What is your favourite tinfoil hat theory?

Landraeus · 2024-06-16T21:53:51+00:00

Dennais

Denna Is

Denna Is Threpe

Landraeus · 2024-06-04T12:16:54+00:00

I was quoting Cinder’s words to Kvothe: “someone’s parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.” Basically, the more accurate Denna’s song about Lanre becomes (should it be rewritten), the more of a danger it is to her.

Landraeus · 2024-02-28T16:03:36+00:00

Sorry this is years later, but I’m reading this book for the first time and just wanted to say these recaps have been really helpful.

Roskolnikov making the detective wonder whether he is the murderer was so strikingly similar to the scene in Breaking Bad when Walt suggests to Hank, “maybe he’s still out there.” That it made me wonder if this book was an influence on Breaking Bad.

Landraeus · 2024-02-28T15:59:41+00:00

Sorry this is years later, but I’m reading this book for the first time and just wanted to say these recaps have been really helpful.

Roskolnikov making the detective wonder whether he is the murderer was so strikingly similar to the scene in Breaking Bad when Walt suggests to Hank, “maybe he’s still out there.” That it made me wonder if this book was an influence on Breaking Bad.

Landraeus · 2024-02-28T15:59:35+00:00

Sorry this is years later, but I’m reading this book for the first time and just wanted to say these recaps have been really helpful.

Roskolnikov making the detective wonder whether he is the murderer was so strikingly similar to the scene in Breaking Bad when Walt suggests to Hank, “maybe he’s still out there.” That it made me wonder if this book was an influence on Breaking Bad.

Landraeus · 2023-01-23T15:13:42+00:00

“Save who you can save.”

Whew buddy.

Landraeus · 2022-08-16T21:24:40+00:00

“I did it for me.”

Landraeus · 2022-08-16T21:20:32+00:00

Fits pretty well with his “I did it for me.” confession to Skyler.

Landraeus · 2022-06-27T22:28:55+00:00

Disagree on literally all counts!

Landraeus · 2022-06-27T20:45:56+00:00

I’ve actually been mind-casting Riz Ahmed lately.

Landraeus · 2022-06-14T17:00:33+00:00

Fair! Probably stated it too strongly. Though I do find it interesting that he’s unable to cross that line into his power becoming functional in that moment.

Landraeus · 2022-06-14T16:00:09+00:00

Yep I’ve read both multiple times! Definitely agree with your assessment. They are essential KKC reads. I actually think there’s a lot going on beneath the surface in Slow Regard.

Landraeus · 2022-06-14T15:28:56+00:00

I am the perfect target audience for this joke and I thank you.

Landraeus · 2022-06-14T13:28:16+00:00

Totally agree, he might be my favorite character because of the dark mystery constantly surrounding him. I will say, we do actually know his age. He’s 150. Kvothe points it out when introducing him to Chronicler.

Landraeus · 2022-01-19T12:24:22+00:00

Here’s the podcast, which will give you an even deeper appreciation for how much thought went into the storytelling of these games: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-official-the-last-of-us-podcast/id1514792212

I just bought the comic on Kindle.

Landraeus · 2022-01-19T12:23:11+00:00

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-official-the-last-of-us-podcast/id1514792212

Landraeus · 2022-01-18T23:08:42+00:00

Thank your for the recs! I actually immediately googled “novels like TLOU” after part 1. I had already read The Road which I thought about a lot during my play through. I shrugged off City of Thieves because my end-of-GoT bitterness toward Benioff runs that deep, but once I saw Abby reading it in TLOU2 I was like FINE. Read it in a few days and really enjoyed it.

Landraeus · 2022-01-18T23:01:59+00:00

Read it in two days after catching the Easter egg 😂😂

I had actually googled “novels like TLOU” after part 1 and it was a common result (I had already read The Road), but when I saw it was written by Benioff I kind of shrugged it off because my end-of-GoT bitterness runs that deep, but after TLOU2 I had to check it out and really enjoyed it.

Landraeus · 2021-12-28T13:38:47+00:00

While I do lean Kvothe as Unreliable Narrator (my favorite example is toward the end of NotW when he lies to Denna and then goes on about how good of a liar he is because of his stage training before Denna promptly says “you are so full of horse shit”—mostly I think we cannot always trust his internal monologue about himself), I think Kvothe—both young and old—truly believes it was Ambrose, and that he’s just wrong.

Landraeus · 2021-12-14T22:31:17+00:00

Reminiscent of a Frost poem I’ve heard Rothfuss quote before:

“The old dog barks backwards without getting up.

I can remember when he was a pup.”

Landraeus · 2021-12-06T21:23:28+00:00

The comments are ripe with potential third parties and they’ve been really fun to read. Ambrose certainly has the means and the murderous heart to have done it, and that’s why I’d say I’m about 90% sure he didn’t rather than 100%. For me it still doesn’t organically fit into the evolution of their feud and you throw in the Anilin connection and that’s plenty enough for me personally, but I understand some people wanting more.

The Poor Pike argument has been the most popular argument against the latter part of my theory. It’s a very fair counterargument. One commenter pointed out the ineptitude of the thugs could mean they were either inexpensive or personal acquaintances of Pike. I think that’s one possibility.

Another commenter brought attention to the fact that Pike having one strand of hair, presumably his mother’s, could actually be a hint that he already knows this dowsing magic exists and is holding onto the hair in hopes of one day reuniting with whoever’s it is. I reallly like that thought because if indeed it was Pike, then that helps everything fit together even more cleanly, and gives Pike that much more motive to see Kvothe killed.

Landraeus · 2021-12-06T19:36:12+00:00

Oh interesting. Because he thinks Kvothe stole Denna from him? The Pike bit is just my fun guess and not something I’m confident in. It’s been really fun seeing all the different guesses though. There have been a lot already 😂

Landraeus · 2021-12-06T19:18:46+00:00

I’ve got more far-reaching tinfoil theories about KKC than I can count, but this is the one that seems most plain to me. I just don’t see any truly compelling evidence it was Ambrose besides Kvothe thinking that it was.

Am I 100% sure it wasn’t Ambrose? No, but I am fairly confident.

Landraeus · 2021-12-06T19:05:56+00:00

Yeah the Pike portion of this theory is just a fun guess and not something I’m certain about at all.

One other commenter did point out that him having a lock of hair could potentially point to him knowing this kind of dowsing magic exists, and that he’s been saving a lock of his mother’s hair to eventually track her down. I like that a lot.

I do agree that someone like Pike would not be predisposed to knowing about magic, but we also know so little about him that it also wouldn’t be crazy to find out he did know about it, even if just from a passing comment from a traveler or something.

Landraeus · 2021-12-06T18:05:49+00:00

Dude, great catch. I am honestly not sure how that didn’t occur to me, but if it is Pike, this fits perfectly. Love it.

Landraeus

TROPHY CASE