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[ SECRET POST #2526 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2526 ⌋

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[Doctor Who]

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[Disney]

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[TMNT]

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[Thor: The Dark World]

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[As Told By Ginger]

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[daughter, purity ring]

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[Sleepy Hollow]

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[Attack on Titan/Shingeki No Kyojin]

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[The Producers]

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Do you read them? Do you find they enhance or damage the movie/tv experience for you?

For me it entirely depends on the author. I was reading a Transformers tie-in novel, but it was by Alan Dean Foster (aka burger boy) and just irritated me to no end. Whereas Kieth RA DeCandido has written a lot of tie ins that I liked quite a lot.

I've enjoyed reading some of the Star Wars comics/novels. I'm not sure if you'd consider most tie-ins. I think my favorites would be Zahn's trilogy and the Infinities series comics.

I agree that it depends on the author. Some of my favorite books are Star Trek tie-ins, as are some of my least favorite.

I read a lot of them when I was younger. I don't read a lot of them now. I think a lot of it really just depends on how much I like the original source material, honestly; the only tie-ins I can see myself reading are X-Files and Star Trek (not coincidentally, I read a lot of tie-in stuff for both when I was younger) (there's one X-Files tie-in comic in particular that still sticks with me because it just really freaked me out). I also read a lot of Star Wars stuff when I was younger, but I probably wouldn't now.

I like some of them but it really does depend on the author. I agree with you about DeCandido. I always like everything of his I read. I got talk to him at a con a few years ago and he was a funny, interesting guy.

Some of them don't bring anything to the experience though, especially the ones that are just the movie with no more fleshing out/background stuff.

Depends. I mostly read game tie-ins, and I gotta say, the Metal Gear Solid tie-in novel was HORRIBLE. Aside from stilted, boring writing, he gives away the primary twist in like the first 10 pages!

Even worse was STALKER: Southern Comfort, which must have gone through with absolutely no editorial oversight whatsoever, or even a basic proofreading. I could barely get 20 pages in.

But the Bioshock novel was pretty good, and I also enjoyed the Deus Ex Human Revolution book. Also enjoy the Doom novels for their so-bad-they're-good value.

I read one Star Wars one because Darth Maul was on the cover. It was pretty good.

I read some Supernatural ones. Not that great.

I have read (World of) Warcraft ones. How good they are depends on the author.

Is that the one that was set before Phantom Menace and he was sent to assassinate Chancellor Valorum and Qui-Gon was being all detective Jedi?

I vaguely remember it cause I read it YEARS ago, like, 2002ish, but I remember it being good.

I've read some, and it's a hit or miss kind of thing. But I really love the one for Assassin's Creed III (Assassin's Creed: Forsaken by Oliver Bowden) which tells the story of Haytham Kenway.

Other than when I was a kid, no, I've never seen any that interested me.

I've read most of the Castle tie-in novels. I think they're fun; they're not the best books I've ever read, by any means, but I think they're generally fun/easy reads.

I've actually been meaning to pick those up, ever since I found out that the acknowledgements and everything are also in-character. I figure they're probably at least somewhat self-aware.

I...haven't read many. 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye', the book that came after 'Star Wars' (but by ADFoster, i do belive) was awesome. I've read a lot of Star Trek books in my time, and enjoyed them.

But as a rule, i don't read a lot of movie-based books, unless the book came first.
(Alien franchise was an exception - the novelizations put in a lot more detail and backstory and that was fun.)

I've read a lot from a few fandoms and they're usually fun, even the really bad ones. I don't consider them canon or anything, they're just longfic that I pay for.

Sometimes! I bought the first MGS novel, hated it, heard the tie-in for MGS4 was much better and wanted to try it but haven't got around to it yet. I have a lot of the SGA books, but they're a mixed bag; some are pretty much half decent, amusing fanfic, some are boring, ridiculously cheesy or OOC and not worth the effort.

The ones I really love are the Halo novels, but those expand the universe so much and introduce many new and intriguing characters; some of them are just as good as the games.

Why is Alan Dean Foster called "burger boy"? I feel like I'm missing out on a good story there.

If I like the universe, I'll read anything I can get my hands on for it. If it' turns out to be bad then I just shrug and mostly forget about it.

I think it was from some interview where the question was like "What part of being a writer is most satisfying to you? Is it the creative aspect, being able to explore new worlds, bringing characters to life..." or whatever, and his answer was just "Writing is a job. It's like flipping burgers." which, on the one hand...well yeah it is a job. But I feel like that 'let's get this over with and get my paycheck' attitude comes through in dull and tedious prose, lol.

Oh pffft. Writing is not like flipping burgers at all. That's sad.

Pretty rarely, with 1 major exception. I was a *huge* Star Wars fan since I first saw the movies, and I read pretty much every EU book I could get my hands on. I loved essentially all of them, although in retrospect most were middling-to-terrible.

However, those same books got me unhooked, when the NJO stuff just kept getting darker and darker. That's not what I go to the galaxy far, far away for, dammit!

Although the Heir to the Empire trilogy remains one of my favorite sets of books, and Thrawn is my favorite villain of all time, to this day.

ugh, yes re: NJO. I was not there for unrelenting angst--Star Wars is supposed to be my fun space opera, dammit! There were some good bits (I loved the two or three written by Aaron Allston, who always manages to put lots of fun moments and warm fuzzies in his books) but I couldn't deal with the overall LOOK LOOK HOW GRIMDARK I AM!!!1

Timothy Zahn is amazing. I've read everything my him and the characters tend to get a bit repetitive, but the plots are always intricate and sound and dammit, I LIKE his 5 or 6 characters. XD

The only time I've read a tie-in novel was for Star Trek 2009, and I disliked it immensely. On the other hand, the non-filmed scene on the original script; of the holovideo by Kirk Prime, greeting Spock Prime for his birthday (the last record Kirk Prime left before getting lost in space), was VERY moving and I lamented deeply it wasn't filmed.

OMG I WISH THAT HAD BEEN FILMED!!!

Do you have a link to the scene as it was written? I would love to see what Kirk was supposed to say.

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Star Trek 2009 - Unfilmed Ending Scene (from the original script)

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It depends. For movies, no. I got a couple when I was younger and they really weren't very good, so now I just stick with the movie canon. But I do have some game tie-in novels, mostly Warcraft and one or two Warhammer ones.

Not tie-in novels, but the two tie-in comics for video game franchises that I've read were astoundingly bad. Missed the whole point of the series, mischaracterized everyone levels of bad.

Which wouldn't bother me in and of itself - so long as the events of the comics are never considered canon and never brought up within the games themselves - if not for the portion of the fanbase who treats them as canon. Ugggghhhhhhh.

At least one of them was eventually repudiated by the game creators, thank fucking god.

I am late to this, but...

I've read a good chunk of the Star Trek novels, including the movie novels. I loved the little tidbits, like Sulu's Great Great whatever number Grandfather as a child in San Francisco, that Saavik is half Vulcan and Romulan and her struggle to control her emotions, especially anger, her relationship with David, the fact that The Motion Picture novel was far more palatable than the film, etc.

I read a lot of the Clone Wars novles, like Cestus Deception, Medstar, Labyrinth of Evil, preferred the novel for RotS TEN TIMES more than the film, pre-Clone Wars novel that had Luminara in it (it made me ship Obi-Wan and her so hard, oh my god), the Jedi Apprentice series, ACTUAL show based The Clone Wars novels (wild space has to be my favorite cause i loved the Obi-Wan snark with Bail), though I need to get the last two....

X-Men 3's movie novel was better to take than the film, but then again, I tend to prefer movie novels since you get extra stuff they had to cut (i felt the same way for the V for Vendetta novel. you got more about Finch. i liked bot the film, comic AND novel, despite them all being so different).

Needless to say, I read a lot during my teen years and during my time in collage. >_>

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