I share the weakness for sharp and useful things. If a gent asked me to marry him with an axe (for ME to wield) or a motorcycle, it would be love. ;)

Sorry but I disagree with your disagreement. ;) Whether always intentional or not, weapons have often ended up being flat-out gorgeous. Utility can be truly beautiful.

Weither or not it was something meant to kill is not really relivant because beeutiful shapes are often inspired by nature and nature is ruthless.

Blacksmiths as magicians...you’ve given me an idea for a fantasy series. xD Or to implement an angle of it in the current one I got.

The armoury in citadel of Jaipur disagrees with you (and many others I have seen across the word as well).

or big giant hammers that only the hulk or superman could use.

So. I was in India, and we went to museums. And in the museums, there were displays of weapons.

Well that is better then using Conan the barbarian ( the first movie) as an example.

also to become a master smith takes years of hard work and if your master dies befor you learn the secret it dies as well.

Not that much, really. Getting killed by a sword/knife is really not very different from getting killed by a really sharp and resistant sword/knife, and the same advances could be applied to armor making, if the materials where that common/easy to create.

I think all of the things you railed against work fine when the movie is watched in the context of a Predator attacking a LARP gathering in the modern day.

that would be great, throw in a bitter knight of st. John won’t shut up about the templars outliving their usefulness, while his order is protecting the seas from marauding Turks.

I assume Reg is unfamiliar with your background, it’s always great to hear your perspective on sword fights in movies. BTW, I think un-dynamic would be static?

you kind of touched on it with the reference to ironclad, but as a fan of the middle ages, I’m a bit sick of the templar warrior trope now, it is like the former navy seal trope we see in action films with a modern-day setting all the time now.

Thanks. You’re sweet for a steel-swinging bone crusher.

My fondest hope is to be telling my grandkids “Turns out that madder and ochre really couldn’t get colors quite as vivid as you see in movies and tablet weaving will only sustain so much detail. They’ve really taken it a bit far, and if Grand Executor of Film Shaw would only take my calls anymore, I’m sure she’d put a…

We shall fight together, then.

That’s my approach, too! Everyone who knows how much ancient norse stuff I’ve studied asks me about the show. My pat answer is that it’s a really fun and engaging fantasy show inspired by vikings. Then I mention that is about as historically accurate to early medieval Scandinavia as Game of Thrones is to the Wars of…

Your sword snobbery is my sword snobbery, sister.

I had to perform that this year in school and I’m really not a huge fan of choir, but that piece is amazing. I was laughing because my parents kept falling asleep during the performance of the Requiem, but every time the Dies Irae came back around they would be startled awake.