[Sca-cooks] My Christmas dinner

[Olwen the Odd]

>--- Michael Gunter <countgunthar at hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
> > My roomie and I will
> > be going to see The Return of the King so that
> > will be enough
> > of a treat.
>
>If you react to it the way I and my apprentices
>did when we went to see it a week ago, you will
>have your socks blown off.  The gathering of the
>Riders of Rohan before they ride off to help
>Gondor looked so much like an SCA war encampment,
>with the exception of no mundane tents in sight.
>In fact, some of the pavilions they show look
>suspiciously like pavilions that I have seen made
>in Southron Gard/New Zealand that I am wondering
>if they had been made by one of our members
>there.  The sight of thousands upon thousands
>upon thousands of soldiers, battle towers, and
>catapaults outside the gates of Minas Tireth was
>soooo impressive, it gave a real feeling of that
>it must have been like to be in a castle besieged
>by a massive army.  And the scene where the
>thousands of Rohan riders swarm over the
>thousands of orc soldiers is truly awe inspiring.
>  Only one other movie ever gave the same feel of
>massive armies battling each other, and that was
>"Waterloo" with Rod Steiger and Christopher
>Plummer.
>
>Seeing Return of the King isn't just a treat, it
>is an awesome experience that needs to be seen
>in a movie theater to truly get the whole
>overwhelming effect that this movie provides in
>spades.
>
>Huette

Did you read the article last week about how they programmed the computer 
generated warriors to have "intellegence" of their own so they could 
independently react to the situation immediately around them and then found 
that most of them reacted by simply running away from the battle!!?  They 
had to go back and work on that little issue...
Olwen

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