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Round 1

Simon Drew, Jane Drew, Barney Drew, Will Stanton, Bran Davies and Merriman Lyon (The DarkIs Rising: Silver on the Tree) VS Jesper Fahey, Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, Matthias Helvar, Nina Zenik and Wylan Van Eck (Six of Crows)

Simon, Jane, Barney, Bran, Will and Merriman

Nina, Inej, Wylan, Jesper, Kaz and Matthias

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Voting ended onMar 7

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Will: I have a vague intuitive sense that I am running out of time on this quest I can’t remember

The one piece of information he does remember, that is a specific date:

#the grey king #the dark is rising sequence #will stanton #susan cooper #you all definitely followed me for niche memes about a children’s book from the 70s

Bran taking over my life rn lowkey

#the dark is rising #bran Davies #will Stanton #my poor children…… why Susan cooper…..why #twt #art

Has anyone read The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper? If so, who do you think King is when Will finds the Sign on Water? I (perhaps wrongly) assumed it was King Arthur. Anyone have any thoughts?

#the dark is rising #the dark is rising sequence #susan cooper #will stanton #merriman lyon #circle of signs

1969 illustration by Eric Earnshaw by totallymystified Via Flickr: For the story A Little Potato Salad Goes A Long Way by Will Stanton. From Woman magazine.

#Eric Earnshaw #artist #illustrator #illustration #Will Stanton #author #writer #story #fiction #retro #vintage #nostalgia #1960s #sixties #Woman #magazine #flickr

will and james are soooooo cunty

#obsessed with whatever they have going on honestly #dark heir #dark rise #will stanton #james st clair #f.txt

Also, amongst the many other failiings of "The Seeker: The Dark is Rising" as a movie, is it just me or was Alexander Ludwig just terrible as Will?

He is, but honestly I can't hold that against him, because the character he was asked to play was just... not Will Stanton.

Like, I keep harping on about 'Will, a character who has to be reminded by his boyfriend/platonic soulmate that girls are attractive, now has a plotline based around being obsessed with his brother's girlfriend to the point where he whinges to Merriman about his Old One powers not being able to "get the girl"' because of course I do, but even without that Will is nothing like his book counterpart.

Granted, Will is a difficult character to cast for a movie - he's an 11-year-old boy who's occasionally an ageless force of magic who can casually threaten what's heavily implied to be actual gods, if a Dark is Rising adaptation was announced today and they said they'd be making Will older I wouldn't begrudge them that - but movie!Will is the worst possible way to get around that issue. Not only is he older than his book counterpart, he's less mature - this isn't even the Percy Jackson movie problem of character arcs that made perfect sense for 11 and 12 year olds not fitting 16 going on 20 year olds, the movie goes out of its way to make Will dumber than the source material.

Like, prime example: in Chapter 3 of the Dark is Rising, Will is tricked into opening up the Doors to the Dark, which has immediate catastrophic consequences and results in the Lady being out of commission for most of the rest of the series. He does this because the Dark mimic Will's family, pretending they're being tortured outside, and Will as an untrained Old One, still thinking like an 11-year-old boy, is tricked into believing it. Then, eight chapters later, when the Rider has compelled Will's sister Mary and is threatening to order her to drown herself if Will does not surrender the Signs, Will uses the memory of this mistake to stand firm, knowing that the Dark will kill Mary regardless of if he hands over the Signs or not. It's a clear arc, probably the clearest example of the growth Will goes through in the first book, as well as being a really cool and disturbing scene in its own right.

I say this because, just before the final climactic fight of the movie, Will is tricked into opening the Doors by the Dark, who proceed to destroy, not just the Lady, but all of the Old Ones, because the Dark mimics Will's family, pretending they're being tortured. This is supposed to be the end of Will's arc, like literally the scene after this he drives away the Dark, but he's still acting like the idiotic whingeing brat he's been all movie, less intelligent, I cannot stress this enough, than his 11-year-old counterpart. That's not an acting choice, that's the incompetence of putting the beginning of Will's character arc at the end of the goddamn movie.

I'm not exactly singing Alex Ludwig's praises, but it'd take a monumentally talented actor (read: Christopher Eccleston) to make the dogshit writing of this movie palatable.

#the dark is rising #the seeker #will stanton #seriously the fact that Eccleston's portrayal as The Black Rider is as engaging as it is is nothing short of miraculous on Eccleston's part #like for as much as I rage against Will's character assassination in that scene with the Doors #the bit where the Rider comes in smirks down at Will and says 'Thank you Will' in his mother's voice? Fucking superb #perfectly in character #no notes

Lol anyone remember this book series,,,,

#the dark is rising #will stanton #bran davies #the dark is rising susan cooper #susan cooper #the dark is rising series #procreate #digital drawing #procreate drawing #i was obsessed with them….#also i dont remember if thats how bran’s dog looked it been like YEARS

Also, amongst the many other failiings of "The Seeker: The Dark is Rising" as a movie, is it just me or was Alexander Ludwig just terrible as Will?

He is, but honestly I can't hold that against him, because the character he was asked to play was just... not Will Stanton.

I'm not exactly singing Alex Ludwig's praises, but it'd take a monumentally talented actor (read: Christopher Eccleston) to make the dogshit writing of this movie palatable.

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