Timewaster's Guide Archive

I have a major beef with Gerard Butler as Kelsier. Okay, I have a major beef with Gerard Butler period because he ruined the movie version of Phantom of the Opera but that not withstanding and still on the subject of meat, he's too beefcakey, gruff, and swarthy for Kelsier, IMO.

I see Kelsier as being... "foppish" isn't the right word but it's the only thing coming to mind at the moment. Someone like David Wenham , Ewan McGregor, maybe even David Boreanz.

Now that we know more about spiking, it seems like [Zane] wanted Ruin somehow to 'participate' with the herbalist (whose name I forget) and with Vin.  Eww.

...wait, what?

11. Trust.  Great choice of title for the final part!  One of my favourite things from FE and WoA was how Vin gradually overcame her abandonment issues.  For instance, I was going "YES!" on the inside when she chose to turn to Elend first after her fight with Zane -- throwing aside the I-can't-let-him-see-me-like-this anxiety.  And then, in HoA, the abandonment issues turn out to be part of the plot, not 'just' free-standing character development.  Again, "YES!"  And so much of the final denial of Ruin depended on people doing what they could and trusting that it would make a difference.

12.  Martyrdom of Vin and Elend.  I have no problem with it.  They'd been prepared on previous occasions to lay down their own lives (and each other's!), but happened to get away with it.  A story would be too bright and cheesy if everyone who took heroic risks always survived.  And in this case, they were already both thoroughly on board with the whole trust thing.

Here here. Those were two things I REALLY liked. They could have been handled so badly but they really turned out excellently. (lol bad English)

It's your book and your story though, but next time around I think that I'll wait until the whole set is out and then read the reviews first to see if they say something similar happens before I invest my time, and emotional well being.

D: Hope you like spoilers.

(the entire time she "was" Preservation I kept screaming that she's gotta come back down and say bye to Elend - I think I managed to make my brother mad for that one ) but the imagery of when Spook found their bodies at the end sorta made it "ok" for me. They were holding hands, possibly showing that their love transcended even their deaths.

Yeah, that bit made it totally work for me. I think it would have been sad only if one of them had died and left the other one alive. The two of them dying together apparently at peace with everything is... maybe it isn't a positive image to most people but I think so. The fact that Sazed confirms that they are content in some sort of afterlife definitely makes it rather positive.

Sacrifice is a key theme to the whole series.  Yes, they died.  They died triumphant.

Heh, I wish I could put that in my sig.

Marsh lives the nightmare. He is not his own, though he is, ironically, the means by which Vin is ultimately saved. Though tainted, Marsh recaptures enough of his will to remove the taint from her. His storyline evokes so many competing reactions, adding layers to him and the narrative that are masterfully chilling and uplifting at the same time. A uniquely memorable character.

TenSoon, for he’s a jolly good kandra, for he’s a jolly good…. Well, you see where I’m going with that. I loved learning more about him and his people. His courage is so amazing. It is easy to warm to this being, even though he did away with OreSeur. The revelations about the First Contract and the First Generation were masterful...

Signed and signed.

Here's a bigger cover picture:

http://www.thescifibookstore.com/fantasy_16209_0765356147_The-Hero-of-Ages-Book-Three-of-Mistborn.html

that is most definitly not how i pictured elend would look.

I actually really like all three of the paperback books. Maybe it's because I saw their covers before I saw the hardback versions but I think they really suit the setting and "feel" of the series.

For some reason I got the old-fashioned Japanese naval uniform in my head as soon as Elend's uniform was described.



The way Tindwyl was trying to groom Elend into a stern leader made the trim, starched Japanese naval uniform perfect in my mind's eye.

More later as I continue to plow through these pages. ¬_____¬

Please don't hate me. :B I'm going to read the series a second time soon, maybe I'll change my mind.

Haha, actually as I was typing up a different post up, I got distracted by TVtropes.org for over an hour.

I guess I mean clichés.

Maybe I'm just being wapanese but for some reason I love how エラントリス sounds.

I really like their depiction of Hrathen.

Thanks for the pics.

I don't usually participate in formal introduction threads but since this forum seems to be notably mature and sane, I suppose I shall follow the guidelines for once. :B

I go by the name of Laura Organa Solo. I am -- surprise -- a nerd. I love science fiction, fantasy, older horror fiction (Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, that sort of thing), video games, Neo-Victorian stuff, cosplay, Japanese rock music, Japanese pop culture, and Japanese historical fiction (I'm a fan of the Heian and sengoku/warring states era). I find internet culture/phenomena fascinating for the same reason people stare at car accidents and participate in its seedy underbelly against my better judgment. And I love listening to music.

I dabble in Legend of the Five Rings CCG and RPG, I have a passing interest in a variety of tabletop RPGs, and a love for a couple of the sub-genre World of Darkness games that no one ever cared about (Kindred of the East and Demon: The Fallen).

Yes. Incredibly nerdy. I hit most of the bases except for miniatures and LARPing. Thankfully I am married to a fellow nerd who shares most of my interests.

My "job" at the moment consists of wrangling excitable fangirls on two fairly populous J Rock fan communities. I am desperate for a career in editing and publishing (I'm not a very good writer so I'm happy to edit and proof other people's stuff) but I don't have much going for me at the moment.

TL;DR MOVING ON

I first found out about Brandon Sanderson when a friend from my tabletop gaming group insisted I read the freshly-printed Elantris (*whines about the lack of sequel*). I fell in love with its trope-free, unorthodox take on the fantasy genre and recommended it to everyone I could.  I was ecstatic when I heard Sanderson would be carrying the torch for Wheel of Time, a series which I have a love/hate relationship with.

When I lost my job and could no longer afford to troll bookstores regularly, I got out of the loop on things and didn't hear about the Mistborn series till recently. A friend loaned me the first book and I became absolutely enamored with the series and how it completely ignores so many overused fantasy tropes and stereotypes. I love the pseudo-industrial revolution setting, I love the "magic" system, I love how it handles the romance (putting it in the backseat, basically). I wish I could get everyone to read it.

So I am here to lurk and perhaps participate in discussion on the matter of this series, and perhaps Elantris as well. I will try not to beg everyone to give my favorite musicians a chance, even though they are awesome and you don't know what you're missing.

I mean.