I think it’s important to note that Janet is getting a serious arc too, and it mirrors Eleanor’s. She’s being called upon to do something ridiculously hard, and everyone just keeps piling on because she’s Janet of course she’s got this! And even as Janet makes it very clear that she is not okay with what’s going on,…

The final season was fine, for the reasons you list. And also, the Gas Leak Season is clearly the nadir for the show.

> I’ve always maintained that when I grow up, I want to be like Goliath.

I would be 100% in favor of a “Continental Op” movie series, loosely based on the Hammett novels, but modernized and given a layer of Bond gloss. And the beauty is you can cast anybody, and you can change the casting and it doesn’t matter, because the Continental Op is a role, not a person.

The writing was certainly godawful, but I don’t think the gameplay was anything to write home about either. I didn’t get terribly far, but it was basically a clumsy shooter with a few jump scares from time to time. The maps were lovely, I’ll give it that.

I’m fine with Easter Eggs and references, but hopefully the game doesn’t bear too much other resemblances to Alan Wake, because Alan Wake was awful.

Oh yeah, and this one is really enjoyable, as opposed to the other Jack Palance in a cheap Sword and Sorcery movie, Outlaw of Gor (only worth watching as the MST3K episode Outlaw). Outlaw of Gor isn’t fun, and everything about it is horrible.

Thumbhole sleeves were super hot in the 90s, but mostly it was goth girl cutting them into ratty, oversized sweat shirts.

Years later, when turning this into a movie:

Hawk the Slayer is the best 80s fantasy movie clearly based on a 7th grade D&D campaign.

So, this has DeNiro in it, playing a TV host, and… so like, they’re 100% just leaning into the “King of Comedy” comparison?

My main interaction with the EU was WEG’s Star Wars D6 game. Which is also the first RPG I played extensively.

Came here to make this joke.

Thank goodness Turboteen continues to age well.

I don’t disagree, entirely, but the mainstream brand of Star Wars was at its lowest ebb in the early side of the 90s. The movies were always popular, sure, but there’s the entire garbage fire of the EU that was definitely a niche interest. Nobody knows (or should know) what the Suncrusher is. Or remembers that there…

I mean, I’d play the fuck out of that. As you advance, your metal band gets new riffs, so the music gets increasingly epic during the battles, and based on your band config, you can choose the kind of metal it is that follows you into battle? Fuck and yes.

Yeah, another mechanical layer of polish would have gone a long way. The “first-person commanding battles” could have worked. It does work in games like Mount & Blade.

I feel like the strategy portions never quite worked, though. A lot of the later game battles are just exercises in tedium. But I did like the game, overall. Kickass soundtrack.

That tattoo is pretty wacky.

> And Archer was a fucking moron in that episode.

So, like 90% of episodes.