Monday, February 11, 2008

Why Ladies of Grace Adieu"made me want to drink more....

Let's see why I thought this piece sucked. First off I do not consider this piece to be anything close to fantasy, we have the mention of magic and the girls turn into owls. Well how is that interesting where are the epic battles and wizards blasting each other with fireballs, where are the alternate dimensions where dogs and cats talk and act like humans, when in reality they dine of human flesh? Where are the beautiful princesses that need to be rescued by a drunken knight in tarnished armor with a broken sword riding a goat instead of a horse?

If this is fantasy, Tolkien is probably rolling over in his grave, threatening to come back and eat our brains. for reading something that is the furthest thing from fantasy. I couldn't get into the story there was no hook and it felt awkward trying to sympathize with the characters.

So the parts which really sucked the beginning, the middle, and the end. There was little use of magic or mention of magic, the British call their wizards magicians, what the hell does that mean some sort of cheap guy on stage making rabbits pop out of his hat and sawing people in half just
for entertainment, now that's a musician. If they really wanted to escape these men they should have turned them into frogs and tortured them, or better yet blasted them with some cool curse or spell running their lives forever.

The only part I liked is when the turned into owls. But the dialogue would have better better if one of the girls, had turned into a dragon ate or burnt the other two ladies and had the three men for dessert.

Well I'm off too enjoy a few beers and read some fantasy about dragon slaying or gnome killing or dwarf bashing or something like that.

I decided to steal this from Carney Monoxide and post a video/song for the day. It will either fit the subject matter of the blog or just be random as hell.

So here it is Limp Bizkit-"My Way."

I'm out. so enjoy a cold one on me and remember writing this bad only makes you want to drink more.

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