One of my favorite YouTube channels, Star Wars Theory, has started a podcast. So far the episodes aren’t that long, but I think that is OK. The episodes mirror the YouTube channel in content, but I prefer listening on Spotify as opposed to YouTube, which is one big long commercial break.
I highly recommend both the YouTube channel and the Podcast if you like to geek out on Star Wars lore and theories. Oh yeah, he also made a Vader fan film that you really should check out if you haven’t seen it. It is really well done. Check it out Shards of the Past.
I am really not a fan of the new Star Wars, especially The Last Jedi is in my humble opinion pretty bad. However, this picture of Luke Skywalker rocks!
Let’s hope The Rise of Skywalker will fix everything.
Tonight is game night baby. And to make everything just a little bit better, my Paladin has reached level 6, which means I get to roll for more hit points as well getting some more powers. If i remember correctly I don’t get any spells, but I’m there’s other stuff that will make up for it.
In this group we play in the Forgotten Realms setting. So, no Dragonlance here either. However, that is pretty nice, since I don’t know world as well and therefore everything is new and exciting. Fractions, gods etc. are more or less unknown to me so I get to experience a lot of things for the first time. Not bad at all.
The Forgotten Realms books I have ever read, besides the Drizz’t books, is the Avatar Trilogy, which I read 26 years ago, right after I graduated high school. That means heavy partying, so I was very hung over when I actually sat down to read. If memory serves, I didn’t even read them in the correct order. Much like the Chronicles and Legends, the Danish version of the Avatar Trilogy is split into six books, and the public library didn’t always have the next one available.
Back in the day, Forgotten Realms got some flag from some people in the Dragonlance community, most likely because there were more product releases. But in this day and age, I think most people are just happy that we still get new D&D material of high quality.
Last night
I watched the latest episode of Game of Thrones. For some odd reason I haven’t
been watching this show, but my wife has, and she suggested we watch the last
season together. So basically, I have skipped the entire book and have jumped
right to the last page.
In last
night’s episode, there was a dragon battle, which of course made med think of
Dragonlance. I know, obvious. There has been a lot of talk in the Facebook
group about an upcoming live action rendition of Dragonlance, which a lot of
people seem to be interested in. Given the success of Lord of the Rings and
Game of Thrones it might be an obvious choice to adapt Dragonlance for the
small or big screen.
To be honest,
I think I would rather have the book line resurrected. There are so many
interesting things that could be done with Krynn in terms of gaming and novels
that I think it would be a shame to not do this. There’s probably not a lot of
money to be made from that though, so maybe an adaptation would make the most
sense.
As far as I
can tell, the creators of Game of Thrones have worked closely with George R. R.
Martin in order to keep the show as close to the books as possible. If the
Dragonlance Chronicles were to be adapted for TV, I think it would require a
thorough change in order to make it more relevant for the current times. I still
love the Chronicles, but there are not the best written books by Weis and
Hickman. However, if the two original creators were heavily involved, I have no
doubt they could recreate the Dragonlance feel in more modern and mature context.
Unless of course they want to make it a kids’ show.
The
beautiful thing about taking the Chronicles to the small screen is that in case
of a success, you have the sequel ready to go with the Legends books. Imagine what
the battle between Raistlin and Fistandantilus would look like using today’s
technology. Or the dragonarmies arriving at Neraka.
I stumbled upon this post by Tracy Hickman from February. Now, as any good fanboy I went down the rabbit hole and started imagining what new Dragonlance project had been green lit by the Dragon Highlords in Seattle. It is of course wishful thinking, as there have been no signs whatsoever of a resurrected Dragonlance since the line was discontinued back 2007.
However, if we allow ourselves to dream a little, one might have a preference as to what will be released. A lot of people on Facebook talk about a live action movie or TV show like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones. It would make a lot of sense given the success of these franchises and the profits that can be found in those media.
Personally, I would prefer books and game material as that would move the setting forward instead of rehashing stories we have all read and re-read a hundred times. Not to mention the risk of releasing something that will alienate the original fan base due to questionable creative choices, much like what happened with Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Besides, I think it is time to move the story forward, especially considering where we left the world of Krynn. It seems to me that they had fixed the issues that the 5th Age created and had a pretty good baseline for new stories independent of the characters and story lines we are familiar with.
I am not holding my breath here, but I do return to that Facebook post from time to time.
