Original trilogy: Great characters but lacking in world building.
Prequels: Archetypal characters, great world building.
Sequels: Lackluster characters and world building.
They do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Imagine if there was a Star Wars property that did both well…
@tegs234@sw_holocron What a way to undermine the suspension of disbelief. I understand that the emotional reality of a story’s characters must be its foundation, but those characters cannot exist in a vacuum. Setting matters. Weir’s line of thinking is reductionist at best and foolish at worst.
It is becoming f*cking dangerous.
An independent researcher in New York is building an entire literary universe around a historical document that NEVER EXISTED.
William Clark is writing a novel spanning 300 years of literary forgery, fabricated scholarship, rival editors, and historical manipulation.
But here’s where it gets interesting.
He’s also building the research infrastructure behind it.
An OCR/AI pipeline to reconstruct damaged historical catalogues from the New York Public Library.
A tool to automatically archive and search historical newspaper clippings.
And a printing-press simulator capable of recreating 1,500 copies of a book, complete with authentic 17th-century-style typesetting errors and textual variations.
The novel, Our Temple Was Made Without Hands, is presented as a scholarly edition of a fictional document.
The annotations, editorial disputes, and supposedly authoritative historical evidence ARE the story.
The entire project asks one question:
How much of what we believe about history is based on evidence we’ve actually examined, and how much is based on trusting the people who preserved it?
Name three PERFECT movies.
No argument. No explanation.
Just three flicks you think are perfect.
Here's mine:
1. Blade Runner 2049.
2. Twelve Angry Men.
3. Amores Perros.
Name three PERFECT movies.
No argument. No explanation.
Just three flicks you think are perfect.
Here's mine:
1. Conan the Barbarian
2. Ninja Scroll
3. Sicario