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by Annachie » Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:48 am | |
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I could live with every element in it, except Nimitz.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/175112598/c ... eat_1#zoom On the subject of cat battle armour. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You are so going to die. :p ~~~~ runsforcelery ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ still not dead. |
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by waddles for desert » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:53 pm | |
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A paranoid person might think that this is a new tactic; make Nimitz bad enough that any Honor seems great in comparison.
Of course, i am not that paranoid. (At least, not when I take my medications, although I am not sure that I trust those.) |
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by DeltaV » Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:48 pm | |
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Looks exactly like Nimitz...
...If he had been assimilated by the borg and dressed up like a cylon. |
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by waddles for desert » Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:48 pm | |
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Do you need some of my medicine? I think a few pills should come with the link to that picture. |
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by RHWoodman » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:35 pm | |
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This Nimitz is so far off the mark that I don't even know how to begin to describe it. Did the illustrator read the book? Did he read where treecats were described as "cute and cuddly" (until aroused to anger). He didn't even get the COLOR correct! Please get rid of this Nimitz and try again.
I'm really disappointed in this artwork. |
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by npadln » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:57 pm | |
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I like how Honor is portrayed but although I haven't liked all the prior representations of Treecats as well this one equally misses the mark. It looks too mythological, too nightmarish especially when one is, at first glance, supposed to be disarmed by the apparent pet-like qualities of it. But I do like this artist. |
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by 61Cygni » Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:05 pm | |
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Just for fun, imagine if proposed art for the LOTR movies showed the Elves looking like Star Trek's Vulcans, the Hobbits the same height as Men and Gandalf looking like an older Harry Potter dressed in blue. What do you think the reaction would be like? Yeah, the same as the one here to this demonic alien lizard being passed off as an Honorverse treecat. That should tell someone that they need to get a clue--don't mess around with well-defined canon.
Pokermind collected these images of fan-art Nimitzes in the main TOH: Now, those images reflect the canon description. Which would you want? Yeah, I thought so too. Get that Mass Effect refugee out of here! I also think David has been quoted as saying the image of Samantha, aside from the long legs, on the cover of Changer Of Worlds is the closest to his image of a treecat. Also remember that the Mayhew children went bonkers over Sam and Nimitz's kittens, because they were VERY cute and adorable fuzzy cuddly furballs--which basically means that treecats facially very much resemble Earth domestic cats. |
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by jchilds » Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:50 pm | |
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From the looks of the trailer, Island of Lemurs : Madagascar seemed like it had some footage in it that might help realizing good treecats. Not the ground dancing thing some of them do (that would just be so wrong for 'cats) but some of the in tree jumps looked pretty wild.
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by Tenshinai » Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:02 am | |
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by 61Cygni » Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:44 am | |
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Just had an idea for that lizard "treecat" image: replace the legs with fins, and it would work as a Sphinxian near-pike. Those, as far as I remember, have never been really described, other than that they seem pretty fearssome (at least to baby chicks).
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