It's like the walking dead, a corruption of the genre for a mass market! Fair enough if you want to make a few billion, but not if you have any artistic integrityYep, plot holes big enough to drive a supertanker through in both those stories.
It's like the walking dead, a corruption of the genre for a mass market! Fair enough if you want to make a few billion, but not if you have any artistic integrityYep, plot holes big enough to drive a supertanker through in both those stories.
Uh, no. There is a bit of room between being a "beer snob" and expecting good writing, without glaring plotholes. Really, it is just a question of taking care in crafting the story, as well as bouncing the ideas off of someone who isn't your agent or some other yes man.Oh Please, you sound likely stepsons, the beer snobs. "if you can taste the beer through the hops, then there aren't enough hops"
Harry potter-clones such as Golden compass
Whoops lol, though it is still relevent regarding the film though!The first book in the Golden Compass series has been released 2 years before the first Harry Potter book, but sure, let's call it a clone.
One question without going through it all again does Islam still exist in this new world?
The butterflies are pretty extreme, I doubt Islam will exist ITTL. Even if they did the Roman world is a hell of a lot more robust than it was historically. I can picture the Western Empire and its various breakaway states working with the Eastern Empire to beat down the heathen Arabs.
Judaism and Christianity both existed before the POD.If Judaism and Christianity exist ITTL then there is no reason for Islam not to exist either. The Romans empire is lasting longer but is fragmenting. There is space for another Ibrahimic faith still.
the reason that I am down on GOT is because of the lazy plot lines and world building, his treatment of religion is especially weak and in feudal societies religion is very very important. I can be a snob lol! its just that for the last twenty years plus i have been reading fantasy that pees all over GOT. It would not have even been published or made into a tv series without lord of the rings films! The same applies to the Harry potter-clones such as Golden compass etc that came out trying to gain a fraction of the Potter wagon cash trough! I have read both series back to back and there is not one original idea in all of them!!! it is just repackaged to appeal to the mass moron market, like i say I am a snob, I dont mind plotholes if the actual plot is original not a total rehash of my fav childhood books and fantasy worlds! with the walking dead series the comics were good, the Tv tripe only serves as a sleep aide for me! I grew up on the classics! if you want to watch kickass modern zombie stuff i recommend the french film the Horde or the Cuban Juan of the Dead (a take on shaun of the dead but much much funnier and has the best mass zombie slaughter scene ever!) there are a few good english language ones as well. for books i recommend the black tide rising series most realistic Zombie books I have ever read (and I have read a few lol) hey the internet is for crazy wierdo snobs like myself! not just naked ladies and kitten videos!
The Western Empire may have broken up in Europe but so far as I remember is still in control of North Africa and in a position to reinforce Egypt if or when the Arabs come rampaging out of Arabia. The Post Romans will be able to catch the Arabs in between the forces of the West in Egypt and the forces of the East in Anatolia and Syria. I don't see Islam as being a major force in the Mediterranean World. Islam will still be a force in the Indian Ocean but with the Classical World less impacted may not be able to overrun Persia.Judaism and Christianity both existed before the POD.
There's space for something. There's likely to be something that comes out of Arabia at some stage. Whether whatever-it-is looks very like Islam as we know it (and when it appears) are very much up for grabs, however.
It all depends on the ongoing situation between the Byzantnes and the Achæmids.