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My grand involvement with Warcraft is playing Warcraft 3, um, 13 years ago...
I've got to say, the film looks really off. And, surprisingly, it was the humans that seemed really weird. Maybe it was the armour that just looked daft, or just too shiny but...
Yeah, I wasn't too enthused with it all.
Oh, and "Thrall baby" (which is apparently a big deal), looked like one of Shrek's kids...
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Compel wrote: My grand involvement with Warcraft is playing Warcraft 3, um, 13 years ago...
I've got to say, the film looks really off. And, surprisingly, it was the humans that seemed really weird. Maybe it was the armour that just looked daft, or just too shiny but...
Yeah, I wasn't too enthused with it all.
Oh, and "Thrall baby" (which is apparently a big deal), looked like one of Shrek's kids...
Footman armor looked pretty on point. Lothar stood out as different, but he was also the big cheese of Azeroth, so he was going to be different.
I'm sure it did look on point in relation to the games.
On actual, real, humans thought... It just looked really daft. It kinda contributed to this whole 'uncanny valley' thing I had with the humans, which really shouldn't have been there, since, well, they're not the CGI ones.
It kinda reminded me of when people do "Space Marine" cosplay and end up copying the miniatures exactly, it just ends up looking wrong because real bodies don't work that way. It's kinda why the only marine costume I've ever liked, was THQ's one ofr 'Space Marine'.
Looks...okay so far from what I can see. Interesting that they're trying to spin some of it off with a different version regarding Durotan and him reaching out to the humans.
Not crazy about pushing the whole "green jesus saviour" aspect to Thrall again, given the Biblical parallels between him and Moses being put in a wooden basket to float down the river.
Grimskul wrote: Looks...okay so far from what I can see. Interesting that they're trying to spin some of it off with a different version regarding Durotan and him reaching out to the humans.
Not crazy about pushing the whole "green jesus saviour" aspect to Thrall again, given the Biblical parallels between him and Moses being put in a wooden basket to float down the river.
Durotan did actually try to stop the war with the humans, but he failed in negotiations. (if i remember right) Blackhand was a puppet for gul'dan so yeah....
I've got to say, the film looks really off. And, surprisingly, it was the humans that seemed really weird. Maybe it was the armour that just looked daft, or just too shiny but...
Yeah, I wasn't too enthused with it all.
i actually agree. The helmets look a bit too large. While the rest of it was scaled back.
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Maybe someone older than me can answer this since I never got to enjoy WC1, but is there changes of the storyline going on here? I didn't realize there were any encounters with non-fell (brown skinned) orcs until the Burning Crusade storyline, as all those who came over in the invasion had drank the blood of Mannoroth, or descended from those who had.
NinthMusketeer wrote: Maybe someone older than me can answer this since I never got to enjoy WC1, but is there changes of the storyline going on here? I didn't realize there were any encounters with non-fell (brown skinned) orcs until the Burning Crusade storyline, as all those who came over in the invasion had drank the blood of Mannoroth, or descended from those who had.
The Frostwolves never drank Mannoroths blood (why Orcs turned green), but they still came threw the portal because Draenor was breaking a part. Clans weren't really a thing until Warcraft 2, and the Frostwolves didn't really have a roll in that game, since they were just trying to find a place to live, not conquer.
I've always been curious why Thrall had green skin, when his parents didn't.
Is this Pre-wow? Like Warcraft one?
Cause the main reason I left is because the lore got dense. So this might make for a good intro.
Im just afraid it might make me want to go back, but im too busy with ff14 lol.
hotsauceman1 wrote: Is this Pre-wow? Like Warcraft one?
Cause the main reason I left is because the lore got dense. So this might make for a good intro.
Im just afraid it might make me want to go back, but im too busy with ff14 lol.
Yes, this is the story of the original invasion. When Medivh and Guldan opened the Dark Portal, and the Horde came through and
Spoiler:
destroyed Azeroth.
I spoiled that bit since it seems a lo of folks aren't to familiar with the lore of the world.
NinthMusketeer wrote: Maybe someone older than me can answer this since I never got to enjoy WC1, but is there changes of the storyline going on here? I didn't realize there were any encounters with non-fell (brown skinned) orcs until the Burning Crusade storyline, as all those who came over in the invasion had drank the blood of Mannoroth, or descended from those who had.
The Frostwolves never drank Mannoroths blood (why Orcs turned green), but they still came threw the portal because Draenor was breaking a part. Clans weren't really a thing until Warcraft 2, and the Frostwolves didn't really have a roll in that game, since they were just trying to find a place to live, not conquer.
I've always been curious why Thrall had green skin, when his parents didn't.
Ah that makes sense, thanks. I thought the break-up didn't happen until WC2 (with Ner'Zul's 'ima summon a bunch o' portulz' antic) but it looks like Draenor wasn't in good shape before that anyway.Good question about Thrall though. Maybe proximity corruption? Will probably explain it in the movie.
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The movie is a separate canon but the WoW team considers it an 'enhanced version' of the WC1 story. Back in the day, video game storytelling wasn't what it is now, and they regret many decisions they now feel they can remake.
But no, it's as said a separate canon. The orcs are mostly brown and reasonable rather than the green berserkers of the usual canon WC1.
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Honestly, with how much the Bronze dragonflight has meddled around with the timelines, who can even say what the real timeline is? Humans become monsters, monsters become humans, and before you know it even Ogres and Naga are good guys, and half of Azeroth personally flicked off Guldan, rescued Thrall from captivity etc, etc before they were born.
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Gitzbitah wrote: Honestly, with how much the Bronze dragonflight has meddled around with the timelines, who can even say what the real timeline is? Humans become monsters, monsters become humans, and before you know it even Ogres and Naga are good guys, and half of Azeroth personally flicked off Guldan, rescued Thrall from captivity etc, etc before they were born.
Not to mention the widespread genocide of all Orc players parental generation in Warlords... quite honestly, I don't think even the main game has a canonical timeline anymore...
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Gitzbitah wrote: Honestly, with how much the Bronze dragonflight has meddled around with the timelines, who can even say what the real timeline is? Humans become monsters, monsters become humans, and before you know it even Ogres and Naga are good guys, and half of Azeroth personally flicked off Guldan, rescued Thrall from captivity etc, etc before they were born.
No, there is quite clearly a 'main' timeline in the setting, and characters in the actual lore (Timewalkers and the Bronze Dragonflight) do acknowledge this.
Most of their actions in Caverns of Time etc. has been to keep that main timeline on its intended road.
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Yeah, there comes a moment when you realise that the first book is pretty much the exact plot of A New Hope... but with Dragons!
That's because A New Hope is the plot of a gereric fantasy adventure...but with spaceships!
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Yeah, there comes a moment when you realise that the first book is pretty much the exact plot of A New Hope... but with Dragons!
That's because A New Hope is the plot of a gereric fantasy adventure...but with spaceships!
Indeed. George Lucas was not original with the original trilogy, but thats probably a good thing as he clearly can't write a good story from scratch.
Its just that prior to Star Wars we hadn't really ever had a mass media portrayal of the classical fantasy genre, it was relegated to books which not many people were reading at the time. It was the 70s, reading classical literature wasn't exactly the thing to do.
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