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Ringlets · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 21:39

zippy wrote:

I bet there's Ursula Le Guin stuff. Her stuff can be criminally hard to find.

Really? It's not at all difficult here. Amazon has it, and our little local library has all her books.

Ringlets · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 21:42

RoxiSC wrote:

I didn't write finagle.

Hmm.

I shall now attempt to swear and see what happens:

finagle

poo

testiclays

ladypart.

Solo must have the board censor turned on. It's set to British English, as there are no other options from which to choose. I think it "cleans up" your language ... hehehe

solo2 · **Joined:** Mon Aug 13, 2007 16:45 **Posts:** 411

I have some wordfilters on, yes. I don't disapprove of bad language, I just think it's funny, and I thought it might be an interesting suprise. If it really annoys people, I'll turn it off.

I particularly liked "finagle".

RoxiSC · **Joined:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 17:59 **Posts:** 103

zippy wrote:

eh. I think you're giving Joss Whedon too much credit. He made a few good TV shows, he didn't re-invent the wheel. end.

I know I'm probably giving him too little credit now!

What you're saying seems to me like arguing that J.K. Rowling wrote the best vision of Wizards and magic ever published.

No, Tolkein did. Unless you watched through all 12 seasons of the Buffy/Angel verse, you can't really comment, because it's not something you can glean from any one (or even few) episodes.

RoxiSC · **Joined:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 17:59 **Posts:** 103

solo2 wrote:

I have some wordfilters on, yes. I don't disapprove of bad language, I just think it's funny, and I thought it might be an interesting suprise. If it really annoys people, I'll turn it off.

I particularly liked "finagle".

Retarded finagling ladypart of a thing.

ETA: I can still still say retarded.

zippy · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 06:44

RoxiSC wrote:

zippy wrote:

eh. I think you're giving Joss Whedon too much credit. He made a few good TV shows, he didn't re-invent the wheel. end.

I know I'm probably giving him too little credit now!

What you're saying seems to me like arguing that J.K. Rowling wrote the best vision of Wizards and magic ever published.

No, Tolkein did.

I dunno, Ursula Le Guin or Terry Pratchett would give him a run for his money.

RoxiSC wrote:

Unless you watched through all 12 seasons of the Buffy/Angel verse, you can't really comment, because it's not something you can glean from any one (or even few) episodes.

Well I haven't watched very episode of Buffy and Angel religiously but I've seen a decent amount.

Joss Whedon or somebody working for him wrote:

Buffy: That thing that was haunting you...
Angel: It wasn't haunting me. It was showing me.
Buffy: Showing you?
Angel: What I am.
Buffy: Were.
Angel: And ever shall be. Look, I'm weak. I've never been anything else. It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy. It's the man.
Buffy: You're weak. Everybody is. Everybody fails. Angel, you have the power to do real good, to make amends. But if you die now, then all that you ever were was a monster.

That is good writing. The prayer-y bit (almost quoting the Glory be to the Father).

But I think Angel dropped the ball in terms of distinguishing itself from Buffy. It starts out with Angel the Private I, saving lost souls etc. etc. with the Lady Cop and all. Became almost just Buffy with different wallpaper. (I don't mean literal wallpaper)

RoxiSC · **Joined:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 17:59 **Posts:** 103

Okay.

Light · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 06:20

zippy wrote:

Naomi Novik's Temeraire series is very good. More Dragons! It's set in the early 1800's and it's the Napoleonic Wars - only with Dragons!

Alternate history fantasy.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't read the newest one yet, the fourth I believe.

I <3 it.

zippy · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:12

They're great, but I thought the Africa one, Empire of Ivory was weaker than the previous. That's no. 4. There's 5 now, but I aint read number 5 yet.

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