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Favourite Game of Thrones episode? (question from last thread)

TV? What's that?

Not a fantasy fan anyway, unless it's written by Terry Pratchett or in a video game.

Color me impressed, both the time stamp and the redirect are correct. I had to use moderator wizardry to accomplish that (I edited a word into the post, quoted that, and then removed it and used the quote tag I had gotten).


I remember being largely uninterested in what Freud had to say, and honestly remember very little that I wasn't already aware of from other sources.

I read him in a (required) college course that covered canonical thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Virginia Woolf and W. E. B. Du Bois. I'd be embarrassed at how little I remember of any of these authors if the course had been set up better, instead it was basically a repeat lesson in how dry these works were. I'm actually not sure if I ever read To The Lighthouse, by the time we got to the end of the semester this class had me more than a little burnt out, and we only had to do papers on three of these people (I did Darwin, Nietzshe, and Du Bois - and given how much I dislike Nietzsche's views on existentialism, a philosophy I otherwise generally agree with, that should tell you how bored I was with Freud).


I'd read about that, I suspect the overall situation was awkward for both of them, particularly since Miyazaki is now such a lauded name in animation.


My favorite work of Miyazaki's, by far, is the Nausicaa manga. The film is what introduced me to his work and for a long time it was my favorite film of his - but since reading the manga the film just doesn't hold up well for me. I suspect my favorite is Howl's Moving Castle, while a large departure from the book I still liked how the characters were portrayed.

Porco Rosso is great and I find very well put together, if a bit silly. Laputa starts off great but I find it lags once they get to the city, although I still enjoy it. Spirited Away is gorgeous but I find the pacing odd and, again, I find that the ending drags - after the climatic scene with No Face it just feels like the movie gets rather muddled; great characters though, and Lin is one of my favorite's. It's been years since I've seen Princess Mononoke or Kiki's Delivery Service, I remember enjoying them but I'm not really in a position to comment on them. I've never actually seen My Neighbor Totoro, and here I really don't have any excuse. Ponyo on the Cliff had its moments but overall it didn't do much for me - although it didn't help that I only saw it in English and I was unimpressed with the two protagonists. (Funny enough I actually prefer the English dubbing in Howl's Moving Castle to the original Japanese.)


They're not Miyazaki's but I really need to get around to Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns. On that note I once did have the opportunity to see Grave of the Fireflies but specifically avoided it.

I don't believe I've seen any of Isao Takahata's films.

What would you do for a Klondike bar?

#3 actually


I would go to a store and purchase one, preferably a heath one.

Has any mod caught on that this is a clever ploy to attract all the moderators into one thread, lock them inside, and create mass havoc on the forums? :spotted owl:

Hmm, The Chosen piqued my interest when the book spoke of how Freud speculated our dreams connection to our conscious. Apparently even though he was speaking of something so interesting he was still boring and dry.

The screening of Earthsea was pretty cool, though - a young girl who sings a song on the soundtrack gave a live performance.

If you ever go to Tokyo, you must see the Ghibli museum. It's like being transported inside a Miyazaki movie.

You may have noticed that Attrebus has stayed out of this discussion - now you know why.


There's a fun STTNG episode about this, it even has a few scenes with Freud himself.


I suspect the chances of me going to Tokyo are minute, but that would be by at the top of the list. I wonder if I can fit a life-sized Laputan robot replica in my checked luggage . . .

A friend of mine got to go to Svalbard last month, I am very jealous.

Are mods like normal people? Do you guys like eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, and have fun like everyone else?

My apologies. I only recently saw the Ask the Mods threads return, so I thought the last one was the first of this revival.

Oh, how swift the forums move :twirl: