author: Makoto Yukimura
name: Peter
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/25
date added: 2024/03/25
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I’m not the biggest swords and sandals guy, a genre which I feel also includes other footwear, such as snowboots in this case. Was Braveheart what really goosed this whole thing with two groups of guys running across a field at each other for like hours and hours?
I mean, there are great examples, fun books and movies about this stuff, stone cold classics, but overall, if you tell me there’s going to be a lot of swordfighting, I’m usually uninterested.
I have my doubts about whether the swordfighting you see in movies was super common in ye olden days. Like, was there a lot of perry, thrust, block, kind of shit? Or was it more like a bunch of guys running and stabbing or cutting each other with very little real experience or technique?
Which is fine for these sorts of stories! Drawn out swordfights are usually pretty boring, IMO. Unless they’re set in a chandelier factory and we can have lots of swinging on chandeliers, or in a chandelier exhibit at the museum, or something like that, know what I mean?
How were there not space chandelier lightsaber duels in Star Wars? They were always fighting in basically a space warehouse. How boring is that? I guess there were not guardrails, so that’s something, but surely chandelier technology would be amazing by then, like a chandelier that’s a drone and flies overhead, bringing light along with you into each room you enter.
I guess I should mention that there were SOME lightsaber duels not in space warehouses, and those were always TOO not in space warehouses and on like a lava planet with explosions and EVERYTHING happening. And yet, still kinda boring.
It’s all the chandelier, man. That’s the key. You want that little bit of intrigue without going overboard, which only a chandelier can provide.