J.Jasper wrote: > Matthew Hunter wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:30:06AM -0500, Casey Rousseau >> <casey at trinityhartford.org> wrote: >>> Erik Berman wrote: >>>> "Fellowship of the Rings" (call it what you will, but I can't say >>>> that it is a pale reflection of the novel) >>> >>> FotR is a great flick. I haven't yet seen the longer edition >>> that's on the Platinum edition DVD. It may add back the one major >>> character (Tom Bombadil) and two or three chapters that were not in >>> the theatrical release, but this was much closer to the text than >>> Dune. >> >> Tom Bombadil does not come back; his sequence is rather pointless >> and the movie is already 4 hours long, so I don't blame them. >> >>> Anyway, psionics are not easy to convey well on the screen. Not >>> nearly as easy as simply putting the text in italics. >> >> The obvious way would be to understand how psionics are being >> used as an analog, rather than to directly map them. >> >> Remember, what Dragaera calls "psionics", we call "cell >> phones"... > > Daymar would disagree. His skill at psionics was a key plot point in > Jhereg. Yeah Daymar has a really good antenna