I'm slogging through the Dance with Dragons audiobook. Can someone tell me that the ending is awesome? I really enjoyed up to Storm of Swords, but then Feast for Crows was slow with a really abrupt end and Dance with Dragons isn't much better. Too many new characters and new story lines that I don't really care about. I get that the two books are parallel and I'm hoping that the "real" ending is in Dance with Dragons.

I do not love our blurray player. It is slow as molasses and takes more than a minute just to load the menu of most new discs.

But it does show all the pixels.

Curious Spiff and Sabeel want to know which slap was the one DIF found funny? The first one with the glove or the second in the long take?

If I remember correctly, LCC was started back in the heyday of fan films when there was a running trope of "Oh man, not another lame lightsaber fight in a forest. Do something more interesting people!". I think the theory was to gather up all the lightsaber fights in one place, and encourage other fan films for the rest of the year. Also to encourage better lightsaber fights.

Considering that the LCC is now probably the largest producer of Star Wars fan films these days, I think the first part of the theory backfired. On the up side, the fights themselves are much improved.

As for having a sort of "Fan Film Oscars", it's definitely been discussed in many threads. The big problem is the limited number of fan films that come out each year. Fully made fan films can take years to come out, and barely any are made these days. Also, as Teague says, it's hard to come up with rules and judging criteria. "What's your favourite fan film?" is another cliche thread on TFN fan films.

The behind the scenes about that shot from Tom-Yum-Goong/The Protector is crazy. It's four minutes long because that's how much film they could fit in the camera, and in one of the earlier takes they ran out of film just as Tony was getting up the last stairs. Once more with faster

I don't know what Zarban is talking about it being dull. It's like watching an impressive performance at a circus. There are no breaks or pauses or cuts around flubs; what you see is what was performed on set. Damn impressive.

Usually N is a number, so it works if you're talking about the series in general (Journey to the Heavens N), but not so much if you're replacing N with a phrase. The confusing thing is I think you were doing both.