canonrants

Dear "Vampire Diaries" (TV series) scriptwriters...

pathology_doc wrote in canonrants Sep 15, 2012 18:22

YMMV. Yes, I know, if you wiped out all the bad guys at once there'd be no story, but: [Spoiler (click to open)]

You brought Chekov's gun (or in this case, flamethrower) to a fang knife fight and you... um... fired it. Well done. But it really is stretching the suspension of disbelief to have Stefan Salvatore incinerate a hostile vampire above ground and then not bring ( Read more... )

An odd cross-referential thought...

full_metal_ox wrote in canonrants Sep 13, 2012 21:31

A protagonist is born with an immediately visible red facial anomaly--a distinguishing feature that initially causes the character to be scorned as defective by their peers, but eventually proves to be a mark of unique power and specialness that enables the character to save the day and be acclaimed as a hero.The above could equally well summarize ( Read more... )

female characters, fantasy, books

To Every Movie with Nuclear Physics as a Plot Point

crowtr0bot wrote in canonrants Sep 12, 2012 21:54

This is after seeing The Dark Knight Rises, but it's prevalent in way too much fiction, and may have indirectly stymied the progress of nuclear energy development in the real world (along with real world events like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, of course).

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Ow ow ow ow ow

pig_catapult wrote in canonrants Sep 02, 2012 14:00

Persona 1 artists: What were you thinking when you made Mark's mugshot? His body is in profile and then his head is front-on, and it makes it look like his neck is broken. I get sympathy pains every time he says a line ( Read more... )

Yet another complaint about Pern

chordatesrock wrote in canonrants Aug 30, 2012 17:23

I feel like this isn't a particularly useful or interesting thing to say, nor is it particularly original, but...

Dear Anne McCaffrey,

You should never have made Masterharper of Pern about Robinton. To get the story you wanted to tell into a human lifetime meant compressing the timeline unrealistically. Not only that, but it required some real ( Read more... )

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philstar22 wrote in canonrants Jul 16, 2012 09:50

To the people involved in making Anne: The Continuing Story and An Avonlea ChristmasWhat is with your obsession with showing these characters during World War One? The Continuing Story doesn't even make any sense since in the books, by the time the war comes, Anne and Gilbert already have two sons old enough to fight. The two of them go off to ( Read more... )

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joysweeper wrote in canonrants Jul 05, 2012 23:03

Tales of Kolmar! Song in the Silence, The Lesser Kindred, Redeeming the Lost. I used to love these so much as an ickle Joysweeper! So I went and reread, and... I've seen books that held up worse ten years later ( Read more... )

Dear old Jak 3

chordatesrock wrote in canonrants Jun 27, 2012 22:03

To whoever was in charge of making sure the Jak and Daxter series made sense,

You want me to like Damas. You want me to think of him as a good guy, and you want me to like Sig, or be at the very least neutral toward both of them.

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parents? what parents?

beanarie wrote in canonrants Jun 21, 2012 16:35

Dear kids movie threequel I have no business caring so much about ( Read more... )

St. Elsewhere

sydpenguinbunny wrote in canonrants Jun 08, 2012 09:11

Just found out this comm exists. *does a little happy dance*

St. Elsewhere, I love you. And admittedly, I've had to watch you out of order because it's near impossible to find S2-6 anywhere, thus I've been watching a handful of eps at a time up at a museum. Anyway.

THIS.

( Up to Season 6 spoilers and rape )