I thought this was a very sweet show, but it does take a few episodes to find its footing, or perhaps better stated, its sea legs. It’s never as riotously funny as something like What We Do in the Shadows, but I don’t think it’s trying to be. It’s got the same pedigree of quirky humor and grotesqueries (severed limbs,…

Unfortunately yes the last episode does end on a cliffhanger. It’s still quite good and I think worth a watch if you’re into Lovecraftian /cosmic horror.

Archive 81 getting cancelled after a great first season that was barely promoted even a little while tons of mindless crap continues on over at Netflix is really grinding my gears today. That’s the first show on Netflix I’ve cared about in years and it’s gone after two months. 

I could best describe Pacific Rim: The Black’s slog of a first season as a bleak, spiteful hate letter to Guillermo del Toro’s original movie. I don’t think anything has hated its own source material this hard since Highlander II.

First person perspective kinda ruins it for me. Also a couple years ago I picked up the third person adventure game remaster and it mostly held up, but was clearly using older style game design with little variation. Wish someone would go an expand on that.

I really love Tron and Tron: Legacy. I still remember my absolute hype leading up to Legacy (and being utterly alone on that front for years of rumors beforehand). It’s still one of my all time favorite things Disney has done. I desperately wanted a follow-up for years... but now the inclusion of Jared Leto, the…

I’m not a huge fan of WotC adventure books. I feel like there hasn’t been one that’s actually “ready to run” in 5E. I feel like I have to pull them apart and rebuild them. To the point that it borders on just writing my own campaign. Though the anthology books tend to work better in general that the full adventure…

This actually had me choked up a bit yesterday when I saw he had passed. He was the last of the principle cast of Godzilla (1954) to pass and there was a sad sense of finality to it that weighed on my mind last night. He also played my favorite character in one of my childhood favorites Ebirah, Horror of the Deep…

Rumor has it there will be an “embiggen” moment where she is at the center of a huge humanoid light construct. 

I say “obviously” because it seems to me very specifically a branding thing for Marvel. These characters aren’t X-Men branded characters, so they won’t get the “mutant” trademark unless Marvel wants to incorporate them into that brand / editorial department. I mean even historically Carol Danvers hung out with the…

You know I didn’t even think about that and that’s a great point.

A ton of reasons really

Looks like Archive 81 released in January (in the US at least), so it really hasn’t been out that long, but no one seems to be talking about it now either.

Got around to Archive 81 on Netflix a couple weeks ago and absolutely loved it. I was totally unfamiliar with the podcast of which the show is apparently based and had absolutely no idea the show existed (because typical Netflix). One night I was talking to a friend while he was doing storyboarding work and we were…

Disagree. This is not a redemption scene. Boromir had nothing to redeem himself for really. It’s a great death scene that emphasizes the tragedy of what the Ring actually does to people. The minute long scene with Frodo where Boromir is overcome by the Ring made of pure evil and tries to take it, is immediately “redeem…

I think what’s really missing her is Disney’s budget. 

I gotta say I’m more partial to Terminator: Salvation being the “best” one since T2 in terms of trying something new - i.e. finally no time travel, but a hint that time travel definitely messed something up because the T-800 series was being completed much sooner than John was told. It wasn’t a complete rehash like Dar…

On one hand we can’t keep making the same movies / TV shows with an IP. We will keep ending up with increasingly tired pieces of media that way. Just look at the Terminator franchise. Alien is quickly approaching that same nexus of “please stop” that Terminator exists in now, so I applaud taking a different approach.

That is 100% what they’re riffing on. The whole Robert Zemeckis dead-eye CGI movies of the 2000s really. Beowulf, The Polar Express, and A Christmas Carol. 

Now that song and the scene from The Venture Brothers are gonna be stuck in my head all day