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How many of the eldunari do you think Eragon is going to use in the upcomming books when he is forced to leave Mount Arngor? I know that Eragon deeply cares about their well being and wants them to recover but what if a big threat appears? Will he only bring with him the eldunari of Glaedr and Umaroth and leave the other eldunari in safety or will he bring many of them with him in order to defeat the next threat if he feels that he has to partly rely on them?

Now I want to be clear and say that I'm not trying to start a debate about the quality of the prequels. Instead what I'm trying to do is to start a discussion about something that I have speculated about for a while now.

When it comes to the prequels, whether or not you like them you cannot deny that when they were released there were a lot of older Star Wars fans who grew up with the OT who despised them. That had a big influence on not just the the decisions that were made by Disney in the sequel trilogy but also on the Star Wars fandom in general and the way people discuss movies and filmmaking especially when it comes to things like the amount of resources, a director not having anyone saying no to him or her etc. They also made a lot of older fans automatically very sceptical about movies that ahve a lot of computer generated effects. Now it's worth to think about the fact that it wasn't always this within the majority of the fandom. If you go on YouTube you can see videos were they are interviewing fans who had seen the first trailer for The Phantom Menace and they were all super excited. Now if you've seen any of the trailers for that movie then you'll know that Lucas made no attempt whatsoever in hiding the fact that there was gonna be tons of computer generated effects in the movie yet that didn't stop fans from dying to see the movie. The mindset as we all know certainly changed for a lot of fans though after they had seen all three films.

The reception to the prequels had an especially big inflluence on how people discuss movies on YouTube since they lead to the Plinkett reviews which had a big impact on how people review movies online. What those reviews above all showed was that people were willing to watch negative movie reviews that were as long as a feature film. While comedic negative reviews on YouTube had already become popular prior to that with Nostalgia Critic it was still something new to have a review that long.

But what do you think it would have been like if the prequels had been embraced by both older and younger fans? Let's say that Lucas had managed to get other directors and writers onbaord which results in a prequel trilogy that is universally beloved by both older and younger Star Wars fans. What would have been different in that case? How would that have impacted the sequel trilogy in such scenario?

What would it have been like with film discussion in that case? Would people still have talked as much about how a director should not have too many resources, no one saying no aswell as being very opposed to having a lot of computer generated effects in a movie. Now when itc omes to the later I'm sure that there would still have been a lot of people who would have prefered practical effects but would it have been to teh same enormous degree though? What I find particulary interesting to think about in regard to online film discussion is that in such a situation we would not have had the Plinkett reviews of the prequels at all. I truely don't think that there would have been nearly as many super long negative reviews/ video essays on YouTube about why movie X is terrible if it weren't for them, or I do at the very least think that they wouldn't have been as popular as they ended up being in our universe.

I apologize if this comes across as a bunch of rambling and I know that this is a very specuative thing to discuss but I would love to hear your thoughts.

Now I want to be clear and say that I'm not trying to start a debate about the quality of the prequels. Instead what I'm trying to do is to start a discussion about something that I have speculated about for a while now.

When it comes to the prequels, whether or not you like them you cannot deny that when they were released there were a lot of older Star Wars fans who grew up with the OT who despised them. That had a big influence on not just the the decisions that were made by Disney in the sequel trilogy but also on the Star Wars fandom in general and the way people discuss movies and filmmaking especially when it comes to things like the amount of resources, a director not having anyone saying no to him or her etc. They also made a lot of older fans automatically very sceptical about movies that ahve a lot of computer generated effects. Now it's worth to think about the fact that it wasn't always this within the majority of the fandom. If you go on YouTube you can see videos were they are interviewing fans who had seen the first trailer for The Phantom Menace and they were all super excited. Now if you've seen any of the trailers for that movie then you'll know that Lucas made no attempt whatsoever in hiding the fact that there was gonna be tons of computer generated effects in the movie yet that didn't stop fans from dying to see the movie. The mindset as we all know certainly changed for a lot of fans though after they had seen all three films.

The reception to the prequels had an especially big inflluence on how people discuss movies on YouTube since they lead to the Plinkett reviews which had a big impact on how people review movies online. What those reviews above all showed was that people were willing to watch negative movie reviews that were as long as a feature film. While comedic negative reviews on YouTube had already become popular prior to that with Nostalgia Critic it was still something new to have a review that long.

But what do you think it would have been like if the prequels had been embraced by the older fans? Let's say that Lucas had managed to get other directors and writers onbaord which results in a prequel trilogy that is universally beloved by both older and younger Star Wars fans. What would have been different in that case? How would that have impacted the sequel trilogy in such scenario?

What would it have been like with film discussion in that case? Would people still have talked as much about how a director should not have too many resources, no one saying no aswell as being very opposed to having a lot of computer generated effects in a movie. Now when itc omes to the later I'm sure that there would still have been a lot of people who would have prefered practical effects but would it have been to teh same enormous degree though?

What I find particulary interesting to think about in regard to online film discussion is that in such a situation we would not have had the Plinkett reviews of the prequels at all. I truely don't think that there would have been nearly as many super long negative reviews/ video essays on YouTube about why movie X is terrible if it weren't for them, or I do at the very least think that they wouldn't have been as popular as they ended up being in our universe.

I apologize if this comes across as a bunch of rambling and I know that this is a very specuative thing to discuss but I would love to hear your thoughts.

I have to say that I'm not really sure of how big this movie is going to be. I know that Gollum is an iconic charcter but how desperate are people to see more of him on film? Are most Tolkien fans really gonna want to see it considering what happend with The Hobbit movies were they streched out a short book for kids into a nine hour trilogy were they added a bunch of stuff. From that perspective I think the movie is going to be much bigger with non book readers but even there I'm not sure exactly how much it will draw them in. I think the marketing is gonna play a huge roll in how much this movie makes. If the marketing is good then I think it will do very well even though I don't think it will reach 1 billion dollars. If it's not good then it might just be a modest success.

I've heard some people say that the opposition against abortions used to be something that was common among catholics rather than christians as a whole? If that is the case then what happend that caused evangelicals to develop such a negative attitude towards abortion?

Just like many other people on this site I don't feel any excitement for either The hunt for Gollum or the Sephen Gilbert LOTR movie. There is one area were I'm certainly in a minority and that is the fact that I would have been okay with the LOTR trilogy being the only movies made that takes place in middle earth. As much as I loved the LOTR trilogy when I saw them (and still does) I never felt any desire for more movies set in that universe. Those three movies made me feel the same way you do after having eaten a meal that is delicious but you feel completely full. This was part of the reason why I wasn't particulary excited for The Hobbit movies to begin with.

Just to be clear even though I didn't feel any hunger for more films in that universe I still wasn't against the idea of more movies being made, with that said the whole concept of The Hobbit didn't seem that interesting to me. I was never that curious about knowing about Biblo's backstory when I saw the LOTR movies. The trailers for the first movie didn't change that since it just looked like more of the same stuff that we had already seen in the previous trilogy. Aside from the fact that on a storytelling level it was once again going to be about a hobbit from the shire who goes on an adventure, it also felt like pretty much everything else was just stuff we had already seen in the previous movies. I don't get the sense from those trailers that that we were going to see locations, races and creatures (with the exception of Smaug) that were going to be completely different from what we had seen before.

Now to be fair I know that this isn't an entierly fair criticism since The Hobbit was writen before the LOTR books but since the later was adapted first it made me feel like what we were going to see in The Hobbit were just going to be more of the same. Then of course we had the stupid choice they made to turn it into three movies which right there made me realize that it was not going to work at all.

The humans at the end of the first movie are defeated by a goddess which the Na'vi very strongly belive in unlike the humans who laugh at the idea that such a thing would exist. Not only that but the main reason why their army is defeated by that goddess is because the main character was praying for her help. I'm not religious but that scene is in my opinion one of the most powerful in the whole movie.

I know that Doug loved the show considering how much praise he gave it when he reviewed he series, but I was wondering if Rob also enjoyed the show. Has he mentioned it at some point or did Doug talk about his brother's opinion about the show in any of the livestreams?

I personally would love to have a white female dragon that bonds with a dwarf. She is a bit unsure of herself because of the fact that many other dwarves don't like her since they have misstrusted both dragons and riders for a long time and therefore she tries to prove herself to be trustworthy.

I've seen some people here say that Doug mentioned at one point that part of the reason why he started doing more positive reviews of movies that he likes was a combination of his health getting worse but also because he felt that there was already too much negativity online in general. Does anyone here know in what context he said this? Was it in a review, in one of the livestreams or in a Facebook post? I'm asking this because it would be very interesting for me to hear him talk about this because I used to think that the reason why this change happend was because he had already reviewed pretty much every terrible movie out there.