Me too! But there's this little problem with extreme motion sickness and a lack of depth perception... :'-(

Fruit bat. Upside down from what we usually see. And also dead and corpsified.

That was the first thing I thought of. And that there's an unincorporated community near me called Natron — and I could never quite figure out why. The local earth and water are in no way super-salty or alkaline. Have yet to find the necessary historical explanation...

That's successful communication on the part of the artist, not merely some magical quality of the work itself. And the "other point" you imply is pretty much mine to begin with. None of these things would exist without the individuals who created them, and those individuals do not exist in a vacuum. Would The Sun…

Wouldn't it be fun if they made an algorithm you could run on your own FB timeline?

They're all just cheap knock-offs of the Spartans, of course — who we might notice are not around anymore... Entertaining knock-offs, nonetheless, and in many cases more effective as metaphors than anything else. Or elaborate jokes... ;-)

Agreed, pretty much across the board, with what you say. However, the fact that remains that there is no adaptation without the original work. And there is no original work without its creator. Saying "Even Chuck P said so..." implies that his opinion of the adaptation carries more weight. As it rightly does.

<pout!> Sadly, you are absolutely correct.

Sold.

Perhaps because I'm a writer, have been an artist and a musician, and am close friends with many others of the same bent, but I have always been offended by the assertion that "what (the creator) thought/believed/experienced is irrelevant." I even find the forced passive voice of scientific laboratory/technical…

I think that argument works better w/music (especially lyric-free music) than with literature and (to a lesser degree) visual arts. The point is that creative work doesn't magically appear out of nowhere. Inspiration filters through a mind and body, and things like mental state and physical issues DO affect the…

Racing History volumes 1-5 on the Amazon Kindle store. Thanx for asking.

Yeah, that's fascinating and cool! Part of the fun in having someone read your work behind you as you're writing it is hearing their theories and such — and deciding how to respond to them. And I don't mean to say that the reader/critic's opinions are not valid. Just that the author's should trump them when it…

I know, and that's pretty much what made me change my major in college...

LOL. I just might have punched that professor in the face, if I'd been him. How dare you?!? Or probably just responded, "What makes you think YOU do?!?" But then, academics in the comparative-lit fields can be pretty darn egotistical, themselves. So I hear from pretty much everyone I've ever known in their…

That's encouraging. The trailers pretty much have me convinced not to see it, too. I'm not a huge disaster-scenario fan, for one thing... And I can't help being influenced by the fact that NASA had less to do with this one than with Europa Report...

Heh. Also a matter of perspective... (Do I sound like Obi-Wan Kenobi, or what?)

That's a matter of taste. Some viewers prefer the latter. But my point isn't that someone else couldn't make something better based on your work, but rather that the original creator has more right than anyone on Earth to criticize or praise that result.

I beg to differ. If what you say were true, then writers should never ever publish at all. However, I will give ya this: Once you sell the rights to something, other folks can do with it what they want. However, that doesn't mean that your opinion doesn't matter. As the original creator, you understand the work…

This happens to me much more w/music. Lots of new-wave from the 80s, for example, I kinda' ho-hummed at the first time around and just love it now... And there are a couple/few CDs I reviewed back in college (or didn't bother reviewing because I couldn't think of much to say about them) but grew to really appreciate…