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| Topic | B8 Books & Lit Topic 42 - A Squeeze of the Hand |
| Asagi_Igawa 02/27/17 9:47:37 AM #55: | Moving Pictures, the 10th Discworld book, finished. Probably the first of the Wizards Series, as the characters and dynamic between the now more permanent Wizards are being established. The final clique isn't finished yet though. Anyway, a new trend is springing up in Discworld, moving pictures! Various people on the Discworld abandon what they're doing to move to Holy Wood to be in them! However... Holy Wood Dreams... and something watches... Best Parts - Victor's kind of a jerk, but a loveable intelligent jerk - He's here! MUSTRUM RIDCULLY THE BROWN IS FINALLY HERE! He's large, in charge, and endlessly entertaining. - The rest of the Wizarding gang is also here, though they're not completely fleshed out yet. The Dean, the Bursar, the Lecturer in Recent Runes, and the Chair of Indefinite Studies! There's also Windle Poons, and for the briefest of time he provides a lot of laughs. Ponder Stibbons is here as well, though he's currently still a student and not a member of the staff yet. Rincewind, of course, is still missing. - XD Victor's manipulation of test scores and how the Wizards decided to handle his final test. Good for Ponder - Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler is... a rather refreshing take of the greedy movie mogul. He rips you off yeah, but he's not evil. Helps flesh him out for the opportunist that he is. His banter with his nephew Saul was great, especially with CMOT constantly trying to sneak in advertisements into the movies - I love what they did to Detritus here. From Carrot's punching bag in the previous books to big wall of muscles to lovestruck lump to unsuspecting hero - I love how creepy they made Holy Wood and the pit underneath the hills. We all know it's just a cinema (albeit ancient and derelict), but I still get chills as Victor found the dead man on the beach and the book and the underwater city and realized that something is sleeping underneath the hill waiting (too bad he misunderstood the position of Gate and Man) to get out to the Librarian consulting the Necrotelicomnicon to decipher the runes of the doorway to what actually lies underneath Holy Wood - Gaspode! He kind of whines a bit much, but he's still a loveable scamp - Oh god when the Wizards snuck out to watch the movies I kept laughing and laughing. Poor Ponder - The Climaxes of the book, from the screening of Ankh-Morpork to the Giant Man utterly destroying Holy Wood. Fantastic. Dat reversal of a familiar theme when Dungeon Dimension Ginger grabbed the Librarian, when Victor realized how to and correctly used movie magic and Ginger and the Gaffer man and the Wizards trailed along (LMAO 57th strangest sight the Librarian has scene) to Gaspode's and Laddie's heroic sacrifice (they got better), to Ridcully and the Bursar riding on a broomstick and helping Victor confront the DD Ginger to Death killing the DD Ginger to Detritus being saved by the gang to Detritus SAVING the gang in return. Twice. Second time he even saved the Discworld on purpose. And of course, the Giant Man destroying the Screen Gateway and Holy Wood itself - The 1000 elephants running joke. Great payoff man - This marks the last appearance of the Dungeon Dimensions. I do feel they've run their course, as there's only so many times you can do the same enemies that are simple as them. I do love their portrayal here, first and last time we know what they're thinking. Goodbye Chaotic Evil... hello Lawful Evil in the next book Chockful of film references and sendups, great characters that move on to other things, and a climax I really liked cements it in the upper half of my rankings Guards! Guards! > Wyrd Sisters > Moving Pictures > Mort > Sourcery > Pyramids > The Light Fantastic > Equal Rites > The Colour of Magic > Eric --- Natwaf congratulates DpObliVion, Winner of the 2015 BGE Guru contest! Despite, ya know, destroying my entry personally ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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