Concur, though I clip the scene a bit longer..., starting with Corwin waking up, and ending with Daggerdisk jumping clear at the end.

I realize now that I didn't clarify that, but that is what I meant. I mean, it wouldn't be proper to not include the mad dash to the space port, and or his "reward" :)

-Droken

nope, though I've just re read it and I have to retract my last statement. Why? Because the whole movement of Hunted Rose is just one long swath of Crowning moment(s) of Awesome...

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>* The final fight scene in Blades
which one? <grin>

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When I finished the Anne v. Roger -> Rei v. Atros (with a side of HK-47 v. Ko-Enshaku) sequence for Blades, I was vaguely depressed and out-of-sorts for several days after. Some part of me was convinced - and it's entirely possible that some part of me remains convinced - that I would never write a fight scene as good as that again. And, you know, it's possible that I never will... though that won't stop me from trying.

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Re: Twilight, I'm split 50/50 on two that sort of rise to the top, as it were. The first is the rebuilding of the World-Engine while Belldandy gives her all, and then some, to keep reality together.

The second is the huge megafight in Twilight, but most specifically the utter annihilation of Hela.

To be honest, a lot of that fight is etched in my mind as a sort of montage, like what you'd see with a music video. Now if I could just put it to music maybe it'd stop bugging me so much, but I can't think of a track that fits. Yet.

>>* The final fight scene in Blades
> --which one <grin>

Specifically the one that Gryphon picked up on, the three-way (six-way?) duel between Anne, Rei, and HK-42 vs. Roger, Atros, and Ko-Enshaku.

Granted, Vader dropping in and obliterating Ko was -cool-, but it was just a last little dab of decorative icing on the Awesome Cake as far as I'm concerned.

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>Sith-clan Vader. I am Padawan-in-Shadows to His Divine Shadow Darth
>Vader, Lord of the Sith. I will never beg for anything from the likes
>of you."

Yes! That last line, especially. It was perfectly delivered, and if this were a movie that would be the ultimate teaser trailer section.

Picture it: Rei, bloodied but defiant, standing there and delivering that line... to who?!

(I mean, obviously -we- know, since we've 'seen the movie', but it's just such a great line that it seems like it deserves to be part of the trailer. Heh.)

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When the time came for Vader's entrance, I had originally planned to just have him show up, deliver his congratulatory speech, Lucasian diagonal wipe to the epilogue, the end - but after all that went before, it seemed so... flat that way. But, by the same token, I knew piling another lengthy fight scene on top of what we already had would just be gilding the lily, as it were.

As is so often the case, Toshirō Mifune and Akira Kurosawa came to the rescue. The duel between Vader and Ko-Enshaku ends up playing out as a classic samurai-film one-and-done iaijutsu battle, most specifically inspired by the final fight in 1962's Sanjuro (the sequel to Yōjinbō).

Similarly, the appearance of the remaining members of the Magnificent Ten (deliberately kept in shadow, except for Lord Alberto) was something of an afterthought. Ifurita wasn't originally intended to appear in Blades, but various developments obsoleted the material I'd intended for a sequel before it could be released (for once!), so I moved that bit over and made Blades as stand-alone as possible.

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Point of Disorder: she didn't actually consume him. It's just that an uru mace on heavy body armor, very quickly, wielded by a woman who can pick up and use a moderately-sized automobile as a weapon in a pinch, sounds similar to, well, cracking open a lobster hella fast for the eating.
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Oh I know that she didn't *ACTUALLY* eat him. It was more of along the lines of she beat the holy living crap outta him. I was also feeding from the line "It sounded like a hungry man eating a lobster in an almighty hurry" or something along the lines.

that and when iczer-2 surrenders...looove that one.

the nice thing about this thread is that now we can get remined of other favorites...so much goodness our heads will explode!