Gah. What a mess yesterday was. I mean, a MESS. That’ll teach Seraphim and i to take a day off from MT stuff.
I dove into story development early sunday morning, and things were moving along pretty good. I’m still working on writing out the details and ironing out the problems for chaper 6. (oh, and i have been using a new version (a PRO version no less!) of my favorite writing tool - Omni Outliner. The new version is in beta but it has all the features i’ve been dyin for since i started using this thing. I love this program 
The hard part when looking at overall story stuff is to zoom in on a single script after looking at the whole thing. It takes a while, sometimes, to get the script to come out right, esp when it’s important points in the story. Todays comic was kinda hard because there was no real humor to it, nor was it really serious per se… i get nervous about those, i guess i shouldn’t anymore, people seem to react to story movement as much as humor.
What sucked yesterday was just how friggin COLD it was. Here at the factory, it was cold enough, and you could just feel the heat getting sucked out of the windows. We had a little graduation party for sarah (she just got her Masters degree. yay!) and then went back to work. I struggled with the art quite a bit, mainly because what i was trying to get across, in thier expressions, was so hard to quantify. I was not happy with things when we left for home.
Of course, i was even less happy when we got home. In all this lovely frigid cold, one of the coldest days in a while, and the damn furnace was out… AGAIN. it’s the third time in the past few months. I’m sort of getting frustrated with it. Hopefully when i get home maintenance will have stopped by and fixed it.
Really thinking Sarah and i should just cut and go see A Series of Unfortunate Events. I’ve even been hearing that it’s not a massive disappointment (like every recent Harry Potter film, those horrible LoTR, the abysmal Shrek 2… and every other ‘big’ movie i’ve heard of the past few year… )
and people wonder why i stay here and work rather than watch tv or go see a movie. Gee, i wonder.
- pirotunes: Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
Yeah, thanks for passing that freezing cold along…I woke up to 10 below zero F today. Couldn’t you have packed up the cold in one of your boxes and shipped it to Siberia or Antartica or somewhere similar where they wouldn’t notice it?
BTW - I liked today’s comic, humor and drama are not required elements of a good comic, so don’t worry about it. Just keep going (but don’t kill yourself). ^_^
Congrats to Sarah. Not that she’s going to be a librarian anymore anyway, huh?
I just finished up grad school myself last August. It’s always nice to be done with stuff like that.
Congrats on the grad!
Oh, here in Alaska ten below is rather warm. I love those balmy -10F days… well except for all the touristas getting out and hogging the road and everything else. Of course that is why I like -40F, they stay inside and only the true Alaskans go out and play. ^_^
Congrats to Sara! *plays funky music*
But how COULD you say LOTR was a dissapointment?!?!?!? LOTR ROCKS!
K, I had to say that.
Old sk00l tolkien reader and fan. I cannot sit thru what Jackson did to it. I almost walked out of TTT because i was so appauled. This isn’t the place for arguments about it all, but i think JRR would be throwing a hissy fit if he saw some of what Jackson did… but that’s my opinion. As a movie, they were cool. As representations of LoTR? Abominations.
I know this may not be the most logical place to ask and it’s not at all relevant as an actual ‘comment’, (congrats to Sarah, by the way) but why don’t you capitalize “i” in reference to yourself, unless it is the first word of the sentence? Sorry, just for some reason it bugs me.
Congrats Sara! Fred; I couldn’t have said it better myself, “As movies, they were cool. As representations of LoTR? Abominations.” I always feel guilty watching them, and enjoying them “as movies”, yet having that fear that by doing so that I am losing my ability to see them in my minds eye, the way Tolkien intended them. [Oh, and happy belated webcomics appreciation day -- thank Hawk for that one.]
I liked the LOTR movies… butI love the books more…
Freezing cold here as well, as I am also in Michigan (otherwise known as what hell would be like if it froze over)
The Lemony Snickett movie looks good, but I am still wondering why Claude doesn’t have his glasses… His glasses were a big part of the books.
Anyway, I’m just a fan, but I wanted to add anyway.
Personally when it comes to books and movies, I usually can separate myself from the two. I enjoy each for what they are worth. Speaking of Tolkien, I got a really nifty book today. Kate got me a book that has copies of all these letters that Tolkien had written to his childeren from ‘Father Christmas’.
1) congrats to Sarah on her degree.
2) I just take the LOTR for a translation to visual medium - enjoy the visual elements he got right, the casting (which I thought quite good), and realize for all its oomph its just a Reader’s Digest slideshow of the book. Of course, I realize I’m perverse when one of the highlights is noticing the Army of the Dead pulling a “starship trooper bug” number on a Mumakil in the background of one shot.
3) Apparently, everyone else is getting *our* winter again… damn chaotic systems global weather…
Fabulous last frame in today’s comic by the way…
I guess if you’re going to watch the film from a purist’s perspective, then it’s not for you. If you’re sure to remember that the director, producer, and screenwriter often have different interpretations of the story from the original author, then you may actually enjoy the fresh take, and you may be able to extrapolate what the director/producer/screenwriter was able to get out of the book.
Of course, if you want something that you’re garunteed to enjoy, I’d suggest Finding Neverland. Even if you’ve already seen it. Go see it again. You didn’t enjoy it enough the first time.
*shivers* Yes, it has been cold lately. To me at least. I’m sure you Eskimos don’t think so.
I have yet to see A Series of Unfortunate Events. I want to, but with Christmas coming up, I haven’t found time. Oh, that reminds me. Merry Christmas, everyone! Or, Happy Holidays, to be politically correct here ^_^
first of all, i always use a lower case i. its a better representation of how i feel about myself (actually, i’ve been doing it for years, and someone got on my case about it at some point which caused me to think about it. It’s a subconscious belittling, i think.
i actually was ok with the first LoTR movie. i could deal with the tweaks and changes, i enjoyed it as a movie. I cannot and do not accept some of the MASSIVE and COMPLETE flip flops on tolkien’s intent on jacksons part. I will never forgive him for what he did to Faramir, i will never forgive the bullshit about the elves at Helms Deep…I remember sitting in my seat going WHAT THE FUCK in disbelief… did jackson even ever fucking READ the books? I doubt it. if he did, he made these changes just because he could and for the sake of his own ego.
i’m not bitter and pissed about it, am i?
Doesnt matter, my opinion has no importance whatsoever, so it doesn’t matter 
Incredibles was really good. Does that count as a big movie?
Congratulations to Sarah!
Omni Outliner looks like a pretty sweet little program. I’ll have to check it out when my iMac gets here (hopefully by Thursday or Friday.)
Agree, it was very bizarre the plot decisions made after the first movie… and the rather pathetic rationalizations.
Anyway… assuming the rather ridiculous firestorm is calming on the forums from people who seem to want to re-interpret characters to fit their preconceptions (ooh, kind of a seque)…. we can await Wednesday’s comic and see how Largo reacts (unless you plan to cut back to Piro… and blindside him with a visit from P/M/Y/FrostytheSnowman)
I was planning to see Unfortunate Events simply to see how Miho-ish the lead? protagonist is…
If I do it like Potter.. I’ll see the movie about 2 yrs before I sit down to read the books…
Oh, and lacking a way to not double-post:
Have a silly solstice, holiday, dark ritual to invoke the Elder Gods — or whatever recent religious invocations one likes to make during the Longest Night. Just don’t let the yulelog go out or Cthulhu may leave something in your stockings…
Meh. You’re certainly not alone in your LOTR purism. I probably enjoyed the movies that much more since I haven’t read the books since grade school. It’s a problem inherent in all book-to-movie tranlations though, it’s hardly limited to Peter Jackson.
I always figured the lack of capital letters in general was just you being too lazy to hit the shift key all the time. Again, something you wouldn’t be alone in.
The various movies made of Moby Dick come to mind — though the Gregory Peck version still stands out as capturing the spirit of at least part of the book.
Ahhh, TLOTR…my favorite series of books ever….I’ve read the entire series 13 times to date. I began reading The Hobbit in 3rd grade…
*sigh*
I have to disgaree with you on the LotR movies. But other then that, your instincts seem to appear dead on.
So, if that’s the only thing we disgaree one, that is so cool. I’d like to applaud your work, since I haven’t done it before (although I did purhcase that nice polo).