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Mar. 13th, 2005 10:21 pmYaaaaaaay! I went to a con, and got many Necessities of Life I didn't know I needed before yesterday. Hee. I now own a pair of Bunny With Sharp Pointy Teeth slippers (yes, the one from Monty Python), a Shakespeare/Marlowe shirt (no, not a Shakespeare/Marlowe shirt, o ye of slasher persuasion, a shirt that looks like it's from that time period), a number of books...I'm happy.
There's this one series which is basically a bar with lots of mythological figures populating it...it's getting me a liiiiittle bit put out. I love mythology; anyone who's known me for long enough for the subject to pop up (ranging from a minute to 3 conversations if I'm very forgetful) knows that very well. Painfully well, most of you. Now, what's getting to me isn't the potrayals, because I believe everyone has a least something of a right to portray them as they wish, or even the fact that they have Demeter and Pluto as coming from the same pantheon (*roll eyes* Roman and Greek, guys! NOT interchangable, whatever you may say!). (There's a small homage to Good Omens in there, btw, which is nice, but completely outside the point). The problem is, I feel that even I could write these better. The author - which, by the way, is perfectly nice man I met at the con, and therefore am taking efforts not to insult - just tells the story, instead of really drawing us in and letting us see it. And he goes way too fast - I mean, he covered the Apocalypse in 4 pages! Come on! Build some suspense! Worse, he has a tendency to lean towards deus ex machinas. Lots of them.
This is one of the situations that someone has a great deal, doesn't do it well, and you feel SO annoyed because you can't use it now. Damn.
There's this one series which is basically a bar with lots of mythological figures populating it...it's getting me a liiiiittle bit put out. I love mythology; anyone who's known me for long enough for the subject to pop up (ranging from a minute to 3 conversations if I'm very forgetful) knows that very well. Painfully well, most of you. Now, what's getting to me isn't the potrayals, because I believe everyone has a least something of a right to portray them as they wish, or even the fact that they have Demeter and Pluto as coming from the same pantheon (*roll eyes* Roman and Greek, guys! NOT interchangable, whatever you may say!). (There's a small homage to Good Omens in there, btw, which is nice, but completely outside the point). The problem is, I feel that even I could write these better. The author - which, by the way, is perfectly nice man I met at the con, and therefore am taking efforts not to insult - just tells the story, instead of really drawing us in and letting us see it. And he goes way too fast - I mean, he covered the Apocalypse in 4 pages! Come on! Build some suspense! Worse, he has a tendency to lean towards deus ex machinas. Lots of them.
This is one of the situations that someone has a great deal, doesn't do it well, and you feel SO annoyed because you can't use it now. Damn.