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She kind of looks like a drug addict. Although the public explanation was that she had a rare disease (as always).

Missile strike caught on live TV in France LOL.

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oh, that's why. I also suspect that GRRM wrote book 4 and 5 to make it 'filmable' for the show. He was a professional staff writer for TV for a long time. I still have to read the winds of winter link you posted here. After I read that I will sit down and write some bullets on how I'd like the saga to end. Honestly I think a Song of Ice and Fire is a half-finished story. The 'middle act' itself is only half-written.

For me I just don't like the cat people/blue aliens very much (find them creepy and uninteresting) and I really dislike the main character, Jake Sully. He has no interesting aspects and also is a self-serving backstabber to me. Not someone I root for at all in films. My favorite part of the film is actually the future tech and military technology of the humans, they remind me of the ALIENS aesthetic, which was also directed by Cameron. Avatar 2 scenes are already being leaked on youtube. I saw some of the key scenes already. Avatar 2's action sequences remind me a bit of Waterworld except this film is successful. The film over-doses on the aliens, god they are creepy. Avatar (franchise) - Wikipedia Avatar 4 is already being made. I guess the success of 2 will make the likihood of Avatar 5 high as well.

@SympathysSilhouette what do you think of dance with dragons and feast for crows? The books, while mildly entertaining, seems to be a bit of a failure to me as part of a saga. To be honest I am rather disappointed with the final two books. I originally started reading it to create my own ending for the saga and to 'make peace' with the unfinished story. But the content in 4 and 5 are like a collection of thin reeds to me. They are not well developed enough to develop a final act from. I think GRRM dropped the ball here in these two books. I'm thinking that the 'real' Song of Ice and Fire is largely contained in Books 1-3. So the book can actually end after the Red & Purple Weddings and Tywin's end. The threads that move on beyond that are too undeveloped to build a final act for the saga. Season of Storms ends in a devastating manner, a really nihilistic and cautionary end with several key characters killed off while just in the middle of their character arc while the rest are still 'stuck' in the beginning/middle as well. So the reader could just come up with a preferred epilogue for all the characters based on what we know from 4, 5 and the show. No final act, just a bunch of final thoughts on what the fate of the survivors will be.

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I think Madison Headrick is basically Triss but with blonde hair. Dye her hair red and she's Triss. Even talks like her. She is from North Carolina. I highly recommend the books as I have written here in the past. Unlike Game of Thrones, the Witcher books are good from beginning to end and frankly feel longer than GOT because so much happens. And there is more psychological depth in Sapkowski's writing than GRRM. So the main characters (Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri) are better than any of the GOT characters. The audiobooks for the Witcher should be free on youtube. They keep on getting uploaded there. I just downloaded them all and went through them in that way. The books provide a satisfying ending as well. But CDPR made the whole franchise even better by rebooting the story and continuing where Sapkowski left off. After the books, the games are heavily influenced by nearly everything in the novels so people can enjoy them all over again and see things differently and pick up where the myriad book references (in the world building, hundreds of characters, dialogue etc) are coming from. Blood and Wine is a perfect final adventure and most of the fanmade 'Farewell to the White' wolf is satisfying epilogue that connects both books and games. For me it's the best franchise ever due to all these immense components coming together. (books, music, games).

It seems to be this way (not just woke thing ruining the show/film but also in terms of business circumstances) for so many great franchises that are in development pause. Fallout looks to be dead. Metal Gear Solid, one of my top 5 favorite franchises has been dead since 2015. Bioshock franchise is dead. I am in the final hours of "A Song of Ice and Fire". I am realizing that the author/showrunners were literally stuck in the early 2010s, and couldn't write their way into a worthy final act.

Have you seen the original Avatar? It was a mediocre film with outstanding special effects. It was considered forgettable by audiences although it was the biggest grossing movie of all time. COVID-19 damaged the movie industry and since then nobody really cared about the Avatar franchise since 2009. IMHO I found the characters to be creepy and I can't be the only person who thinks this way. The second film's reviews revealed that the movie has the same general pattern of being OK but with CGI as the main draw. So far the film is poised to be in the top 10 grossing films of all time.

Avatar 2 is actually doing well in the box office, and will surpass Top Gun 2 soon. I guess they had good marketing & sales analytics that went against common sense logic. In this case common sense was wrong.

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This AI art is awesome and gives a look as to how a "Metal Gear Solid" film could pan out. The game movie has been in development hell for many years, with news of something being made from time to time and then..nothing.

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Grizzled voice is Geralt, gay voice is me as Yennefer. First and last take. https://vimeo.com/785632588

https://vimeo.com/785632153 I did some voice acting today, and did this Witcher scene. This is my first and only read-through of the scene. The scratchy voice is Geralt, the servant is the slave voice, and the deep one is me being Charles Dance

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looks impressive and not average