Recent content by Taranaich

Sir/Madam, we've never met, but I just want to say that you have beautifully summed up many of the problems I've had with not just this game, but the general development and direction of the games ever since the original. In particular this part: This is what I truly hate: by saying "Lara...

The "Carroll was a paedophile" theory has been largely criticized in the past decade or so, accused of blowing things out of proportion, being based on nothing more than speculation and supposition, and for failing to take into account the very different social mores of the 1860s in general...

Howard created the Hyborian Age over the span of some 4 years: Tolkien was working on Middle-earth for more or less his entire adult life. Of course there's going to be a difference in degree, but I think if Howard lived beyond 1936 and decided to dedicate the rest of his life to Conan...

Jason Momoa is 6'5 and 230lbs, taller than Arnold, and round about the same weight at the time of the film. If you put aside the whole "mountain of a man" thing, Jason has a lot more of the hallmarks of Howard's original creation: hairy chest, black (well, ok, very dark) hair, scars all over...

That's just the comics and film, and the thing is, it wasn't just Conan & Red Sonja who weren't wearing much armour - NOBODY was wearing much armour. At most, they'd be wearing a helm, maybe a breastplate: their arms and legs were usually completely naked. Look at any panel of a comic, and...

One can only hope Paradox and CPI are looking at this and thinking of a Conan TV series that doesn't suck.

OK, so we have a black guy as Heimdall. Fine. Let's roll with it. What I want to know now is why he's the ONLY BLACK MAN IN ALL OF ASGARD. For all this precious talk of "colour-blind casting," Asgard comes across as a sea of white people and Heimdall's a lonely island of colour. If they...

The next installment is apparently based on an actual REH story, but since the animated "Red Nails" was being developed (and subsequently in production hell) I don't think it'll be that story. Valeria in any story before "Red Nails," which is already in the latter period of Conan's life, could...

The "original" Conan the Barbarian was doing that to begin with. While this is yet another reimagining, it at least has a few bits and pieces closer to the original stories Conan being a slave for 20 years was the invention of the film. Not only is it nowhere to be seen in the original...

Except that time Conan killed a wizard. With a sword.

Conan isn't a comic book character: he's a literary character who'd been adapted to comics.

Having read every single Conan story by Robert E. Howard, I really have to ask what story you're talking about where any of this comes up. I don't even think there are any overt references to homosexuality in all the stories. The most I can think of are subtle sado-masochistic lesbian...

People seem to treat a fanbase as if it's some vast monolithic entity where everyone within it has a vast monolithic opinion, and thus, people should be surprised when a portion of it is unhappy. Given the vast amount of arguing that occurs within fandom, I'm astonished how anyone could come to...

And his hair, his accent, his hairless chest, his scar-free skin, his ability to move with anything remotely resembling panther-like agility... Yes, he had the speed and agility of the panther, but this was viewed as being in remarked contrast to his size. Even in the early thief stories...

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