The Battle Bar, Our Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

Originally posted by The_Tempest
TCW was a mixed bag: when it sucked, it sucked hard and much; when it succeeded, it was awesome as hell.

How soon into the show would you say it had its first really good, multiple episode arc? As early as the first season?

Season 1 had some good episodes: off the top of my head, "Rookies, "Trespass," the Ryloth arc, "Hostage Crisis," etc. But for the most part, it was a weaker season.

Mixed bags are always the worst ones.

Nah, bags entirely of suck are worse.

watch?v=KoBRto_8UII

Laughed my ass off.

Also, I didn't watch Wolf of Wall Street but Margot Robbie is hot as hell.

Someone's got blue balls.

Caught an interview with her by Jimmy Kimmel on youtube and dear God.

You don't have to have blue balls to objectifyappreciate women, my man.

But yes, my balls are blue.

OK so I decided to go with The Stormlight Archives and I've been reading the first book for the past few hours and I can confirm that it's really good. Would strongly recommend to any fantasy fans.

A quick google search shows her as looking pretty generic for hollywood white women. More research is necessary.

Originally posted by Tzeentch
A quick google search shows her as looking pretty generic for hollywood white women. More research is necessary.

...Margot Robbie?

Originally posted by ares834
Malazan Book of the Fallen. There isn't much romance (most epic fantasy series are light on the romance) nor are their princesses and knights but rather generals and soldiers (it's far more gritty than most fantasy novels) still there are tons of wizards and dragons. Be warned though, they are difficult books to read at least difficult compared to most fantasy novels.

Wheel of Time also fits your description, perhaps even more aptly than Malazan, but there is a massive slump in the middle.

Originally posted by The_Tempest
...Margot Robbie?

Yeah, she is pretty generic with the dyed blonde hair and too much makeup. Plus her front teeth are caps, the rest are yellow. And her eyes have this red viscera in the corners, like she strains too much in life.

2/10. Would not bang.

Originally posted by Astor Ebligis
OK so I decided to go with The Stormlight Archives and I've been reading the first book for the past few hours and I can confirm that it's really good. Would strongly recommend to any fantasy fans.

I'm one of the few people who are rather ambivalent to the Stormlight Archives. I found it to be rather lackluster with almost nothing happening until the very end. Still, it's far better than Sanderson's Mistborn which was downright atrocious.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Only the first book is difficult to read, and only because it's bad.

Most of the books are difficult. Now only does he not explain or describe many things but seemingly minor plot points and details become critical as the story progress and there is a ridiculous amount of characters and seemingly disparate plots.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Yeah, she is pretty generic with the dyed blonde hair and too much makeup. Plus her front teeth are caps, the rest are yellow. And her eyes have this red viscera in the corners, like she strains too much in life.

2/10. Would not bang.

She looks like someone who's really hot, sometimes. You know, when shes all done up right and posed a certain way.

I get the impression Malazan is pretentious as hell.

I'm one of the few people who are rather ambivalent to the Stormlight Archives. I found it to be rather lackluster with almost nothing happening until the very end. Still, it's far better than Sanderson's Mistborn which was downright atrocious.

Really enjoying it so far. The prelude set a really nice tone for the book and the fight scenes read really well. The magic system also seems really interesting and quite well done, and I've heard Sanderson is arguably the best in the business when it comes to creating magic systems. Not very far into it at all though.

Brunettes are way hotter than blondes.

Originally posted by Nephthys
She looks like someone who's really hot, sometimes. You know, when shes all done up right and posed a certain way.

Agreed.

Originally posted by Astor Ebligis
Brunettes are way hotter than blondes.

Only dyed blondes.

I don't know I have a thing for baldness, personally.

Originally posted by Astor Ebligis
Really enjoying it so far. The prelude set a really nice tone for the book and the fight scenes read really well. The magic system also seems really interesting and quite well done, and I've heard Sanderson is arguably the best in the business when it comes to creating magic systems. Not very far into it at all though.

If you like overly defined magic systems so they lose all their mystery and, well, magic and instead become mundane and feel like they magic was ripped from an RPG then sure, he writes good magic systems. 😉 Thankfully, he doesn't do this in the Way of Kings, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him explain every rule and nuance of the magic in the following novels.

Gonna go see these guys this year. They're phenomenal:

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