Ranting On Sevral Sam Circumstances
Wow. It’s been a LONG time since I’ve updated this thing. First of all, my laptop had some electrical trouble, but thanks to Fisherist Alysyn and her wonderful engineer husband, I’m up and running again. But that is what has kept me off the forums, from posting here and working on the Fisherists site. I’ve been checking my email with my PSP and updating TFS from work. =(
Ok, I do have some things to say tho. Let’s start with the new novel, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Checkmate.
This book was something that I was nervous about from the conception. First of all, I didn’t meet the author until after the book was written so I had no way to be able to say what kind of a writer he was. But, after I met him, I had a chance to pick up some things he had written before and was relieved. His previous writings compliment the SC series well.
The book did well, making it onto the New York Times and Publishers Weekly Best Sellers lists. But, there seemed to be some typo/grammar problems. Since I’m not involved in actually publishing the book I can’t really explain what is going on with that. I can, however, suggest asking David about it himself when he does a chat in the TFS forums on Dec 27th. [/shameless plug]
That aside, it really is a good read. It is more “stealth” than the first two installments.
The first two novels, penned by Raymond Benson, were written with a universal media convergence idea in mind.
Different mediums have different rules.
Since books are not video games, lacking the interactive element, they are made differently. Anyone who expected the novels to be as stealthy as the games was going to be disappointed. You can’t have a novel that contains, “Sam goes into a place, knocks out a guy, gathers some Intel, sticky shocks a guy, then leaves”, and have it be any good. You need some action! But some people feel that they contained maybe too much action. So it seems, based on that feedback, the current David Michaels took it more in a stealth way, describing step by step as Sam methodically infiltrates exotic location after exotic location.
All in all, if you haven’t got it, go get it! Then come back here for a chat with the author Dec 27th at 6 p.m. CST.
Ok, now, next topic.
WTF is this Pilgrim story?
For those who don’t know, it was announced on Variety.com (aka extremely reliable source) that a movie formally titled “Splinter Cell” was changed to be called “Pilgrim” and is now about a retired CIA agent who takes one more mission to investigate the murder of his mentor. Now, there is the possibility that this CIA agent is Sam and it discusses how he got back into Special Ops and eventually Third Echelon. But since no one involved with the film will say anything, we don’t know.
The SC games have sold millions of copies, all 3 novels have been on multiple best seller lists, so there is no doubt in my mind that if made, and made right, this movie could be a hit. So why are Clancy and Ovitz keeping so quiet on this? Will they *ever* address this film and give us a real update? Did they forget that they are the ones who got us hyped for this movie by releasing a teaser on CT, only to leave us hanging? Info is scarce and sources that are supposed to be credible, like the IMDB…well we know more than they do.
Hopefully someone will read this that will get someone to tell us something, because Rubi may be missing a grand opportunity here.
Also, to close…I will be getting a new laptop mid-January so that will mean new narrated vids..hehe….so besides many other things, keep your eye out for that.
Ok, I do have some things to say tho. Let’s start with the new novel, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Checkmate.
This book was something that I was nervous about from the conception. First of all, I didn’t meet the author until after the book was written so I had no way to be able to say what kind of a writer he was. But, after I met him, I had a chance to pick up some things he had written before and was relieved. His previous writings compliment the SC series well.
The book did well, making it onto the New York Times and Publishers Weekly Best Sellers lists. But, there seemed to be some typo/grammar problems. Since I’m not involved in actually publishing the book I can’t really explain what is going on with that. I can, however, suggest asking David about it himself when he does a chat in the TFS forums on Dec 27th. [/shameless plug]
That aside, it really is a good read. It is more “stealth” than the first two installments.
The first two novels, penned by Raymond Benson, were written with a universal media convergence idea in mind.
Different mediums have different rules.
Since books are not video games, lacking the interactive element, they are made differently. Anyone who expected the novels to be as stealthy as the games was going to be disappointed. You can’t have a novel that contains, “Sam goes into a place, knocks out a guy, gathers some Intel, sticky shocks a guy, then leaves”, and have it be any good. You need some action! But some people feel that they contained maybe too much action. So it seems, based on that feedback, the current David Michaels took it more in a stealth way, describing step by step as Sam methodically infiltrates exotic location after exotic location.
All in all, if you haven’t got it, go get it! Then come back here for a chat with the author Dec 27th at 6 p.m. CST.
Ok, now, next topic.
WTF is this Pilgrim story?
For those who don’t know, it was announced on Variety.com (aka extremely reliable source) that a movie formally titled “Splinter Cell” was changed to be called “Pilgrim” and is now about a retired CIA agent who takes one more mission to investigate the murder of his mentor. Now, there is the possibility that this CIA agent is Sam and it discusses how he got back into Special Ops and eventually Third Echelon. But since no one involved with the film will say anything, we don’t know.
The SC games have sold millions of copies, all 3 novels have been on multiple best seller lists, so there is no doubt in my mind that if made, and made right, this movie could be a hit. So why are Clancy and Ovitz keeping so quiet on this? Will they *ever* address this film and give us a real update? Did they forget that they are the ones who got us hyped for this movie by releasing a teaser on CT, only to leave us hanging? Info is scarce and sources that are supposed to be credible, like the IMDB…well we know more than they do.
Hopefully someone will read this that will get someone to tell us something, because Rubi may be missing a grand opportunity here.
Also, to close…I will be getting a new laptop mid-January so that will mean new narrated vids..hehe….so besides many other things, keep your eye out for that.
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