Zoe: Nobody's saying that, sir. Wash: Yeah, we're pretty much just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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Zenkitty - Aug 20, 2020 8:18:23 am PDT #808 of 2196
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Also it has a character called Danny Street who is a sentient, genderqueer, teleporting street.

Do what now? Non-human sentient character is totally my jam. I have to check that one out.


Zenkitty - Aug 20, 2020 8:24:58 am PDT #809 of 2196
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Did I say how much I liked The Witcher? I figured out it was multiple timelines about halfway through the second episode. I love that sort of thing, and it was done really well. Everything came together in the end with no plot holes or dropped balls or shit that didn't make any sense. Most multiple-timeline stories get tangled up by writers who can't juggle all the moving parts.

Was anyone else ultimately disappointed by DEVs? I wanted it to be the story I initially thought it was, and what it turned out to be was predictable and unsatisfying. But I don't want to turn anyone off from watching it. Someone who isn't me might be happy with it.


Gris - Aug 20, 2020 12:24:30 pm PDT #810 of 2196
Hey. New board.

There are also rats and cockroaches that go on revenge missions and think they are prophets of Ezekiel (respectively) on Do Patrol, all with funny subtitles. And Meg says it's doing a great job tackling interesting sexuality issues. Definitely seems worth a try by most Buffista types.


chrismg - Aug 20, 2020 1:52:57 pm PDT #811 of 2196
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

The great part is, Danny the Street is actually from the comics. That's probably less surprising if you know Grant Morrison wrote that run.


Gris - Aug 20, 2020 4:52:33 pm PDT #812 of 2196
Hey. New board.

Apparently it's actually pretty loyal to the comics, if modernized.


Jessica - Aug 20, 2020 5:04:44 pm PDT #813 of 2196
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Was anyone else ultimately disappointed by DEVs?

No, but only because I'd run out of fucks to give about three episodes in? It was so so pretty and so so serious and so so not as clever as it thought it was.


Zenkitty - Aug 21, 2020 7:51:39 am PDT #814 of 2196
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

so so not as clever as it thought it was.

That sums it up.


Zenkitty - Aug 21, 2020 7:55:33 am PDT #815 of 2196
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Plus. DEVs was another story driven by a rich white man's pain and in the end rewarding him by giving him exactly what he wanted, never mind the awful things he did to get there or the people who died in his wake. I wish I hadn't gotten my hopes up in the beginning.


askye - Aug 21, 2020 2:49:32 pm PDT #816 of 2196
Thrive to spite them

We just finished ep 6 of The Witcher. I'm really enjoying it. I mean, there is stuff that is obviously missing and that if this were a long series it could be fleshed out more. Like how much time is going by between the episodes (not in relation to the different timelines). There are a few things like when Yen talks about decades or makes a crack about Jaskier's crows feet but that doesn't really show you time moving and why Ciri and Dara went from just seeming to meet to being family to each other, that seemed quick.

Oh and I'm confused about how long Yennifer and Geralt had known each other by the time the dragon hunt happened.

I'm reading fanfic so I'm seeing things referenced (or rewritten) showing up in the show but I read this really long sort of AU world building thing that has colored my preception of the characters. (An Accidental Warlord and His Pack.. which doesn't have any werewolf elements to it)

Also does anyone have any recs for The Witcher? Fic or vids.


Dana - Aug 21, 2020 3:58:00 pm PDT #817 of 2196
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I haven't seen so don't read it, but Dira Sudis has been writing Witcher fic.