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My own condensed version of "Wheel of Time"


flintorama
May 30th, 2003, 05:31 PM
lots of spoilers










My name is Rand and I am a man who acts like a boy. What's that father? There is a huge festival down the road in our small town? Wow that should be fun going to that, even if nothing is growing the way it used to, because of some strange darkness that no one has noticed yet is taking over the world. Hooray to the festival! Maybe on the way to the festival we will see a Dark Ri....i mean a Fade yah that's it, a Fade! He will be very scary and I will be able to feel his evil, and then he will just disapear! But I won't bother thinking about it much beyond that because we have a festival to go to, and it was probably just my imagination!

Oh look all our friends are here at the festival! And they all saw a Dark Ri...i mean Fade also. hmmm let's not mention it yet though because if we don't, things will get scarier. Who's that over there? Ohhhhh, that's just my future love interest, oh well time to go home and get attacked by Or...i mean Trollocs. Perhaps then I will find out that my father is not really my father, but will continue to deny it forever because my young simple mind can't come to believe that a father isn't a father because he made you, but because he loves you! Oh well better get back to town to find out that those weird people are actually Wizards and Warriors, and that we are all destined for some other fate. Imagine that, me, my best friends, and two cute girls who I love are all destined for greatness, Hooray!!!!

So I guess now I will just continue travelling to Tar Valon. It will be exciting because we will never take the way that the enemy doesn't expect! Instead we will just continue down the same road stopping at every evil town along the way. What's that Mat? There was something evil attacking us at the last town? Well don't worry, there won't be anything evil at the NEXT town. Oh no I was wrong. There will be something evil at every town! Hooray!!!

Oh no! I am having a bad dream again. There's this big man on fire, who keeps talking to me. He says things like, "you will be mine" "you cannot hide" and other things like "life will be bad" and "I don't like joy" he scares me, and for some reason I think he might be responsible for some bad things in the world. Oh well time to meet everyone important in this part of the story, so I will just climb up this wall, and then fall down, and then realize that I just fell in to the backyard of everyone important that I have to meet. Hoooray!!!!!

Oh well they weren't very interesting, but by meeting them, I have given myself an excuse to come and talk to them in later volumes. But enough, let's leave and travel to the next town. Don't worry Mat, there won't be anything evil in this town. Ooooppps! Wrong again, tehehe! But it doesn't matter because I will just go on trusting everyone I meet, because bad people always look evil, at least thats what living in a small town has taught me! Hoooray!!!

Well enough is enough! Now we will go and find the wheel of time. It's in this dying forest thing that smells like garbage. You don't need a map, you just have to have a great need. Isn't that convenient, because that just happens to be something we have plenty of! Inside the wheel of time is everything important that was mentioned in the story, and get this, I just destroyed the "Dark Evil" by simply denying him, and then finding out I was a male Aes Sedai, and channeling a great power into him. Hoooray!!!! Oh yah I and I forgot to tell you that Mat is turning evil, and Perrin talks to wolves now. But Mat will get better because suffering and dissapointment is bad! Hoooray!

trentdick2882
May 30th, 2003, 06:35 PM
That was beautiful, you could have spent the two hours it took you to write that and read a book you liked.

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flintorama
May 30th, 2003, 06:51 PM
I am a pretty fast typer! More like 8 mins. But you're right I guess I could have. I love your name by the way. I love Philip K as well. What do you think should be made into a movie next? Do you think they should re-make BladeRunner the way it was supposed to be?

trentdick2882
May 30th, 2003, 06:54 PM
No, I think that Blade Runner does very well as a movie on its own merits. I'm hoping A Scanner Darkly gets completed sometime and is good, I read someone's making that. I hope they don't make anymore big Hollywood movies out of PKD books anymore, they just ruin it usually. I liked Minority Report at first, but I don't like it near as much now that I've seen it a couple times, I think there are a lot of logical errors. Philip K. Dick said at some point in his life that you'd have to kill him to get him anywhere near Hollywood, I guess he altered that statement for Blade Runner, but it seems like since his death movies are popping out of the woodworks based on his writing.

flintorama
May 30th, 2003, 09:11 PM
Yah. I thought he died before '82. I guess I was wrong. I liked Minority Report when I first saw it as well, but there were some things I just don't like now. There is always going to be a hole somewhere but with Minority report there were lots. I also got pulled right out of the film when Rufus showed up at his VR warehouse. He was the only person in the film that spoke as if he were still in Hollywood 2000. Very Annoying.

trentdick2882
May 30th, 2003, 09:13 PM
He died in '82 and saw some parts of Blade Runner but not the completed film. He supposedly loved it from interviews I've read.

Cadfael
May 30th, 2003, 11:08 PM
I have removed the original thread in this section... and transfered the one in the fantasy section to here.

I know this is just a bit of fun... but Philip K. Dick FGS!!!

Maybe I should remove this as well :D

trentdick2882
May 31st, 2003, 01:25 AM
Cadfael, what is FGS? sorry for my stupidity :)

Hehe, nevermind, I just read the same thing in another thread and got your point. Sorry for going so wildly off-topic :D

 

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