Yes, but not in a long while now.
And I’m more about Dragonslayer the movie and Dungeons and Dragons the cartoon so I have nothing intelligent to say about the content of this post.
I know it’s a cliché, but Phantom Menace broke my heart. As did Matrix 2 & 3
Yes....I have been where you are at.....
I am sorry it sucked....I’ll buy the movie from you. Misk loves the Dragonlance series.....he probably would have a good laugh at the cheesy animation.
DragonLance rocked. I have a fuckton of Spellfire role playing game cards an a lot of them are of the Dragon Lance series.
Know anyone who wants to buy some Spellfire cards? I need money and I don’t play role playing games anymore....
Great love and great achievement involve great risk ~ Dalai Lama
I’ve suppressed part of this memory, but I know I’ve sat through one really bad rendering of The Hobbit—wait, it’s come back to me. A bad cartoon of The Hobbit and a bad RPG of The Hobbit.
I was sooo happy that The Lord of the Rings was as good as it was.
Oh yah. I tend to look forward to everything, so I also tend to get smacked in the face with countless disappointment.
Have a super great weekend!
Not surprisingly, I was a huge fan of the series as well. I inhaled the Dragonlance series my first few years of high school. Seriously, I left the library with huge piles of Dragonlance books—it was unreal.
I can’t say I was really impressed with some of the storylines that followed the Chronicles and Legends trilogy, though. My favourite would probably be The Soulforge (the account of Raistlin’s rise to power).
That being said, I sometimes feel guilty for reading so much Fantasy and Sci-Fi as a kid. Today, I’m left to catch up on more ‘classical’ literature.
Having just wrote the above, my first thought was: “Shit. I came out sounding like such a dweeb.” Of course my second was, “Really. And does that really surprise anyone?”
Strangely enough (or not), I would stop reading so much Sci-Fi and Fantasy as I got older. At the same time, I also became more popular with my peers. Definitely some correlation. Cause and effect? Who knows.
I inhaled nearly every Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms book I could in junior-high/1st years of high school, which kept me relatively socially isolated. Go easy on yourselves, dudes. I’m sure most of us discovered girls at some point and started to put down our 100-sided die and picked up guitar or something. That pic of Tanis and Raistlin looks like one of those old, laughable Bilble cartoons- which cracks me up!
I must have read a few of them...the names Tanis and Raistlin sound familiar but I can’t be certain.
As for your question I remember really looking forward to puberty, but being tremendously dissappointed when it arrived. ;(
Dragonlance was probably one of my favourite stories ever. But I never read past the original trilogy and fourth book. I didn’t want to ruin my view of the dragonlance world.
It’s too bad though that the dvd sucked. It’s what happens and too bad the who is fizban got answered in that movie! That’s just crazy.
The name fizban just brings me back though. I might have to reread those books. It’s been so long it’ll be like reading a new set of books!
Poppy- I hated those cartoons too… although I would totally like to be stuck in one of the world’s myself. Just not with the dumbass Wizard kid.
Dan- I think the Matrix movies were a greater disappointment. I have a whole theory about the Unholy Prequelogy, but that’s more for a post… which I may have to do very soon now that I think about it.
Cissa Fireheart- Yeah, it sucked. My brother has it now though… so I may just tax him for the cost of it.
Soda- The market for Spellfire is very small… but MTG is still going relatively strong even with GenCon declaring bankruptcy.
Miss Britt- You could totally play the role of the Golden General Lauranna. Too bad I lost you.
Delmer- Oh yes… LOTR was so good… 3 movies about walking to a fucking mountain. The Return of the King saved those movies in my opinion. The whole Arwen Warrior Princess was just taking the text a little too far for me.
Catscratch Diva- I hope it doesn’t leave a mark!
Phil- I have no problem reading the “classics” later in life… this way I can appreciate them as opposed to be bored to tears by them. I think there may be some cause and effect there… although I didn’t gain in popularity when I stopped. If anything… I lost points for not knowing about the attack by the Minotaurs on Qualinesti. Shows you who my peers are…
Andy- What do you mean you put the 1d100 down? You mean, it went into the velvet pouch, right? Right? RIGHT? Yeah… I thought so. Once a dice chucker… always a dice chucker… at least until the CMGs hist the scene.
B.E. Earl- Yeah… I know what you mean. Dragging the third leg around was a chore… especially when the girls ran by in gym class. Then thinking I had “broken it” when it sprung a leak… well… not good times.
Yoshi- I got hooked when the first two trilogies were already out… so Chronicles and Legends went down in one summer. It was a bookstore watch from there. I really enjoyed reading the Tales series of books… short story compilations. Short enough to be read in an afternoon… and varied enough to keep me interested in more.
“In each of us two natures are at war… the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, but one of them must conquer. In our own hands lies the power to choose. What we want most to be we are.” – Dr. Henry Jekyll
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