It's the Zeppelin World from Doctor Who season 2! No, seriously, tell me Alternate London wasn't actually a Pullman homage.
Re: Billy, I really think they're going to try to fix it. There is the tiny molecule of a chance, somewhere in the galaxy-sized nebula of my doubt, that they might pull it off without it being Disney and horrible.
See again the metaphor for scale.
The adults at Bolvagangar were creepy, but they could have been creepier! In fact, now that I think about it, what they needed were a couple of crowd scenes.
I didn't think Coulter was bad, I just - I loved how book Coulter, in my head, was unimpeachably covered, showing the barest flash of wrist, in no way overt or challenging, and yet she showed up in the middle of all those poor celibate scholars and it was this Huge Thing. I suppose sparkly breasts is a convenient shorthand for that effect, I'm just planning to remain committed to how it looked in my head. Also, I don't know, something about how people's souls walk around outside their bodies made me want their bodies to be more covered.
Maybe the watering-down was intentional! I thought it was just clumsy overexposition - making everything known, where suspense and horror are achieved by keeping the audience from really knowing what's happening. Also, I am continuously surprised by how many people are unable to narrate children in a way that doesn't have some cutesy in it, that takes for granted that inside their heads they are full people whose concerns and thoughts and lives are as valid as everyone else's. This is why an Ender's Game movie is probably unmakeable - the authors get it, but I don't know if enough other people do to make a movie.
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Re: Billy, I really think they're going to try to fix it. There is the tiny molecule of a chance, somewhere in the galaxy-sized nebula of my doubt, that they might pull it off without it being Disney and horrible.
See again the metaphor for scale.
The adults at Bolvagangar were creepy, but they could have been creepier! In fact, now that I think about it, what they needed were a couple of crowd scenes.
I didn't think Coulter was bad, I just - I loved how book Coulter, in my head, was unimpeachably covered, showing the barest flash of wrist, in no way overt or challenging, and yet she showed up in the middle of all those poor celibate scholars and it was this Huge Thing. I suppose sparkly breasts is a convenient shorthand for that effect, I'm just planning to remain committed to how it looked in my head. Also, I don't know, something about how people's souls walk around outside their bodies made me want their bodies to be more covered.
Maybe the watering-down was intentional! I thought it was just clumsy overexposition - making everything known, where suspense and horror are achieved by keeping the audience from really knowing what's happening. Also, I am continuously surprised by how many people are unable to narrate children in a way that doesn't have some cutesy in it, that takes for granted that inside their heads they are full people whose concerns and thoughts and lives are as valid as everyone else's. This is why an Ender's Game movie is probably unmakeable - the authors get it, but I don't know if enough other people do to make a movie.