Ploor ALWAYS complains.
Microsoft, Getty settle image snatch 'suit
Microsoft and Getty Images have resolved a dispute by getting into bed together. The legal imbroglio between the two kicked off last September when Getty sued Microsoft for making it too easy to find its images with the Bing Image Search widget. Once it saw the sueball heading its way, Redmond shuttered the widget and the …
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Thursday 9th April 2015 14:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Eddor meets Ploor
Actually, Eddore and Ploor were on the same side and part of the same team (one was subordinate to t'other, but I can't remember which way round it was - I suspect it was Eddore as Ploor only turned up in the last book).
The real linkup was between Eddore and the Delgonians.
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Saturday 11th April 2015 12:45 GMT Peter Gathercole
Re: Eddor meets Ploor
The Eddorians were the top of the bad pile. They were introduced in the books earlier because the whole premise of the story arc was that the struggle between the Arisians and the Eddorians was of necessity fought by proxy through the subordinate organisations each of them created, because neither the Arisians nor the Eddorians could defeat the other directly.
The struggle was basically between the side that would hold on tightly to the reins of power, and the one that which would hand on control to those who were more capable, whose creation was necessary to completely defeat the other.
It is necessary to think in terms of the entire story line, from Triplanitary through Children of the Lens (forget The Vortex Blaster, that really wasn't part of the story line, and was a great disappointment when reading the last books in sequence for the first time, because at the end of "Children.." you thought that you still had one more super-epic story to go).
The point that Smith was trying to make was that The Evil could not see it's own limitations, whereas The Good embraced their own limits, even when it would lead to their own demise. The fact that each layer on the bad side thought that they were the top suited the episodic nature of the books, and allowed the story to get progressively more epic with each book. I still feel that it would be possible to produce films based on the books that would suit the effects-led film industry that we have.
In my view, the sequence of films should start with the story in Galactic Patrol, with possibly more than one film per book, and the stories in Triplanitary and First Lensman interwoven as 'prequel' films.
In my formative years, the concept of the stories seemed so simple. It's a shame "the real world" is not like this.
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Saturday 2nd May 2015 05:27 GMT CheesyTheClown
Re: Getting into bed with Microsoft...
Snore... the evil empire has fallen. Ballmer (that fool) killed it.
Microsoft is one of the nicer companies out there now. This deal actually sounds like it could be good for Getty. What confuses me is, I couldn't find anything on their site without Google
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