What the Fantasy Genre Needs.
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A revival of the tv series Wizards and Warriors .
Oh I forgot about that show! I need to revisit it.
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Hmmm... I want to say I've seen this, but I can't remember a thing about it.A revival of the tv series Wizards and Warriors .
That was what I thought too.
I do not remember anything about it except the title.
There was a tv movie called Mazes and Monsters with Tom Hanks as a crazed Dungeons and Dragons game player. I remember watching that.
Yep, I'd never heard of it either, went hunting the net, looks like it never made it out US.
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I do remember Mazes and Monsters. It had Hanks and the kid from Meatballs.
Based on a novel by Rona Jaffe She died in 2005.
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I found it in the library. I think I may have been the only person to check it out.Ive never even seen a copy of that book.
Lankhmar Nights - now that would be an interesting setting for a TV show.
In my opinion heroic fantasy has been overtaken by grimdark. Heroic tales are still there but now shadowed in shades of grey. Heroes are still there but often flawed and subject to the rules as of any other character in that they can and will die.
It do miss the mystery of tales like Conan, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Thongor et al. The adventures were short and sweet, straight to the point and many a time did not require a backstory of why or how the bad thing/entity/object was like it was. The tale did not require it. That element of strange, never explained, mystery made me want to read more.
In my opinion heroic fantasy has been overtaken by grimdark. Heroic tales are still there but now shadowed in shades of grey. Heroes are still there but often flawed and subject to the rules as of any other character in that they can and will die.
It do miss the mystery of tales like Conan, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Thongor et al. The adventures were short and sweet, straight to the point and many a time did not require a backstory of why or how the bad thing/entity/object was like it was. The tale did not require it. That element of strange, never explained, mystery made me want to read more.
I remember it advertised as Rona Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters.
The only Jaffe I am familiar with is Sam Jaffe.
I don't remember much about Wizards and Warriors, except that I did watch it and I found it quite amusing.
Whether it would still amuse me now remains to be seen. I mean since I don't remember any of the jokes or what was humorous about any of the characters, could any of really have been that funny? Maybe yes, maybe no.
Whether it would still amuse me now remains to be seen. I mean since I don't remember any of the jokes or what was humorous about any of the characters, could any of really have been that funny? Maybe yes, maybe no.
It's true what they say, you can't go home again . Though I can still reread the old great stories and enjoyed them , I find that I can never recapture the wonder and the magic that I felt the very first time I read these stories . You only get the on the first go around and never again.
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