Rob’s Comments (group member since Jul 06, 2012)

Rob’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

Wait, Disney owns/produced this? I didn't realize they had anything to do with it..

I gave up on pirates like 2 movies ago. I don't want a reboot. Of course given how much money that franchise has made them, I'm sure they feel the market is there for a reboot.

Edit: Ah, it's 20th century fox. So now it's owned by Disney I guess. I wonder how they are going to handle all of that stuff.

Will they follow Warner Brothers and consolidate everything, or just consolidate the Marvel stuff and leave the rest of Fox's IPs to be run by someone in charge of "fox"

Yeah, I mostly waited for a deal to finish the series. Although I think I only did that for book 2 before just saying screw it and buying the last 2. I did the series in audio, and I think I had a $5 coupon at least for the 3rd book, but it was pricey.

Maybe they'll re-release all 4 novellas as 1 cheaper omnibus eventually like they did for Binti: The Complete Trilogy

Nah. That one will probably be close.

Well, I'm American, so obviously I didn't go to Hogwarts..

My guess for the blowout is After Atlas over The Stainless Steel Rat

So I know this is a thread about the age we were when reading the book, and this is partially (mostly?) my fault, but we've gone a bit off topic here and should probably split off the general discussion of generations.

I could keep talking about this forever because I find the whole thing annoying.

So more back on subject, one thing I love about the books that I didn't realize at the time is Harry is born in 1980, so I would have been at Hogwarts the same time as he was.

I think I'd have been a first year during the terror of Sirius Black (ie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

I think unlike Pacific Rim they have a plan for 2 more films.

Then again Guiermo Del Toro might have had plans, but it took so long to greenlight that sequel that he was no longer involved..

So really I'd only want a sequel if the same people are involved.

I've heard various things about needing 400-500 million just to break even.

I'm honestly not holding out much hope, but hey we got a Pacific Rim sequel (although now I kind of wish we hadn't)

So I'm an old millennial (1982) and I think of him as both Hans Gruber and Snape. But Dogma is another memorable role too..

Honestly many days I feel I have more in common with Gen X-ers than I do with millennials.

I've seen various articles call 1980-85 a "micro generation" including one that called us the Oregon Trail generation. I'm sure the same thing happened to people born between the Boomers and Gen Xers and will happen again with whatever we're call the generation after millennials.

Trike wrote: "Put me in the “all hail Rob” group. I also find it refreshing in this day and age that he has openly admitted his mad grab for power."

Tom and Veronica do seem to be using that bumper less lately. Conspiracy to suppress the truth!?

I loved this movie. It looks like it did well in China: https://www.cbr.com/alita-battle-ange...

I hope we get sequels, I really want to see what's next.

I appreciate the credit for organizing the book conversations, but at this point I have to do very little. Most people are good about tagging their posts appropriately to appease my OCD!

Every so often I have to add the designated book prefix, and a bit more often I have to tag the post with the book, but mostly I have the members better trained (all part of my evil plans to take over S&L and then the world!)

Glad you're feeling better Veronica.

I did it mostly because it's not very relevant anymore and it's very long. However if someone had a question about how the bracket was made it's still there.

For my own personal challenges, I'm finished with:

Sword: 7/40 (18% complete, 1% ahead)
Laser: 4/20 (20% complete, 4% ahead)
Comics: 3/10 (30% complete, 14% ahead)

This month I've added +3 Sword, 0 Laser, 1 Graphic novel. Part of that is due to a bunch of January/February Sword releases and partly because I'm doing some non-fiction and a mystery book lately.

For March I'll add at least 1 Sword and 1 Laser. Probably more Sword as there are some additional series new releases I haven't gotten to yet. I may continue on with the mystery series though, which would slow down progress on all the challenges.

I don't think I have any Graphic Novels coming out soon. With G. Willow Wilson's run of Ms. Marvel ending and Saga on hiatus, I'm not sure if I'll hit my goal of 10 at this rate. I do want to finish Y the last man at some point but I haven't been able to get the next volume from my library and have resorted to Inter-library loan but that's not seeming to be coming through :(


Incidentally, my Graphic novel challenge said I had only read 2 until I clicked on it. Then when I refreshed the challenge page it showed 3. I wonder if that is part of the issues we've seen with the challenge completions. It probably also messed up the numbers I collect each month too.

February Results:


Sword Challenge
Total Participants: 331 (+35)
Total Read: 866 (+470)
Average Books Read: 3 (+2)
Total Committed: 5,667 (+475)
Average Books pledged: 17 (-1)
Total Challenges Completed : 1 (+1) NOTE: This number is terribly inaccurate. However there is no way for me to verify/get the correct numbers, so I have to take what Goodreads gives me.


Laser Challenge
Total Participants: 333 (+32)
Total Read: 780 (+402)
Average Books Read: 2 (+1)
Total Committed: 5,301 (+429)
Average Books pledged: 16 (0)
Total Challenges Completed (Goodreads): 0 NOTE: This number is terribly inaccurate. However there is no way for me to verify/get the correct numbers, so I have to take what Goodreads gives me.


Graphic Novel Challenge
Total Participants: 88 (+10)
Total Read: 233 (+90)
Average Books Read: 2
Total Committed: 1,975 (+163)
Average Books pledged: 22 (-1)
Total Challenges Completed : 1 NOTE: This number is terribly inaccurate. However there is no way for me to verify/get the correct numbers, so I have to take what Goodreads gives me.

Short Story Challenge
Total Participants: 30 (+3)
Total Read: 54 (+31)
Average Books Read: 2 (+1)
Total Committed: 434 (+22)
Average Books pledged: 14 (-1)
Total Challenges Completed : 0 NOTE: This number is terribly inaccurate. However there is no way for me to verify/get the correct numbers, so I have to take what Goodreads gives me.

So February is in the books and all of our challenges continued to grow in participation. The Sword challenge has narrowed the lead on the number of participants down to just 2 people.

We'll see how much participation grows as the year goes on. Last year we had our biggest surges in January/February. This year we're advertising the challenges more often, but are now behind the numbers we saw last year by about 60 people.

The Sword challenge also continues to pull ahead on both the number of books committed and number read. However at this point neither challenge in on pace to hit the the numbers (8,500/7,000) we saw last year, let alone the 10k mark.

Instead Sword is looking with 5,200 and Laser with 4,700. 60 fewer participants will do that to you though..

March Madness has begun! What are you doing to keep your sanity? Besides voting in our annual book tournament that is...

I saw it that weekend and really loved it. It was a lot of fun. I'm tempted to pick up the manga now.

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