Your thoughts on Redwall? Did you read the books too? Favorite moment and favorite character?
Your thoughts on Redwall? Did you read the books too? Favorite moment and favorite character?
Your thoughts on Redwall? Did you read the books too? Favorite moment and favorite character?
I only read the books
constance best girl no contest
Proof?
self-evident
Where's the pic?
she's in op's picture. i have none
Dude...that's Orlando on the left, and his daughter Auma on the right. Constance's epic breasts make her the best girl. Although her design from the comic is great as well, no breasts needed.
Why are the badgers great characters?
i honestly wish redwall was more popular. it's such a great world that almost nobody knows about so no one gives a shit. Rip in peace Brian Jacques
>i honestly wish redwall was more popular.
Do you WANT to tempt fate?
Oh no
Frick yeah I loved Redwall. I still have my OG books and I even bought the cookbook. I never really watched the cartoon though
I love these edgy bastards like you wouldn't believe.
Those are rats anon
Only ever caught 2 eps of this long ago on a saturday
Read up to marlfox as an adult. The books are fine, some better than others, but the biggest issue is how formulaic they are, each book follows just about the exact same pattern and they all start to blend together. And apparently I haven't even got to the real low point of the series either.
Favorite moment/character would be blaggut killing his captain. Veil is interesting too, more so for him and his arc being massively, infamously botched.
I read that once. I got the funny feeling 2 of the siblings were MUCH closer than they should have been...
The Taggerung was my fricking favorite, aside from the redwall trilogy itself.
God those books had SOUL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2W_3uXqsfw and this theme was so great too.
Funny enough, I've been reading the books this year. The first book was really slow, but Jacques knows how to build up to a motherfricking climax.
Man, some of that shit is hardcore.
First series was alright. A lot more brutal than I expected for a kid's cartoon.
Second season hit a quality drop. And the focus on Rollo fricking around for a subplot that ultimately went nowhere got old fast.
Martin was my HERO
I binge read the books as a kid but got completely burned out by Martin the Warrior and just couldn’t care anymore.
pretty much everyone gives up somewhere along the lines, the books are just too samey even when they're good
Sure
It's been a long time but I've read most, if not all of them, and I'm pretty sure that was where the series mostly dropped off for me as well though there were a few decent books after that.
Doomwyte in particular since that book felt a lot more like the earliest ones in the puzzles, variety of villains, and willingness to kill off characters. I think it also cut down heavily on the dibbuns business relative to the other later books. Thar plot element really became a drag though I understand why he did it.
Outcast was the absolute lowpoint of the series though.
outcast has a decent enough a plot with sunflash (even though it's kind of a salamandastron replay), it's just the shit with veil is wildly moronic
what in the frick was brian jacques thinking
Danfloor kind of pissed me off with the whole dad issue and cowardice problem he had because they get resolved in like a page or two, pretty much immediately. Really annoying cause it seemed like he had a chance at being a bit of different protagonist. I also hated that part in Martin where Rose's brother shows shades of pacifism and it gets shit on too
I think you're right on that point on Danflor iirc, because I remember being pissed about something too
Give more Martin
Martin was one of the first ones I read and it enraptured me. I didn't know it was made later on. Adventuring through the northern wilds, escaping a grim fortress, being tied up on the wall in the rain, the growing closeness between him and Rose ;_;, that kamikaze squirrel Felldoh, it was good shit and I loved the distant feeling of before-Redwall times.
And this book led to Luke. Being reared in a beach cave, a warrior dad who was even more stoic than Martin, a look at baby Martin and his fascination with a sword, seafarin' adventures, and a badass death in the storm. I liked the other parts of the book and going on a=more adventures with Martyon and Gonff as well. I remember them going down some river in a grasslands I think and I enjoyed the imagery
Him and Mariel and Danflor were my favorite champions, Mariel the amnesiac female badass with her trusty rope and Danflor the rare squirrel champion with his dad issues and his mouse gf.
the food descriptions in Redwall always made me hungry. i dont think any other series ive read has ever done that.
Thats because Brian wrote the original novel for blind kids.
The descriptions were written so they could internally visualise what was happening (presumably most of the kids were not born blind). He kept the style up throughout the series.
Those books were my childhood, and Cluny in the opening chapter scared the crap out of me when I was 4yo.
I make only USD110,000 a year. I have no home
only ever watched the show as a kid, are the books worth reading?
Yes. Tales of adventure and bravery and food and the woodlands and the sea. It's good shit
Yes.
Some of them have a slow start, but once things get going, there are some brutal deaths.
as an adult theyre a bit too simplistic if you’re used to denser texts but as light reading theyre perfectly acceptable escapism with some really nice stories.
I’ve been on a nostalgia trip and theyre like $3 apiece at the used shop and they go along well with my ender’s game/shadow collection.
Redwall is why I fell in love with reading in the first place. The books were based. Salamandastron was my favorite.
On the topic of animal worlds what do we think of Owls of Gahoole and Kulipari: An Army of Frogs?
never got into the owls but I loved Wolves of the Beyond, it was set in the same universe and 10x more interesting.
So Cluny was gay right?
Among other things, yes
Like being Portugese.
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There was a cartoon? I read like a dozen books in a month during 4th grade, loved those little dudes.
Loose adaptions of Redwall, Mattimeo, and Martin the Warrior, a season apiece
I remember watching this, wasn't all the violence censored? Like no blood, or if someones gonna get shanked the camera turns away at the last second?
Alright, guys, be real. If you woke up in the world of Redwall...would you try to score some mouse-maiden caboose? Some hare haunch? Badger backside? Rat rear? Otter twatter? Foxy fun-times? Or would you just stay celibate?
I always knew Redwall was furry propaganda.
Try to score with Martin's ghost
Ambitious.
if i was in the world of redwall i'd be taller than the abbey. >>>/d/
That would be /trash/, not /d/
Size in Redwall is complete nonsense
Everything is as large or small as you want it to be
Let's assume the mice are an average of 4 feet tall.
No, they are mouse size. The book establishes that all the animals are their proper size. One horse was enough to carry the whole rat army to Redwall.
The first book has a scene where the Abbey wall is about the same height as a large tree outside it. Plus there was an entire tribe of sparrows living in the belltower that never had contact with the rest of the Abbey so the building would have to be pretty massive relative to the inhabitants.
Still there has to be a small gate for one mouse to be able to open it for Cluny.
I think the size of things is just something we aren't meant to think too much about.
Back when I read the first book, I always interpreted it as a Borrowers/Littles deal where the buildings were mostly human sized but they have their own rooms and gates carved into the walls.
So the gates that they're using for the Abbey are just animal sized while the actual Abbey gates are never used.
badger booty
Constance's comic design is SO fricking awesome despite being basic.
Yeah
Cool rats
anyone else read this? didn't read redwall as a kid but seems similar enough
Hm, no
I was a Mistmantle kid
Uncool rats