Oh. I thought it was just an introductory aside and waited for the sentence to start.

Nope. The source material is indeed awful.

pointing out that its subscribers are smart enough to draw appropriate lines between reality and those moments that are played up for television

Congratulations ! It’s a cool age !

Oh. Wait. What ? I hadn’t heard of a netflix version.

Okay, three things.

Yeah. When mobile phones became popular and people felt “important” for needing and being able to be reached anywhere, Umberto Eco pointed out that “important” people where precisely those who had the luxury of not being reachable at will.

Disclaimer : I actually kinda liked the death note films, and enjoyed the clever, bittersweet win that deviates from the anime/manga and allows a 3rd movie.

Amusingly, in french, both Endor and Andor are homophones with Endors (put to sleep / fall asleep).

Ok. Never even heard of it. Guess I had managed to dodge simultaneously one more star wars byproduct (of how many?) and one more gamergatey cross-burning (of how many?). Double win there.

I don’t know what star wars forces of destiny are and I don’t even know what forces of destiny could be. Does destiny need forces ? Are they forces that are retrospectively deemed as of destiny, as, actually, any forces would be deemed retrospectively ? Is it the force of destiny, but for multiple destinies ? Is it…

Take THAT, 2020.

Hardy was the perfect casting choice for Bane.

The 1974 version with Christopher Lee’s Roarke would make an interesting reboot if they cast Daniel Craig as the guest, although I’m not entirely certain how they’d handle Tattoo’s last scene nowadays.

Yeah, I guess Fury Road just isn’t the same anymore.

Will they emerge, as they did in the ’94 miniseries, as avatars of simplistic, reductive notions of good and bad?

I agree that Hardy’s performance and voice were very very entertaining, and are one solitary great thing in a truly thoroughly embarrassingly bad movie. But I don’t think that “the people” didn’t appreciate it, did they ? Who are they already ?

Not here to defend a game that isn’t on my radar from a company that has lost my esteem, but to defend blank slate characters in RPGs because I prefer full freedom of dialogue (and cohesion dependant on the roleplaying player) over pre-made player characters with pre-made personalities (even it makes for tighter,…

He should do Tintin next. I’m sure he truly gets the Hergé comics like no one else.

Yeah. It’s the subtle movement that he makes with his own head, when he mimicks the snapped neck, that shows his glee at the imagery itself.