Blackball. The Bad Boy of British Bowls.
Oct. 19th, 2006 12:27 amRay Spate represents traditional bowling. Ray Starky is an uncouth progidy from the wrong side of the tracks. That says it all really.
I think I saw this at the cinema when it first came out, and a friend (perhaps justified) was sarcastic at it, which is saying a lot coming from me.
Then I wanted to strangle them both. You naturally expect in this sort of film the underdog to be the good one and the traditional one to be the wrong one who comes good in the end when he's finally influenced by the underdog. And cringe watching both acting like assholes.
But no, they represent not good and evil, but chaos and order. Both exhibit reasonably good qualities -- skill, love, boldness, style, ambition, and a terrific presence -- like ordinary people. But while tempered with some niceness to people they like, both are arrogant vindictive destructive assholes. I like them :)
That, ladies and gentlement, is an introduction to the two-dimensional system of character description in DnD for non-roleplayers. It's better than the one-dimensional system they had previously :)
(NB: It's rather simplified. People are way more complicated than that, as evinced by popular pseudoscientific personality tests which attempt to sum you up with *four* binary numbers (instead of two ternary ones, for a nearly-doubled resolution). But it does a pretty good job of second approximation.)
I think I saw this at the cinema when it first came out, and a friend (perhaps justified) was sarcastic at it, which is saying a lot coming from me.
Then I wanted to strangle them both. You naturally expect in this sort of film the underdog to be the good one and the traditional one to be the wrong one who comes good in the end when he's finally influenced by the underdog. And cringe watching both acting like assholes.
But no, they represent not good and evil, but chaos and order. Both exhibit reasonably good qualities -- skill, love, boldness, style, ambition, and a terrific presence -- like ordinary people. But while tempered with some niceness to people they like, both are arrogant vindictive destructive assholes. I like them :)
That, ladies and gentlement, is an introduction to the two-dimensional system of character description in DnD for non-roleplayers. It's better than the one-dimensional system they had previously :)
(NB: It's rather simplified. People are way more complicated than that, as evinced by popular pseudoscientific personality tests which attempt to sum you up with *four* binary numbers (instead of two ternary ones, for a nearly-doubled resolution). But it does a pretty good job of second approximation.)