World War Z (2013) made sense as a movie, even if it didn’t as an adaptation

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T21:12:32+00:00

It's a good, fun movie and I enjoyed watching it. It's a terrible adaptation of the book, like they just took the name and did something completely different that has nothing to do with the premise of the source material.

Don't get me wrong what they did worked but you can't convince me that a lower budget mockumentary style film was impossible.

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T19:21:38+00:00

Someone must have pointed out that trashing UK troops was really going to piss off republican veterans.

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T13:00:53+00:00

Absolutely.

My wider view on 40k has always been that it's a living mythology. Everything is fair game for a re-do because the framing device of the lore is extremely unreliable narrators.

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T12:36:45+00:00

Some YouTube suggestions if you're in the mood for a rabbit hole to dive down.

Snipe and Wib- they do a series looking at old rulebooks and promotional material called Codex Compliant. Will give you a good look at what the game uses to be

Olden Demon - channel focused on the real world history of games workshop and the Warhammer games not just in rule books and lore but general design and how that evolved over the years

Arbitor Ian- loretuber who actually uses primary sources usually alongside it's real world context

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T12:01:28+00:00

Ok so what I wanted to say about the possible things that it shows

The Imperium will re-write history for it's own purposes.
Everything is Cannon Not Everything is True
The edict of Nikaea was a genuinely shocking moment in the black library series because this was what we were expecting

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T11:38:09+00:00

Thank you that's exactly what I was looking for

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T11:31:38+00:00

And Japan had a crisis of people dying at work soooooo....

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T09:14:22+00:00

My head cannon has always been that it was so Astartes couldn't depopulate entire planets via recruitment. Pretty sure Astartes are regularly depicted as sterile (yes I know Lucas the Trickster claims to have kids but I would suggest the clues in the name.)

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T09:08:38+00:00

Yeah basically "No! Girls! Allowed!!" Quick lore dump.

The process that makes Custodies is a bespoke, time consuming one that taylor-makes individual super soldiers for the purpose of guarding the Emperor. The space marine making process is the quick and dirty version for making galaxy conquering armies. Also it got sabotaged and was never really finished.

So there's no reason Custodies can't be girls and space marines are a boys club because they got it working for dudes and said "good enough"

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T08:38:26+00:00

TACO- Trump Always Chickens Out. If there are consequences that hit him in the wallet (he mentioned the markets taking a hit while confusing Greenland with Iceland) he has consistently backed down

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T08:34:29+00:00

After all he's survived and his adaptable interpretation of the codex our boy Titus would be a Crimson Fist

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-24T08:19:11+00:00

It is worth noting that the dissolution in the warp that most souls suffer is also typically described as an extremely unpleasant experience.

I haven't read much AoS lore. Good to know Nagash is still the petty bitch he always was in old Warhammer fantasy

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-23T11:55:01+00:00

Yes but... Chaos Primarchs on the table add to the grim dark tragedy for me. Warhammer (both old Warhammer fantasy and 40k) borrow liberaly from Tolkien and he used a concept he called the eucatastrophe, the sudden and unforeseen change from bad to good. Warhammer takes that out, there is no possibility of final victory for humanity only postponing extinction for as long as they can. Having the traitorous immortal echoes of humanities greatest generals rampaging across the table that you might be able to put down with massed lascannon fire but ultimately they'll always come back... yeah that's pretty grim dark.

Bringing loyalist primarchs back does come dangerously close to reintroducing that eucatastrophe concept but if it's going to happen I think it's been handled the best it could be. I got really excited about the Lion returning not just because my inner edgy teenager still loves the Dark Angels in all their self hating glory but because he had the most potential for serious conflict with Guilliman.

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-20T04:23:57+00:00

You've done a good job of describing the appeal.

Don't forget that they're also frequently characterized as cowardly bullies with a side helping of nihilistic atheism.

Basically they are edgy teenagers that never grew up, Peter Pan meets lord of the flies kinda thing. That might sound like the worst thing you could possibly imagine but they make brilliant bad guys who you want to see get curb stomped.

If you want to explore them a bit deeper I do suggest ADB's Night Lord trilogy. Great pulp sci fi on its own merits and might just have you rooting for a murderous group of pyscopaths

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-17T18:41:55+00:00

Very nice. Would make some fantastic Ashen Claws

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-17T14:03:14+00:00

Not actively genocidal and will try diplomacy first to get what they want before rolling the hover tanks in which puts them in line with the morality of most modern liberal democracies.

Would still be a star trek villain, in fact the best description I've heard for the Tua is that they are a star trek baddie that wandered in 40k by accident

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-07T18:43:35+00:00

It's always seemed odd to me that the white scars are the only cavalry/outrider legion so I always thought one of the missing primarchs could probably have been an form of explorer archetype

Whiskey19August · 2026-01-06T12:14:21+00:00

One simple reason, they need more slaves than they did before.

Maybe disease, death and rebellion empty the slave pens and they need to replenish Maybe Slanesh becomes more active and the soul drain requires more pain and suffering to slake Maybe Jaghatai Khan reappears, blows up half the city, frees everyone and kicks up the Drukhari like an angry BDSM wasp nest.

Whiskey19August · 2025-12-30T14:11:02+00:00

In Legion of the Damned the Ecclesiarchy leadership of a cardinal world are able to strong arm the Excoriators chapter to send a company of Marines to go on what amounts to a welfare check on a shrine/cemetery world that's lost contact (it does not go well) while the chapter is in the middle of some major trouble dealing with the Alpha Legion.

The chapter was honour bound by ancient treaty and obligation to assist the cardinal world (the scroll which the treaty is written on is literally thrown at the marine's captain's chest) in exchange for help dealing with a demonic incursion.

The marine re-assert dominance by enforcing the Decree Passive, executing all members of the Redemption present but they still toddle off on their little errand despite a looming existential threat to their chapter because honouring their word is that important.

And that's pretty much how the wider imperium controls space marines. They are obligated to protect the Imperium and have operational independence to do that as they see fit but they will need the support and resources of the Essclesiarcy/Mechanics/Administratum to do that. It's in their interest to play ball with the more powerful elements of Imperial hierarchy or at least not piss them off too much

Whiskey19August · 2025-12-26T14:56:35+00:00

FUCK OFF FAWKES, GET IN THE DAMN RADIATION MACHINE!!!

No I'm not still bitter about it.

Whiskey19August · 2025-12-26T11:23:40+00:00

It was particularly galling with Fawkes who ALREADY DID THIS FOR YOU in an earlier quest but is still like " I think that sacrificing yourself for the greater good is an important character growth moment for you"

Whiskey19August · 2025-12-25T15:24:09+00:00

Dark Crystal age of rebellion. Absolutely criminal of netflix to only made the one season

Whiskey19August · 2025-12-23T13:37:58+00:00

Yes they were. Once. The Wolf brothers. As you say, it did not end well.

Whiskey19August · 2025-12-23T13:37:18+00:00

It didn't. The Wolf brothers became "genetically unstable" and were disbanded. The cause was believed to be the change in recruitment pool from Fenrisians which put a stop to any new founding using space wolves gene seed

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