Given that they're setting the story in the Second Age, my first thought was "decadent Numenorean orgy."
Lydia: Its removal from Burma is a felony and when triggered it has the power to melt human eyeballs.
Giles: In that case I've severely underpriced it.
'Potential'
Streaming 1: There Goes the Weekend
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chrismg - Oct 22, 2020 6:28:40 am PDT #931 of 2212
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Vonnie K - Oct 22, 2020 7:52:57 am PDT #932 of 2212
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
On a more promising note, a glowing review from Vanity Fair of a Netflix miniseries that's dropping tomorrow, The Queen's Gambit: [link]
It stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a chess prodigy in 1950's Kentucky, who's one of the handful of young up-and-comers whose work I'm always willing to check out (also see: Florence Pugh, LaKeith Standfield.)
Toddson - Oct 22, 2020 8:53:55 am PDT #933 of 2212
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I read the book - it was very good. One of the few written by a man about a young woman that struck me as being more realistic than most such.
Jessica - Oct 22, 2020 10:43:41 am PDT #934 of 2212
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The Queen's Gambit
DH and I really enjoyed this.
Consuela - Oct 23, 2020 1:13:29 pm PDT #935 of 2212
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
thanks for the heads-up, Vonnie, that sounds good.
Toddson - Oct 26, 2020 4:29:47 am PDT #936 of 2212
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I came across a review of Rebecca earlier:
Netflix has released a new film version of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ... It's dreadful! Don't watch it, unless you're in the mood for a really bad movie. Though even as a bad movie, this new Rebecca doesn't do much to entertain. Its choices aren't weird or amusingly bad so much as perfunctory. It does the things that a sumptuous period/literary adaptation is supposed to do to "improve" on a stone cold classic in a way that feels almost insulting, as if the only reason for its existence is that a Netflix executive slapped their hand on a conference table and exclaimed "dammit! No millennial is going to watch a black and white movie from 1940! We've got make it in color, sexier, and more woke!" ... Reader, it is none of those things (well, I suppose it is in color).
As was suggested, it's bad.
Tom Scola - Oct 30, 2020 6:32:29 am PDT #937 of 2212
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Baby Yoda is the hero we need right now.
Steph L. - Oct 30, 2020 6:39:25 am PDT #938 of 2212
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I didn't watch the Mandalorian, so everything I know about it is from social media, and I clearly don't know much, because I'm confused about one big thing: is baby Yoda in the Mandalorian the same Yoda from the movies, who trained Luke Skywalker, etc? Or just a different character, same species? And if it's a different character, why in the hell doesn't it have a different name?
Jessica - Oct 30, 2020 6:42:21 am PDT #939 of 2212
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
It's a different character, and officially its name is The Child. Baby Yoda is the fan nickname.
Steph L. - Oct 30, 2020 6:47:47 am PDT #940 of 2212
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
It does have a different name! Man, it turns out that getting all my (extremely limited) information from social media isn't as foolproof as I thought it was!