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of The Dragonlance Chronicles?
At the risk of shocking the three or four of you who haven't already realized that I have Low Tastes, Dragonlance was my true gateway drug into the fantasy genre. Yes, I read Narnia and Tolkien, literally at my father's knee, and I read Dark is Rising and the Prydain Chronicles and, I don't know, all manner of other Important Works of Fantasy as a kid, and I liked them very much.
I found Dragons of Autumn Twilight on the shelf at my local B. Dalton's when I was in fifth grade, and I liked the pretty red cover and the pretty, pretty blonde lady on the front (who turned out to be only my secondmostfavorite pretty blonde lady in the series), and so I bought it. I still have that edition, much the worse for wear, cover price two dollars and some change, Anno Domini 1984, iirc.
It blew my small young mind. It was, for me at the time, this unbelievable quantum leap forward in fiction, into this complicated plot with an ensemble cast, soaked in secret identities and love triangles and old friends and old betrayals and family ties and jealousy and bloodshed and lust and religion and death and I LOVED IT. It also had -- and *this* was horribly new at the time, as well -- women all over the place -- not the one little sister or the girl back home like a lot of what I'd had to read previously, but Goldmoon with all her grace and dignity and her burden, and brave and sexy Tika, and the moral quagmire that was Kitiara, and oh my fucking god *Laurana,* Laurana Laurana Laurana, who was a general and a diplomat and a lover and a rebel and Christ I loved her so much. Still do. I also liked the boys, particularly Sturm (my first paladin) and Caramon (my first guy-who-likes-to-hit-stuff crush).
So apparently they're making an animated movie, which is okay with me -- I have no snobbery about animation, hell, has there ever really been a better fantasy movie than The Last Unicorn? Really? And the voice actors are a veritable parade of fangeek candy: Michael Rosenbaum as Tanis! Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon! Michelle Trachtenberg as Tika! A guy as Caramon who was in two episodes of Due South!David the Vampire Kiefer Sutherland as Raistlin! It's like a party in my brain!
I suppose I should begin the process of lowering my expectations now. But I can't help it, I'm still excited for the time being! Dragonlance, EEEEE!
At the risk of shocking the three or four of you who haven't already realized that I have Low Tastes, Dragonlance was my true gateway drug into the fantasy genre. Yes, I read Narnia and Tolkien, literally at my father's knee, and I read Dark is Rising and the Prydain Chronicles and, I don't know, all manner of other Important Works of Fantasy as a kid, and I liked them very much.
I found Dragons of Autumn Twilight on the shelf at my local B. Dalton's when I was in fifth grade, and I liked the pretty red cover and the pretty, pretty blonde lady on the front (who turned out to be only my secondmostfavorite pretty blonde lady in the series), and so I bought it. I still have that edition, much the worse for wear, cover price two dollars and some change, Anno Domini 1984, iirc.
It blew my small young mind. It was, for me at the time, this unbelievable quantum leap forward in fiction, into this complicated plot with an ensemble cast, soaked in secret identities and love triangles and old friends and old betrayals and family ties and jealousy and bloodshed and lust and religion and death and I LOVED IT. It also had -- and *this* was horribly new at the time, as well -- women all over the place -- not the one little sister or the girl back home like a lot of what I'd had to read previously, but Goldmoon with all her grace and dignity and her burden, and brave and sexy Tika, and the moral quagmire that was Kitiara, and oh my fucking god *Laurana,* Laurana Laurana Laurana, who was a general and a diplomat and a lover and a rebel and Christ I loved her so much. Still do. I also liked the boys, particularly Sturm (my first paladin) and Caramon (my first guy-who-likes-to-hit-stuff crush).
So apparently they're making an animated movie, which is okay with me -- I have no snobbery about animation, hell, has there ever really been a better fantasy movie than The Last Unicorn? Really? And the voice actors are a veritable parade of fangeek candy: Michael Rosenbaum as Tanis! Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon! Michelle Trachtenberg as Tika! A guy as Caramon who was in two episodes of Due South!
I suppose I should begin the process of lowering my expectations now. But I can't help it, I'm still excited for the time being! Dragonlance, EEEEE!
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Date: 2007-03-02 12:10 am (UTC)From:Although the actors are so pretty it's too bad it's not live action, even though the Due South guy wouldn't make a great live action Caramon. He's too sweet.
Still, *imagines Kiefer Sutherland with hourglass eyes*
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Date: 2007-03-02 12:12 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-03-02 09:31 am (UTC)From:Seems to be real, it has it's own highly detailed IMDB page (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825245/)... Squee!