Agreed - JMS comes off sounding like a total asshat in a lot of the quotes. I still skim them sometimes because I enjoy the little behind-the-scenes stories that occasionally show up, but mostly I find myself just wishing he'd shut up.
Oh, I'm so glad it's not just me. I definitely think he might've done well to just not engage sometimes, from the evidence on those pages.
That does very much seem to be the attitude, yes.
There's one somewhere in S1 where someone obviously asked a very reasonable question about...ranks, I think? Something to do with EarthForce. And he started his response with something along the lines of, "You are wrong. In the British armed forces..." And I was like, "...Because I should obviously conclude that EarthForce is based on the British army even though every EF officer we've met so far has sounded completely American?"
Thanks for the Tolkien links! Podcasts tend to make my head hurt, but when I finally get around to my re-read of the series (scheduled for, in all likelihood by this point, 2012), I will check them out.
Your "activity creates different kind of head bones" explanation makes sense, though I know little about biology myself. Although it's hilarious to think of them as antlers--I mean, they basically are, but I had just been thinking of them as skulls, pretty much.
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Date: 2010-07-04 12:26 am (UTC)Oh, I'm so glad it's not just me. I definitely think he might've done well to just not engage sometimes, from the evidence on those pages.
That does very much seem to be the attitude, yes.
There's one somewhere in S1 where someone obviously asked a very reasonable question about...ranks, I think? Something to do with EarthForce. And he started his response with something along the lines of, "You are wrong. In the British armed forces..." And I was like, "...Because I should obviously conclude that EarthForce is based on the British army even though every EF officer we've met so far has sounded completely American?"
Thanks for the Tolkien links! Podcasts tend to make my head hurt, but when I finally get around to my re-read of the series (scheduled for, in all likelihood by this point, 2012), I will check them out.
Your "activity creates different kind of head bones" explanation makes sense, though I know little about biology myself. Although it's hilarious to think of them as antlers--I mean, they basically are, but I had just been thinking of them as skulls, pretty much.