>Our girl spends the funeral reception crouched on the ground with a spider crawling across her hand as she whispers what sounds like a spell about “dragons of flesh” and “dragons of thread” before shutting it inside a clamshell.

>Sorbo would need, in his words, to portray “a radical Islamic pedophile terrorist” to have his talents properly recognized.

Hell, there are already reports of “god-fearing” CVS clerks refusing to sell condoms.

He means the accent. (And were the first two rent-a-cops Cockney? I thought they were Scots again.)

Nice to have another entry that doesn’t deliberately mimic Lucas’ awful, awful dialogue and has people who talk like... people.

The people who crew the bell tower at the local university really are like that. They play the usual hourly chimes, except at noon. Then they put on a *show*. (When I was a student, I heard stuff like the Imperial March, the Gilligan’s Island Theme, Proud Mary, etc.)

And Bix says “Oh God”.

From the logo, they clearly meant “menhir” (I read a lot of Asterix as a kid)...

Hah. Their reviewer went on and on about “broth and juice” in the description of the beach scene.

Author: “They did a ‘Bury Your Gays’! Shame! Shame!”

That’s the screwup du jour of writers who only read Twitter. My other favorite is tech writers who say things like “When the system is running full boat, the fans get really loud” - the idiom is “full bore.”

1) The War of Wrath also involved a large chunk of western Middle Earth being blasted into the ocean.

Discord, a gussied-up IRC. How quaint.

> It’s not long, though, until the cat you control is separated from the pack.

> (See also: The moment when William unveiled the latest park in an earlier episode and referred to the pandemic that ravaged the human population in the 21st century). I appreciate the show trying not to will away COVID and its many metaphors, but it still feels too soon.

Hm, doesn’t seem to be any mention of stupid names.

Tia’s priest dad casting the defensive barrier spell “STRYPER!” always gets a chuckle. ‘Cuz they’re Christian metal, get it?

1.25 seconds, so 2.5 seconds round trip. Just enough to be annoying.

>Sojourner One is harnessing solar power to give it an extra boost that will put it into Mars orbit eight days before Phoenix.

Doubly ironic, considering that some states made it illegal to teach German in schools after World War 1. (And Texas has long been a leader in the English-only movement in the US.)