{"id":57341,"date":"2024-03-24T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=57341"},"modified":"2024-03-31T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T14:21:35","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-remastered-lxiv-a-shocking-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=57341","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings Remastered LXIV: A Shocking Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the comments of the previous strip, I said<\/a>, \u201cIn hindsight, the ideal thing would have been to cast Aragorn as a dumb, distracted stoner. He spends about half of the movie blinking very, very slowly. I can come up with a shot of him looking baked or mouth-open stoopid in just about any scene. I should make a \u201cI am so high\u201d montage out of all these shots.<\/i>\u201c<\/p>\n

The amount of screen time he spends in a vacant stare or a prolonged blink is sort of alarming. I\u2019ve come to think of him as Stareagorn.<\/p>\n

– shamus Thursday Feb 15, 2007<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Once again only the end section is linked this time to skip the link mingling complexities.<\/p>\n

There’s a fine line between ‘well forshadowed revelation’ and ‘big annoying neon sign on the wall that the DM won’t let you acnowledge yet’. This guy seems to be about ten miles over the neon sign side and still running.<\/p>\n

I do have to sympathize with him a little bit though. It’s hard to predict what a player will pick up on. And it’s pretty awkward when they figure something out early and you gotta reformate your whole dang plot around it. Its almost enough to tempt you to the railroad tracks, if only to save on the writing time.<\/p>\n

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In the comments of the previous strip, I said, \u201cIn hindsight, the ideal thing would have been to cast Aragorn as a dumb, distracted stoner. He spends about half of the movie blinking very, very slowly. I can come up with a shot of him looking baked or mouth-open stoopid in just about any scene. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dm-of-the-rings-remaster","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57363,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57341\/revisions\/57363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}