A veces quiero preguntar cosas pero termino por no preguntarlas porque me da miedo la respuesta.

“Tal vez no hay tal cosa como el destino. Tal vez son sólo las oportunidades que nos dan, y lo que hacemos con ellas.”

fairy-anon-godmother replied to this post:

Inquiring minds would love to see? (We’re watching the appendices right now and it’s very topical lol)

I read a lot of Denethor threads, but found this one especially soothing!

primeideal replied to this post:

what are your thoughts on Dune/do you like the book(s)?

I read several of the Dunebooks many years ago, and found them interesting and somewhat engaging, but couldn’t ever get into them the way I got into SW and LOTR and never felt the need to re-read or to read more than a few books in. I remember being deeply disappointed by the treatment of Alia in particular, which I think is one of the reasons I stopped reading (but it’s been a reallylong time and I don’t clearly remember). Also, while the books do complicate the kind of tropes that Paul (consciously) plays into, I still have a pretty visceral discomfort with his dynamic with the Fremen and definitely felt that revive while watching.

Re: the film, the cast was great, I loved a lot of the characters and their interrelationships (Paul-Jessica most of all, but Duncan and Kynes were wonderful, and I thought the treatment of Leto was very, very interesting), it was beautiful, and I enjoyed the way it builds the universe up over the course of the film (the planets, the Voice, whatever). And I enjoyed how Paul shifts between strangeness and being very recognizably human (sometimes annoyingly so, but it makes his ultimate evolution more intriguing). But I couldn’t ever quite get away from disliking some of the bones of the story, so it was never unreserved enjoyment, I guess.

incognitajones replied to this post:

hmmm, and yet I don’t recall him having anything to say about Aragorn’s attractiveness… does that mean Aragorn is an uggo?!?

Sort of, lol! Aragorn cleans up nice on multiple occasions (and Denethor is noted as attractive and strongly resembles him), but in his ragged graying wilderness man persona, he’s … well, there’s a reason that the hobbits decide that he would probably “look fairer” if he were actually trying to deceive them. :P

echoofthemusicsaid:

Sorry that was annoying, I’ve not considered this detail before & it’s very funny

No problem, and thanks!

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