I haven't done a fight poll in aaaaaages!

[meatina]

So, inspired by some chats at work, I bring you two!

Poll the first:

Poll Conan vs Aragorn

Poll the second:
Poll Vs vs Vs!

Leave your reasoning in the comments please!
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Comments

[toxicpixie]

Look at it in context - it's like objecting to the way the USS Enterprise is powered because Dilithium Crystals are made up. It's all fantasy!

Or that Harry Bloody Potter shouldn't be able to fly a broomstick because it doesn't work in the real world.

Now, I do take the point on accuracy - it's definitely valid under the right context. But Alien is a slasher/haunted house movie dressed up in sc-fi clothing, not a treatment of the scientific method or a treatise on chemistry.

What say re:acid is perfectly correct, but it simply has no baring on the discussion :)

I'd agree film writers should do their homework, but that's unlikely to happen. Where it really gets me is in films passed off as 'historical' (Mel gibson, I'm looking at you!). That actively skews the perspective of history and can ruin peoples lives (See Zulu & Pvt. Hook, for instance, or the writing out of Rick Rezcorlick from 'We were soldiers, once').

But that's a clear distinction - I won't complain that Harry Potter spreads belief in witchcraft working, or the Freddy films show that dream killing is possible, or about Star Treks use of technobabble, and correspondingly won't complain that the Alien milieus use of 'molecular acid' is any less valid within the context of the films.

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie