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Expectation Management

posted by [personal profile] orichalcum at 03:28pm on 27/04/2005
If the Star Wars Episode III trailer excited you and made you hope desperately that this might somehow be a good movie, this spoiler-ridiculously-light (much less so than the trailer)  paragraph from the novelization may help quench that anticipation: (from DailyKos)



"From the shadow of a great pillar stretching up into the reddening afternoon that leaked through the vaulted roof of transparisteel over the Atrium of the Senate Office Building, she watched senators clustering in through the archway from the Chancellor's landing platform, and then she saw the Chancellor himself and C-3PO and yes, that was R2-D2!---and so he could not be far behind. . .and only then did she finally find him among them, tall and straight, his hair radiation-bleached to golden streaks and on his lips a lively smile that opened her chest and unlocked her heart."
Mood:: 'pessimistic' pessimistic
Music:: Hard Knock Life
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posted by [identity profile] gee-tar.livejournal.com at 07:41pm on 27/04/2005
To be fair, the novelizations of both Empire and Jedi sucked too. I forgot who wrote them, but it made Terry Brooks' writing look brilliant in comparison. Alan Dean Foster ghosted a decent version of "A New Hope" though (despite a couple of minor contradictions to the movie).
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posted by [identity profile] holmes-iv.livejournal.com at 08:24pm on 27/04/2005
There was also a sucky novelization of New Hope, of course—comparing the two was... informative. My favorite moment was reading the dust-jacket copy from Jedi, though. Since it wasn't actually in the novel, they felt they had to observe ad-copy conventions, which produced the following (approximate) sentence: "As Luke walked up to the gate of Jabba's castle, he seemed alone, but knew that The Force™ would be a powerful ally." Unfortunately, that was the best part of the novel. (Though the Babelfish-quality French translation of it that I acquired later in life has its own peculiar comic value, as well.)
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posted by [identity profile] holmes-iv.livejournal.com at 08:01pm on 27/04/2005

Dammit, [livejournal.com profile] orichalcum, how am I supposed to get any work done for the rest of the afternoon when I'm curled up whimpering under my desk?

Seriously, though, it is true what [livejournal.com profile] gee_tar says: the novelization's suck is orthogonal to the movie's suck. Which is not to say that the movie won't suck, of course—by all means keep those expectations managed. (I personally thought very little of the Ep3 trailer anyway, so I'm not too worried about going into it with excessive expectations.)

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Some of us manage to work and whimper simultaneously

posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 08:08pm on 27/04/2005
Try a waltz rhythm. Work -whimper whimper, Work - whimper whimper...

It's the characterization as well as the floridity that really get me, though.
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posted by [identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com at 08:10pm on 27/04/2005
My coworkers are wondering why I'm laughing.

They'll wonder even more when I try using a waltz rhythm to work and whimper simultaneously. Thanks for that!

I thought that excerpt sounded like a submission to the Bulwer Lytton bad writing contest.
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Re: Some of us manage to work and whimper simultaneously

posted by [identity profile] jab2.livejournal.com at 08:57pm on 27/04/2005
SNORK.

um. that's so applicable to what I'm trying to do now: invent an academic reason (to be talked about in 3 pages) why i need that ipod they gave me for 'free.'

bs-whimper-whimper, bs-whimper-whimper...i think i can manage to do that!
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 09:01pm on 27/04/2005
Religious choral music. You want to be able to download and play Gregorian chants for your students easily, and link the music with your research.
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Re: Some of us manage to work and whimper simultaneously

posted by [identity profile] jab2.livejournal.com at 09:08pm on 27/04/2005
ah, but i did that through itunes, playing it off my Mac on the classroom audio.

silly me. clearly.
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