Felicia Barker

It manages this tone/subject dichotomy a lot better than similar but IMO much worse Sam Rockwell movie Jojo Rabbit.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. A lot of fun. A bit Banky at times, hugely predictable if you've ever watched any SF , but very enjoyable. The most interesting thing is that one plot thread is explicitly, on a textual level, about something *incredibly* dark in a film that registers as lightweight.

Twat dooming Reform? (4,7)

This might be the worst ADR in the history of television.

Like, any iconic sound or visual from Kill Bill originates somewhere else.

QT is the Niel Cicierega of cinema except a lot more problematic.

Yes, I mean 'this is now the 'Kill Bill Siren'' generally. It is that to every online westerner of our age.

It's funny that this is now the 'Kill Bill Siren', given that, like everything Tarantino, it's a sample. Kill Bill is essentially a mashup in film form. The siren is from the themetune to Ironside, and it later got reused in a kung fu movie, so QT was mimicking a film repurposing a TV theme in turn.

ME: and of the 40, I alone returned from Irem. Only this to show. An anthropoid rib - millions there. Living skeletons. All solid gold
INTERVIEWER: and that explains the five year gap?
ME: Yes.
INTERVIEWER: You realize it's fool's gold
ME: Is a million pyrite skeletons so fucking unremarkable to you

Mind you I get told I talk like a machine quite often so maybe that doesn't obtain.

In fact I think this is precisely *where* I use it. I would guess I have used the exact phrase 'a compelling option' many times.

No I totally would.

I am slightly troubled by the fact that I do use 'compelling' like this all the time.

Consider no human speaks like Benoit Blanc, and the article may have simply been written by a strange detective man.

A still of Daniel Craig from a famous scene in Knives Out. The caption reads 'Compels me though.'

Sikka Denyer. Could almost be 'Seeker Denyer'.

(Damnit Carla, I like you.)

A TV review headlined 'How to Get to Heaven from Belfast review - if you see nothing else this year, watch this'. Underneath is a star rating of 4/5.

'This is worthy of being the only thing you see this year'

'Four out of five'

The thing which really knotted my brain (not least living in Bristol) is that some of S10 *is* shot in Bristol. But those bits aren't meant to be Bristol!!

I assume Moho is developed by Judoon.

I've been saying since Muppets Tonight ended that they should just bring back the Muppet Show. Just watched the special. Delightful! They've gotta do more.

But his name is Mr. Christleton! And his face so joyous! Surely you can find a place in your heart for Mr. Christleton.

No, you might well be right, to be fair. I'm being skewed by audio dramas. Teasing out my extensively Big Finish-pilled brain, you could probably do the 'Aztecs' style plot straight in the next season on TV perfectly happily.

The same reason the Russo Brothers are doing Doomsday, basically.

It may be that he has good production talents in terms of being able to pull the strings and get productions together and an extensive rolodex of the right people. Perhaps cynically, on a gargantuan franchise like SW, that probably rates a high priority as long as their creative output is 'fine'.

To pivot to Doctor Who, for example - It's probably a useful thing to understand that there's already an extensive history of 'Companion wants to change recorded history and learns the hard way' and know that either you need a different angle or a deliberate subversion to make that worth telling.

I think there is a certain value in having a person who can answer that kind of deep nerd question *and also understands that this should not inform the surface text*. My best example of this would be Jonathan Nolan and Fallout.

Poor old Faz. 'Unless it's Stephen AND Rachel- Oh of course it's Stephen and Rachel. Idiot.'

When the two of them were at the family tree and they asked... Ross was it? I forget... To let them have some time to discuss something privately. I can't believe that didn't come back to bite them. They definitely got better as the game went on, because at the start I thought they had no chance!

And they really learned to let the various threats to their game undermine themselves (they did get a bit lucky in this respect, in that several players who came at them suddenly seemed to lose their minds in the final moment). Stephen getting to define exactly what 'his' game was is a perfect end.

You could scarcely write a better arc. I thought in the early game the pair of them were really sloppy in their play, and a bit naive. Voting for Fiona was a turning point for Stephen, and after that they got better and better at playing the game.