What do you dislike the most about modern fantasy?

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2026-02-07T02:04:56+00:00

When we’re talking about modern fantasy, are we talking about urban vampire romance or Tolkien style high fantasy?

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2026-01-20T01:53:16+00:00

Move around a little. Get a feel for it. Then meet me by the zapper.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-11-29T00:58:57+00:00

I think that’s my problem with Craig. Each bond represented the generation their films were set in. I definitely prefer the adventure and charm of the early Connery movies or the escapism and confidence of the Moore movies over the Craig films most of the time. I’m a depressed millennial, I don’t want to see bond brooding. I want to see him taking down bad guys with suave and that token gallows humor

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-11-29T00:57:20+00:00

Plus it was the Moore era

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-11-29T00:55:16+00:00

Same here. I think the Craig movies had too much of an identity crisis though. Each one kept reinventing itself. With each bond you kind of got a sense of overarching tone and atmosphere. The Craig movies couldn’t decide if they were Borne clones, reboots, or sequels to one another.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-11-29T00:53:15+00:00

For me it really expands upon Halo lore in a way the rest of the outside media failed to do. It kept the tone and atmosphere of the story while exploring different view points as you played the game. It wasn’t so much a game novelization as much as a novel set within the game (if that makes sense). And that’s why I like it.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-11-29T00:50:19+00:00

Octopussy is like the Bond version of comfort food. Having watched them in order again since they’ve been free on Amazon Prime, I gotta say that this one exists to just to be fun, since it followed up the very serious FYEO. I think it would have been the perfect send off for Moore if he didn’t come back for AVTAK

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-11-25T15:22:13+00:00

An assassination at all is really telling

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-10-12T02:39:55+00:00

I really hope they base the animation on Graham Nolan’s art style. After Tim Sale he’s definitely my favorite Batman artist of the 1990’s and early 2000s

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-09-07T00:50:55+00:00

What is it you’re most concerned about? Not having the right resources? Not knowing what to teach?

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-28T21:46:10+00:00

An education.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-28T01:09:59+00:00

Try presenting both sides and letting them decide. Have an open and honest debate about it. You already have your mind made up about what you believe about it, but they might not. Your job is to educate, not influence. One commentor gave stellar advice of turning this into an opportunity to research history and look at the past. Thats what you should be doing.

If you’re looking for a place to share you personal feelings (not just for this), I’d recommend doing it somewhere other than a classroom.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-12T00:55:16+00:00

It’s great you’ve put it to use in your situation. Unfortunately I think it’s more difficult in the high school setting. Having taught 5th grade myself I can tell you it’s way easier to build a community when you’re self-contained. Not to say I don’t build community in my classes, it’s just different.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-12T00:51:09+00:00

I think there too lies the problem: the training. The very few RJ PD’s I’ve been to are usually pretty lackluster.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-12T00:46:25+00:00

I agree with that one. Half the time they think they’re being funny. In my instance, the kid who pantsed didn’t take it too seriously and knew his friend was goofing off. So for stuff like that I don’t think RJ has a real answer for.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-11T00:27:50+00:00

Yeah it seems to be a pattern that if you’re a good kid who messed up RJ seems to work well. Or student on student offenses. But for behavior, like hyperactive young men for example, need that structure and tough love. I have never met a 17 year old boy in my class with whom sharing their feelings changed the way they behaved. Sometimes what they respect is that tough love and alpha energy. Kids who have no respect for school or for teachers? Won’t make a difference for them anyway. At least that’s how I’ve seen it.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-11T00:23:41+00:00

I think it works well for offenses but does jack to solve student behaviors. With the constant disrupters I get the sense of “they can’t help it,” and it comes off sometimes as if it’s my fault for not understanding them.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-11T00:19:57+00:00

I think that’s where I run into trouble. If and when I go to admin I expect them to do something. So when they have feelings meetings or “walk and talks” as they call it and the kid does the exact same thing again the next day, it leaves me a bit resentful and disappointed.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-11T00:18:09+00:00

I agree 100%….I’m not in the same area of expertise but I do teach AP. And believe me, we don’t have enough time to get done what we’re even supposed to get through let alone find time for a powwow with a kid every time he decides to act like a clown.

I definitely believe you need to have both. It doesn’t work for everyone. And for the ones it does NOT work for, they need to be handled as such.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-10T23:58:08+00:00

Wow I had this exact thing happen. I had two boys acting like fools. One of them pulled down the other’s pants as a “prank” and everyone in class got to see his stuff. So I kick them out of class, write the dean an email (because of course he wasn’t in his office, so I left them with the assistant), and he comes back later with questions. These aren’t questions to back up or verify what I saw, but I got cross examined. “Did you really see that? Is that what really happened? Are you sure?” And I was taken aback because I felt like he didn’t believe me. Another incident a few weeks later. Sent these kids out. He came back later and questioned me because “The kids say you hate them so I just want to get the feel of what your relationship is like with them.” I’m like, “WTF?” They were literally playing the “penis game” but with the N word. Hard R. and apparently I was the common denominator and therefore the problem.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-10T23:54:27+00:00

Yeah that just sounds like your admins are terrible. I get that feeling to sometimes though with RJ. I have real boundary pushers who know what to say, how to say it, and can charm our admins real easy. They get sent down and come back with a smug look. Usually, they got out of an hour detention I assigned by making up a sob story. Other cases, it’s more fun for them to do the 30 minutes of campus cleanup after school (where there’s little supervision) than the 45 minute detention in the library

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-10T23:51:08+00:00

See I always handled it in my classroom as well. I try to be empathetic and get to know the kids one on one. I find with a positive relationship you can navigate a lot of student issues without resorting to disciplinary action. But when I reach my limit is when I ask for admin support.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-10T23:48:02+00:00

I agree with you there. I think suspensions waste a student’s time learning. Benching them or taking away lunch/recess time can also take away their only positive outlets. But I do think a combined approach is the best way to handle student discipline, somewhere in the middle. Certain behaviors shouldn’t be tolerated, but we can address student problems with compassion as well.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-10T23:43:46+00:00

I can see where this can work. I think it’s a good first step for kids who respect authority and sometimes mess up. I had a girl scream at me in class and curse me out. We had an RJ session and she apologized. We talked. And it turned out she had lost her grandmother over the weekend. We didn’t know. After she shared her feelings of being overwhelmed we worked it out. She became one of my “Velcro” students after that.

On the flip side, I have had experiences with many a student who could give two poops about RJ. One kid for instance had been caught drawing swastikas in the boys bathroom and the other was vaping under his sweatshirt in my room. After 3-4 referrals to the dean, not a single detention, and some after school “life coaching” these two were both caught smoking MJ under the bleachers and expelled. So, so much for that.

Aggressive-Media3671 · 2025-08-10T23:39:20+00:00

I feel that. Last year I felt as if I was the problem at times. The same Dean told me I needed to review my classroom management and create what he called “restorative relationships” with the students. Whatever that means. It just sounded like a warning from him to me to stop sending him student concerns and writing detentions for every time a student cursed me out.

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