So I think the reason for this was, and the reason the first game is set in the Crusades, was because it was a time period that would naturally have the Knights Templar in it, but then they established that the Knights Templar was actually the Illuminati, a secretive, power hungry group of tyrants that also included…

You could steal a pen!

Underworld is what most video games movies should aspire to be.

I really should have scrolled down.

Until we can count Wreck it Ralph as a video game movie, you're right.

Every single major templar you assassinate calls you out on the hypocrisy of the assassins, but it's always pretty hollow coming from the villains of the series. They just need more honest, third party bystanders who maybe aren't okay with all the mass stabbings going on these days.

The main ideological conflict of the series is that the Templars think that humanity is too dumb and frail to make good decisions, so a little despotism is good because it will preserve order and civilization. The Assassins believe that people should be free to make their own decisions, even if they make bad decisions…

Somebody really cranked up his Bill Nye slider in the character creator.

Hugh Laurie's American is definitely deeper. Even someone like Mark Strong, who already has a very deep voice, goes for a baritone when he's being slightly American. Probably because all Americans are rough and tumble cowboys, and our voices have gotten raspy from eating raw corn and herding cattle.

Which is why tv shows about law and history and science and medicine are so popular! Because they have found a way to make complicated themes relatable and interesting to people with only base level knowledge. People loved Lincoln, and that movie wasn't fully committed to historical accuracy, it made political…

It also occasionally makes the prosecutors seem like dicks for pushing a case, or just being vindictive. And frequently, a suspect who clearly committed the crime is not convicted of the crime, although I don't think they ever went the route of prosecuting people for crimes they knew they didn't commit.

Yeah but I think the original Law and Order did a good job of making the show seem realistic and plausible, while also not typically fitting to storytelling cliches, which legal cases don't. Of course, Law and Order basically invented it's own brand of cliches to go off of, and you're probably more qualified to tell…

I agree, although the movie grounds itself greatly as being entirely plausible, it never really attempts to explain how any of the alien technology works, because it obviously can't.

I studied History in school, and my professors were the same way, they hate the way history is misrepresented in movies most of the time. I think it comes from the fact that people, like historians, scientists, doctors, lawyers, are annoyed that their jobs and the world they represent is not only inaccurately…

It certainly looked like they were suspended in water in that scene.

In the first game, it was very obvious Corvo was a father figure, but I always thought that he and the Empress kind of had an illicit relationship, and Emily was not actually his daughter.

I work at an elementary school in Chicago, and the Cubs winning the World Series was probably a lot more memorable than whatever the fuck we did at school that day.

The one person who wrote "Not feeling well" is obviously a Great Job Internet! fan.

They'll replace this guy with Adrian Peterson in the next commercial.

Yeah, even bad meat is better than good veggies.