Yeah.
And I find that to be such a weird idea for several reasons.
But, can you understand my point? MIB just requires the aliens to not be interested in Earth before the 60s. It doesn’t mean that there have been mages covering up magic for the entire existence of humanity, while never being tempted to conquer the world or share their power.
Oh I enjoyed those quite a bit, though I figured those for just straight Fantasy... I guess I tend to think of Urban Fantasy as involving our real world + something else.
I ascribe to the Wikipedia rule:
I guess it just depends... something like Blade, where you have vampires that aren’t really that supernatural seems like it would be easier to make work than something like Harry Potter where magic is literally real, and implies some whole realm of physics that no one has noticed yet.
Aw, I was looking forward to Justice League: Just Darkness, Grunting, and Murder.
I’m sure the Aztec Blood Magi would have something to say about this animal and plant magic nonsense.
This is part of why Urban Fantasy is such a hard sell for me.... it seems like a hard sell to say that you can have the regular world be just as it is *and* have magic, faries, werewolves and vampires too.
It’s an anachronistic view, I’ll admit. But how is it *not* murder to basically send someone to their death, knowing full well what you were doing and why? And how could his wife refuse the king? How could any of Solomon’s wives and sex slaves refuse, ever? Harems are gross. Historically, that’s what happened, but…
Gross because of the story of Bathsheba, mostly. It’s certainly possible that it was a consensual affair that resulted in him committing murder. But it’s also just as likely that he forced her into that situation. Who knows, maybe those miscarriages weren’t the work of God at all. Solomon too... paragon of wisdom,…
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Crummy ones!
The thing about the Force and the relative power levels show in Star Wars or any other sort of Sci-Fi is that there are always going to be power ups, both because of better visuals, and because you just want to bring something new to the table to keep people interested. There’s no reason to expect that we saw…
Vader: “Before you were the teacher, but now, I have put 5 points into Lightsaber to become a Master.”
Also, Marvel does a really good job of making the movies about the hero, not the villain. Aside from Loki, you don’t really end have movies where the villains just steal the whole movie like The Joker does, or devote most of the run time to the origins of multiple villains like the Spiderman movies.
I like both, but I think I’m looking forward more to the show than the books. Book 4 and 5 just have so many issues, and as annoying and weird as the whole Dorn interlude was in the show, it was a million times worse in the books. GRRM keeps introducing a new character when an existing one will do, and it’s made it…