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Marcus Carab
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I knew nothing about this show and was paying minimal attention as I clicked the review, so I thought it was *graded* an F (and who doesn't love to read an F review?) Thus I spent several paragraphs thinking "wait, what did you hate about it?"

Yeah you are absolutely right. It WAS a treat, and I had a huge grin on my face for pretty much every single second of playing it. I should soften my initial comment, because I really shouldn't put this forth as a complaint - it's just my tiny little "here's the one thing that they could do to make the *next* game

I guess I shouldn't exactly say a new "story" because yes, the plotline was new. But the vast majority of the material was old. They patched the new plotline together out of things we'd already seen - the aliens, the underpants gnomes, the crab people, the Mongolians, etc. Even the kids' game was more or less based on

If I have one hope for the next video game, it's that it will tell a *new* story (or extend a story into wholly new territory).

Yeah, I definitely expected them to sum up the whole season with a traditional speech - and the episode even seemed to hint that was coming. But "everyone hash it out while pointing guns at each other" followed by "PC principal speech in a different tone of voice that completely changes how you hear the message" was a

Personally I didn't see the ending as especially ambiguous. I hope I'm not just viewing it through a biased lens, because I'm not trying to rob it of subtlety, but to me it came across as confirmation of what many of us have suspected all along: that Trey & Matt are pretty much on board with the all basic ideals and

If you think I disagree, you need to read my comment again…

Look - I'm enjoying the down-to-earth superhero noir of Jessica Jones too, but does that mean it's a sin for another Marvel show to be a "fantastic world of evil organizations trying to open alien portals to advance their plot for world domination"? Because y'know, to some of us those words sound like a fun show - but

Oh please. There is nothing resembling a useful analogy to be drawn from comparing the wartime theft of art from foreign countries with the current situation regarding digital distribution, economics and piracy.

It can be a bit hit-or-miss, though. Dethlok's leg was great. His lazer-tag outfit? Not so much.

Mac's Axe is the new, less-subtle version of Chekov's Gun. We've now even literally seen it hanging on the wall.

I also love how they build to the Lincoln-May scene with all the shots of Lincoln being begrudgingly impressed and also unnerved by just how damn good SHIELD can be at its job when it really tries.

It must have been. Does anything else use letters for drives? Hearing "C colon" took my straight back to my DOS days (then hearing "forward slash" took me right back out of them)

And it does kind of make an "ng" noise.

"Making them both seem normal size!"

Or as Dara O'Briain points out, you CAN overdose on homeopathic medicine: "You can fuckin' drown!"

It took seven minutes before they thought "oh fuck we forgot to do the opening credits - whatever just drop them in here"

Yeah well if we're going down that road, I highly doubt any of their muscles still function. Also are we to understand that they actually have working digestive systems?

I get it, I just think it's a really stupid choice. It's like they wanted the classic shot of a "dam bursting" but couldn't figure out how to make it work for something that's not really a dam…