Timewaster's Guide Archive

Cool, now retell the plot of The Matrix so it sounds like the New Testament.

And take out all the pleather? I mean, I'm pretty sure such nigh-on unprecedented use of [so much] tacky looking pleather was the most original element of that film.

At least restro sci-fi movies like Attack of the Green slime had cool silver catsuits (and laser guns).

If there really is a hero of the ages and it's not just a ploy to get folk to open up strange wells, then perhaps Kelsier could technically maybe have also qualified? as the person who way back when who was considered as having been the hero of ages was offed and replaced by the Lord Ruler, Kelsier could also  supposedly be as much of a hero of ages (as the very original candidate)?

Okay, my logic is probably not sounding so clear at this point of night...

Anyway, I'm not putting too mcuh stock in the idea of there being one true hero of ages.

although... it is the third book's title... but that just means it's been on the characters minds... so... I really want the book to come out now... I don't know how much more speculating I can do.

Maybe we should make I-Spy styled bets for random things we theorize will pop up in H.o.A.... that could be a cool thread.

.... Why, why must you taunt me so, galaxy of cruelty...?
I live in Australia... which means I'll be waiting *weeks* for my copy to get here from Amazon.

ZARG!

Interesting review.

I have a question in regards to the feruchemy/allomancy thing.

Okay, so if memory recalls feruchemy existed before allomancy, why?

Allomancy is obviously related to the mists of course isn't it? their coming over the world / the well of ascension etc.

Why *is* the well of ascension called that? because people ascend to becoming mistborn? If the well of ascension is the one source of allomancy, where was the source of feruchemy? What is it that makes allomancy and feruchemy so different?

Yes, it is very polished and well rounded - that's a good way of putting it. 

I see the occasional episode, and I like them. I think it's legions better than most of what passes for cartoons these days.
In fact, it's kind of the modern cartoon classic, and I think it's restored my faith in domestically produced cartoons after a generally bleak era.

(except SBSQ - which generally appeals to a bit of an older audience ironically...)

Great podcast as always, however, I have to ask the opinion about books where circumstances create the main source of conflict (more so than villains)?

There are a lot of books where the circumstances are the challenges the protagonist faces, and there are an even greater number of books where the circumstances the protagonist has been pitted against exist alongside of the struggle against the so called "bad guy".

Like, for instance, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rofthuss, I.M.O., the main source of conflict the protagonist (Kvothe)  faces in the book, and thus the main thing he has to struggle with to overcome - is actually the circumstances he is faced with being in rather than anything else. Of course, the Chandra, I think they’re called,  who were responsible at the beginning for causing his circumstances are an underlying theme in the book, however they are not really the greatest element he is in conflict with (at least, in this third of the tale).

It would be very interesting to here the Writing Excuses crew’s opinions about circumstances as a form of conflict.