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Maya Suris

M.L. Star (Maya Souris) — Author of epic fantasy "Realm of Kings" series; writer of darkly funny fantasy with dangerous alliances and questionable morality.

Jul 24, 2026

12:11
Do you want to give us your sort of brief capsule account of what it was like watching this one after having watched and covered that first one?
12:19
It has been a very, very long time since I've seen this movie.
12:23
And I guess I kind of didn't realize how long it had been.
12:28
And possibly since I saw it in the theater in the mid aughts, like it's, it's been a minute and there's a lot, like you mentioned at the top, there's a lot of memorable scenes from this.
12:40
And I guess those were the things that kind of stuck in my head.
12:44
I did not remember Dead Man's Chest being, one, as long as it is, and two, having such a huge emphasis on the character of Jack Sparrow.
12:58
And...

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87:10
Let's not spoil it.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
81:31
Mm-hmm.
81:32
They're really good at choreography, they're very good at footwork, and they have that combination of strength and flexibility.
81:39
A lot of dancers translate very well to being good fighters, especially if they're doing specifically stage combat or something that is choreographed.
81:50
But just in general, they understand how the body moves and they understand those mechanics that kind of lend themselves to, you know, fighting in some ways you could think of it as more aggressive dancing.
82:03
There are people in my past who I, one specific person that I used to refer to as my dance partner, because one of the ways that we first became attracted to each other was when we danced for the first time.
82:17
There is almost a one-to-one.
82:20
scene of that in the beginning of volume two.

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GregHOST
97:34
something that alex loves to say all the time is that all the characters are facets of him um again coming back a little bit to the uh psychological archetypes and stuff like that you you You talked about Seth and his influence on the story, but in terms of viewing Aaron, Titus, and Eris as aspects of yourself, is there a strong or weak correlation?

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