FANTASY BATTLES
20 Jul 2020
28 Dec 2017
Narrative Economy in "The Last Jedi"
This post is not a review of the latest Star Wars
movie. I may (or may not) do this in
a future post, but for now, I will just point out that I liked it
enough to want to watch it a second time. In this post, I just want to discuss one point about this film that, in my humble opinion, shows us what a
good director Rian Johnson is.
23 Aug 2017
How long for a raven to fly from Dragonstone to Eastwatch, and other unimportant questions.
There
has been a lot of debate about whether the plot of the most recent episode of
Game of Thrones (Season 7 Episode 6), and specifically the sequence where there was
enough time for Gendry to run back to Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, get someone there to send a raven to Dragonstone calling for help, and then for Danaerys and her dragons to fly to the rescue, is
plausible. Plausibility is an important part of the fantasy genre, because
it is far more rewarding to read a story (or watch a film) about
fantastical creatures and magic if the people in these stories are subject to the laws of physics just like
us, so I thought that I
would add my two cents’ worth.
2 May 2016
15 Jun 2015
Is Jon Snow Really...??
If you have not seen Episode 10 of Season 5 yet, do not read this post, because it is full of SPOILERS!!
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