@11-10 pages ago: An official MLP manga has already been announced.

Alright, so I'm in for a good film, if I can find it?

Lovely.

Once a good version goes up, you can bet it will be downloaded and passed around. I expect a torrent within 4 days.

Someone seems insistent to upload movie frame-by-frame on Derpiboroou. Like that does much good.

I'll just wait till next weekend and try to see it in the theater then. There's a theater only a couple miles away, but they weren't offering it today for some reason.

I hope the songs are good, Danny boy said they were. And he's never let us down yet, so there's bound to be some good music coming out in a bit.

@Story: You lucky jerk. The only theatre in my state that's showing it is an hour away. And I don't own a car. :/

Oh no, AJ! RUN!

See, I'm of the opinion that "you aren't supposed to understand it" is a justification that should rarely, if ever, be invoked. I'm all for films that leave you arguing with your friends over the philosophical/moral implications, but not films that leave you arguing over the basic facts of the plot.

I know I've praised Primer here before, and that film's certainly confusing. Even after multiple viewings, and reading stuff online, and watching the author's commentary, I'm still not 100% certain that my interpretation of the timeline(s) is the correct one. BUT the truly important part of the film—the character arcs—was discernable to me after my very first viewing.

Summary of Primer after watching once: Two friends invent time travel. They use that power for their own personal gain. Things get confusing, but the unchecked power changes the two guys and destroys their friendship.

Summary of 2001 after watching once: Some apes use bones to kill things, and a black rock is there, too. Astronauts explore the moon, and a black rock is there, too. An AI goes crazy in space, and the last astronaut surviving has to shut him down. Then he flies to Jupiter, and a black rock is there, too. There's a bunch of pretty colors, and a weird hotel room, and a black rock is there, too. Baby in space; how did it get there?

As critical as I'm being, I actually really really really liked 2001. Even the allegedly boring parts.

A manga adaptation? Sounds good, when is it available?

And sorry for spoiling it. There are sequels, but Clark was never good at those. There's some great concepts in the later books, but there's a lot of ret cons that end up making the original less meaningful and give us a fairly weak story to show for it.

So, I heard that EQG is better than it sounded at first blurb?

Quite a bit better, with some mild bugbears about secondary character development.

Generally, people say it ain't perfect, but it's solidly fun.

edited 16th Jun '13 11:41:30 PM by edvedd

I think what's really amazing about Primer is how realistic it feels. I don't know of any other works that really take time travel seriously and explore the implications like Primer does. Mainly because time travel quickly causes things to become incomprehensible when played realistically.

That good? I'll have to check it out then.

Reportedly,

edited 16th Jun '13 11:51:39 PM by Whatshisgame

I would definitely recommend Primer.

edited 16th Jun '13 11:51:16 PM by MetaFour

Sweet, gonna have to try and catch both EQG and the manga. I wonder if it will compare with IDW Comic's publication in terms of quality.

Which is close to what actually happens in Primer, but the time-travel confusion (which does get really nasty near the end, when it's hard to keep track of just how many of each character we have running around) avoids the pitfall of obscuring the character development.

Alright everyone, heading off to dreamland.

See ya later dark.

I think I'll get back to Derpibooru when 3/4 of the thumbnail pics aren't cell phone photos of EQG.

I want to see the movie...eventually...but enough is enough.

Non-related to EQG: Luna wakes up.

And the bat brothers screw up breakfast.◊

Just spoiler or blacklist those pics :V

Inconvenient Trixie is best new Tumblr

edited 17th Jun '13 1:23:06 AM by edvedd