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I would vote for The Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey.

falcolas 4y ago
Dragonriders for me. Dragon/human pairings need redemption after Eragon. Plus all the time travel and “regressed human colony” aspect.
- tzs 4y ago
  Dragon/human pairings already got redemption after Eragon in "How to Train Your Dragon".
  - falcolas 4y ago
    "How to Train Your Dragon" was good, for sure. I'd still enjoy a live action (as live action as you can get with CGI) version.
    - tzs 4y ago
      A good live action people with CGI dragons could certainly be done now. The technology is there. The 2014 "Paddington" and the 2016 "The Jungle Book" certainly showed that live action and CGI characters can interact really well. On the other hand animators seem to have found that sweet spot for animated human characters where they are human enough that as long as you are somewhat interested in the story you can easily forget they are animated, but still different enough to avoid the uncanny valley. Same with animated sets. If someone were to do a Dragonriders of Pern movie I think I'd prefer fully animated, because Pern really needs at least a trilogy and I think it would have a better shot of getting second and third movies if the first were fully animated. That's because a fully animated version could have a short at winning the Best Animated Feature Academy Award (at least if they ever change the rules to make the voting for Best Animated Feature sane [1]). A big award win would boost the sequel chances. If it was live action with animated dragons it would not be eligible for Best Animated Feature. [1] For Best Animated there are two voting differences from most of the other specialized categories. (1) Every member of the Academy can vote, as opposed to only members in the branches of the Academy related to the category, and (2) voters are not required to have seen all the nominees. I've seen interviews asking members why those voted for the movies they did and with Best Animated Feature you see a lot of answers like "I haven't watched cartoons since I was 6, but my grandkids wanted to see <Some_Disney_Movie> so I took them. I waited in the lobby doing work on my phone while they watched. When they came out they seemed happy, so I voted for <Some_Disney_Movie", or "My kids streamed <Some_Disney_Movie> 10 times a day for 6 months so I voted for it". Here's is recent video that goes over in great detail the problems with the Best Animated Feature award [2]. [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S8zsRWst7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S8zsRWst7U

Dragonriders for me. Dragon/human pairings need redemption after Eragon. Plus all the time travel and “regressed human colony” aspect.

tzs 4y ago
Dragon/human pairings already got redemption after Eragon in "How to Train Your Dragon".
- falcolas 4y ago
  "How to Train Your Dragon" was good, for sure. I'd still enjoy a live action (as live action as you can get with CGI) version.
  - tzs 4y ago
    A good live action people with CGI dragons could certainly be done now. The technology is there. The 2014 "Paddington" and the 2016 "The Jungle Book" certainly showed that live action and CGI characters can interact really well. On the other hand animators seem to have found that sweet spot for animated human characters where they are human enough that as long as you are somewhat interested in the story you can easily forget they are animated, but still different enough to avoid the uncanny valley. Same with animated sets. If someone were to do a Dragonriders of Pern movie I think I'd prefer fully animated, because Pern really needs at least a trilogy and I think it would have a better shot of getting second and third movies if the first were fully animated. That's because a fully animated version could have a short at winning the Best Animated Feature Academy Award (at least if they ever change the rules to make the voting for Best Animated Feature sane [1]). A big award win would boost the sequel chances. If it was live action with animated dragons it would not be eligible for Best Animated Feature. [1] For Best Animated there are two voting differences from most of the other specialized categories. (1) Every member of the Academy can vote, as opposed to only members in the branches of the Academy related to the category, and (2) voters are not required to have seen all the nominees. I've seen interviews asking members why those voted for the movies they did and with Best Animated Feature you see a lot of answers like "I haven't watched cartoons since I was 6, but my grandkids wanted to see <Some_Disney_Movie> so I took them. I waited in the lobby doing work on my phone while they watched. When they came out they seemed happy, so I voted for <Some_Disney_Movie", or "My kids streamed <Some_Disney_Movie> 10 times a day for 6 months so I voted for it". Here's is recent video that goes over in great detail the problems with the Best Animated Feature award [2]. [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S8zsRWst7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S8zsRWst7U