Kippur gets sick ... of the code.
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kippurbirdI apologize if this makes less sense than usual, the cold that's been threatening me finally hit. So, if something sounds funky, it may actually not be Brown. =D
Right, so Langdon and Perky Tits switch places so that someone knows how to drive a stick shift can drive. This also gives Langdon time to ponder the "key" in his pants. >.> Well, it is in his pocket...Is that a mysterious key that is part of some thousand year old conspiracy involving the Knights Templar, Opus Dei, the Holy Grail and the Priory of Sion in your pants or are you just happy to see me? Langdon starts monologing about how the grail is stored in England and that Da Vinci knew where it was and left clues about it in his paintings.
He then goes on to muse how everyone loves a conspiracy. \~/ I believe he's trying to be ironic here. But really, at this point Langdon should realize that he's in the middle of a conspiracy or something. Perhaps better would have been "Who would have thought the conspiracies were true?" \~/
Moving on we start learning about the Adoration of the Magi painting that Da Vinci did not do, but instead only did the outline sketches and some other guy painted. This is true. However, I highly doubt that the guy "made suspicious departures from the underdrawing... as to subvert Da Vinci's true intention." Because, yes, Da Vinci was incapable of making a drawing without putting something mysterious into it. Everything he did had to do with the mystery of the Grail and how the Church was evil and the Goddess was good. No one is that obsessed about something ... unless they were obsessive compulsive. Like BROWN! \~/
Langdon knows a surprising amount of information on the dealings of the Priory. Like how many people know the location of the Grail at any given time and things like that. I would think that such things would be something that the Priory would keep secret. Top secret. Like the location of the Grail secret. But then he can't say something ironic like, "The probability of your grandfather being one of those four top people is very slim."
Ahahha... it is to laugh. How little does Langdon know how wrong he is. Ha Ha Ha. Also, if he didn't know so much he wouldn't be able to infodump us about it in the guise of telling it to Perky Tits, who basically said, "Give me an Infodump so that I and the readers can know what's going on". \~/
The key turns out to belong to a Swiss bank account.
Brown is slipping. He's giving us actual cliffhangers for his chapter ends than just random garbage.
Cellphone Bishop finally gets to Gandalf's Castle, where he mentions that he was there five months ago. \~/ See, we don't really need to have known what happened those five months ago (the Pope becoming Lisa) because we weren't told. If you're not going to tell us what the purpose of the meeting was then you've just wasted the reader's time. That entire chapter could have been skipped. The way he presents the beginning of this chapter lets us know that he's been there before and that something ominous happened there. What happens? The Bishop picks up some Vatican Bonds for his Teacher while saying that it's a perfectly legal transaction. Of course usually, perfectly legal transactions don't happen in the middle of the night in Gandalf's Castle. He's then off to Paris.
Mostly infodumping these two chapters. It feels like we're supposed to be caught up in this mystery, but really, I'm just waiting for the story to start. See, what Brown did wrong is that he never gave us the Story Question. The "What is at Stake" question right up at start. That being: We need to find the Holy Grail before Opus Dei does because of ... whatever reason. Then the fact that the police are after them becomes more important because if they're caught by the police then they won't be able to stop Opus Dei. As of right now there's no "deadline". I mean, in theory, they could have dealt with Langdon's police issues and then go hunting for the whatever it is. They have no reason to rush. The fact that they're rushing now because the police is after them is because of their own making. Which is false tension because we know that the only reason they're in this mess is because they acted like idiots. And really, why do you want to root for heroes that act like idiots?
drinks: Six
Right, so Langdon and Perky Tits switch places so that someone knows how to drive a stick shift can drive. This also gives Langdon time to ponder the "key" in his pants. >.> Well, it is in his pocket...Is that a mysterious key that is part of some thousand year old conspiracy involving the Knights Templar, Opus Dei, the Holy Grail and the Priory of Sion in your pants or are you just happy to see me? Langdon starts monologing about how the grail is stored in England and that Da Vinci knew where it was and left clues about it in his paintings.
Some claimed that the mountainous backdrops in Madonna of the Rocks matched the topography of a series of caves in Scotland. Others insisted that the suspicious placement of disciples in the Last Supper was some kind of code. Still others claimed that X rays of the Mona Lisa revealed that she had been painted waring a lapis lazuli pendant of Isis - a detail Da Vinci purportedly later decided to paint over.\~/
He then goes on to muse how everyone loves a conspiracy. \~/ I believe he's trying to be ironic here. But really, at this point Langdon should realize that he's in the middle of a conspiracy or something. Perhaps better would have been "Who would have thought the conspiracies were true?" \~/
Moving on we start learning about the Adoration of the Magi painting that Da Vinci did not do, but instead only did the outline sketches and some other guy painted. This is true. However, I highly doubt that the guy "made suspicious departures from the underdrawing... as to subvert Da Vinci's true intention." Because, yes, Da Vinci was incapable of making a drawing without putting something mysterious into it. Everything he did had to do with the mystery of the Grail and how the Church was evil and the Goddess was good. No one is that obsessed about something ... unless they were obsessive compulsive. Like BROWN! \~/
Langdon knows a surprising amount of information on the dealings of the Priory. Like how many people know the location of the Grail at any given time and things like that. I would think that such things would be something that the Priory would keep secret. Top secret. Like the location of the Grail secret. But then he can't say something ironic like, "The probability of your grandfather being one of those four top people is very slim."
Ahahha... it is to laugh. How little does Langdon know how wrong he is. Ha Ha Ha. Also, if he didn't know so much he wouldn't be able to infodump us about it in the guise of telling it to Perky Tits, who basically said, "Give me an Infodump so that I and the readers can know what's going on". \~/
The key turns out to belong to a Swiss bank account.
Brown is slipping. He's giving us actual cliffhangers for his chapter ends than just random garbage.
Cellphone Bishop finally gets to Gandalf's Castle, where he mentions that he was there five months ago. \~/ See, we don't really need to have known what happened those five months ago (the Pope becoming Lisa) because we weren't told. If you're not going to tell us what the purpose of the meeting was then you've just wasted the reader's time. That entire chapter could have been skipped. The way he presents the beginning of this chapter lets us know that he's been there before and that something ominous happened there. What happens? The Bishop picks up some Vatican Bonds for his Teacher while saying that it's a perfectly legal transaction. Of course usually, perfectly legal transactions don't happen in the middle of the night in Gandalf's Castle. He's then off to Paris.
Mostly infodumping these two chapters. It feels like we're supposed to be caught up in this mystery, but really, I'm just waiting for the story to start. See, what Brown did wrong is that he never gave us the Story Question. The "What is at Stake" question right up at start. That being: We need to find the Holy Grail before Opus Dei does because of ... whatever reason. Then the fact that the police are after them becomes more important because if they're caught by the police then they won't be able to stop Opus Dei. As of right now there's no "deadline". I mean, in theory, they could have dealt with Langdon's police issues and then go hunting for the whatever it is. They have no reason to rush. The fact that they're rushing now because the police is after them is because of their own making. Which is false tension because we know that the only reason they're in this mess is because they acted like idiots. And really, why do you want to root for heroes that act like idiots?
drinks: Six
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Date: 2007-09-29 11:39 pm (UTC)If necessary, they could have omitted the religious stuff. They could have told the police it was merely a strong bias, just something these people believed. Since these people were willing to kill for it, they should be stopped. Then the police might consider the exact details irrelevant and no secrets would have to be told to them.
Oh and Fache is a member of the group or some bullocks. Really, who indoctrinates a cop? Eh.
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Date: 2007-09-30 02:16 am (UTC)...
*cricket chirp*
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