It's called gentrifi-gay-tion!

As one of the producers said "There's more men on men dancing in Fiddler."

Ten years we've been rusting
Needing so much more than dusting
Needing exercise, a chance to use our skill

I did. She refused to come back to the shuttle and went out defending her alien soldiers, overcoming her space racism in the process.

My Kaiden and maleShep are living happily ever after taking cooking classes on the (new) Citadel and fundraising for homeless biotic orphans.

Right? There's a similarly goofy moment for femShep. The camera was on Kaiden and Shepard alone and you had the option to say "because I couldn't bear to lose you." Then the camera pulls back and the entire crew is sitting around them for a mission briefing. No one acknowledges the Commander's inappropriate comment. …

Kaiden got a lot of flack but he fits into the romcom Prince Charming mode as a romance. Also if you romance him in ME3 as maleShep it adds some fun subtext to their arguments in 1 and 2.

As I recall the Leviathan DLC had you hunting the undersea aliens who created the Star Child. It was an AI designed to "end their war." The AI decided ending wars involved "assimilating all life forms into machines to end conflict and the differences that cause it." So basically the Borg. This expands the conversation…

"Shepard!"
"Wrex!"
"I've brought a casserole… A space casserole."
"I should go."

"You could conceivably describe Andromeda as a faithful ode to campy low-budget sci-fi films."

The cartoon gives him a quick backstory:
"Bullies used to pick on me because I sang in choir,
but something very strange occurred as I kept singing higher,
the ruffians around me quickly fell into a trance,
and it was then with wicked glee I made those puppets dance!"

The press release got me hyped for an original score ala the Music Meister episode of Batman The Brave and the Bold. Sad to hear it's a juke-box grab bag.

I was not a fan of La La Land. The lead characters were jerks and their untrained singing voices made me angry. That being said the final sequence was brilliant. For me the dream ballet was Seb imagining what his life with her would have been like if he wasn't a jerk. Each key moment where he let her down is…

Margot Robbie being pulled out of her Harley persona by Joker's apparent death. Then trying, and failing, to snap back into it when the rest of the Squad finds her.

Disney handled that type of death scene better in Tarzan. It's one of the few moments that works in that film.

Most direct to video sequels are garbage. "Bartok the Magnificent" is pretty weak but Flaherty managed to write some good songs for it. Andrea Martin's "Someone's in my house" and Catherine Keener's "The Real Ludmilla" are worth a listen.

The "Hunchback" recording from Papermill has some lovely new songs. "Made of Stone" is particularly strong though it reminds me of their "Wicked" song "No Good Deed."

The new songs are bland but my biggest beef with the stage musical is their attempt to shift from an ensemble comedy to a star vehicle. Victoria is built up at the expense of Toddy and King. She gets more songs but she doesn't have much of an inner life. We don't get much sense of who she is beyond Julie Andrews…

T'was indeed. I made sense of it the next day but the battle made a poor first impression. I took down two more Divine Beasts this weekend and the aiming felt cleaner on the other vehicles.

Vilia needs to be there too. I just met her and she's charming. Nintendo could have handled her big scene better but it's a baby step.