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I thought it was named after the Great Auk
This sounds wonderful.
edit: unless it got a lot worse in season 2. I've only seen season 1.
You need to stop reading the Secret History of the World as told by the Lord Protectors of the Association of the Anti Avian Ascendancy as they were quite mad
Also, I am reading Lord Auckland's sister, Emily Eden's diaries.
So far it is amusing if not particularly interesting, but apparently she has a lot of useful observations about India and the wars, once she moves there with her brother
Miss Eden to Lady Buckinghamshire.
June 4 [1819].
MY DEAREST SISTER, Mary went out last night to Mrs. Baring’s[96] ball, which was not likely to do her much good, and is completely “frappée en haut” (Sir W. Wynn’s translation of “knocked up”) with headache and fatigue this morning. Dissipation is not likely to agree with her, certainly, but then, Sister, think of the pineapples and strawberries and ices and temporary rooms and magnificent hangings and beautiful flowers at Mrs. Baring’s.
I wish I was a rich old banker; but then I would not have, or own, so many fellow-creatures as the Barings do. I keep my comforts a little more to myself.... We have had a most alarming visit from Rogers the Poet this morning, the very recollection of which would make my hair, black pins, combs and all, stand on end, if they had ever subsided since his first appearance. I never saw such a satirical, odious wretch, and I was calculating the whole time, from what he was saying of other people, what he could find ill-natured enough to say of us. I had never seen him before, and trust I never shall again. Your most affectionate
It is not. It is very bad. It wants to be charming and exciting and epic, but ends up smug and insufferable and shoddy.
I love terribad movies.
Dude blows up a wall with a conical flask of acid and bicarb in the first episode. What's not to love?
You are a bad man. HE WAS A HERO!
Remember that time he outsmarted the high tech mountain base with the AI controlled robot security guards??
Being a staunch Murdoc partisan, Bogart is naturally anti MacGyver
To be fair to Bogart, Murdoc was not simply a one dimensional villain, he was a noted pianist as well
It is a mashup!
Oh gods they even left the bit in where they stole the chicken off a plate as the drivers drove past a restaurant
Also, I watched Into Darkness, which I really liked. It was fun and had, in retrospect, really well constructed trailers.
Even the episodes with the evergreen Bruce McGill, a man I could watch do almost anything.
Yep! There was also one where MacGyver has to stop a column of army ants from eating a South American plantation, which cheerfully repurposed footage from the Charlton Heston movie The Naked Jungle, where Heston has to stop a column of army ants from eating etc etc
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
For some reason I am now remembering the episode of Moonlighting where the whole thing was a dance thing set to Billy Joel's Big Man On Mulberry Street. Man that was odd. Or the one where they did The Taming Of The Shrew.
Jacob, new Star Trek is worth seeing but you may cringe at certain parts. Give me a shout when you've seen it so we can waste a significant portion of our lives talking about it.
it will be in a fortnight or so because of encroaching Communism
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Well at least we can all agree that this is the best opening to a 1980s US tv show
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
I am not Jacob, but here are my two gripes with the new film (spoilery, obviously):
Also, seemingly ever single character who ever stumbled upon the bridge got one quick close-up shot in the film, which felt really forced.
Fuck me.
but its mothers day so Ive been up with soy since ~5am
*weeps*
I have no idea whether those bits work for people who've never seen the original film, but for someone who's seen it many times and loves it they were just painful.
IT'S YOUR FAULT YOU REPRODUCED
Take babby to pub?
And Cumberbatch did a fine job playing a megalomaniacal superhuman. Perhaps not as memorable as Montalban, but still fine.
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@Bogart did you ever hear of Mystery? It was our PBS show that packaged all your UK mystery programs and bookended them with introductions and closing thoughts by Vincent Price and Diana Rigg
check out the Edward Gorey intro!
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things