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• I've been watching the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us and... you know what, I'm surprisingly into it? It's not perfect. It's not going to supplant playing the game as the truest emotional journey. There are one or two things that have already raised my sceptical eyebrow, and I'm so far ignoring all the surrounding actor interviews and writer podcasts and excess wanky hype because I would like to just experience the text as presented onscreen, thank you. But I'm really enjoying the casting, the main emotional beats are mostly hitting right for me so far, and it's very cool seeing the scenery and wetting my pants every time an Infected enters the scene.
• Extraordinary Attorney Woo was a recommendation from my uncle of all people, which I would not have guessed given it turned out to be an endearing law drama with more soap opera elements than hardline procedural. I'm not the right person to comment in depth on how well the show handles its autistic main character, but I do think its obvious good intentions count for something and, if you view it as aimed at people and societies still lacking in understanding and sympathy towards neurodiversity, it has some very valuable points to make and went unexpectedly hard in making some of them. Plus the characters were charming as hell and the episode plots generally entertaining.
• The promise of good animation lured me into watching Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and it was indeed a promise delivered upon in full. Bright, dynamic, and very in the vein of Into the Spiderverse (which is a good thing!). As far as plot goes, it was mediocre. Possibly I made the mistake in seeing it on a Friday evening because there was at least one point where I found myself considering I'd rather be in bed; either way it definitely still isn't up to the comedic snuff of the original franchise founder, despite one interestingly dark little plot thread.
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syntheid and I have been playing through Divinity: Original Sin 2 on the weekends and I'm having so much fun. High points so far: we have finally escaped Fort Joy; our commitment to not murdering animals needlessly is mighty; Lane has turned multiple beings into chickens for maximum hilarity points; my idle flirting with a random NPC had unexpectedly adorable consequences. Low points: I keep catching on fire. All the time. So much. Do you feel the same, or am I only dreaming. Is this burning an eternal flame.
• Enola Holmes was so bad TAT I swear watching things with my parents is like a 50/50 split between receiving something excellent that I will love forever, and having to sit there with a rictus smile on my face frantically scrounging the dusty recesses of my brain for something positive to say at the end that isn't just a blatant lie. See also Avatar 2: The Way of Water, to which my feeble offerings amounted to, "It was really pretty! I liked the whales!"
• Extraordinary Attorney Woo was a recommendation from my uncle of all people, which I would not have guessed given it turned out to be an endearing law drama with more soap opera elements than hardline procedural. I'm not the right person to comment in depth on how well the show handles its autistic main character, but I do think its obvious good intentions count for something and, if you view it as aimed at people and societies still lacking in understanding and sympathy towards neurodiversity, it has some very valuable points to make and went unexpectedly hard in making some of them. Plus the characters were charming as hell and the episode plots generally entertaining.
• The promise of good animation lured me into watching Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and it was indeed a promise delivered upon in full. Bright, dynamic, and very in the vein of Into the Spiderverse (which is a good thing!). As far as plot goes, it was mediocre. Possibly I made the mistake in seeing it on a Friday evening because there was at least one point where I found myself considering I'd rather be in bed; either way it definitely still isn't up to the comedic snuff of the original franchise founder, despite one interestingly dark little plot thread.
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syntheid and I have been playing through Divinity: Original Sin 2 on the weekends and I'm having so much fun. High points so far: we have finally escaped Fort Joy; our commitment to not murdering animals needlessly is mighty; Lane has turned multiple beings into chickens for maximum hilarity points; my idle flirting with a random NPC had unexpectedly adorable consequences. Low points: I keep catching on fire. All the time. So much. Do you feel the same, or am I only dreaming. Is this burning an eternal flame.• Enola Holmes was so bad TAT I swear watching things with my parents is like a 50/50 split between receiving something excellent that I will love forever, and having to sit there with a rictus smile on my face frantically scrounging the dusty recesses of my brain for something positive to say at the end that isn't just a blatant lie. See also Avatar 2: The Way of Water, to which my feeble offerings amounted to, "It was really pretty! I liked the whales!"