
monster horror
musical horror
mystery horror
mythological horror
neo-monster horror
new french extremity horror
paranormal horror
political horror
psychedelic horror
psychological horror
religious horror
revenge horror
romantic horror
dramatic horror
science fiction horror
slasher
southern gothic horror
sov horror (shot-on-video)
splatter/body horror
survival horror
techno-horror
vampire horror
virus horror
werewolf horror
western horror
witch horror
zombie horror
horror plots/settings
road trip horror
summer camp horror
cave horror
doll horror
cinema horror
cabin horror
clown horror
wilderness horror
asylum horror
small town horror
college horror
plot devices
storm horror
from a child’s perspective
final girl/guy (this is slasher horror trope)
last guy/girl (this is different than final girl/guy)
reality-bending horror
slow burn horror
possession
pregnancy horror
foreign horror or non-american horror
african horror
spanish horror
middle eastern horror
korean horror
japanese horror
british horror
german horror
indian horror
thai horror
irish horror
scottish horror
slavic horror (kinda combined a bunch of countries for this)
chinese horror
french horror
australian horror
canadian horror
decades
silent era
30s horror
40s horror
50s horror
60s horror
70s horror
80s horror
90s horror
2000s horror
2010s horror
2020s horror
companies/services
blumhouse horror
a24 horror
ghosthouse horror
shudder horror
other lists
horror literature to movies
techno-color horror movies
video game to horror movie adaption
video nasties
female directed horror
my 130 favorite horror movies
horror movies critics hated because they’re stupid
horror remakes/sequels that weren’t bad
female villains in horror
horror movies so bad they’re good
non-horror movies that feel like horror movies
directors + their favorite horror movies + directors in the notes
tumblr’s favorite horror movie (based off my poll)
horror movie plot twists
cult classic horror movies
essential underrated horror films
worst horror movie husbands
religious horror that isn’t christianity
black horror movies
extreme horror (maybe use this as an avoid list)
horror shorts
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I remember a friend of mine had some LPs that were Star Wars themed disco albums, and it brought back a very weird memory from back in the 70s (yes, I'm old!) of listening to a Star Wars disco mashup on the radio. What was all that about? I also remember something like that for Close Encounters, too.
You remember correctly, and this went on for a long while. In 1983, disk jockeys around the country played a record that involved an Ewok rapping the plot of Return of the Jedi in Ewokese. This made it to #60 in the Billboard Top 100.
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This is hard to explain to people who weren’t there….but in the wake of Star Wars in the late 70s and early 80s, scifi was so beloved and mainstream that the orchestral music for nerdy scifi and fantasy movies about outer space were remixed and sampled into Giorgio Moroder-esque Italo-Disco dance numbers. And the most astonishing thing is, instead of being consigned to convention acts the way “horse famous” Brony dubstep acts are, this received national airplay on the radio, reached the pop music charts, and were played in discotheques. And incredibly, this continued for years and expanded from Star Wars into Star Trek, Wizard of Oz, Black Hole, Close Encounters….
All of this was the work of one specific person: Meco (or Dominico Monardo). The term “ahead of their time” is thrown around a lot, but Meco really was: a combination producer-songwriter and Italo-Disco pioneer in the style of Giorgio Moroder, he did several things that are now absolutely standard: he used remixes and sampling before hiphop made that standard for musicians, he wrote “fandom music” on a Moog synthesizer decades before Bronies turned their conventions into cringey dubstep concerts with songs like “Everypony Dance Now.”
It's stunning to me that Meco has not been rediscovered, considering every single trend in the culture essentially went his way.
The most startling thing about Meco’s Star Wars disco album, the one that got the ball rolling on this trend, is this: I always assumed it was some kind of cash in created by a record label mandate, a label executive’s completely cynical choice to hop on a hot new trend. That isn’t a crazy thing to think at all, since Star Wars is and always has been the most merchandized and sold out scifi property ever. But it wasn’t! You see, it was all the product of a single man’s specific vision: Meco had to convince his record label to make the record because they were skeptical.
When Meco went to see Star Wars in 1977 on Opening Day (what an experience that must have been) with his friend and fellow Italian chest hair/gold medallion enthusiast Tony Bongiovi, he was already an experienced producer-songwriter who had worked with Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, and formed DCA, the Disco Corporation of America. If you've ever listened to Diana Ross's "I'm Coming Out," Meco actually played the trombone solo in that song. Seeing the Star Wars movie for the first time, though Meco thought the movie was nothing short of a religious experience. Originally, he wanted to do Star Wars music as a b-side on a Gloria Gaynor album, but expanded the idea into an entire album.
In Meco’s own words:
"When I think about what I did, nobody came to me, nobody said 'Meco, why don't you do this.' Nobody says 'Here's some money go make a record of this movie.' It was just my own... It was magical, it was just out of this world when all that happened."
Not only did this album hit platinum, not only did it actually outsell the Star Wars soundtrack, his remix of the Star Wars theme also went to #1 in the charts. It’s actually the best selling instrumental single of all time. A record, that, incidentally, it holds to this day.
Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand, had this to say about Meco:
"In 1977, Meco Monardo accomplished something no one else has ever done to the best of my knowledge. He was the first one in history to out-sell the soundtrack of a motion picture with his own distinctive version of a film's music. The music was totally danceable, and broke new ground. It's no wonder the STAR WARS THEME went to # 1. I loved his treatment of music from THE WIZARD OF OZ. Again, Meco created something innovative. The fun and the excitement gave a whole new feel to that totally familiar and well-loved music."
Like a lot of studio producers, Meco had an insane work ethic and hit when the iron was hot: he did an album about Close Encounters that exact same year, but also did a Star Wars Christmas Album, one of the strangest pieces of Star Wars kitsch around.
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One of the most interesting things about the Star Wars Christmas album is that one of the songs, “R2D2’s Wish You a Merry Christmas” is the first professional vocals by John Bon Jovi, who was Meco’s friend Tony Bongiovi’s seventeen year old younger cousin (he was initially known as John Bongiovi). It's incredible to hear a squeaky voiced teen Bon Jovi on a kitsch album about a robot Christmas.
1978-1979 was really his best year. Meco made an Italo-Disco remix album entirely devoted to Superman, and at this point, Meco had the pull to get access to John Williams's sheet music for the score before the music even came out. In my personal opinion it's the best of them because he has to recreate it entirely with his own instruments, leading to a very unique sound.
He also did an album based on the Wizard of Oz:
And a combination album of Star Trek/Black Hole. It's probably the earliest remixing date of Goldsmith pieces of music: the Motion Picture Theme (which is now associated with the Next Generation - hearing it done in Italodisco is uncanny) and the Klingon Theme:
Incidentally, I think the design here of the Meco Enterprise, which had to be modified for legal reasons, would make a wonderful canon starship if anyone wants to be inspired by it. It reminds me of the same concept that would be used in the very next film for the Reliant-class of ships.
Meco eventually retired from music in 1985, but unfortunately he is no longer with us, as he passed into the next dimension in 2023. I think he showed us that creativity is often about transformation, and was inspired to make his art by a legitimate awe of space, the cosmos, and human imagination that the scifi movies of the 1970s and 80s provoke.
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The Radio Times magazine from the 29 July-04 August 2023 :)
THE SECOND COMING
How did Terry Pratchett and Neil gaiman overcome the small matter of Pratchett's death to make another series of their acclaimed divine comedy?
For all the dead authors in the world,” legendary comedy producer John Lloyd once said, “Terry Pratchett is the most alive.” And he’s right. Sir Terry is having an extremely busy 2023… for someone who died in 2015.
This week sees the release of Good Omens 2, the second series of Amazon’s fantasy comedy drama based on the cult novel Pratchett co-wrote with Neil Gaiman in the late 1980s. This will be followed in the autumn by a new spin-off book from Pratchett’s Discworld series, Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch, co-written by Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna and children’s author Gabrielle Kent. The same month, we’ll also get A Stroke of the Pen, a collection of “lost” short stories written by Sir Terry for local newspapers in the 70s and 80s and recently rediscovered. Clearly, while there are no more books coming from Pratchett – a hard drive containing all drafts and unpublished work was crushed by a vintage steamroller shortly after the author’s death, as per his specific wishes – people still want to visit his vivid and addictive worlds in new ways.
Good Omens 2 will be the first test of how this can work. The original book started life as a 5,000-word short story by Gaiman, titled William the Antichrist and envisioned as a bit of a mashup of Richmal Crompton’s Just William books and the 70s horror classic The Omen. What would happen, Gaiman had mused, if the spawn of Satan had been raised, not by a powerful American diplomat, but by an extremely normal couple in an idyllic English village, far from the influence of hellish forces? He’d sent the first draft to bestselling fantasy author Pratchett, a friend of many years, and then forgotten about it as he busied himself with continuing to write his massively popular comic books, including Violent Cases, Black Orchid and The Sandman, which became a Netflix series last year.
Pratchett loved the idea, offering to either buy the concept from Gaiman or co-write it. It was, as Gaiman later said, “like Michelangelo phoning and asking if you want to paint a ceiling” The pair worked on the book together from that point on, rewriting each other as they went and communicating via long phone calls and mailed floppy discs. “The actual mechanics worked like this: I would do a bit, then Neil would take it away and do a bit more and give it back to me,” Pratchett told Locus magazine in 1991. “We’d mess about with each other’s bits and pieces.”
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – to give it its full title –was published in 1990 to huge acclaim. It was one of, astonishingly, five Terry Pratchett novels to be published that year (he averaged two a year, including 41 Discworld novels and many other standalone works and collaborations).
It was also, clearly, extremely filmable, and studios came knocking — though getting it made took a while. rnvo decades on from its writing, four years after Pratchett's death from Alzheimer's disease aged 66, and after several doomed attempts to get a movie version off the ground, Good Omens finally made it to TV screens in 2019, scripted and show-run by Gaiman himself. "Terry was egging me on to make it into television. He knew he was dying, and he knew that I wouldn't start it without him," Gaiman revealed in a 2019 Radio Times interview. Amazon and the BBC co-produced with Pratchett's company Narrativia and Gaiman's Blank Corporation production studios, with Michael Sheen and David Tennant cast in the central roles of Aziraphale the angel and Crowley the demon. The show was a hit, not just with fans of its two creators, but with a whole new young audience, many of whom had no interest in Discworld or Sandman. Social media networks like Tumblr and TikTok were soon awash with cosplay, artwork and fan fiction. The original novel became, for the first time, a New York Times bestseller.
A follow up was, on one level, a no-brainer. The world Pratchett and Gaiman had created was vivid, funny and accessible, and Tennant and Sheen had found an intriguing romantic spark in their chemistry not present in the novel.
There was, however, a huge problem. There wasn't a second Good Omens book to base it on. But there was the ghost of an idea.
In 1989, after the book had been sold but before it had come out, the two authors had laid on fivin beds in a hotel room at a convention in Seattle and, jet-lagged and unable to sleep, plotted out, in some detail, what would happen in a sequel, provisionally titled 668, The II Neighbour of the Beast.
"It was a good one, too" Gaiman wrote in a 2021 blog. "We fully intended to write it, whenever we next had three or four months free. Only I went to live in America and Terry stayed in the UK, and after Good Omens was published, Sandman became SANDMAN and Discworld became DISCWORLD(TM) and there wasn't a good time."
Back in 1991, Pratchett elaborated, "We even know some of the main characters in it. But there's a huge difference between sitting there chatting away, saying, 'Hey, we could do this, we could do that,' and actually physically getting down and doing it all again." In 2019, Gaiman pillaged some of those ideas for Good Omens series one (for example, its final episode wasn't in the book at all), and had left enough threads dangling to give him an opening for a sequel. This is the well he's returned to for Good Omens 2, co-writing with comic John Finnemore - drafted in, presumably, to plug the gap left Pratchett's unparalleled comedic mind. No small task.
Projects like Good Omens 2 are an important proving ground for Pratchett's legacy: can the universes he conjured endure without their creator? And can they stay true to his spirit? Sir Terry was famously protective of his creations, and there have been remarkably few adaptations of his work considering how prolific he was. "What would be in it for me?" he asked in 2003. "Money? I've got money."
He wanted his work treated reverently and not butchered for the screen. It's why Good Omens and projects like Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch are made with trusted members of the inner circle like Neil Gaiman and Rhianna Pratchett at the helm. It's also why the author's estate, run by Pratchett's former assistant and business manager Rob Wilkins, keeps a tight rein on any licensed Pratchett material — it's a multi-million dollar media empire still run like a cottage industry.
And that's heartening. Anyone who saw BBC America's panned 2021 Pratchett adaptation The Watch will know how badly these things can go when a studio is allowed to run amok with the material without oversight. These stories deserve to be told, and these worlds deserve to be explored — properly. And there are, apparently, many plans afoot for more Pratchett on the screen. You can only hope that, somewhere, he'll be proud of the results.
After all, as he wrote himself, "No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life is only the core of their actual existence."
While those ripples continue to spread, Sir Terry Pratchett remains very much alive. MARC BURROWS
DIVINE DUO
An angel and a demon walk into a pub... Michael Sheen and David Tennant on family, friendship and Morecambe & Wise
Outside it's cold winter's day and we're in a Scottish studio, somewhere between Edinburgh and Glasgow. But inside it's lunchtime in The Dirty Donkey pub in the heart of London, with both Michael Sheen and David Tennant surveying the scene appreciatively. "This is a great pub," says Sheen eagerly, while Tennant calls it "the best Soho there can be. A slightly heightened, immaculate, perfect, dreamy Soho."
Here, a painting of the absent landlord — the late Terry Pratchett, co-creator, with Neil Gaiman, of the series' source novel — looms over punters. Around the corner is AZ Fell and Co Antiquarian and Unusual Books. It's the bookshop owned by Sheen's character, the angel Aziraphale, and the place to where Tennant's demon Crowley is inevitably drawn.
It's day 74 of an 80-day shoot for a series that no one, least of all the leading actors, ever thought would happen, due to the fact that Pratchett and Gaiman hadn't ever published any sequel to their 1990 fantasy satire. Tennant explains, "What we didn't know was that Neil and Terry had had plots and plans..."
Still, lots of good things are in Good Omens 2, which expands on the millennia-spanning multiverse of the first series. These include a surprisingly naked side of John Hamm, and roles for both Tennant's father-in-law (Peter Davison) and 21-year-old son Ty. At its heart, though, remains the brilliant banter between the two leading men — as Sheen puts it, "very Eric and Ernie !" — whose chemistry on the first series led to one of the more surprising saviours of lockdown telly.
Good Omens is back — but you've worked together a lot in the meantime. Was there a connective tissue between series one of Good Omens and Staged, your lockdown sitcom?
David: Only in as much as the first series went out, then a few months later, we were all locked in our houses. And because of the work we'd done on Good Omens, it occurred that we might do something else. I mean, Neil Gaiman takes full responsibility for Staged. Which, to some extent, he's probably right to do!
Michael: We've got to know each other through doing this. Our lives have gotten more entwined in all kinds of ways — we have children who've now become friends, and our families know each other.
There have been hints of a romantic storyline between the two characters. How much of an undercurrent is that in this series.
David: Nothing's explicit.
Michael: I felt from the very beginning that part of what would be interesting to explore is that Aziraphale is a character, a being, who just loves. How does that manifest itself in a very specific relationship with another being? Inevitably, as there is with everything in this story, there's a grey area. The fact that people see potentially a "romantic relationship", I thought that was interesting and something to explore.
There was a petition to have the first series banned because of its irreverent take on Christian tropes. Series two digs even more deeply into the Bible with the story of Job. How much of a badge of honour is it that the show riles the people who like to ban things?
David: It's not an irreligious show at all. It's actually very respectful of the structure of that sort of religious belief. The idea that it promotes Satanism [is nonsense]. None of the characters from hell are to be aspired to at all! They're a dreadful bunch of non-entities. People are very keen to be offended, aren't they? They're often looking for something to glom on to without possibly really examining what they think they're complaining about.
Michael, you're known as an activist, and you're in the middle of Making BBC drama The Way, which "taps into the social and political chaos of today's world". Is it important for you to use your plaform to discuss causes you believe in?
Michael: The Way is not a political tract, it's just set in the area that I come from. But it has to matter to you, doesn't it? More and more as I get older, [I find] it can be a real slog doing this stuff. You've got to enjoy it. And if it doesn't matter to you, then it's just going to be depressing.
David, Michael has declared himself a "not-for-profit" actor. Has he tried to persuade you to give up all your money too?
David: What an extraordinary question! One is always aware that one has a certain responsibility if one is fortunate and gets to do a job that often doesn't feel like a job. You want to do your bit whenever you can. But at the same time, I'm an actor. I'm not about to give that up to go into politics or anything. But I'll do what I can from where I live.
Well, your son and your father-in-law are also starring in this series. How about that, jobs for the boys!
David: I know! It was a delight to get to be on set with them. And certainly an unexpected one for me. Neil, on two occasions, got to bowl up to me and say, "Guess who we've cast?!"
How do you feel about your US peers going on strike?
David: It's happening because there are issues that need to be addressed. Nobody's doing this lightly. These are important issues, and they've got to be sorted out for the future of our industry. There's this idea that writers and actors are all living high on the hog. For huge swathes of our industry, that's just not the case. These people have got to be protected.
Michael: We have to be really careful that things don't slide back to the way they were pre the 1950s, when the stories that we told were all coming from one point of view and the stories of certain people, or communities within our society, weren't represented. There's a sense that now that's changed for ever and it'll never go back. But you worry when people can't afford to have the opportunities that other people have. We don't want the story that we tell about ourselves to be myopic. You want it to be as inclusive as possible
Staged series 3 recently broadcast. It felt like the show's last hurrah — or is there more mileage? Sheen and Tennant go on holiday?
David: That's the Christmas special! One Foot in the Algarve! On the Buses Go to Spain!
Michael: I don't think we were thinking beyond three, were we?
So is it time for a conscious uncoupling for you two — Eric and Ernie say goodbye?
David: Oh, never say never, will we?
Michael: And it's more Hinge and Bracket.
David: Maybe that's what we do next — The Hinge and Bracket Story. CRAIG McLEAN
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George R.R. Martin on the process of creating A Game Of Thrones
You hold in your hands the second volume of A Song of Ice and Fire… but not the second volume as originally intended. Although I wrote the opening of A Game of Thrones back in the summer of 1991, as related in my introduction to the Meisha Merlin edition of that volume, it was not until October of 1993 that I drew up a proposal for my agents to take to publishers. There is no mention of any book titled A Clash of Kings in that proposal. In 1993, I was under the impression that I was writing a trilogy.
Trilogies had been the dominant form in epic fantasy ever since J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings had been broken apart by publishers and released in three volumes. And the story that I wanted to tell divided quite naturally into three parts; much more so, in fact, than The Lord of the Rings, which is actually one fairly seamless narrative, and not a trilogy at all. I planned to title the books A Game of Thrones, A Dance with Dragons, and The Winds of Winter. I knew right from the start that they would all be large books. Huge books, even. But there were to be only three of them, and…and none were to be called A Clash of Kings. Sometimes the author is the last to know.
As I write this, I am halfway through the writing of A Feast for Crows, the fourth volume of my ‘trilogy.’ There is no mention of that title in my 1993 proposal either. These days, when pressed, I confidently assert that A Song of Ice and Fire will ultimately run to six books… but behind my back I know my lady Parris is smiling knowingly and holding up seven fingers. She may be right. Though I may dream of six books, plan for six books, work toward six books, the only thing that truly matters is the story. And the story needs to be as long as the story needs to be.
In Hollywood, the suits will tell you how long that is. A television show has to fit within its allotted time slot, of course, and you cannot beg, borrow, or steal an extra minute, no matter how much the story needs it. Running times are somewhat more flexible for films, though not as much as one might think. For the most part, the studios still want movies to run about two hours, so they look for screenplays of 120 pages or less, and demand cuts in any scripts that come in longer. My own screenplays and teleplays were almost always too long and too expensive in first draft, so in my later drafts, along with addressing the inevitable notes from studio, network, and producers, I was constantly trimming. In the end, I would deliver a shooting script that was the right length and under budget, but it was never a happy process… and I often went away feeling that the earlier drafts were the better ones.
The size of A Song of Ice and Fire was in no small part a reaction to ten years of trimming. I wanted to do something epic in scale, something at once grand and sprawling and complex and subtle, with a cast of thousands, huge battles, mighty castles, gorgeous costume, lavish feast, great rivers, towering mountains, vast fields… all the things I could not do in television. In short. I wanted to make a world. And for that you need a bit of room.
In my original proposal, I estimated that each volume of the trilogy might run as long as 800 pages in manuscript. The novels that I had written during the 70's and 80's, before Hollywood, had generally come in at 400 or 500 pages or thereabouts, so an 800 pages book seemed very lengthy indeed. The three books of the trilogy would be structured around the long, slow seasons of Westeros. A Game of Thrones would be summer’s book, A Dance with Dragons would take us through autumn, and The Winds of Winter… well, the title says it all. Even in the Seven Kingdoms, where a season can last for years, 800 pages ought to give me enough room to reach the end of summer and conclude the part of my tale, I reasoned.
‘Twas a lovely plan of battle… but no plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy, it has been said. Writers know the truth of that as well as any general, though our wars are fought on blank white sheets of paper and empty computer screens. For the map is not the territory, the blueprint is not the house, the recipe is not the dinner… and the outline is never ever the book.
- George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings Limited Edition Introduction (2002)
#Ned Stark#Catelyn Stark#Sansa Stark#Arya Stark#Bran Stark#Jon Snow#Tyrion Lannister#Daenerys Targaryen#The Outline#A Game Of Thrones#George R.R. Martin#ValyrianScrolls#ASOIAF
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THE QUASI "ALBINO" ANSWER TO THE ALL-BLACK IMPERIAL TIE FIGHTER PILOTS.
PIC(S) INFO: Part 1 of 2 -- Spotlight on a behind-the-scenes and/or promo close-up of an Imperial AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport) pilot, photographed in Elstree Studios, UK, from the American epic space opera film "STAR WARS: Episode V -- The Empire Strikes Back," c. 1979.
Sources: www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=238.15 & STAR WARS (official).
#STAR WARS: The Empire Strikes Back#TESB#Galatic Empire#AT-AT pilot#Super Seventies#Sci-fi/fantasy#1980s#Imperial Domination#STARS WARS II#Battle of Hoth#Empire Strikes Back#Elstree Studios UK#Empire#70s Sci-fi#Behind -the-Scenes#Costume Design#Sci-fi Fri#Sci-fi fantasy#Elstree Studios#The Empire Strikes Back#The Empire#Imperial Era#Sci-fi#The Battle of Hoth#Imperial AT-AT Pilot#Original Trilogy#80s#80s Movies#1979#STAR WARS
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what people miss when they’re trying to replicate 70s/80s and even 90s vibes is how Brown everything was. probably because now everything is grey and white and pale beige but like. there was so much brown. the furniture was brown. the carpet was brown. everything was made of that specific color of wood. the colors that weren’t brown often had a warm brown-leaning cast to them. yeah there were definitely bright colors and the 90s especially made terrifying leaps forward in food coloring technology and invented sour candy, but the day to day still had much lingering brown from the decades before.
the fantasy movies were also much browner than people remember. watch Labyrinth. it is Brown.
#sometimes I miss the brown it was warm#my house is all grey and landlord white and it’s a bummer sometimes
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Natsume Yuujinchou Episode/Chapter Guide
Updated: 23/12/24
Episode Guide | mangadex (fan translations) (up to 113) | manga4life (offical translations) (up to 123)
*The special chapters may be numbered slightly differently between my list and these sites. (such as 19.5 vs 19.1 and vice versa)
Season 1:
Episode 1: Chapter 1
Episode 2: Chapter 2
Episode 3: Chapter 3
Episode 4: Chapter 5
Episode 5: Anime Original
Episode 6: Chapter 4
Episode 7: Chapters 15.1 (Special 1) & 22.5 (Special 5)
Episode 8: Chapter 10
Episode 9: Chapter 7
Episode 10: Chapter 8
Episode 11: Chapter 15.3 (Special 3), a lot of added anime original material
Episode 12: Chapter 6
Episode 13: Chapter 19.5 (Special 4), a lot of added anime original material
NOTE: There is a POV change in the anime. This chapter is from Tanuma’s POV.
Season 2 (zoku):
Episode 1: Chapter 9
Episode 2: Chapter 13
Episode 3: Chapter 14
Episode 4: Chapter 12
Episode 5: Chapter 22.6 (Special 6), a lot of added anime original material
Episodes 6 & 7: Chapters 17 & 18
Episode 8: Chapter 16
Episode 9: Chapter 15
Episode 10: Chapter 19
Episode 11: Chapter 11
NOTE: There are several changes to this chapter. Mainly, the crow youkai does not die in the manga.
Episodes 12 & 13: Chapters 20-22
NOTE: Taki & Tanuma do not meet until Chapter 27 in the manga (adapted into S3E09)
NOTE: The ending of this arc had a couple of changes.
Season 3 (san):
Episode 1: Chapter 48
Episode 2: Anime Original
Episode 3: Chapters 37 & 38
Episode 4: Chapter 15.2
Episode 5: Chapters 42 & 43
Episodes 6 & 7: Chapters 23-26
NOTE: The crow youkai from Chapter 11 (S2E11) is not the woman’s shiki in the manga.
Episode 8: Anime Original
Episode 9: Chapter 27
Episodes 10 & 11: Chapters 28 & 29
Episode 12: Chapters 30 & 31
Episode 13: Chapter 26.1 (Special 7)
Season 4 (shi):
Episodes 1 & 2: Chapters 34-36
NOTE: These chapters were changed quite a bit in the anime. It is a very, very loose adaptation.
Episode 3: Chapters 32 & 33
Episode 4: Chapter 47
Episode 5: Chapter 36.5 (Special 9)
Episodes 6 & 7: Chapters 49-51
NOTE: some dialogue got moved between characters in the anime.
Episode 8: Anime Original
Episodes 9 & 10: Chapters 39-41
Episodes 11-13: Chapters 44-46
OVA:
Natsume Yuujinchou LaLa Special - Nyanko-Sensei and the First Errand: Anime Original
Natsume Yuujinchou Itsuka no Hi ni: Anime Original
Season 5 (go):
Episode 1: Chapters 57-59
NOTE: A lot got cut from these chapters in the anime.
Episode 2: Chapter 56
Episodes 3 & 4: Chapters 52-54
NOTE: The conversation about forbidden techniques was taken from Chapter 62 (which was adapted into S6E04-5)
Episode 5: Chapters 64 & 65
Episode 6: Chapter 55
Episode 7: Chapters 66 & 67
Episode 8: Chapters 71.1 & 71.2 (Special 15)
Episode 9: Chapter 63
Episode 10: Chapter 63.5 (Special 14)
Episode 11: Chapter 59.5 (Special 12)
OVA:
One Night Sake Cup: Anime Original
Party of Fun & Games: Chapter 70
Season 6 (roku):
Episode 1: Chapter 78
Episode 2: Chapter 75
Episode 3: Chapter 74
Episodes 4 & 5: Chapters 60-62
Episode 6: Chapters 54.5 & 54.6 (Specials 10 & 11)
Episode 7: Chapter 76
Episode 8: Chapter 68 & 69
Episode 9: Chapter 79
Episodes 10 & 11: Chapters 72 & 73
OVA:
The Stump of the Suzunaru Tree: Anime Original
Fragments of Dreams (A Fragment of Fantasy): Chapter 73.5 (Special 16)
Season 7 (shichi)
Episode 1: Chapter 84
Episode 2: Chapter 81
Episode 3: Chapter 80
Episode 4: Chapter 83
Episode 5: Chapter 108
Episode 6: Chapters 89.5, 77
Episode 7: Chapters 95 & 96
Episode 8: Chapter 87
Episode 9 & 10: Chapters 92-94
Episode 11: Chapters 88 & 89
Episode 12: Chapter 99
OVA:
Coming April 23rd, 2025
MOVIES/Additional OVA:
Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie - Ephemeral Bond: Anime Original
Natsume's Book of Friends - The Waking Rock and the Suspicious Visitor: Chapters 82, 97 & 98
Chapters not adapted:
31.5 (Special 8), 67.5 (Special 14), 71, 85-86, 90-91, 100-107, 109-134
NOTE: as of 23/12/24, past chapter 123, chapters are untranslated
Chapter 84.5 (Special 17) is a continuum of Special 15
Chapters 85 & 86: The Face of the Noren arc
Chapters 88 & 89: Tell Me Your Name arc
Chapters 90 & 91: Tenjou-san arc
Chapters 100-105 (excluding 102.5): Homura arc
Chapters 106 & 107: Yorishima arc
Chapters 109 & 110: Master of the Name Calls arc
Chapters 113-116: Younger Cousin Saga
Chapters 117 & 118: By the Queens Invitation arc
Chapters 121-126: Portrait of a Girl arc
NOTE: chapter 120 is technically the same arc that begins in 121, but officially it is not listed that way.
Chapters 128-130: Sealed-off Storehouse arc
Chapters 131-134: Unfamiliar Home arc
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