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| Nihal. One of the girls of my life. |
And I am not joking.
After a while the fantasy front was a bit too busy to be on my taste again. Camon, let's face it. Fantasy was the couple of years ago last neo-nerdy fashion. Nothing wrong with it.
Fantasy IS great
In my childhood I was quite obsessed by it.
"Lord of the Rings", "Eragon", "Discworld" sagas were some of my favourites playmates, leaving out Pullman's masterpiece "His Dark Materials", that I read bajillion of times. I managed to reach the third one when I was ten. I did not really get it then, but I was completely mesmerized.
This is not a children's series. At all. It's just great, stuffed with philosophy, science and notion that a kid can't really get. It touched me deeply anyway.
But after a while you just need to change a little. Too much fantasy is too much.
Then was the Urban Fantasy turn.
I swear, when I was 14 finding something (in italian at least) was a nightmare. Harry Potter was one of the few.
The only vampires around were the Anne Rice's ones, that are great, but that still are a not-so-easy-minded reading. In that period I approached the Laurell Hamilton series and man, I liked it. Lots of guns, lots of sexy not-so-dressed supernatural studs, lots of hormones floating around, but still not enough for a kid starving for honey dripping romance . (Yes, I very am ashamed of myself. It was a really short phase anyway).
I read "Twilight" when it was not famous at all. It was not even in the shops. I had to order it on Amazon.
And yes, it was what my kid self was looking for. Romance, teenage love and a main character easy to identify with. Nice book for a clumsy not-so-pretty and totally lacking in grace teenage girl.
It was fairytale with a Dark Prince in a modern enviroment. I hated the sequels, but whatever.
(I read same crazy obsessed fan comments on the internet. Okay. That's mental illness. I am talking about a normal "like".)
In a little while Urban Fantasy field was completely stuffed. At leat in the book\films sector.
I still seriously miss a videogame of the genre.
After "Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines" I had serious difficoult in finding a good one. The hell. I had serious difficoult in just finding one!
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| Janette. An other girl of my busy nerdy life. Inkeater Note: Your fantasy is a player,unh? Nina: Shut up. I AM player. <3 |
I am totally okay with Zombies.
I love Zombies.
But I am actually talking about a game where you are not just supposed to slaughter the monster, but one in wich you are the Monster and you are dealing with its world.
I was looking forward to the project of a World of Darkness MMORPG, but seems that the project it's or slowly dying or going on at snail-like speed. (If you have info, please, report.)
Then there were a little sci-fi rush in all the fields, with some good returns in the cinema like Predators, Tron: Legacy and Inception, with its apparent climax with Cameron's Avatar, but sticking with books the market domain remained to Urban Fantasy. (Beware that I am talking about mainstream. I know that there are really good things in the not so known market . <3 So please, don't kill me.)
Reading teenagers are a powerful army.
And a scary one.
Then there was a really nice superhero parentesis still rapidly spreading (yep, i loved the X-Men films.) and some interest about post/apocalyptic themes.
If you are a gamer you will know "Fallout".( And you would have noticed the high number of same themed new games. Good ones, too. I loved "Bioshock" with all my heart .And I have not played "Rage" yet, but seems cool, to name one of the newest.) But if you are not, oh, well, that was kind of a newbie in a novelty lacking mainstream cinema production. For some reason seems that with the approach of 2012's so much talked date the Apocalypse-Survivalism themes is in fast rising.
Say thanks to the Maya, best sponsor of the doomsday field.
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| Great film. Loved it. It never reached the cinema. |
I managed to get my brother to read the comic ( almost a miracle), so all is possible.
Okay, going back to the point, novelty and originality seems to be slowly dying in lots of fields.
Personally I have a thing for not so famous genre, kind of ignored from the mainstream generation. Steampunk, cyberpunk, dieselpunk and whatever hybrid and not classified usually meet my taste.
I do liked "Sucker Punch", I managed to appreciate the steampunkish elements in the new "Sherlock Holmes" series and I am still angry for the missed diffusion of really good movies like "Repo! The Genetic Opera" and "Nine".
I left fantasy alone for a long while. I played "Aion" and "Final Fantasy", of course, and appreciated them. But I just kept looking for something else, something different.
Then Skyrim came.
New, awesome, with a really innovative gameplay. And a damn epic presentation.
And here I am again on my warrior path, in a pitiless word and with a brand new cyber destiny in my hands.
Yes, i can say it.
Skyrim brought back my epicness need.
Here, this is Malukah's cover of "The Dragonborn comes".
Ultrafamous, ultragood.
