The Far Side of the Lounge

[Reek]

i sense a WESTEROS INC. name change coming...


God help us.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

i sense a WESTEROS INC. name change coming...


God help us.

Never. I was born a worshiper of The Last Son, and I'll die a worshiper of The Last Son.

I'm just doing due diligence for my podcast on GOT. I LOVE the show, but I feel at a remove from the fandom to a large extent caused by not only coming to the show when it was already four seasons deep but because I don't see it "live" and binge months later I never know what's up with the fan debates or reactions to things.

 

[Reek]

The Last Son.... that was promised.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

The Last Son.... that was promised.

Shh... Lots out there don't like admitting that Supes is a sci fi messiah.

 

[Reek]

Pa Ned Kent actually was his real father.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Pa Ned Kent actually was his real father.

I do sometimes, in that childish fanboy way, think about Marvel and DC heroes crossing over into Martin's world or the world of the show. I wonder if they would clean it all up as I would want or would they succumb to the nature of the world?

 

[Roose Bolton]

The LORE vids I saw also seem to be for the show solely as well. I actually really enjoyed the ones I saw, which I guess are for seasons 1-3.

I am hoping to get WORLD OF FIRE AND ICE and start on the first book soon. But again... JESUS. Martin is a God-Hero of nerdom. Seriously, this stuff is staggering in it's density of world building.

It's why the series is a breeding ground for tinfoil theories, the slightest details can be very impactful for the greater story and world. Secret parentages and old blood connections are very prominent.

Useless fact about the Lore videos: it was only by going in to record them for season 2 that Stephen Dillane learnt his character's backstory.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Never. I was born a worshiper of The Last Son, and I'll die a worshiper of The Last Son.

WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?

I'm just doing due diligence for my podcast on GOT. I LOVE the show, but I feel at a remove from the fandom to a large extent caused by not only coming to the show when it was already four seasons deep but because I don't see it "live" and binge months later I never know what's up with the fan debates or reactions to things.

You podcast is too much fun to miss out on an episode, even if the subject is something I strongly don't care to see.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?

You podcast is too much fun to miss out on an episode, even if the subject is something I strongly don't care to see.

PM to let me know what you thought of the 1984 episode.

 

[Reek]

I don't care what anyone says, some of GRRM's best work is in A Dance With Dragons. So hurry up and get to reading.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I do sometimes, in that childish fanboy way, think about Marvel and DC heroes crossing over into Martin's world or the world of the show. I wonder if they would clean it all up as I would want or would they succumb to the nature of the world?

Well GRRM's favourite comic character is Golden Age Hank Pym from TALES TO ASTONISH (before the wife beating and bipolar disorder came into it), so that should give some idea as to how he'd write it.

But honestly, I'd be more concerned if a character from Westeros showed up in the marvel universe. Dare we forget about the time Peter Parker was molested as a kid? Even GRRM hasn't been that harsh to his teenage protagonists...

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Well GRRM's favourite comic character is Golden Age Hank Pym from TALES TO ASTONISH (before the wife beating and bipolar disorder came into it), so that should give some idea as to how he'd write it.

But honestly, I'd be more concerned if a character from Westeros showed up in the marvel universe. Dare we forget about the time Peter Parker was molested as a kid? Even GRRM hasn't been that harsh to his teenage protagonists...

Hmm... Could there have been a "Bolton Copter" if GRRM had his way? Good enough for the Mad Titan...

 

[Roose Bolton]

Not only is it possible, it's entirely probable

 

[dude stannis]

I do think the only way to follow up Spider-Man's arc of being diddled would be to have Aunt May flayed by Roose Bolton.

 

[Reek]

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

So sleeping till noon 2 days in a row this holiday weekend has made me tired af this morning. Everything comes at a cost gentleman.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Well GRRM's favourite comic character is Golden Age Hank Pym from TALES TO ASTONISH (before the wife beating and bipolar disorder came into it), so that should give some idea as to how he'd write it.

Pym fans and historians defend the character by saying he didn't slap his wife more than one time, he was awfully stressed, and quickly recovered from his anger once he realized what he did.

 

[Vartha]

So sleeping till noon 2 days in a row this holiday weekend has made me tired af this morning. Everything comes at a cost gentleman.

ll yeah, my son and his GF just started over-nights at Walmart this weekend lol He's sort of complaining but knows BOTH his parents did it and I still do lol

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I was thinking of the opening episode for season 2 of The Incredible Hulk 1978 series, and I remembered David Banner mentioning Robert Louis Stevenson, I don't remember the name of the woman he married in that episode, but she thought of a different story than what David had in mind to describe his condition, David obviously named Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde before showing her an image of the Hulk from the New York episode of season 1.

Thinking of the novel in mention made me think of other novels that either gave inspiration for the Hulk, or are coincidentally similar to one phase in the life of the Hulk.
So the Hulk was obviously inspired by the aforementioned novel character, and for his design he was inspired by Frankenstein Monster, I don't recall if the name of the Werewolf was mentioned in what inspired the Hulk, but he certainly felt similar in his early phase, a monster who wanted to kill the one who knew his secret, awakened by the full moon.

In the Savage She-Hulk 01, Bruce Banner was walking with narration connecting the TV show, and Jennifer Walters called him doc, a reference to him studying medicine before switching to physics, this felt like an indirect reference to The Invisible Man.

Going back to the show, Kenneth Johnson mentioned how he based the pilot on Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, and it made me look at a bunch of novels I was introduced to since a young age, and saw various adaptions to, and a theme recurring with authors of such stories:

• Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens (young lads with mischief and adventure):
  • Tom Sawyer
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Charles Dickens (troubled youth, tragic past and present):
  • Oliver Twist
  • David Cooperfield
• H.G. Wells (Science fiction, mystery, and a touch of horror):
  • The Time Machine
  • The Invisible Man
• Robert Louis Stevenson (duality):
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Treasure island

What does Treasure Island have to do with dual personality? The character Long John Silver shows a face of kindness and friendship to the young protagonist, masking his evil nature, his sinister reality from him.

Superhero stories have the habit of using these elements and mixing them in a blender, the touch of horror can be found in certain villains like The Gray Gargoyle.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

ll yeah, my son and his GF just started over-nights at Walmart this weekend lol He's sort of complaining but knows BOTH his parents did it and I still do lol

If I had a car I could work whenever I wanted and it would be dope.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Pym fans and historians defend the character by saying he didn't slap his wife more than one time, he was awfully stressed, and quickly recovered from his anger once he realized what he did.

Hmmm, never knew Roger Goodell was such a classic Avengers fan.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Bumping some of that good, dark electro underground breaks ish. Gotta love some 808 bass in the workplace.

 

[C. Lee]

One day......DJ will learn to speak English and the world will rejoice....

 

[Pink Ranger]

One day......DJ will learn to speak English and the world will rejoice....

 

[Duke]

Hmmm, never knew Roger Goodell was such a classic Avengers fan.

You just made me burst out laughing!!