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    SG-U: 2.20 - Gauntlet

    Caught up with these on Netflix and it was probably the best of the three Stargate franchises. Just perhaps lacking a certain quality for the writing at times. Perhaps they would have been better off not being a stargate franchise at all as it was too different to the normal stargate pattern...
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    Red Country discussion - Spoilers!

    It is still an enjoyable read, but probably his worst book set in that world. Spoilers Logen was my favourite character from the original series so it was good to see him return. Aside from that I feel it lacked really memorable characters and time spent with the fellowship, most of whom were...
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    Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes: May contain Spoilers

    One of his best books One of the best depictions of war in a fantasy novel. I do find it a little mixed in quality depending on who the POV is however. Every single sentence of Gorst's chapters are brilliant. The last being particularly exceptional. But with some of the other characters it can...
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    Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie

    I would disagree that this one had no relatable characters. Monza as a character is no more evil than many of the characters from the first 3 books and, as the book develops, you realise that she was barely responsible for many of the events that earned her such a dark reputation. She is merely...
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    SyFy Channel

    Ascension was very decent I thought, perhaps more for the ideas than the characterisation. Expanse is also a very good basis for a TV show.
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    The Expanse to be on SyFy

    If they can match the books it will be very good indeed.
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    Kate Elliott -- Challenging Gender Roles

    Interesting article. It is true that people tend to look at sexual equality in fantasy literature in terms of whether women can fight and other typical male roles. She is quite correct that true equality would be equal value for male and female roles that would need to be necessarily different...
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    The Winds of Winter publishing date guesses?

    I personally doubt we will ever see the end in print (written by GRRM at least). There is clearly a massive amount of plot still to be covered for all of the main characters, let alone the minor ones introduced in AFFC/ADWD. Three large books might do it. Publication dates? WOW-2016...
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    4.14: The Walking Dead - The Grove

    Many of these "single group" episodes have felt stretched out, and in parts this was no exception, but that ending was just brutal. "Look at the flowers"-there are very few TV scenes I have seen more disturbing than that one. Hats off to the writers for their bravery.
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    HBO confirm 7 seasons for TV show, GRRM certain he can get Book 6 out first

    I would be rather surprised myself if we ever see the ending in print. Whether it is an 8 season show as many, including me, hoped or a 7 season one GRRM didn't have a hope of finishing it before them. We are constantly told that two more books will finish the story, but I very much doubt...
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    Words of Radiance

    Just finished reading Words of Radiance. In many ways this is a stronger book than The Way of Kings in that it feels more balanced between the POV characters, everyone has an interesting storyline, whereas The Way of Kings could flag a little whenever the POV switched from Kaladin. There is...
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    Brandon Sanderson "The Way of Kings"

    I really liked the Way of Kings but it was heavy going at times. It is clearly a more "grown up" book than the Mistborn series but could have benefited from some of the conciseness of that trilogy. Where it excels is in the characters, and storyline, of Kaladin in particular, but also with...
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    Brandon Sanderson - impressed!

    I was impressed with the Mistborn series as well. Bought it because of his work on the WOT.
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    Mistborn Brandon Sanderson - does it cheer up?

    One of the theme of the books, certainly books 1 and 3, is about maintaining hope when the situation seems unwinnable. Which can make them seem depressing. Also the high body count among the key characters does make them a bit darker than the norm. That said they are not as dark as many...
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    Dexter

    We got the finale that S8 deserved (which was mostly dire rubbish) The only way it could have been worse if Dexter launched into a rousing chorus of "i'm a lumberjack and i'm OK", or would that have made it better?
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    Under the Dome

    As above there isn't really any sense of the realities of such a situation. Water, food etc, but I am hoping they are building towards it. Bearing in mind this is a storyline that it supposed to run for some months there is still time. Last episode was better I thought.
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    Terra Nova (sucks)

    Given the amount of money spent making it "dreadful but not THAT bad" is hardly much of an endorsement. To my mind they made two fundamental errors 1. They kept with a monster/crises of the week format which looks decidedly old fashioned for any new Sci-fi series now. 2. The didn't...
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    GRRM interview on io9

    Oh he won't do that. But I would sooner wait another 12 years for the resolution of the series than have a rushed ending to the series, which, after the stalling in AFFC/ADWD, is all we can hope for from a two book ending. In the meantime the TV show can film their own ending and show the...
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    GRRM interview on io9

    Good to see he is saying that 7 books isn't set in stone. I think it will be eight books in total (or two very massive final books) as we still seem to have a long way to go.
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    Destiny of the Stark kids! (spoilers imminent)

    Jon I agree that he will probably not stay dead and that his technical 'death' will free him from his oaths. i feel he has a crucial role in the battles to come and may end up marrying Dany. Sansa To be honest I don't care Bran His tale seems nearly over. He will be a seer perhaps...
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