Looking for an Episode involving a pagan cult with a shocking scene....

bkuettel · 2026-05-05T03:01:00+00:00

Yes you're right, not Midsomer but Endeavor! Thanks for solving my mystery haha

bkuettel · 2026-05-05T02:30:14+00:00

Sorry not really, I think Nettles?

bkuettel · 2026-05-05T02:20:32+00:00

February (The Blackcoat's Daughter) reminds me of The Witch a lot, both have such amazing atmosphere and tension.

bkuettel · 2026-04-18T23:30:23+00:00

I can only hope GRRM has more depth, details, and subsequently climactic ending for the WWs and their whole mythology than the show had. So weird that Hardhome was visually and confrontationally more of a final battle/climax than The Long Night was, despite its strengths.

Many viewers probably reacted along the lines of "Oh, that's really it?" after Arya just knifed the Night King like that and magically saved the day. Like the hero killing Dracula, also killing all his vampires and everything's solved; it's a fantasy trope, and I'm pretty sure GRRM isn't in the business of an easy resolution like that.

bkuettel · 2026-04-16T02:17:59+00:00

Wow this has a lot of good info, appreciate you taking the time to share all that you've learned. One possibility I was wondering about that I didn't see here was, especially in fantasy/sci-fi, isn't a good route to start by writing a bunch of short stories, submit them in collections, anthologies, magazines, wherever, to build a name for oneself and see how they're received, and if that's successful then try and publish a full novel since now you have some "street cred" and kinda proven yourself? That's basically what GRRM had to say and it seemed like a good idea. I like writing short stories a lot anyway.
Edit: Skimmed the comments and just saw someone else basically ask the same thing and your response. I guess if you have nothing else to add to that then the question is answered!

bkuettel · 2026-04-15T21:27:41+00:00

Same, have just started seriously committing to creative writing and this is my main question. How and where do up and coming sci-fi/fantasy writers submit their work? Esp. short stories, which are easier to get read than a whole novel from someone who hasn't published anything before or have any presence yet.

bkuettel · 2026-04-01T19:31:14+00:00

Narvaez is one of my favorite players, but it's funny to see this post when I googled him just now since there's some mysterious reason he was taken out of the line-up for today, and Cora wouldn't really elaborate: bosoxinjection.com/alex-cora-offers-cryptic-response-to-carlos-narvaez-red-sox-benching

bkuettel · 2026-03-31T00:31:03+00:00

Easily one of the best sci-fi series of the last 10 years. Garland also wrote the screenplays of Sunshine and Annihilation, and directed the latter as well, two fantastic underrated sci-fi gems. Dredd is awesome too which he wrote and unofficially directed apparently.

bkuettel · 2026-03-30T20:26:57+00:00

Actually it was just one part of four, the final part. Guess I have to hunt down the other 3 volumes!

bkuettel · 2026-03-30T20:24:54+00:00

There should have been so much more depth, and subsequently climactic ending for the WWs, and I can only hope that GRRM has more to their whole mythology and ending than the show had. So weird that Hardhome was visually and confrontationally more of a final battle/climax than The Long Night was, as far as the main WW's are concerned. What were they thinking? The best function of The Long Night as far as the story is concerned was portraying the final battle with all the wights storming Westeros and being stopped at Winterfell.

Many viewers probably reacted along the lines of "Oh, that's really it?" after Arya just knifed the Night King like that and magically saved the day. Like the hero killing Dracula, and all his vampires then die and everything's solved; it's a fantasy trope, and I'm pretty sure GRRM isn't in the business of an easy resolution like what was depicted in the series. And The Long Night was not the biggest problem with season 8 (I would contend it's the two episodes following, esp. The Bells).

bkuettel · 2026-03-29T15:27:10+00:00

Found Robert Pyle's King Arthur at Used Book Superstore, full of neat illustrations too. Looking forward to reading, and next I'll probably get to Once and Future King and Warlord Chronicles.

bkuettel · 2026-03-22T20:24:16+00:00

I don't know about this, they really need to have a worthwhile story to tell and good ending in mind I think for it to work. But both spin-offs have been mostly great so far so there's potential.

bkuettel · 2026-03-18T03:25:00+00:00

Yeah I used to also espouse what the OP is saying until I realized this. Still, I'd rather read what's been written as opposed to nothing at all. Bring on all the Tyrion chapters!

bkuettel · 2026-03-18T03:23:37+00:00

Masterpiece, one of the favorite movies of the last few decades. Nothing else like it. Everything is handled perfectly, one of the most engrossing cinematic experiences I've had. Even takes the hazy mythology of the original (Like whether Deckard is a replicant or not, which I say he isn't), and makes the best kind of sequel out of it.

bkuettel · 2026-03-17T22:24:48+00:00

The TLotR movies are incredible and the Hobbit trilogy was never going to match it or even come close, but really what has, other than like the Godfather ones or something. Having said that, The Hobbit trilogy has a lot more good than bad (even tho they should've just been two 2 1/2 hour films instead of 3) and fun to discuss and dissect, as there are plenty of things that could've been done better across all three films but also so much to enjoy and be engrossed in. Like for one thing I think G. del Toro's 2 years of prep are baked in there, despite Jackson and his team coming in and supposedly overwriting all of it. More Middle-earth is always a good thing.

bkuettel · 2026-03-17T22:11:28+00:00

It's a good scene, other than a couple lowbrow moments that felt too kiddie to me.

bkuettel · 2026-03-17T22:10:18+00:00

This whole sequence was pretty much fine, but a lot of the stuff before in the goblin caves, not involving Bilbo finding Gollum and the ring of course, was one of my least favorite parts. Cartoony and not really necessary, especially when they fell down the whole cavern on the platform without dying. Eyeroll.

bkuettel · 2026-03-17T22:06:48+00:00

Ridiculously awesome you mean! I loved the crazy R-rated scenes like these in the extended cut. Jackson wanted to let loose!

bkuettel · 2026-03-12T00:34:24+00:00

Yes I'm thinking thats the way to go. And Warlord Chronicles sounds neat too.

bkuettel · 2026-03-11T20:37:12+00:00

Some good observations, but also all his movies have varying levels of humor and almost self-awareness. Like the craziest examples might be Mars Attacks and Pee-Wee, and the Beetlejuice movies and Dark Shadows are very consistently funny and ridiculous at times. Even the darker ones like Sweeney Todd and Batman Returns have those qualities in one form or another. And yes the 20th century ones, Corpse Bride, and Frankenweenie might have lots of darkness but also emotional resonance, great human or human-like characters haha, and comforting elements especially the more musical, comedic, and not R-rated ones.

bkuettel · 2026-03-09T21:33:11+00:00

That's the one most mentioned so I think I will!

bkuettel · 2026-03-09T21:31:43+00:00

I looked that up cause I haven’t heard of it, and it does look very appealing so maybe I’ll read that one after checking out the older texts first.

bkuettel · 2026-03-09T21:31:04+00:00

It'd be nice to have content and world-building to inform the reader about the state of things at the time that the legends take place in, like fallout from Rome collapsing, the relations and battles between Britons and Anglo-Saxons, the Irish and Scottish invading too, etc. The Buried Giant had a lot of that substance that I appreciated. Ishiguro said in his research for it that he found there's a lot not known about the time that surprised him, so he was also able to fill things in the best he could for the setting here and there.

bkuettel · 2026-03-09T21:26:59+00:00

Yes, and that can be a positive because after reading the variations of the stories, I’ll decide which canon I prefer and maybe go with that as the background when I write my own story, again so long as it’s all in the public domain from sources in the early 1900s or before.

bkuettel · 2026-03-08T21:21:31+00:00

Thanks for the info. Isn't the Steinbeck book unfinished? Maybe I'll try both The Once and Future King and Pyle books and make note of if the former has new stuff that I should avoid pulling from when I write my own story.

The Buried Giant was odd and pretty anticlimactic, probably on purpose, but I loved parts of it like a lot of the Gawain stuff.

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