WHAT DID YOU DO RAY?

While the scripts remain a little janky and hold together a bit more with fridge logic than I’d like, the stories have been solid enough. The actors are doing a fine job.

See, I gotta be honest: the idea that your life and your actions have no meaning is, to me, incredibly liberating. And I don’t just say that because studying the existentialists was my favorite part of my college philosophy courses. Yes, nothing I do matters in any deep, broad sense. This means I am free to act in…

It’s frankly not really about the money. I paid way too much for a laptop with a decent graphics card to mostly play point-and-click adventures. I don’t really do mouse/keyboard, because I prefer sitting on the couch. It’s about the quantity of stuff. I don’t want more stuff cluttering up my house. Not to sound like a…

I have no idea if it left any mark on RDR2 (stupid console exclusives- give me a PC port!), but no conversation about Westerns is complete without A Bad Day at Black Rock. It’s not a pure Western- it’s set in the 1950s, and brings noir elements into the story. But the bones are Western- a stranger rolls into town, and…

Lucky you. I remember the Kirk Cameron remake.

Legends: the Arrowverse show where unicorns spear hippies and people talk about their feelings like adults with empathy and some vague degree of emotional intelligence, even the awkward nerds. And yes, Nate and Ray did communicate their feelings quite clearly, and I don’t mean that in a dirty way, like they both knew…

I’m going to be pedantic, and I apologize in advance. The spiders are very much what the plot is about. They are not what the episode is about. They are the plot element which exists to fuel the characters’ journey, and the theme is very much the need for both home and family and adventure and balancing all those…

Endings have been a little bit flat, and the villains have had all the depth of Colorforms, but all of that’s okay. The tone is there, even if the mechanics don’t always get together. I’m a little more bothered by the fridge logic- however many humans trapped “between life and death”, “we can’t kill the spiders, but…

UK. Even within a single scene, though, the cuts are weird and weirdly timed.

I have mixed feelings about “we can solve this problem with STUDYING!”, and I think my problems mostly arise from execution in a way I can’t quite put my finger on. “We must research the actual historical events to keep history on track,” is a really great hook, but something about how it was done sucked the energy…

That is a delightfully stupid answer. I love it.

Simultaneously comics faithful, and also looking like the photo on a piece of cardstock in a vinyl costume bag at that store that only rents space in the mall for a month every year.

If Tom Hardy phoned it in, we could re-enact Locke, which was actually an okay kind of movie.

The movie choices were mostly top notch. The riffing ranged from passable-to-great. The host segments were consistently bad, specifically anything to do with the mads. I know Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt are busy little bees, but did it have to be so painfully obvious that they were on set for the duration of a long…

At the same time, those constraints and era created a distinctive visual imprint which defines the series’ aesthetic. The solution, in the past, was simply to shift the timeline forward. The old sets look to dated? Do what Star Trek always does: move forward.

The design on that Doctor Who poster: they’re doing a Rick and Morty crossover this season, aren’t they. That’s the planet where Morty had to smuggle a Mega Tree Seed.

I was intrigued by Panos Cosmatos, because while I appreciate the visual aesthetic of Beyond the Black Rainbow, I couldn’t shrug off the “pretentious twaddle” aspects of it. I was vaguely interested because that aesthetic combined with Nic Cage doing crazysauce could be downright interesting. Chuck in Johann Johannsen,…

I wouldn’t have been able to complain about it by name, but I did think the music was kinda shitty.

It does mean I can give up on all the lesser CW shows and just watch LoT, though.