Recent content by Ophiucha

I went to school for two years before dropping out. In my case, the university I attended was sympathetic to my mental health problems (general anxiety with dissociation and narcolepsy), but not so sympathetic as to accommodate my needs. I enjoyed what I learned while I was there. Medieval...

I watched the first five episodes. It was good, but it didn't really hold my interest. It's kind of in an odd place, for SyFy shows, because it's much better in terms of effects, worldbuilding, and writing than most of what they produce... but it also lacked the charm and character of a show...

It's getting a movie adaptation next year*, but I think the Dark Tower would make a great mini-series. It's too many books long to make a good movie series; it's no Harry Potter, I doubt moviegoers will stay interested for eight movies. But a high-budget miniseries? That could work beautifully...

I'm not a huge fan of the Shannara books, but I do like Manu Bennett so I'm watching it anyway. S'okay so far. About what I'd expect from MTV.

Junji Ito. A horror manga author who writes... really strange stories. Spirals that kill. Sea creatures with mechanical legs. Kids turning into ice cream. A town with anemia (the actual town itself, not just the townspeople). Nothing is too strange to not work with Ito, and aside from inspiring...

Ah nice! It's been a few years since I last read it, but Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn was one of my favourites when I was in university. I'll have to read them again before this one comes out...

Despite the fact that I love Star Trek and don't really like Star Wars... I utterly loathed Into Darkness and found a lot of elements of Episode VII to be charming, even if it wasn't really my thing. SW7 had some great new characters, used the old cast members pretty well (I didn't like Han...

I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but my husband is into it so I went with him to see it on opening night... and a couple of times since. It was nice. All of the ships, which are my favourite part of this series, looked really stunning both inside and out. Carrie Fisher was amazing, and Leia has...

I am mostly playing Devil's Advocate here, but... If we consider scripts literature, and between Oedipus Rex and the works of Shakespeare, I would say we do, then... movies, television, and video games - stripped of their visuals and mechanical feats - could still be literature. All but...

I love Crusader Kings II! The studio that made it are making a game in the same style set in outer space that's meant to come out in February, so I'm pretty excited for that.

It's a lovely show. The background art is gorgeous, the animation is smooth and clearly inspired by anime (particularly Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena), the characters are all really charming and well-developed, and the songs are all very nice. Plus, it's nice to see a show for kids...

It doesn't really sound like a kid's book. Young adult, maybe, although the 20-somethings on the cover seem a little old for YA protagonists. Also as somebody who read Eragon as a teenager, I certainly did find the '[D/E]ragon' switch incredibly lazy, so I'd have probably thought the same of...

Same as skip.knox with regards to Skanderberg. Orsini and Colonna seem a little too on-the-nose. The names on their own are fine, but by having both of them and having them be in a feud -- to me, I would not be able to think of them as anything but fictitious members from the real houses of...

Humans cease to be humans when you tell the reader that they are something else. At least, that's the whishy-washy answer. The real answer is probably 'when your readers cease to see them as humans', and there really is no definite answer to that. It's subjective. Do your readers views...

I can't say I have ever heard 'gulag' refer to anything but the Soviet prisons, so I'd probably find it anachronistic -- or anacosmic :) -- to use it in a non-1900s Russian-ish setting. But that might just be where I grew up? Or my age, I guess? I was born the same year the USSR fell, so maybe...