READY PLAYER TWO is a Mess | Explained
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"I sincerely apologize for copying your wife without her knowledge or permission"
- actual sentence from _Ready Player Two_
But that was a line from a socially awkward character so I let that one slide.
@@jahimjauh-hey5653 even though it was from that character that such an ethical disaster. Especially because that copied character was just going to be used in the same way a Sim that looks like your crush is used for.
Kinky. Not creepy at all. When you cant get the girl, CLONE HER!!
Didnt Shinjis father from Evangelion do the same thing?
@@amargabela7018 yep. that's literally the thing with rei. except in evangelion shinji's dad was a creepy fucker who tried to control rei and it was treated as him being a creepy fucker who tried to control rei.
Ok, can we talk about how him going around dunking on the haters is just blatant wish fulfillment of the author? Just, lol.
Yeah there's a whole section about social media in relation to that behaviour and it just feels way too personal
Everything sounded like wish fulfillment.
Even worse is that wish is to apparently ruin the lives of people who say anything even remotely negative about him.
I wonder if he references Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back?
@@bbrbbr-on2gd He does, iirc. 99% sure it was there. :-)
A man you once considered a friend hijacks your conscience in a virtual reality so you stay with him forever until you love him- that's sounds like a prompt for a horror story
Soo... Doki Doki Literature Club?
That was the plot to a black mirror episode
It’s literally the USS Calister episode of Black Mirror basically lol
@@diamondmx3076 which one?
@@marvelousTUD episode fucked me up and I couldn’t watch black mirror for a while
In this stunning sequel, the author outdoes his performance in the first book by actually having NEGATIVE self awareness.
The sad reality of old unaware male authors
What did he do?
Deadwing is here?
@@keyboardtypes8067 what the hell is wrong with being a male-
@@khalil42 they just tend to be male man idk, they never said being male caused the lack of self awareness
This book's first mistake is that the protagonist is Wade. It's "Ready Player Two" which should be a different character.
Yes. When my brother thought he was playing the game with me, he certainly didn't get all the spotlight. Actually...Wait...that explains why it's ready player two...because it's just an empty promise that you can play along.
Seriously, the name indicates it should be Sam or Aech as the lead character! You know, the two people Wade might consider his 'Player Two'.
But that would require Ernest to write from a perspective substantially different than his own and as his previous two novels demonstrated, he's not ready to do that.
@@andyenglish4303 That's what I thought. It would be way more interesting if it was Sam's story.
Or if he is the challenger in a multiplayer , stepping up to the champion ...
But that would take effort and actual brain activity...
@@Ramsey276one honestly when i saw the title, I thought it was gonna somehow use the battle royale formula and do something new. Talk about disappointing
"If you want a spoiler free review..." No, please, I need spoilers, because I bought it, and can't get past chapter 2.
I got it for Christmas and can’t even bring myself to open it
The action of the 7 shards and the 12 hours starts around pg 135.
basically half way through the book. Then the entire 7 shards and 12 hours happen in 140 pages. The first half is really slow and annoying, the second hakf is literally where the fun stuff is.
You were ripped off omg
@@115DELDE yeah fr so much exposition and for what?
Why did everyone have such a hardon for this book if it's so bad? When the movie came out I remember everyone rushing to read it's saying how cool and good it is. Then the movie came out j everyone flipped on the book
When I said I like books with morally ambiguous protagonists
*this is not what I meant*
Honestly, Artemis Fowl is one of the only good examples of this but then the movie had to go fuck that up too....
Not a book but try the Attack on Titan manga
@@ZakanaHachihaCBC I've read most of the manga, and I don't see how it fits in as morally ambiguous. Eren and the main cast are generally characterized as the 'good guys' and if you mean how -spoilers- titans are actually people and how by killing titans they are actually killing people, and levis whole 'greatest titan killer' actually equals mass murder, it doesn't quite line up as ambiguous, but more of a question of information available at the time vs. hindsight.
@@allusen I mean what’s going on right now in the series
@@allusen And even knowing that still makes them doing mercy kills rather than killing the titans for fun
Would YOU steal a DVD?
Guys I obviously know what LGBTQIA stands for. He swapped the G and B, that's the typo.
No because I dont have a DVD player. 😂
I would download a car for sure
You Wouldn't Download A Car
Yes. Yes I would
Hell yeah, it's the forbidden frisbee
So, it's basically Sword Art Online, if it was run by a thoughtless teenager instead of a genius sociopath?
Right I was like wow Ernest read/watched Sword art and was like....let’s do that
Nah it's totally a sociopath still
So, Sword Art Online
With his stalking and general lack of self awareness or feelings of other people that he just snuffed out of being able to live due to crippling debt in a dying world. He is a sociopath ... Just a narcissistic, petty, incompetent and childlike Sociopath.
🤣
Ernest really said “I only value your gender if it can satisfy my sexual desires” huh
PRETTY MUCH
A lot of creepy old men are like this. I once heard this old guy say in my breakroom that he was cool with lesbian porn but not gay. It was so creepy I was the only girl in the breakroom.
@@cloakdagger4367 that is... the most homophobic thing i’ve heard. why.
@@cloakdagger4367 That was literally my thought at the beginning of this video, when the author listed M-F, F-F, and Nonbinary sex as viewable on the ONI, but NOT M-M. Literally my first thought - "This dude is major homophobic". And clearly a misogynist, too!
"Hey, I'm writing a sequel to my book. What's hot with the kids these days?"
"Uhh... gender identity and sexual freedom"
"Cool, thanks."
"Hey, why'd you ask, out of curiosity?"
"You'll see."
I honestly don't want to hear anybody complain about how stupid twilight is considering that *this* exists.
Why would anyone complain about Twilight it's a modern classic
Havent watched the video yet so thats concerning. Edit:now om through and hoo boy yeah youre right
At least Twilight was original and didn’t ride on the back of pop culture
Twilight is still stupid.
@@matrixiekitty2127 except it did? I mean, it's entirely shaped from other stories.
Not saying that's a bad thing, but it was absolutely created off the backs of other media.
Okay the Wakandan Outreach initiative is exactly what a wealthy, comics-loving teen would call a charitable tech organization based in Africa
Worse. Comic book MOVIE fans. AKA, Normies. True comic book fans do not care about real world politics seeping into their media. One main reason why comics are failing.
This feels like wealthy Black Panther fans, or those who honestly believe Wakanda is real (look it up) doing some bs to feel morally superior.
@@NewGuy2534 what? comics books became a billion dollar industry in 2019
Genuinely why do people keep saying it's failing?
Okay some people believe wakanda is real, and? There are people who don't know timbuktu is a real place
Dumb people exist everywhere, it's not news
Name one story based piece of media that has no politics in it
Also you do know organisations don't need to name themselves after real places, it's a name not a decloration of origin, would you moan if I started a bridge construction company called "bifrost bridges"
@@NewGuy2534 XD yeah, left-wing hippies Stan Lee and Jack Kirby NEVER put real world politics in their creations!
@@jimmyz2684 I hope this is sarcasm considering both of them were extremely political in their work.
@@saitamatrash2527 ...yes it is sarcasm. I really thought it was obvious but I guess not
"so Halliday left warnings about the potential risks and dangers, but like, he's not there to personally stop me, so that obviously means it's not really dangerous" - Wade, probably
Turns out Halliday was the one who saved humanity in the end by having his technology bring back people from the dead, creating real AI, and having his technology really be sent off to another planet.
Wade: Halliday's would warn me
Halliday's warning on the description: *I ALSO THINK IT COULD DESTROY HUMANITY*
@@bgill7475 So in the end Halliday did all the work and we just watched the journey of someone who had little to begin with, then got lucky and became a spoiled, narcissistic brat...
@@dnw009 the modern dream
As drake said
"Starting from the bottom
Did nothing
And now I'm here"
Wade was so consumed with Halliday and idolized him, I think wade couldnt assume that Halliday would do something that would potentially hurt so many people. He later realized how sad and broken a person halliday was and no longer idolized him.
Ready player two: the love child of Christian Grey and Kirito from Sword Art Online that fell off his crib and ended up with brain damage
DUNKED
not fell
XD
No, this story got CHUCKED out of the crib and split its head open, then got extreme brain damage
Ready player woke
As soon as it said “mothers recording birth so that the kids can experience them themselves”
I wanted to commit self void hammer
I want to Persona 3 myself but the gun isn't an evoker.
As a mother myself, I can't see any reason to do this unless you literally hated your child.
I feel that the recording would only be used for punishment.
@@lyss4665 DONT MAKE ME BREAK OUT THE FOOTAGE AGAIN
Imagine the mind of someone sitting down on his alienware laptop to type that. And then not immediately go "wtf, I need to stop drinking"
So, the sequel is literally about the protagonist becoming a rich ego-maniac and narcissist and _still_ ending up as the "good guy" in spite of it?
It's the ultimate fantasy for some guys, unfortunately.
Hmmmmm really makes you wonder about what kind of hero a person who worships corporate media that much imagines
IDK about narcissist, Wade is pretty self-hating.
Wade very much so states he should definitely be a villain
No its about a 19 year old who unexpectedly became a billionaire trying to become a human
I thought Wade would grow as a character in a sequel. Like instead of the '80s, he becomes more interested in the '90s. Because clearly, that's the only "growth" you could've expected
Times a changin’
He is 21, look at how he grew up, and the kind of society he is part of. Then he suddenly is the richest man in the world.
What the hell do you expect is going to happen??
Earth is a desolated wasteland, mostly, he grew in a futuristic dystopic shit hole without most things in life that we take as granted.
Did you expect him to have some kind of growth in such environment?
@carlosdgutierrez6570 If anything, that's the best place to grow as a person. Science shows that humans have a natural tendency towards altruism when times are difficult.
The problem is that we *also* have a natural tendency towards wrath and foolishness, especially when we have plenty, which Wade does now and actively shows how much of a wrathful fool he is throughout this awful book.
Ready Player 3: Protagonist's brain gets infected with a sentient construct that used to be a terrorist rockstar, and it constantly interferes to varying degrees and emotional reaction..... oh... wait...
Don’t forget the protagonist’s friend dying after stealing the sentient construct containing said terrorist rockstar :D
@@blockbreaker8839 CHOOMBA!! lol
Wake the fuck up, Parzival. We got a virtual reality construct to burn
Those 2 merged together sounds like a fun concept. We just need Keanu Reeves.
What's this a reference to?
Authors successful enough to be asked for a sequel: “I hear it’s better the second time. I hear you get to do the weird stuff.”
"we do the weird stuff" XD
Wow what a deep memory pull 🤣
Great musical
Painfully accurate
And now the song is in my head. XD
The hilarious bit is that I don't this is that far off. Consider it, what would happen if a pop culture obsessed gamer bro found themselves with Bezo's fortune and total control over a shared digital space? This, entirely this. It's spot on how it would go down from abusing his mod powers to the cyberstalking, completely ignoring the contributions of others, ignoring the blatant implications of world changing tech, and just naffing off using his money to fix the actual systemic problems he lived through. The only "bad" part of it is that it was written by that self same pop culture obsessed gamer bro so instead of growing, changing, or getting his comeuppance as he rightly should, the main character just wins because he's awesome.
The absolute staggering lack of self awareness by the author is hilarious.
This. Bravo.
mark zuckerberg, anyone?
Literally thinking along the lines of this, and with a smidge of editing could have been an amazing 'own' on people who failed to see negatives of this gamer bro protagonist and just wholly identified with him by making him the bad guy and highlight what a 100% psychopath he's being
I’m sorry?... Naffing?
@@Thurston86 Wasting time, doing nothing.
Wades character makes me deeply worried for the mentality of the author.
Writer: *makes bad character*
"Ah yes, they must be personally bad"
@@WhaleManMan Have you read his poetry?
@@WhaleManMan bruh the nerd porn poem is fucking horrifying.
@@TheBonkleFox perhaps he just needs help with personal problems.
(I haven't read the poem though, so I don't know how bad it is, probably not on the same level as something like the house that jack built, but probably still concerning).
While I can't vouch for this being a good book or him even being a good writer, I don't think it's ever really that fair to judge an author by the characters they've written. You have to be able to separate the art from the artist to some degree and if the reader (or viewer, or whatever) can't do that, then I'd be more worried for them for being unable to separate reality from fiction.
Ready Player Two makes 12 year old fanfiction writers on Wattpad look like Stephen King
Thanks to your avatar I thought I had something on my screen. Is that intentional? If so - you are quite evil 😂
I used to write on there and can confirm. I did write the bad version of The Handmaid's Tale when I was in 6th grade or 7th. It's called Rebel Club. Now it's just a good laugh between my friends and me.
@@MrsScorpionette Yes, it is completely intentional. Believe me, you're not the first one to be fooled by it
@@MrsScorpionette I'm surprised you've seen it for the first time. People have been using this profile pic since at least 10 years
@@purplewine7362 hah, honestly recently I got into reading comments.
It’s like Sword Art Online but full of fan fiction crossovers and even more self-fulfillment fantasies and more moral destruction! And it even referenced SAO itself!
Sword art had such a strong start then they drop what was interesting and rush through it's own premise.
@@TheCinderfang idk I think season 3 really was more like a soft reboot for the series when it started but part 2 and part 3 kinda re tied it again
@@TheCinderfang The thing about SAO is that the author focuses not on the titular game but rather the world in which SAO takes place, and the impact of virtual reality on humans and relationships. I know some people dislike that and much prefer a full rundown of the original SAO from Floor 1-75, but I kinda like that idea. Granted it's not perfect but with each new arc Reki Kawahara wrote, there's a clear progression and improvement in his writing.
It also can't be helped that the original SAO arc was rushed because the author originally submitted this for a novel competition in 2001 but cut is short because he wrote it too long.
@Caralena Lindberg Eh, I kinda disliked both Anime Kirito and Abridged Kirito. Anime butchered 90% of his development in the novels (yes SAO is a novel series not a manga or simply a anime) while Abridged missed the point entirely
@@darrylaz3570 Not sure if this can still count personally since he rewrote quite a bit of the original SAO arc and released an entire second set of light novels revolving around filling in the details of the first major arc. i.e he noticed people wanting more of aincrad/the original SAO setting and fulfilled the need later on (anime takes parts of both the original volumes covering it as well as progressive iirc.) Imo, SAO's kind of a victim of it's own success. It's trying to be more than the initial premise, but much like GOT, the initial premise is what people flocked to it for. Once you remove that point of interest, it's very much just dragging it's feet on it's popularity.
Don't take this to mean I hate SAO either. I've read all of the LN up till the middle of Alicization (because that was all that was translated at the time), and it becomes very generic. Mind, that's just a problem with the LN industry in general (strong ideas and start, huge drop off in quality as they stop trying to innovate new ideas and just blatantly follow any prevailing trends at the time.) It's definitely not the only LN series to suffer from this. Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei had around 15 really strong volumes, but once the storyline started showing signs of a shounen-esque rival, my interest waned heavily because a large amount of time and effort was going to be spent on something you already knew the ending to due to it being the expected outcome from the very beginning (they kiss and make up essentially. 99% of rivalries in Japanese WN/LN/Manga storylines end up this way.)
It's not great, but it's definitely not as bad as people make it out to be, particularly if you understand that the problem is mostly the industry playing it safe as opposed to a problem of the author themselves.
This whole thing screams "M'lady" energy
Book-Wade just screams fedora wearing redditor
M'lady?
Oh yes, both Halliday and Wade both carry that energy around them.
M lady?
lmaoo
Just listening to you describe this was painful. I felt embarrassed for the author, jesus christ how did you get through the whole book?
Reading at the same time as listening to the audiobook at 3x speed to keep me focused in
@@AmandaTheJedi That sounds like multimodal torture. Kudos for making it through.
@@AmandaTheJedi Wait, did that let you essentially read at 3x speed?
@@AmandaTheJedi DOES THIS MEAN I COULD READ WAR AND PEACE IN A DAY?
@@PosthumanHeresy Human brain can typically read a lot faster than we do so it both helps your brain take in what you're reading and hearing while also making it easier to stay focused. So you could do it without the audiobook but it helps
For a giant nerd, the main character of this novel doesn’t seem to know that Oni is the Japanese word for demon.
RWBY
Two towns
Oniyuri
Kuroyuri
THEY KNEW
actually it is not demon in specific translation for European and American cultures... Demon in tthe same sense as ours is Akuma.
@@theAiensOni is more to a race of demon while akuma is the normal devil, I guess
@@chem9773 yeah... Actually I think Oni is more like a troll or something when it comes to demons so...
Oh, he does. This is actually said in the book.
I can't believe I read this thing.
“The Ocean is sad”
Now the ocean understands depression, good job humanity.
Arguably the ocean has always understood depression, the ocean is a very emotional creature.
@@notaccessible3741 um, isn't the ocean a depression by definition?
wade is like a discord mod but with the budget of elon musk
More like the combined budget of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos. And perpetually high on PCP, as the cherry on top
I don't know if you know this, but it is in fact illegal to murder people like this in most of the world.
What kind of servers are you in?
so like elon musk?
@@dementededge3266 what
Me, who has never read or watched Ready Player One:
“Interesting 👁👄👁”
same
Its a good movie. Sucks the sequel was like this
@@darthkai8242 yeah they overhauled the whole story in the movie, I really liked the book a whole lit better.
I read the first book and watched the movie and strongly disliked both lol. The character was always an asshole
@@johncenagaming581 I mean if they do the same for the sequal if that ever comes it might be a lot better than the alternative.
I've seen other reviews give the book credit for portraying Wade as a clear villain (at least during the first half), but, as someone who read Ready Player One right before Ready Player Two, the transition from "geeky lonely kid who is self-absorbed" to "geeky lonely billionaire who is self-absorbed" doesn't feel like a villainous turn at all. If he had the power to, he definitely would have cyberstalked Samantha in the first book the same way he did to others in the sequel (and, in fact, he basically did when he snooped on her files when he was infiltrating IOI). It feels like both books lack the self-awareness to call Wade the asshole he is. A good writer (and not the person who wrote Armada) could have done wonders in exploring why geeks and outcasts tend to trend towards invasive, bigotted behaviour and paralleling that to Halliday's backstory and how people find comfort in the "simpler" past. All the pieces are there, but Cline would just rather play Trivial Pursuit.
Hear fucking hear. THIS. I accidentally got onto this video, having read RDT months and months ago, and by god, did that book anger me.
honestly I expected Wade to become the villain he has shown signs of it in the first book
“Mothers recoding giving birth so their kids can experience giving birth to themselves.” I’m pretty sure that would screw with someone’s head.
It WOULD be interesting to see my birth, but experience it? No way fam my birth took 36 hours
@@luthientinuviel3883 for some reason I’m reminded of the scene from the movie Click.
@@luthientinuviel3883 I nearly died by strangulation the day of my birth, like I'm into chocking but I think I'll pass.
I thought that said recording at first... that would be normal... then I had to reread it.
@Luke Jameson I'm the first of triplets. Me and my bros were born prematurely (around 6-7 months). Our mom chose a C-section because it was recommended to her. Had a safe delivery with no complications. We stayed 4 months at the hospital because we were so small and fragile the doctors were scared that we would not make it.
>Giving birth to themselves.
Why do I hear rumbling from Freud's coffin?
Ach, Herr Cline, Tell me how your relationship was with your mother...
@@mojavefry2617 how long do ya got
I think we need rumbling from attack on titan
thanks, I had almost forgotten about Freud
Freud’s ideas and concepts are complete and utter BS
Originally I thought when I heard that there was a sequel to Read Player One ( a.k.a. Read Player Two), that may be there would be some psycho hacker that traps Wade somewhere, somehow, in the Oasis. So the Player Two (a.k.a. Hero of this story) would be Art3mis (a.k.a. Samantha), and her quest to rescue the One she loves. Wade would basically be the damsel in distress and Art3mis the quintessential knight in shining armour. You could even have her in shiny armour at one point, with a sword and stuff. There could even be puzzles that have to be solved, charactor building, twist and turns, all the good stuff. But after hearing you review, I have no desire to read and/or see the sequel. It just sounds to weird and trying to hard, that will ultimately annoy and anger people. Well that's my two cents worth.
Please write this so I can give you my money
this sounds infinitely better than both books.
My friend can I interest you in a thing called writing quality fan fiction. You’re a perfect candidate
if you write this hit me up, i am willing to pay
Please write that book, I'd love to read it
Me hearing the synopsis of Ready player one: Wow that actually sounds like a good book
Me after reading ready player one: How did they screw this up what is this
Honestly, ready player one is the one piece of literature that made me love the movie more than the book. The book was way too much into their own 80's trivia bs than telling a story.
If someone ripped off Ready Player One, but made it better I wouldn't even be mad.
How I'd fix it: not let Cline write it.
I read it once, and loved it. I actually spent a significant amount of senior year high school listening to rush, playing tempest and quoting War games. I read it again 4 years later.. it sucks ass. Too much damn references. It's like cline had a weird bdsm thing where he would get spanked if he went a paragraph without mentioning Star trek
Good idea, bad execution
There was a section in the first novel, where Parzival tries to justify having sex with a sex doll, which always felt like Cline just trying to justify it to himself and in some way felt like wish fulfilment. I hated that section, and the sequel feels like it's that section, but all the time
Why is that information even necessary in a story like that
Honestly, that section dragged on too long. 20 pages too long of him crying of Artemis.
Maybe he couldn’t get a bird?
"I kinda want a book from Samantha's perspective, just not written by the author"
....I'm on it
How far did you come?
Progress report?
Ready Player One: A New Gatekeeper
Ready Player Two: The Stalker Strikes Back
Ready Player Three: Return of the Nice Guy (TM)
(And I really enjoyed RP1 until it was over and I realized that “liking the same things I like makes you worthy to hold tremendous power over other people” was the moral, not the thing it was warning against.)
this seems llike the epitome of "gatekeepy" aspect of fandom. just namedropping, regurgitating fact, lacking in creativity.
Genuinely. These books could be so much better if they said something about the real value of these properties being the lessons they imparted and their themes and why they remain impactful decades later and not... remembering pointless trivia
@@Flameclaw123 these books would be way better if the gamers acted like they actually do online. Watching Wade try impress everyone with his dumb car and then get called the n-word by a 12 year old Slovakian child who then wrecks him would be way better than the actual book we got.
@@danielyoung6778 Okay I'd absolutely LOVE to see that version
It's hilarious. Ready Player One hides the various Keys behind literal Gates where usually to pass through the gate, you have to act out an entire goddamn movie from memory. So the challenge literally gatekeeps what a true fan is by rote memorization. If I felt that Cline had any actual self-awareness or actual talent I'd almost suspect this to be some kind of stealth critique of gatekeeping fan culture, except that Wade is rewarded for being a 'True Fan' for liking the right things and memorizing the right lines with... Ownership of the super internet, a hot girlfriend, and infinite money.
So yeah, I think RP1 and RP2 are just really dumb.
@@Kyman102 oh my gosh yes the memorisation really pissed me off!! Im a huge fangirl with animation and games, but I dont know all the lines off by heart!! (Except to shrek) most humans can't do this and its insane to expect it. Also I hated that he treated people with autism like robots
ready player two: the creepy nerd is now even more creepy.
I'm shocked Wade didn't name the ship after Artemis
Ready Player 4chan
Eh, I read it. I think Cline tried to portray it as creepy and something Wade had to mature out of.
@@nickbrussel3900 he’d probably name it their ship name or something
@@gregcourtney7717 the book has plenty of mistakes and sometimes it seems like the writer forgets all the pages before the one he's writing. If I remember correctly there was even an evidently unintentional contradiction from one face of the page to another in the first pages
Thank god we have you to read books we’ll never read
Have you listened to 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back? Ready Play One was the first book they read and tore to pieces.
Next book in the series: Ready Player 3, Wade becomes a cyber terrorist, after losing the 3rd easter egg.
@@chocolatezt that would be cool tho
ernest cline said the next book would be called reay player zero
That shard hunter girl's reaction to meeting Wade is like a cringier version of Wayne and Garth meeting Alice Cooper.
We're not worthy!
Ready player two sounds like literally everything flims like end of evangelion are against.
Dangerous levels of escapism, selfishness and entitlement while running away from problems instead of facing them.
Like RP2 ending is literally what happens if the main character of evangelion chose the bad ending
I honestly think people are focusing on the silly plot holes and stuff and few people are pointing out what you picked up on, the stories have a very clear worldview it is trying to push and it seems to be feudal capitalism (or anarcho capitalism if you want it to sound cool.)
I thought you said 'evangelists' so I was VERY confused when I saw 'the main character of 'evangelists' like....Jesus??
@@autumnox2174 get in the robot Jesus
@@xlea5gnora555 Lmfao
I thought about that too holy shit haha
I don't see how they'll ever adapt this. It'll be pure backlash.
heavy editing
Right. Look how much they edited the first movie
@@Melmeltheclown And the first movie was still ass.
The Tolkien estate would have their ASSES if they so much as mention the Silmarillion
Ready player one made $582 million so they might make a sequel.
And now, a game of "Wade or Christian Grey" - he's rich, he's running a massive business, he's miraculously forgiven for all his dumb mistakes, his mother died of an overdose, he's a stalker, and he needs to be in control, can you guess which one he is? XD
And he likes to play unconventionnal games!
"I'm a nice guy because at all the horrific things I _could've_ done with my vast riches, but didn't because I'm such a nice guy!'
Can you guess which one he is?
The answer: Massimo
This entire book is literally a combination of every Black Mirror episode
Except the takeaway isn't 'oh how horrible' it's 'oh how amazing!'
@@AmandaTheJedi yeah they ripped off the virtual soul concept from San Junipero and made it creepy and weird
@@abbywolffe4114 And the stealing a copy of someone’s virtual conscience from U.S.S Callister.
@@abbywolffe4114 And experiencing other peoples emotions from that Black Museum segment
@@MsSarahJosephine And experiencing the same physical sensations that your video game counterpart is experiencing from Striking Vipers
I don’t know. With a little tweaking, this could have been a pretty compelling story about a hero-turned-villain-protagonist. Kind of like Dune Messiah.
Alas, this is what happens when the hack writer becomes too self identified with their creepy Neckbeard OC.
Via having a movie make a stupid amount of money yeah?
Wade has never been a hero haha. As far as I am aware Ready Player One was a self insert from the beginning. How could he ever intentionally make himself the villain? In an ironic twist though, because of who Cline is, Wade has always been a terrible person.
i finally decided to finish this book, and it was the scariest and most depressing horror piece ive ever read. it quite an achivement honestly. it's hard believe it was written by the same person as the first book. It feels so inhumane, im pretty sure it was written by the evil AI version of Ernest Cline.
The first book was trash too..... So much wasted potential. It was too concerned with listing the obscure pop references, rather than trying to tie them in to the plot.
The struggle should have been more internal for wade trying to figure out HOW to beat the challenges, rather than knowing every obscure reference right away, then having the exact skill set to beat the challenge the first time every time.
The only actual thing he struggled on was playing the perfect game of Pac man.... Which held him for 6 hours.
When the protagonist is too strong or smart, you lose the meaning of beating a challenge put forth..... Atr3mis became a vastly more interesting in one paragraph than wade did all book because she solved the first puzzle but struggled to get passed it.
Hell, even when IOI had the crystal key, you never felt like wade was in a dire place. You knew once he solved the puzzle he would have whatever exact skill he needed to catch up first try.
The second book was trash as well because it focused too much on a plotline that would be visually stunning on screen rather than what would make sense
@@johnswaim1814 Good Grief do people really not under stand why Wade listed out all the 80's Pop Culture he studied? To Show Other Gunter's who read his book (Cause that's what he was WRITING They even reference it in RP2) how dedicated he was. Did people not believe him when he said that EVERYONE IN THE WORLD was obsested with this stuff. What do you think he could have won without knowing all the stuff he knew? Hell they even made it a point to show that even he missed stuff. I swear it's like your reading the book just to hate on it to which I say Why bother? When I first Beat Super Mario 3 I had all the Warp whistle location memorized thanks to Nintendo power. I knew exactly how to beat all the bosses in Castlevania thanks to Nintendo power. Knew all the special moves and kicks and punches' thanks to EGM. You wouldn't go into a dark cave without a Flashlight would you? It's called being prepared. I think of Wade as more of a Treasure Hunter than a Gamer. Treasure Hunters who aren't prepared meet gruesome ends.
@@Fenris30 You’re definitely the target audience for this book
@@rimurutempest4945 Yup just a nerd born in the seventies, raised in the eighties, recruited in the nineties, disillusioned in the two thousands, pissed off in the twenty tens, and just surviving the twenty twenties. I got Ready Player One on level you can't possibly imagine.
@@Fenris30 LMAO sounds like irony but that fact that it probably isnt makes this funnier
I don't understand how Ernest Cline could write both Wade and Halliday, but walk away believing that only one of them was a bad guy. I'm also, not comprehending how he wrote Samantha (one of the few characters with some semblance of sense) and then had her apologize for being sensible. It was bad enough that she was made to fall in love with the personification of an ego stroke that is Wade.
I haven't read either of the books but it kinda sounds like someone in the corporate read the draft and went like: but you can't end the book like this, they need to get back together!
@@hawkins347 actually, the author is dense enough to make the protagonist that unredeemable and still end up with the girl at the end, without anyone interfering.
@@nopatiencejoe6376 I was gonna give him the benefit of the doubt I gave Collins when Mockingjay turned to be such an underwritten subpar book with questionable creative decisions, but I guess thus guy's just a douche.
Sounds like he can't see she is wrong and she's just another wish fulfillment for Cline, as in... he wish the annoying people who insist he is wrong and a bad person would eventually realize he was right all along and apologize.
Cline literally said he wrote this book because the movie did well.
That says a lot.
The book goes towards the movie story than the original book story
He played himself
So stop clutching your pearls. He wrote a book that I did not enjoy. But thT will satisfy millions of kids that absolutely lived the first book. Its sooooo easy to drip on about " waaa he wrote it to get paid and rush a movie," yes thats acknowledged. Move on...where's the original thought? Can u bring anything more to the table with this video review? No? Ok, thanks, enough with the whining
He was asked to write a sequel because the movie did well.
The movie... My friends who say the movie was good have never read the book. If they would have read the book they would clearly see that the book has absolutely nothing in common with the movie besides the characters names. When I learned that a movie was being made I immediately knew that it would fail. It would be virtually impossible to buy all of the rights to everything that is "80's pop culture" related. Take one of my favorite instances in Ready Player one... When Wade finds himself as the main character played by Matthew Broderick in the movie War Games. That on scene would cost millions... And that's one of many. The movie "adaptation" completely ruined the book and now the sequel of the book has ruined everything! It is literally a damn shame.
The only reason I want a movie made of this book is because it would literally be talked about in all of my classes from Philosophy of the Mind to Cognition and Ai, and every other psychology, philosophy, or A.I class.
They stored people’s entire brains, which is almost everything about a person besides the body and if it replicates the body in the virtual world then it’s exactly real. Which means everything about this is horrifying especially because it means forced immortality?!!!
Very interesting
Reading this book is like:
"What is this!!!" To
"Wakanda nonesense is this!!!"
As horrific a violation of her privacy it is for Halliday to steal her life experiences without her consent and live through them, I'd kinda hope that part of what made him realize it was wrong wasn't just him learning empathy and to see her as a real person, but for him to live through her experiences of their real-life interactions, complete with a realization of how creepy and unpleasant he comes off to her. Literally seeing himself through her eyes, and how terrible he is from her perspective.
YES. That would've been awesome!!
15:29 that part was so absurdly funny that I couldn’t believe someone would actually be terrified of having such a dream
Ready player one, but 90's nostalgia instead of 80s
And Ready player 3 will just be 2000s nostalgia. Get ready for Amy winehouse and Veronica Mars!
It’s literally a ripoff of Sword Art Online. The book being self-aware that it’s a ripoff doesn’t mean it isn’t a ripoff.
@@ajzeg01 what's sword online? I thought this was copying tron?
@@ajzeg01 sword art online isn't very good either
Bust out the Jncos
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Hello lustful elf.
I felt alot of the same feelings about wade in the beginning about him being a baby about stuff and invading privacy but when you think about it its kind of accurate.
A reclusive gamer who grew up poor and worth no friends till he was maybe 15 suddenly becoming world famous, a multibillionaire, a head at the most influential tech company in the world, and has access to basically unlimited advanced tech that we in 2020 can only dream of becoming what he is in RP2. Im pretty sure most people of that demographic would do almost exactly the same shit.
Oh it's accurate, and there's no problem with realistically portraying an emotionally immature dipshit with too much power. Problem is there's no admonition against that behavior since he never grows past this crap and is even rewarded for it.
@@blackosprey2219 real world is just like that, the tech moguls from Jobs and Gates to Musk and Beezos are/were a bunch of dipshits that got away with a lot and even made money with human suffering.
This book just imitates the life in a more realistic way than the stories where the main character achieves enlightenment and changes.
Look how inclusive this book is! The protagonist is stalking a transgirl!
"Trans girl" is two words, not one.
@@sagecolvard9644 O'right, in my native language we don't split nouns like they do in english.
@@robinvik1 "Trans" is not a noun. It's an adjective.
He is so progressive that he is misogynistic to every women
@@sagecolvard9644 he just said it’s not his native Language, calm down if he doesnt understand it lol
If Spielberg still wants to do the sequel, he should rewrite the entire story from scratch.
Oh god yes
I think Steven Spielberg is like:" nope thank,i rather stick to Band Of Brother era"
@@alamalam5594 I would like for him to look at Tintin again.
@Katerine Alvarez unless there screenwriter is smart than book creator on sequel but who know?
@@katherinealvarez9216 Unfortunately, Spielberg has the habit of not doing sequels immediately after.
Wade is the perfect example of people abusing admin sometimes xD
HE actually literally abuses his admin powers at one point, griefing anyone who complains about his being an asshole, even though the complaints are completely justified.
@@ArthurRex131 god he’s literally a Discord Mod
@@ArthurRex131 That was actually one of the few parts I enjoyed because it reminded me of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Non-binary sex is by far my favorite relatable part of gaming culture.
Yeah, all 0s or all 1s
Well, there's Cyberpunk now so ehhh idk where I'm going with this
Transgender part is very interesting too like wow never would have thought . Wish I knew more of why they chose a (transgender) girl as the girl that the protagonist gets other than his curiosity.
“Wh...who’s going to take care of the thouSANDS OF BABIES?!”
I died 🤣
I reached this comment right as she said it 🥺🥺🥺... Wh... What does that mean...
Vash The Stampede of course.
Those sort of plots always did confuse me
Did he bring enough food for thousands of people? Or will it be the Donner party in space?
The first time i read Ready Player Two i tought i bought a bad fan fiction by mistake.
Why would Wade even care?
He basically became god by the end of the first book.
What possibly could you offer to him, that would make him do anything at this point?
Well basically the OASIS gets taken over and if he doesn’t do what he’s told to half a billion people will die
@@dr.manhattan7283 in other words, he does it because plot.
Great
@@frankwest5388 well, he discovers something even better than the oasis but his gf doesn't like it.
Maybe the fate of half a billion people
And also another easter-egg hunt, but this time there's 7
I don't understand why the first book is considered good. It's just 80's nostalgia and nothing else.
Only thing I liked about the movie was that it showed the RX-78-2 Gundam, and got people asking about it.
I don't know I enjoy it, the film isn't great but the book is interesting, the referenced aren't that bad and the characters of Parzival,Art3mis,Aech,Daito and Shoto as well as Morrow and Halliday's relationship is cool but I get why people don't like it
Thats it. People cant get over the time they grew up. You know nostalgia was once considered a mental health issue.
@@JohnGalt916 I did not, kinda weird
I don't have any 80's nostalgia as I was born later, but I still enjoyed it. I liked the concept of a digital scavenger hunt.
Honestly I would rather have an Art3mis:As Told from Outside the Oasis book, telling the entirety of her life from her perspective, minus the sob story crap where she falls back for Wade's idiotic shortcomings
I hope the last book will be from her pov 👁👄👁
“A strange book. The only winning move is not to reading it"
As a nonbinary person, I think I speak for all of us when I say none of us want Wade anyway lol.
As a nonbinary person AND a Kira, this was extra... interesting! Lmao!
true that
Well said
Maybe we should leave LGBTQIA representation to fully certified members of the LGBTQIA community. Especially the *Gold* membership owners who pay the extra $30 a month for bonus full blown gay transgender sex.
@@iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii3048 Just chuck the TQ+ in a bin and forget this 21st century madness ever came to be.
read this last night. oh my god he literally has negative self awareness.
15:08 "How is seeing something from someone else's perspective supposed to be a toll?" I guess if you're as much of a narcissist as Halliday and Wade, it probably is a taxing experience.
We could use it as a punishment for narcissists...
*DUN DUN DUNNA DUNNA DUN*
*YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR*
*DUN DUN DUNNA DUNNA DUN*
*YOU WOULDN'T KILL A MAN*
Speak for yourself, I have no regrets.
YOU WOULDN'T SHOOT A POLICEMAN
@@MsSarahJosephine HOW DID YOU KNOW
@@MsSarahJosephine AND THEN STEAL HIS HELMET
@@bananaboatcharlie YOU WOULDN'T GO TO THE TOILET IN HIS HELMET AND THEN SEND IT TO THE POLICEMAN'S GRIEVING WIDOW
I really hated this book, and I absolutely loved the first, even with all its minor issues cuz I saw it as a fun little popcorn adventure, but holy hell, the sequel just ruins everything good about the first one.
Some of the ideas with the ONI headset were neat, even the questionable ones, but it was just a big mess especially the John Hughs section, and that ending. Ughhh.
Though Wade turning into a massive prick, zeroing trolls in-game, suing for defamation, sounds pretty accurate for someone like him that gains ultimate power like that. No points for stalking though; just watch Arty’s stream or televised coverage if you’re that desperate to see your ex.
"'Gee golly-gosh gloryosky!' thought Wade Watts as he stepped onto the bridge of the Enterprise."
Seriously, though, from now on I'm calling male Mary Sue characters "Wade Watts."
Same
New Strain Detected
XD
Why is this giving me serious Onison's books vibes.
ikr
Anorak speller backwards is "Karona"
Sounds like the varus to me
ah yes the Karonavarus
Karona? The False God from Magic: The Gathering who almost destroys an entire plane/universe?
Ooh, my little pretty one.
if it's an 80s obsessed society where are the Princess Diana stans
Or Michael Jackson?
Or Jem? She Ra? Jane Fonda aerobics? My Little Pony? The Babysitters Club?
I didn't during the 80s, but I figured that this stuff was also successful during that time.
@Zelda of the Moon Garden i think if it's about 90s nostalgia, Power Rangers and Outer Limits (maybe).
@Zelda of the Moon Garden I'm unfamiliar with a lot of videogames, who were the memorable characters from then. Other than Sonic and Mario and Donkey Kong
@@katherinealvarez9216 but that’s girl stuff!! cline could never! /s
I wasn't expecting this manchild to be *that* bad when he gained god-like powers over the virtual world, but Wade almost reached *Empress Theresa* levels of petty power fantasy.
I haven't read the book but if there are so many paralelles between wade and halliday it seems like a huge missed opportunity to drive home that sentence about not knowing a person despite knowing everything about them by just making wade the villain, or having him go through a redemption arc where he realizes how similar he is to a guy who he thinks is wrong and tries to be better.
His other book Armada is also kinda like "hey, Remember the 80's"- the book
Armada copied The Last Starfighter’s homework, but changed just enough that the teacher couldn’t tell.
The MC even says so near the beginning!
Didn't he end up with a goth gf that might be the only thing I remember about the ending
How bad is the book? I tried finding videos that review it, but alot of them seem to blindly praise it.
JRR Tolkien is spinning in his grave
He’s spinning so hard that he can create enough friction to generate the energy needed to power an entire city for generations to come.
His corpse is becoming the drill that shall pierce the heavens.
Tolkien would greatly dislike this
Literally ONI like the japanese mythological demon... yeah that sounds like a good idea
They told me I could be anything - so I became cyber-Stalin.
This sounds like the very definition of 'You never intended to give your book a sequel, did you?'
Cline ended the last book with a close-knit circle of fire-forged friends overcoming the enormous odds stacked against them to win what was essentially unlimited resources. And, unlike the previous owner that had been using them for selfish gain and control, the victorious protagonists desired to use them for good, and we had no real reason to doubt their sincerity.
The story was done, and by design it had been _heavily_ propped up by cultural references and nostalgia. If Cline were to write a sequel, he'd need to do a lot to make it worthwhile. And probably the _worst_ thing he could do is contrive a way that Wade is reverted to prickly recluse, the friends break apart, and all of their resources and experiences are rendered useless in the face of unexpected life-or-death stakes...
...which, unfortunately, is exactly what he did. Even worse, it's abundantly clear that Cline wasn't holding much back when he upended the nostalgia bucket onto the original story. I like John Hughes, but if Cline considers 'Pretty in Pink' casting trivia to be solid nostalgia-fodder, it feels like he's really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Oh, and then it also just kinda adds that it's within their technological ability to scan and replicate human minds in a digital form, because I guess Cline played SOMA or watched Black Mirror and didn't think about the _horrifying_ _existential_ _implications_ of such technology beyond "Hey, man, what if people could be, like...digital?"
And just to end this on a petty note, even his _title_ is uninspired. What, just a number-swap that makes the protagonist being exactly the same confusing? Why not call it 'RPO: Split-Screen' or 'RPO: Multiplayer'? Those aren't exactly good, but at least they imply an expansion of scope, and they don't lock you into a really constrictive title scheme. Because as much as I hope this series just stops, if this one makes him money (or worse, gets a movie adaptation) there isn't a doubt in my mind he'll keep making them.
i ain't reading all that. I'm happy for you tho, or sorry that happened.
they say a movie adaptation is already on its way, for what i ready, so... guess we'll be getting more of these soon, sadly. This does feel uninspired, more like a cash-grab than anything else, specially considering Cline admitted they thought about making a sequel book WHILE they were filming the first movie. Kinda, sorta, hoping for the second movie to do poorly so that he doesn't feel the need to make more of these if this is what we'll be getting...
@@Forever_Muffin considering he wrote the first movie AND considering the movie is mostly different anyway why the fuck didn’t he just write the sequel to the film instead of the book....
I've never seen a John Hughes movie, but I think something like Pretty in Pink trivia can work and be interesting to learn, it just doesn't work with how Cline does references. His use of trivia and references is like walking up to a random person and being like, "Hey you remember Prince?" and you say, "No" and he says, "He was that guy with the yellow suit that had pants that exposed his rear. I could picture him playing Composite Batman in a Val Kilmer Batman movie featuring Bukcaroo Banzai."
Exceptional review---couldn't agree more with your take overall. I would say, however, that it's pointed out in the text that Halliday had two heirs---Ogden Morrow being the first and only heir of whom Halliday was aware prior to his death. Halliday specifically enabled Og to complete the quest in question. Halliday's AI duplicate grabs Og, not Parzival/Wade, initially, in order to acquire the shards of the siren's soul. For Z, viewing Kira's memories was far from a toll but for Og? Having to relive your deceased wife's most cherished memories from her perspective decades after her death? Holy fuck that would be emotionally exhausting and harrowing experience.
What you’re saying makes total sense but I think from an audience perspective it feels hollow. It’s like Chekhov’s prophecy (instead of gun). If you give the audience a prophecy it better come true in some way before the end of the book otherwise it doesn’t need to be in the book and it’s wasted tension.
@@freyjathehealer5559 I've little to no interest in serving as an apologist for the title's author, that book is by and large an abortive mess, but through the lens of my previous reflection said prophecy did come to fruition, at least in so far as it's original (character) author had the capacity to foretell. With respect to your referring to the broader implementation of prophecy as a literary device, I think it's also worth pointing out that prophecies are, almost without exception, as the audience experiences them, misdirects--one or more characters presumes the prophecy is intended to imply or be enacted in one way, when in reality it applies or is enacted in a highly nuanced or radically different way entirely. As we're ostensibly discussing fantasy writing--other ready examples would include Anakin Skywalker and Harry Potter. As for your observation of "needs to be in the book"--well hell, that's a fair criticism of nearly every chapter in RP2--it's a veritable hodge-podge of unnecessary inclusions and diversions. Hemingway would not approve. :)
These books are just. Lists. So many. LISTS. and I hate it. Also the SAO references make me die over and over.
Here in the UK, David Walliams is a really popular children's author. I used to be a teacher and I read a few of his books to my classes at various points. They are SO mind-numbingly dull for this exact reason. Just pages of lists, like Walliams has been asked to meet a certain word count and lacked the creativity to do so. But the kids loved them because they had silly words in them and funny plots. So what do I know?
Spy Kids 3D, Overlord, Log Horizon, heck, even the Ragnarok anime are worthier of being mentioned as some sort of cult classic instead of SAO.
@@mqfii8992 SAO is basically one really executed terribly but because that concept is so cool it keeps chugging along.
Is there a good version of it. That isn't the abridged series I mean.
@@ieuanhunt552 Overlord, Log Horizon and the Ragnarok MMO anime are entertaining, at least more than SAO.
@@mqfii8992 Overlord is fantastic. Ainz is how you do a Power Fantasy character right.
Give him limitless powers (access to the real money shop) and massive imposter syndrome.
This is unrelated but your cheekbones are amazing
Thank you I grew them myself
@@AmandaTheJedi
Good you should be proud.
@@AmandaTheJedi can you release a video tutorial so we too can grow some ourselves
@@AmandaTheJedi any chance you are willing to trade? I have tons of shins and literal barrels of feet but I have almost no cheekbones.
If you are willing to trade for 2 pairs of feet I'll even throw in a holographic charzard as a bonus.
@@DriscolDevil W A T
"it let's you experience other people's experience"
Oh this just screams black mirror to me
Art3mis really should have been the protagonist of these books. She’s far more likeable and reasonable.
It would have have made more sense to have RP2 to be about her. Like, just because of the name of the book.
Right, cause being reasonable and likeable makes interesting characters. I mean, look at any character in the history of fiction. They all do what they do because they're reasonable and likeable.
@@amanbhardwaj8667 first sentence, but unironically
@@ZBBBlL I disagree. Let me put it in a different way, capability and reason are 2 of the worst character traits. 80% of any story is your hero's struggle, reluctance, fuck-ups, selfish decisions and/or cowardice. If your protagonist has clarity (or qualities that help reach it quicker like reason, capability, bravery, etc) they're boring. They have nothing to offer, learn, no reason to explain themselves with. At the end of the day, we're forgetting one thing each time we critique a writer's work, they're the writer and we aren't. They have the whole picture, we just have hindsight over the final, narrowed down vision. People will often go the wish fulfilment route but it's often the wrong one. Stories aren't written with the right ingredients but with the right combination of the wrong ones. This is why Sherlock Holmes books are from Watson's POV, he brings forward Holmeses inner turmoil, which btw, Holmes has no discernible reason to share with the reader because he thinks we're losers and not worth his time. The same goes for n-number of books. They're always from the perspective of a person with a vulnerability, or with some personal emotional investment to the key struggle of the story. Not because they're the right person for the job (but often, the wrong one). In fact, that's mostly not the case. It's the right hand thumb rule of writing a story.
@@amanbhardwaj8667 sounds like you like shitty horror film then. I like it when the character made something that made sense and smart because they're actually reasonable and smart like in Alien2, the matrix, gits, etc. Not because writers dumb them down for plot device.
Me: "Wait, it's just popculture SOMA?"
Ernest Cline with gun behind me: "Always has been."
SOMA, but without any horror or depth. Just "hey, being digital copies is great!".
What’s ‘SOMA’??
@@julianmedina952 an amazing videogame (there are a few video essays on it)
This book almost felt like a character assassination for Wade
This is an Onision book combined with a 13 year old boy's self insert fanfiction. I support book burning now.
For these
YES
So just an onision book
Just Like Wade Did
THERE'S A SEQUEL?!?! I literally know all this stuff cuz of Amanda 😂
Just finished the second book and… Damn, I’m upset. I really LOVED the first book and the movie is one of my favorite movies(not a perfect movie though). After reading, I liked elements of the story, such as the John Hughes world and how it functions. However, the world of the book itself was just so closed and non-expansive. Like it’s cool to have Prince and LOTR world, but it just kept going on and on with those type of “wow look how deep-cut we can get with these particular properties”. It was just monotonous. And the ending was like, A.I is cool and living forever in a computer in space is a breeze….. No… The whole story that the characters had in this book AND the last one was about how immersing yourself too much into the Oasis is not good, but hey, throw that out the window I guess.
Don’t get me started on Wade. The last book had him doing very shitty things, but at the end of one, it was said to the reader that he was going to grow after all the shit he did and all the shit that happened to him. But no, they throw it all out of the window, and he’s still weird. Dude, you’re in your like in your 30s, grow the hell up.
Overall, I’m very worried for the RP2 movie if it happens. It’s been reported that this book was made with the sequel to the movie in mind to make it less separated as an adaptation, but that just makes me scared. The movie’s ending with Halliday seemed heartfelt and pretty charming actually with him giving the egg to Wade. However, with this book being about Halliday being the villain, it seriously undercuts everything that the ending had. All the weight, and the messages are just *poof* gone. What made me love the first book and the movie was the ending, it wrapped everything up perfectly. “Reality, is real”. It’s great
Biggest rant I’ve ever had on YT, thank you
RPO: Zero to Hero
RPT: Hero to Zero
It sounds like it had the potential to be Dune Messiah; someone who started off as the hero but turned into the villain.
Paul lacked the courage to walk the golden path. he wasn't a villain, he was a tragically failed hero.
Leto II did what was necessary for humanity to survive: being a tyrant.
neither is a villain, but they seem that way to others in the fiction. readers know of the important reasons why they act like they do & the sacrifices they heroically chose to make.
maybe this author explains why wade makes such bonehead moves.. but based on THIS review, he didn't.
Thank you for calling out how annoying the Prince planet was. Why was (what felt like) half the book spent on that planet??
Great example of, "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."
The funny thing is that *optional, consensual* digital immortality coupled with embryos and a generation ship would've been a brilliant way to resolve this if it were done well. Or, you know, with less terrible characters.
the thing I hate the most about ready player one is its use of the iron giant as a war weapon
Amanda: Mentions that the Silmarillion was used in Ready Player 2
Me, a Tolkien Fan: What can beloved franchises do against such reckless cringe writing?
At least Marillion (which took their name from The Silmarillion) is fine still.