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The Aurora Borealis

I have never seen the Aurora Borealis and they look like a rather unconvincing special effect when recorded.

V5 Last Dance 1.07

I’m going to have to decide on a motif for the Nosferatu in the chronicle. And I already used a basic “emerge from the dark and the PCs notice rats everywhere” intro for a Gangrel.

The Films Of Lost Tales

Warner Bros. has decided we need more Middle-earth movies. I feel we could have done with one and a half fewer from The Hobbit already.

CHVRCHES, Over

I feel nothing, I feel everything

One year ago today, Russia invaded Ukraine. Help the people of Ukraine.

Glass Onion commentary

Glass Onion now has a commentary track with writer and director Rian Johnson on Netflix.

The Bad Batch 2.10

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

2.10: Retrieval

“Attempting to recover a stolen asset, the Batch must learn to trust a thief.”

26 minutes plus credits.

So, when last we left our heroes, a masked thief had stolen their ship...

Shrove Tuesday

Pancake Day here, Mardi Gras elsewhere. (See Free Tours By Foot - New Orleans on the city’s Mardi Gras Krewes.)

BAFTAs

All Quiet On the Western Front did well. A reminder that I’ve never really done the Great War as a setting, due in part to how grim it was as this depicts.

V5 Last Dance 1.06

Tonight in Vampire: The Masquerade, the band went to a gig. The duo playing (based on Witch Of The Vale) were so Goth that a lot of vampires were there, and felt momentarily understood.

Kieron Gillen at Into The Rookery

The Wicked + The Design

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania is an example of taking characters out of their milieu, which can end up not feeling like their kind of story. In this case it feels like a Guardians Of The Galaxy. Better than Volume 2 at least.

(It doesn’t help that I don’t have much interest in Kang or that Jonathan Majors always looks sad to me.)

And that title is an argument in favour of a clean reboot.

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On is a story about childhood, more or less a children’s story but not only that, with some universal emotional notes. It expands on online shorts starting here in a very meta way. It also presents a world where tiny beings live mostly out of sight but nobody seems particularly surprised by them.

The Phantom

The Phantom by Lee Falk debuted on this day in 1936.

How To Remake Your Dragon

A live-action version of How To Train Your Dragon seems like a silly idea, as the animated trilogy is well liked and the dragons would still have to animated anyway. But here we are, with the animated trilogy drector returning, so what the Hell do I know?

Oh dear.

Politics here are about to go into Interesting Times.

The Bad Batch 2.09

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

2.09 The Crossing

“The team tackles a risky mission on a hostile world.”

27 minutes plus credits.

Animation showoff bit: lots of moving light and shadow.

Well, that episode description is certainly an episode description for The Bad Batch.

A change of pace, a little action but more emotional reaction to the end of Truth & Consequences.

Rest in peace, Chris Baylis.

Aid for Turkiye RPG bundle

Via DriveThryRPG:

Organized by AAW Games, the Aid for Türkiye bundle offers more than $570 in RPG PDFs for only $33 with the proceeds benefiting Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF (Doctors Without Borders) and their ongoing relief efforts.