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Comment on I Hate You, Melissan! by Emily

Emily — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:40:51 +0000

Wow, I had no idea that it was a real name. I just thought that they were being goddamned lazy in making up a fantasy name, like people who name their characters “Wulf” or “Raven.”

Sorry to trash your name. It’s a perfectly fine name for a normal person, but a name that means “honey bee” is still an awful name for the High Priestess of the God of Murder. And it’s also still a bad alias if your former name was “Amelyssan the Blackhearted.” Did she really expect us not to see through her disguise?

Comment on I Hate You, Melissan! by Melissan

Melissan — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:38:31 +0000

re:What kind of a name is Melissan, anyway? All it is is Melissa with a goddamned random consonant on the end of it. What is that, supposed to strike fear into my very soul? And don’t think that putting it back to Amelyssan the Blackhearted changes anything. We’re always going to remember that you sucked at choosing aliases.

geeze emily, stop pickin on my name.
actually the name melissan is just a varient of the name melissa, which comes from the ancient greek name melitta, which means honey bee. look it up on urban dictionary.

too bad that the most famous person with my name is a video game villian, but maybe there is a reason for it.

Comment on I Review Dragon Age: Origins by Peasant Hovel » Please Let There Not Be a Mass Effect Movie

Peasant Hovel » Please Let There Not Be a Mass Effect Movie — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:33:15 +0000

[...] By the way, this is coming from someone who usually gravitates towards fantasy over sci-fi and is way too obsessed with a series of ancient computer games based on Dungeons & Dragons. Space operas are not [...]

Comment on A Fantasy Movie I Liked For A Change by Emily

Emily — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:38:42 +0000

Man, it’s been too long since I’ve seen that film. All I remember is The Rock buried in sand and Michael Clarke Duncan in an outrageous costume.

Comment on A Fantasy Movie I Liked For A Change by Aili

Aili — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:49:07 +0000

Just watched The Scorpion King on TV and I thought of this post. I like how Scorpion King is basically an 80’s movie from 2002.

Comment on A Fantasy Movie I Liked For A Change by Aili

Aili — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:16:34 +0000

Hooray for greasy peasants! I know you love them. I love them too. There’s a greasy, stinky, illiterate peasant inside all of us. And they need heroes too!

Comment on Why Fantasy Keeps Going Nowhere by Peasant Hovel » A Fantasy Movie I Liked For A Change

Peasant Hovel » A Fantasy Movie I Liked For A Change — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:01:06 +0000

[...] of greasy fires and woolen clothing and crumbling stone towers. A proper fantasy world without a Calvin Klein model in sight. This is how you do medieval fantasy, [...]

Comment on Why Fantasy Keeps Going Nowhere by Emily

Emily — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:39:20 +0000

He's part of the minor constellation of people who make good fantasy movies, people for whom I am very, very grateful. But television is still a wasteland, and that's what this rant is really about. Fantasy could have a Star Trek, a Battlestar Galactica, even a Firefly. But since everyone expects fantasy to be lazy, up to and including the people who write it, we're stuck with shows like Legend of the Seeker forever. Graaargh!

Comment on Why Fantasy Keeps Going Nowhere by Aili

Aili — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:24:12 +0000

Just close your eyes and think warm thoughts about Guillermo del Toro, like I do.

Comment on I Get to Rant About Avatar, Too by Emily

Emily — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:16:57 +0000

Well, it did cost them about a gazillion dollars to do it well, and there are other factors in Avatar’s profitability. My guess is that the 3D craze still won’t lead to measurable gains for most of the films it’s used to make, so it’ll probably die down despite this success.

I was actually far, far more impressed by the computer animation, and how seamlessly it blended in with the live action. This actually excites me, because it can lead to far more fantasy and sci-fi films in the future, which are my faves.