{"id":1118,"date":"2009-12-22T17:57:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T17:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2009-12-22T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T17:59:11","slug":"christmas-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for one of my absolute favourite monsters, THE KRAKEN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Reprising the classic look from Ray Harryhausen<\/a>‘s original film, the Kraken appears for a whole gleeful climactic eighteen seconds in the current trailer<\/a>(2) for the soon-to-be-released remake of Clash of the Titans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To my enormous delight, the Kraken was also recently honoured as Badass of the Week<\/strong> by Ben Thompson, on his brilliant website of the same name: click here for a great piece that rounds up some classic Krakenology in fine style<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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However: <\/strong>Mr Thompson’s excellent description of his subject as (I quote) “basically a giant-ass emotionless cephalopod<\/strong> who lives solely to eat boats, destroy all life in the ocean, and violently implode warships with his ultra-powerful crush-o-matic appendages of doom<\/strong>“, while wonderful, isn’t, I believe, quite<\/em> the whole story. There’s a very different side to our titanic tentacular friend, as anyone familiar with the Kraken’s starring role in Tim, Defender of the Earth<\/strong> might already know. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Another mad year draws to a close. I am knackered, but with CRAWLERS <\/strong>poised to launch in April (and plenty more thrilling projects in the pipeline) I’m very, very happy.<\/p>\n

Thanks, best wishes and Merry Christmas to anyone reading this. I hope you enjoy your food. ;D<\/p>\n

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The sinister masterplan continues. SNEE HEE HEE!<\/p>\n

Sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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