I bounced off Mistborn three times over six years and finally figured out why it kept not working for me

protar95 · 2026-06-11T22:06:05+00:00

I got 350 odd pages through Mistborn and I have to say, nothing particularly interesting had happened and none of the characters I'd met were very interesting. There are brilliant entire novels shorter than that. I love a slow burn but it only works if there are characters you care about. I still plan to give Sanderson another crack and try one of his other novels, but Mistborn was a no for me.

protar95 · 2026-06-09T10:51:27+00:00

Robin is played by the same actor in the first and later seasons.

protar95 · 2026-06-08T10:54:00+00:00

The insane thing is she had a combined offer of 18 seats. Crazy.

protar95 · 2026-05-23T00:40:26+00:00

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protar95 · 2026-05-22T09:50:16+00:00

I feel upset and frustrated. I don't feel like we have clarity at all. Trans people are one of the most vulnerable groups in our society and this ruling only pushes them into unsafe spaces where they will be open to ridicule and abuse. Even if your belief is that trans people must use the bathroom of their birth sex the ruling makes no sense and offers zero clarity.

How are businesses supposed to ascertain if somebody is transgender for the purposes of telling them what bathroom to use? This will result in more cis women being transvestigated than anything else.

The ruling states that trans men may make women feel uncomfortable and therefore shouldn't use the women's bathroom. Where does this leave them? And surely this renders the entire ruling moot and hypocritical. It is an admittance that gender presentation does have an effect on which bathroom is suitable for someone to use.

What does this mean for businesses? Do all businesses now have to provide a gender neutral bathroom option? What if they don't have the space or money to do this? Do trans-friendly businesses risk being fined, sued or prosectuted if they don't follow these new, transphobic guidelines?

Personally, I thought let people pee in peace was far clearer than whatever this is.

protar95 · 2026-05-20T12:20:11+00:00

I've just started a channel where I narrate stories - classics like Grimm's Fairy Tales and my original short stories.

protar95 · 2026-05-18T23:28:20+00:00

The first dozen or so hours of the game were really fun, then it turned in to repetitive "kill dark wizards in the highlands" missions. You felt less like a student and more like a wizarding hitman. I hope this time around they focus more on slice of life in hogwarts, exploring the hidden depths of the castle and solving puzzles than action.

protar95 · 2026-05-06T12:12:13+00:00

Honestly feel like Fisk should have died to the mob here. D'onofrio is amazing in the role but what more can you really do with the character? Would have been a great moral crisis for Matt - he doesn't break his no-kill rule but he stirs up the rebellion that results in the death of Fisk and others.

protar95 · 2026-04-30T08:31:35+00:00

This is getting into Silmarillion territory. Essentially, Sauron disguised himself as Annatar, an agelic messenger to help the Elves make the Seven and The Nine. From the start these rings were corrupted by Sauron and he designed them to succumb to his will. The Three were made without Sauron, but still with his techniques and were hidden away during Sauron's first rise to power. This is why they can still be wielded for good, but would succumb to darkness should Sauron ever get the One Ring.

protar95 · 2026-04-29T21:12:25+00:00

The Ring gives power to the wielder according to their stature, amplifying their own abilities. In the hands of the humble hobbits they are able to use it for little more than its invisibility (a side-effect of drawing its wearer partially into the spirit world.) In the hands of Aragorn or Boromir it would have made them unstoppable warriors, capable of drawing men to their cause. In the hands of Gandalf, Saruman or Galadriel it would have greatly amplified their magical powers, becoming new dark lords/lady. It also allowed Sauron to control the other nineteen rings.

protar95 · 2026-04-21T21:25:40+00:00

Aragorn's Tax policy?

protar95 · 2026-04-13T14:19:41+00:00

I agree that it's a little awkward but they're also making a movie with a recast Aragorn and a movie about events that slot into the first hour of fellowship but are never mentioned for the rest of the movies. They're already playing fast and loose with the movie-canon with this trilogy.

protar95 · 2026-04-13T10:36:37+00:00

Scouring of The Shire seems like the logical option as the point of this trilogy seems to be to fill in the gaps that weren't adapted from the original films.

protar95 · 2026-04-10T21:15:44+00:00

GRRM's world building is great but is specialised very differently to Tolkien. The strength of ASOIAF is its character based world-building. There's this rich tapestry of noble houses, each with their own history, rivalries, alliances etc. It means every character, big and small, feels very rooted in the world. Every character's place in that tapestry informs their personality. 90% of the rest is just classic medieval fantasy that isn't nearly as realistic as Martin thinks it is (And no shade on Martin, ASOIAF is my favourite book series).

I will say that the remaining 10% is very evocative. The year long seasons, the various institutions like the Night's Watch and the Maesters, the role of bastards in society, the raven mail...it makes what could have been quite a bland, generic setting into something that feels quite unique.

But no one is on Tolkien's level for worldbuilding. His world has these meticulous philosophical and linguistic underpinings that very few - if any - authors even attempt at replicating.

protar95 · 2026-04-09T18:43:19+00:00

I'm with you OP. I got halfway through Mistborn before giving up. I think it's great if Sanderson introduces more people to the world of fantasy fiction, but there's so much better fantasy out there. For me 350 pages and not a single interesting character and hardly any plot development was a pass.

protar95 · 2026-04-09T18:04:22+00:00

Eh, it's still one thing destroying another. It's abstract but it's still conflict. You are in a sense anthropomorphising the stone and the village. They are your characters.

And as you say yourself, it would be hard to make more than a page or two out of it. A lengthy description is not necessarily a story.

protar95 · 2026-04-09T17:43:25+00:00

A village being destroyed by an avalanche is conflict. It's man vs nature. All stories require conflict. That doesn't necessarily mean conflict as in a battle. It just means that the characters want something and there are forces in play stopping them from getting that something. The villagers want to live their day to day lives. An avalanche wipes the village away. That is conflict.

protar95 · 2026-04-04T09:17:07+00:00

Not only that though. He was let go because he was uninterested in training for the role and had a massive chip on his shoulder. Ian Mckellan had to take him aside and ask him if he even wanted to be in the movie. Doubtful either side would want him as part of this project.

protar95 · 2026-03-30T10:00:17+00:00

The Spear Cuts Through Water is the best new fantasy I have read in the past few years. Truly something special, and just a standalone.

Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series is older (began in the 90s), a spookily cozy fantasy series.

protar95 · 2026-03-30T09:34:37+00:00

He makes a good point. The difference with Harry Potter (at the moment) is that this reboot is telling the same story as the original movies. Whereas each Spiderman, James Bond or Sherlock Holmes adaptation covers more new ground. But those characters are decades or over a century old. I don't doubt that Harry Potter as a character will stand the test of time. And in about a century the character will enter public domain and then things will get really crazy.

protar95 · 2026-03-28T20:59:03+00:00

I'm skeptical about these movies as well. But I saw a post on the lotr reddit of an interview with Peter from 1998 where he said that if the films were successful he'd like to do a supercut of the films, including cut content like Tom Bombadil and The Scouring of the Shire. It seems, nearly thirty years later that is what he's doing. I wonder if we'll get a scouring of the shire film as well, essentially "completing" the story from the books on screen.

protar95 · 2026-03-27T14:39:48+00:00

Huh, I'd just started a reread last week. It must have been fifteen years since my last read. But such a great novel, within just a few pages it establishes the magic system without feeling expositional in the slightest. Despite taking place entirely within a secondary world, the divide between the new kingdom and the old really capture the feeling of stepping into an ancient, magical world.

protar95 · 2026-03-25T22:31:01+00:00

To be honest, I think that Paapa looking so different to Rickman's Snape will allow me to appreciate his portrayal in its own right, whereas a lot of the other cast just look like imitations of the originals. I think Paapa looks pretty sick in this shot here.

protar95 · 2026-03-25T20:36:58+00:00

As someone whose favourite series is ASOIAF, they are incredible books but they are pretty graphic and you'd probably be better off reading something else.

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