Re: absent daemons
Will's father is the missing Arctic explorer mentioned in episode 1. He's revealed to be from our world a little later (episode 3, I think?)
I have no idea why non-book readers are sticking with this show. It must be utterly impenetrable if you don't already know who the characters are.
Scrolled all the way down here to see if anyone likes David Comes to Life
“all the guards at the Magisterium have big mean looking dogs with them”
My feeling is that the character decisions were based on something far more mundane: they got Miranda, who is a recognisable name and can attract an audience, and then they reworked the character to suit his energy.
Those reviews appeared after season 2. The initial review for S1 was a C+. http://tv.avclub.com/netflix-s-entry-into-the-adult-animation-race-bojack-h-1798181164#_ga=2.95015454.305527774.1533272455-525726489.1503284145
“When it premiered as Netflix’s first adult animated series, The A.V. Club was quick to shoot it down, claiming it “spoofs the emptiness of celebrity, but does so without any novelty or true insight””
Season 1 of BoJack. Yeah, y’all came onboard afterwards but my god did everyone shit on the first season. If it had been released at a different point in Netflix’s lifecycle, Bojack would be a one-season oddity, remembered only by a handful of weirdos.
Lol
Huge belly laugh from me at“We’re not a book group” “We’re not /not/ a book group"
I have a one-sided iPod :(
Dept of Speculation is one of the best books of this decade
Are B-sides are a thing of the past now? Surely there are some hipster bands still making them, although I’m not sure the concept of a B-side even makes much sense when you don’t have a physical single. Without that implicit relationship to an A-side, the B-side is just a song.
“Have you tried moving it to another dimension and back again?"
Yup, it definitely sounds great. All that, plus Toby Jones and giallo behind-the-scenes — just hook it to my veins!
Several films were overlooked for feeling, imho, a bit 2009-ey, like Toy Story 3 and Four Lions. Actual 2009 film Dogtooth was included though.
Blue Ruin is a stunner
Berberian Sound Studio is one of those films that sounds great on paper, but...