Comments by "Serai3" (@Serai3) on "Overly Sarcastic Productions" channel.

  1. "Exit, pursued by Cthulhu" is my new epitaph.
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  2.  @laughinsohard7888  The book was meant, more than anything, as a WARNING. "Things really could get this bad, so DON'T LET IT," was Orwell's stated message. Unfortunately, everyone insisted on seeing it as a prediction, instead - thus the lack of interest in making sure IT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
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  3. Not if you read the book, it doesn't. But who bothers to read anything anymore when there are half-assed videos based on Wikipedia that let you fake it?
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  4.  strontiumXnitrate  AHAHAHA. Holy shit, could you be just a LITTLE more whiny and entitled? They can't hear you up in the cheap seats.
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  5. There's a reason they call it "acting".
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  6. I hope you didn't go straight into "Animal Farm" after that!
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  7. I love the implication that European cultures didn't do blood sacrifices.
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  8. And not a single adaptation of the book has ever faced up to that last line. They always fudge it at the last moment to remove its fatal sting.
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  9. Reading is different from watching.
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  10. It was behind the picture.
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  11.  @kllerkngwll629  Yeah, pretty much! :D
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  12.  @Boss_Isaac  Nope, sorry. You're relying on outdated info.
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  13. Get the original version of the book, not the later bowdlerized edition she produced after she'd gotten all grown up and stodgy. She changed Victor's motivations, the monster's experiences, and the basic tone of the book's message. The monster was not cruel and calculating in the earlier version, for instance; he acted not out of evil but out of sorrow and loneliness. The whole moralistic OMG ISN'T THIS EVIL tone was imposed on the story later on, and did not appear in the original version, which was much more philosophical and controversial.
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  14. Wondering if you've ever heard of The Mists of Avalon, a very influential modern retelling which doesn't hew to any of the tropes you describe.
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  15. No, there's no defense against the Martians. When they decide to do something, they do it. The thing is, it takes them a couple of centuries to figure out if an action is worth taking or not. (Being basically immortal makes you less hasty.) They're like ents, but with planet-busting powers. And no human could ever convince them of anything - they'd just pat the little guy on the head and go back to their adult conversation.
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  16.  @ninetails8471  Not just an angel - an ARCHangel. The book implies heavily that Mike is actually Michael himself.
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  17. Jill is a nurse, not a doctor. That's mentioned a lot, so I have to assume whoever wrote this never actually read the book. I'm getting really fed up with these Wikipedia-based synopses/reviews. Make a fucking effort, for gods' sakes.
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  18.  @veggiesblowup8785  Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in which it was proposed that those were not, in fact, sacrifices - they were rudimentary attempts at surgery. In the last lines in the story, the priest/surgeon thinks about how he might be viewed in the future if he cannot find a way to make the idea work.
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  19.  @JimBob4233  I just looked it up. Although I was mistaken in that it wasn't written by Asimov, it was included in a book of short-shorts that he edited, called "100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories" (published 1984). The story itself is called "The Maiden's Sacrifice", by Edward Hoch. Couldn't find an online link, unfortunately. The book is well worth getting, though, as it's full of great little tales by the best fantasy authors. :)
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  20. Jesus Christ, there isn't a SINGLE film for adults used as an example. It's all comics and cartoons and kids' stuff. Gods, so depressing.
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  21.  @theatergeekrevolution7177  AAHAHAHA. Triggered much? This is NOT a good analysis of this book, dude. Sorry you're too lazy to read the damn thing, but that is not my problem. :D:D:D
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  22. You can't expect a woman who's been kidnapped and forced to serve as the Cute Girl in a foreign court to just accept it without fighting back. Aphrodite did her shenanigans as payback to the Greeks who stole her from her homeland - Troy. Yeah, Aphrodite was a Trojan goddess who was appropriated by the Greeks, the same crap they pulled with pretty much all their goddesses.
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  23. Did you not bother to read the book? Gillian is NOT a doctor. She's a nurse, and a damn good one. (Just ask her!) She never even seemed to be interested in being a doctor, so I don't know where the impetus to make her one comes from.
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  24.  @kiraina25  It's "Exeunt, pursued by a bear", but yeah, it's obviously a callback.
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  25. Why would you think "mikomikona" means monkey?
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  26.  @j2dragon109  LOL, because you're not. Uh huh.
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  27.  @KrytenKoro  Dude, 127 replies. I have no idea what you're commenting on.
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  28.  @Emily12471  Assuming that you aren't making a 50's scifi joke there, Mars doesn't have any men, either. Heinlein's Martians are built on a completely different model - there are no males or females. Reproduction takes place completely within each individual; the "female" equivalent is the a juvenile Martian, and the "male" equivalent is that same Martian when it becomes an adult. It's based on age, not sex.
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  29.  @Emily12471  No, it wouldn't. THEY DON'T HAVE SEX. Did you read the book or not? The Martians have no conception of what we call sex. Humans are not the template for the universe. There are potentially unlimited ways that living creatures might reproduce, and just because sex is common on OUR planet is no guarantee that it would exist anywhere else. You've been watching too much Star Trek.
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