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This is an issue with anime, actually, at least when it's licensed in the US, because a lot of shows are intended to be a supplement to or a lure for the source material. I remember being baffled by how many anime seemed to just end mid-story with character and plot threads left hanging. Then someone explained to me that there was probably an unlicensed manga out there with dozens of volumes if I was interested in finding out what happens next. With a lot of anime on television, you get what you get for the money that was available to produce it and if you want any more then go read the manga/book or play the video game. There's much less pressure for an anime to stand alone, because the audience already knows that they're only getting part of the story.
In most of those cases, it's probably the anime being canceled after only getting through a few books of the manga. Just look at all the movies made from the first book in a series which never got sequels. There are anime created as ads for the books, but I think they're mostly from the 90's. Things like Lodoss War or Heroic Legend of Arslan skip huge chunks of story, expecting you to read the books.
You know the old saying. Fiction has to make sense, reality doesn't. Plus, while the book is an autobiography, that in no way means it is accurate. Bad memory and unconscious embellishments undoubtably had an effect, and what is striking on the page and in your mind may just not work up on the screen.
I do understand that idea. DUNE played with it, with the wonderful analogy of someone watching an elephant walk by through a crack in a fence. After weeks of this, the observer finally understands: the trunk causes the tail!
However, with regard to time travel, if the universe already knows you've used the time turner before you've done it, you don't seem to have the option not to use it, therefore no free will. This is why I like the idea you don't see the effects of your future travel until you've decided to make the trip. The cat is always dead until, before opening the box, you decide to later go back in time and poke air holes in the box.
That link misunderstands the way that time travel works in Potter. It has nothing to do with time paradoxes, the system is designed such that paradoxes will never factor in. Ever. Everything you do in the past has already happened. You can't change it, because whatever changes you try to make will ultimately serve the events of the original timeline. So paradoxes can't happen.
You could decide not to go back in time The system you describe gets rid of quite a lot of free will. I kind of like the Bill and Ted model, where they declare that, in the future, they will go back in time and hide the keys they need right in front of them, and then find those keys there.
There was the hint of an attempt at this with Star Trek. When they brought the show back with the first movie, you had two new characters, Decker and the bald woman. They were gone at the end of the movie. Then, Savak was brought in... and then written out after two films and one scene in Voyage Home. There's no reason they couldn't have kept these characters and kept the film series fresh by rotating crew in and out. Well, apart from actor ego and the fans, that is
The second book in my saga of Polish refugees in a fantasy world is now done, thank the gods. You can read it, and my other books, at http://www.asstr.org/~Invid_Fan/series/a-leader-born/ I'll be doing an epub and print version later. I don't have a cover yet, if any artists types want to step up with one.
My bookstore is at http://invidfan.miiduu.com. I choose the "free" option at the site, which apparently means there's a limit to how many people can visit the store a day, so if it's not there check back later.
It's interesting. This is one of those movies which, while I know it's probably great, I've never had any interest in watching. Nothing about the idea was something I could see myself caring about. I'll have to see if I wait for the Netflix DVD, or just listen to the commentary without the film.
Children of Men is great, and a good episode of the podcast as well.
And it sounds like Food Fight might make for an even better episode.
It certainly could! Apparently whilst in development, the movie was stolen and had to be cobbled together with what's left of the budget.
I'm reminded of the story about the anime Gall Force: Earth Chapter. If you watch the first episode, what stands out is that all you are seeing, literally, are the keyframes. None of the betweens. Now, given how GOOD the first four Gall Force stories were, with the animation budget increasing each time, it's a horrible shock. The story I heard was someone broke in and stole the cels to sell to collectors (or for their personal collection) before they could film them. So, given time and budget they just used what they had. Luckily, the plot was up to their usual standards, but it wasn't until the third and final episode that the animation was back up to Rhea Gall Force levels.
The conflict between what the creator is trying to say, and what the audience assumes they're trying to say, can be great. Especially when that misassumption is re-enforced via the echo chamber of the internet. What effect this has on season two will be interesting. If they assume they've driven away a certain type of viewer, it would be very easy to go too far in one direction or another. (I don't get HBO, so who knows when I'll get to actually see the thing ^_^)
Resurrecting an old thread. I've been digging into the various things old X-Play host Adam Sessler has been doing of late, for Rev3games. One of them is an hour and a half live chat he did in December in response to bots going around taking down things from YouTube. A very interesting discussion from those who make a living off of "fair use".
Mulan was where, iirc, Disney transitioned out of musicals. There are songs for the first half, then none after that. Disney films afterwards would confine the songs to the soundtrack (Tarzan), with no characters actually singing. The same creators went on to do Lilo and Stitch.
As long as this thread is open again, I had a thought regarding the "footprint in the snow". We all know these films were changed in the editing room, sometimes quite a bit. Is it at all possible that, according to the original shot list, that scene of the AT-AT's foot coming down WAS first? That it was later changed for pacing reasons? Whatever the intentions of the FX people, that all gets thrown out the window once things get deep into post production.
I'd recommend Mothra vs Godzilla from 1964, Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster from the same year, and Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla from 2002. Ghidorah is the film in which they start to turn Godzilla into a good guy (and the dub has the classic line, "There's no law against being a demagogue."
