I needed to hear (read) all of that. I am convinced that if Florida can be given back to the sea, and Texas can be given back to Mexico, we can adopt Puerto Rico and DC as states—all without having to redesign the flag (because budgets!).
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Actually, the unicorn was Ross Perot.
I think some of that is clear in the structure of the magic in LC.
It’s that “fear of entropy / power over life and death” language that is so antithetical to any spiritual truth or non-oppression based living that gives it away. And the purity of Hippolyta’s experience shows an alternative path to “naming magic.”
The…
This show was fantastic! I came into it because of Jordan Peele but Misha Green is a helluva writer. My wife and I have been glued to this since the first episode. And I very much appreciate Ms. Brooks and The Root giving more in-depth discussion of the themes and additional resources to dig deeper. Thank you!
I have watched a lot of television and film and as a consequence I can usually fifthshadow my way through the entire storyline of things, sometimes in the first 5 minutes, sometimes just from the trailer.
So, binding white people from using magic raises an interesting question: who counts as white people? (See the history of Irish and Italian folks in the US, shifting notions of race as you move throughout the Americas, etc.) I’m really hoping the show isn’t relying on a quasi-biological/quasi-mystical notion of what…
I had to replay I am Blessed twice, the soundstage through a home cinema sounded amazing.
Bethesda honestly needs to split their Fallout mayoral simulator and the mainline fallout franchise into multiple series. I like the whole “play a 4x in first person after the bomb” idea, but they’re bad at meshing it with the storytelling Fallout traditionally stands for.
This one got a laugh when I stumbled across it:
Yeah, there’s some awesome Halloween themed ones around just now. Sadly they are still tethered to a fundamentally broken game. I don’t think I ever had a session without some bug or issue and I laugh whenever someone tells me how they’ve fixed most of the issues and that it’s good now. When it works it is a lot of…
I think the best one I’ve run across in the wild was a recreation of the first level from Donkey Kong. Managed to take a few screenshots before I logged off.
The rules in the contest never made any sense. Bobby, one of the Cobra Kai goons, gets disqualified for kicking Daniel’s knee. But during the big fight montage (“You’re the best!”) there are about a half dozen brutal kicks to the face. Dutch lands a wicked kick to Daniel’s face which to which he just rubs his eyes and…
Okay, that is her official designation now. Hippolyta is a Time Lord.🤷🏾♀️
“and more focused on the meat and gristle of the message” - all true, but I think emphasising that part discounts the fact that Kinitra (who I don’t think I’ve read before) has some serious ‘genre’ game going on as well.
yeah, just popped over from the i09 take and...yeah...i’m just gonna read Kinitra’s takes on it from now on. so much more intimate and thoughtful nuance less concerned with typical sci-fi/horror storytelling tropes, and more focused on the meat and gristle of the message. not to say that Charles’ own critique of the…
I’m surprised he wasn’t drinking actual gasoline by the end of the episode, that was some rough shit to go through.
“How to go from being righteously pissed at your dad to understanding why he’s so broken in 24 hours or less.”
So I feel what I’m about to write here is a shocking revelation, but a computer game set in a mythical realm is, and I cannot stress this enough, not real life.
I’d also been pointed in the direction of several different people who could potentially vacuum the brain worms out of my head, each of whom were directly or indirectly tied to different characters in my party. I barely knew any of my party members and was given no time to get to know them individually. Every time I…