Post by rorschalk on May 19, 2024 19:38:00 GMT
Dear Mr. VC,
Thanks for your patience. We've got a verdict. Here's Rockefeller explaining why he's rejected Lancelot's last fight.
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5 hours ago Post by rockefeller
Way back in high school , I took girl whom I had a totally unreciprocated crush on to see the school's musical rendition of Camelot. Disaster of a date, but an impressive production. A friend who played Arthur said the costumes alone cost 5 grand (back when 5 thousand could buy you a pretty sweet new car, so maybe 80 thousand in today's diluted dollars). Anyway, I'm vaguely familiar with Arthurian legend. But, sadly, this bit of Authurian fan-fic didn't really work for me.
Lots of little things gave me pause.
Like,
...he was exempt from physical labors. Yet still he prayed.
Made me wonder when praying became a physical labor.
Like,
...he remained silent, except in Confession, which he went to constantly.
But then seems to talk an awful lot nonetheless.
Like,
"I will kill one man every day, until every man, woman, and child in this village is dead."
Thinking it'll run out of men long before all the women and kids have died of natural causes?
But the real show-stopping, skim-inducing problem for me was knowing how it would end from the get-go. I mean, Lancelot, undefeated in joust or sport from the age of 14 is not going to lose to some conveniently conjured monster, but rather, despite his advanced age and having engaged in no physical labors for yonks, display remarkable, indeed "almost supernatural" (i.e. preternatural) endurance, deftness and skill in defeating the "Beast."
It's been my general Netflix movie-watching experience that the age of the MC is often the age of the target audience demographic. And I wonder if that isn't also the case here? In which case, nice work, just the wrong market.
Thanks for your patience. We've got a verdict. Here's Rockefeller explaining why he's rejected Lancelot's last fight.
Posts: 279
5 hours ago Post by rockefeller
Way back in high school , I took girl whom I had a totally unreciprocated crush on to see the school's musical rendition of Camelot. Disaster of a date, but an impressive production. A friend who played Arthur said the costumes alone cost 5 grand (back when 5 thousand could buy you a pretty sweet new car, so maybe 80 thousand in today's diluted dollars). Anyway, I'm vaguely familiar with Arthurian legend. But, sadly, this bit of Authurian fan-fic didn't really work for me.
Lots of little things gave me pause.
Like,
...he was exempt from physical labors. Yet still he prayed.
Made me wonder when praying became a physical labor.
Like,
...he remained silent, except in Confession, which he went to constantly.
But then seems to talk an awful lot nonetheless.
Like,
"I will kill one man every day, until every man, woman, and child in this village is dead."
Thinking it'll run out of men long before all the women and kids have died of natural causes?
But the real show-stopping, skim-inducing problem for me was knowing how it would end from the get-go. I mean, Lancelot, undefeated in joust or sport from the age of 14 is not going to lose to some conveniently conjured monster, but rather, despite his advanced age and having engaged in no physical labors for yonks, display remarkable, indeed "almost supernatural" (i.e. preternatural) endurance, deftness and skill in defeating the "Beast."
It's been my general Netflix movie-watching experience that the age of the MC is often the age of the target audience demographic. And I wonder if that isn't also the case here? In which case, nice work, just the wrong market.