Tassie Dave’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2011)

Tassie Dave’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

Shad wrote: "Tassie Dave wrote: "the Susan Lucci of Sword against the Susan Lucci of Laser! "

or the Buffalo Bills v Peter O'Toole

Susan Lucci eventually won ;-)

I want to see a Theft of Swords v The Martian Chronicles final

The 3 time loser against the 4 time loser

I think we should read both at some stage. They are both great books. In very different ways.

It is odd that every book on top of each bracket won.

Also odd, though V&T could have done it on purpose, each bracket was a male authored book against a female authored book. 2 men and 2 women won in both Laser and Sword sections.

In the next round each bracket will also be a male authored book versus a female authored book.

Rob wrote: "Nah. That one will probably be close."

I was actually joking. I thought it would be the other way around.

and it was :-(

208 to 91

Go Theft of Swords :-)

Rob wrote: "My guess for the blowout is After Atlas over The Stainless Steel Rat"

or Dangerous To Know over Theft of Swords

;-)

:-P

Tina wrote: "I started reading the books as an adult because the movie came out and Alan Rickman"

To the Millennials and younger he will always be Snape.

But to us old farts he will always be Hans Gruber.

Phillip wrote: "The Youtube channel, How It Should Have Ended, has the perfect version for letting the eagles do the work. I love those cartoons! "

You forgot the link ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD...

Though who pronounces chasm with a 'ch' sound? :-?

I agree fridging shouldn't be overused, but it is an effective way to set up a revenge plot. It probably says more about mens underdeveloped monkey brains that they tend to get ultra-violent in these situations, which is what the writers were after. Female revenge plots are usually more thought out and methodical.

I was more annoyed that the female character died because she acted stupidly and didn't wait for backup (preferably from real officers)

I'd never heard of fridging before. Knowing now what it is, it would fit this trope.

But isn't TV full of tropes and plot devices. Why give the writers a hard time over using this one.

I agree with the Effects fail. Both practical and CGI. But I will give them a pass for a TV show with a limited budget.

Come on Season 2.

Dumblebum is an arsehole throughout the whole series.

"What we've got here is failure to communicate"

A bit of knowledge at the right time could have save the kids from a lot of grief.

Melanie wrote: "... That guy that mentions Frodo could have just flown an eagle to Mordor. Suspend your disbelief. Your supposed to be too caught up in the world to think of an alternative solution."

and why did Frodo need to go.

As soon as Gandalf realises it is the ONE RING then tie it to a stick. Give it to an eagle and drop it in the fiery pit at Mordor.

Much more efficient, but you miss one hell of a good story ;-)

Trike wrote: "CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
This is a sickeningly saccharine and cynical cash-in on nostalgia. It is not funny or cute or clever.
0/5 counterfeit feels

PADDINGTON 2
Everything Pooh isn’t: cute, clever, fun and warm-hearted. A couple of the scenes are downright brilliant, and you’ll know them when you see them.
4/5 fuzzy bears 🐻🐻🐻🐻"

In short:

Paddington 2 is all grizzly
Christopher Robin is just Pooh

Rob wrote: "Welcome. But while this post was created in 2010, I last posted here 10 days ago."

I think she got to the bottom of page 1 and didn't realise there were another 85 pages after it ;-)

Richard wrote: "Mark wrote: "5. Always vote for Theft of Swords. One of these years it has to make it to the finals."

But imagine if it had a few more years of buildup! Support Theft of Swords by voting for Dangerous to Know"

I endorse this strategy. Rob expects to lose eventually this month. So why not Round 1 ;-)

William wrote: "Also: Seriously, it's college basketball? Does college mean something different in the USA? In other countries that'd be basically just a bunch of parents in the stands if you're lucky."

Not even the parents. By then they've had enough of school sports. You'd be lucky to get a crowd of 50 people.

Like Iain said maybe your mates who are only there to drink and take the piss out of you when you f*** up, your girlfriend if your lucky and only if she can get her friends to come along so she has someone to talk to.

Usually the teams outnumber the crowd.

No-one in Australia cars about Uni sport, which is usually Aussie Rules, cricket, Union or League played at an amateur level.

It definitely isn't televised or talked about. If you're lucky the local paper might put the scores in small type among 50,000 other sports.

That makes more sense.

More sense that people caring about college basketball ;-)

Trike wrote: "Without looking I can tell with 100% certainty that Phil isn’t American."

March Madness means nothing to us foreigners. I had to ask what March Madness was the first year.

Apparently it has something to do with some silly sport I don't like ;-)

Rob wrote: "Sword Match 1:
(1) Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan

vs.

(16) Dangerous To Know by K.T. Davies."

Battle of the moderator nominations.

Is it too early for me to concede defeat.

Uncle ;-)

Where's the daemons?

It could be good if they do it right.

I'm glad I didn't read them in chronological order. If I'd have read "We Interrupt This Broadcast" first, I would have been waiting for the world to find out about that.

Knowing now that no-one outside the two people involved in that story ever knew about what they did, does colour the story differently than if the world ever knew.

I'd say read the 2 novels first, then read the other short stories in whatever order you like.

There are still 2 more books to come in the series.

The Relentless Moon and The Derivative Base

The Relentless Moon (expected in 2020) won't be an Elma story but (view spoiler)[focuses on Nicole Wargin and Myrtle Lindholm in the Lunar colony. You can expect everything from church services to bridge parties, which all become more complicated in low gravity. And then a saboteur strikes... (hide spoiler)]

The Derivative Base (expected in 2022) is an Elma and Nathaniel story (view spoiler)[ and picks up not long after the end of The Fated Sky as they work with the new colonists to build a home on the planet. With that, you can expect to see frontier town issues on Mars, including prospecting for water, improvised engineering, and when things go wrong... which of course they will because it’s a novel, they only have eight days to try to solve it before the launch window to abort and return to Earth closes (hide spoiler)]