Aech Archives

Girls do come in all shapes and sizes though, and at least they left in her birthmark. Also, I have nothing bad to say about Lena Waithe as Aech, minus the choice to reveal her casting early on, taking away the moment of true surprise from the audience when her IRL character is revealed.  She was perfect,[...]

Touching on the prevalence of bullies and those who pick on lower level and/or poorer gamers?  Yes, because that's part of the point of the freaking story. Main character Wade Watts and his avatar Parzival (played in the film by Tye Sheridan) is poor, and a low level character in the gamer-culture world of the OASIS *because*[...]

Get advance tickets now: https://t.co/uyuPQXAgmi pic.twitter.com/CSjk4bO2Dz — Ready Player One (@readyplayerone) March 15, 2018 In that trailer, you get another voiceover of Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) talking to himself, going over what apparently is the film version of Anorak's Quest quatrain clue that Gunters follow with the hopes of finding the three keys.  Once collected and challenges[...]

This new trailer has been showing on NBCSports during the Olympics; I first saw it last night. Seeing the High Five together is interesting: Olivia Cooke as Art3mis, Sheridan as Parzival, Win Morisaki as Daito, Philip Zhao as Shoto, and Lena Waithe as Aech. Ready Player One is set to hit theaters on March 29th. [...]

And perhaps the most interesting choice: several shots of Aech. I've been trying really hard not to talk about the source material plots revolving Aech, because the reveal of that is sort of one of the most surprising parts of the book It doesn't matter ultimately, but it was an inspired choice of Ernie Cline's to put[...]

In the book, he is the first person to find the key and go through the gate. Then we've got Art3mis/Samantha Evelyn Cook played by Olivia Cooke, second to find the key and successfully go through the gate. We've got Aech, (I'm trying real hard not to spoil the big reveal for non-book readers) who is Parzival's best[...]