It's a wonderful show and I highly recommend it.
Too bad they're trying to invent an unnecessary second season instead of filming the second book, Tai-Pan. It's about Western trading companies in Hong Kong at the beginning of China's so-called century of humiliation that followed the first opium war.
Here are the salient details, minus the fluff:
The haul had an estimated value of €47.5m, Mr Langella said, a figure which includes the value of the consoles and hundreds of licenses for the pirated programs.
They were "all from China" and were imported to be sold in specialised shops or online, Mr Langella said.
All the devices were fitted with non-certified batteries and electrical circuits and did not meet EU technical or safety standards. The seized games have been destroyed.
Nine Italian nationals have been arrested and charged with trading in counterfeited goods. If found guilty, they face up to eight years in prison.
No, it's up to Capcom to produce a product that people want to buy. That's how markets work.
I can't get the vibe of this movie. Is it "W" or is it "Bohemian Rhapsody"? Or, god forbid, "Reagan"?
What a voice, what a life. Sad to see him go.
It's based entirely on the appendices from The Lord of the Rings, so for legal reasons anything that was in The Silmarillion but not the appendices had to be altered.
I haven't watched the second season, but I remember more than one sigh during the first one. I really liked the costumes and decoration, but I just kept thinking, "Why did they need to tell this story?" I didn't hate it, but I thought the entire exercise was pointless and unnecessary: apathy is worse than hate.
The question is rhetorical, of course. They couldn't get ahold of the rights to the Silmarillion, and the machine hungers.
I wonder if they include the conversation between Reagan and Nixon where Reagan called black people "monkeys."
Or the Lee Atwater quote where he talks about his strategic use of dog whistles and starts it off by saying the N-word three times.
Man, Reagan sucked.
Martin is a character-first writer, which is nice, but I also like plots that gallop forward with mystery-style page turners at the end of every chapter. Roger Zelazny is that style of writer, and one of my favorites. Take a look at The Chronicles of Amber and Lord of Light.
The Dying Earth series is fun.
A friend recently recommended The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Sharing Knife to me, but I have yet to read those.
Just move on. He owes you nothing. There are plenty of great fantasy series out there that are well-written and complete if you need something to read.
How can someone look at all these different styles, let alone the ones that literally look like they're drawn by a six-year-old, and think, "Yeah, that's fine"?