Recent content by Benjamin Olson

To the best of my knowledge I've never played with anyone on here, but who knows who might be hiding about.

The ending was realistic enough. The actual government would have to either release a bunch of civilians or give them a trial, which would risk a lot of paranormal secrets and the nature of their actual activities in Hawkins coming to light. They probably also wouldn't want to draw attention to...

Well if it's love is like a tidal wave, spinning over your head, drownin' you in its promises better left unsaid, then, my friend, you've got a heartbreaker.

I mean it is a 45 hour narrative. Then again I also felt Return of the King had an appropriate amount of endings for the scale of the narrative (and size of ensemble). Personally I was totally there for all the endings, but I just wish I had known beforehand, because, seeing another hour of...

I've got a movie pass last June so I've seen a lot of new releases since then. By contrast I was in rural Alaska until May and saw absolutely no new releases. So this last 6 months and a bit: Best Movie: Hard to say. I saw both One Battle After Another and Bugonia and they're both masterfully...

I found AI price tracking very helpful for figuring out what Black Friday sales were actually good deals.

The animated series is about the main characters between seasons 3 and 4. As for other spinoffs, they've said different characters and not the 80s. The stage play established that travel directly to Dimension X/The Abyss through 1940s US military technology was possible, so my guess would be...

Episode 7 was the victim of a release schedule that, for people rushing through and lacking patience, effectively made Will's coming out scene the climax of that "mini-season", which some found pretty disappointing, in an episode that was mostly exposition and set-up for the finale. Then, with...

They'll find you pretty quick, so the real secret is to just keep them from believing it's you when they quickly track you down. I think the best secret identity strategy would be to loudly insist you are the superhero, and then just lie about everything else all the time, and generally be an...

I don't think basically any main cast will die, because I don't think it serves any purpose at this point. They should have probably killed some off seasons back, or at the beginning of this season, both to establish stakes and to winnow down how many main characters we need to keep involved in...

So the whole thing is a meditation on the concept that each individual "contains multitudes", both in the sense that people are more than what you expect (ie: the accountant protagonist is also a talented dancer, many of the other characters have additional unexpected facets) and in the very...

Started on Clash of the Titans (the original) and Jason and the Argonauts. Then I got a copy of this guy at the Getty Museum (now Getty Villa) while on vacation when I was 7: The illustrations were too compelling not to pour over the text as soon as my reading level was up to it. And then I...

I mean, we're clearly concluding he's a Wizard because he's got a Gandalf hat and beard. It seems strange to further extrapolate that he's Mordenkainen whose iconography does not include those things. Honestly, considering the blue orb in his hands, I think he's the Orb Ponderer meme, which was...

There was anachronistic armor, sure, but Homer's interpretation of the bronze age, and classical interpretation of the past in general, were full of anachronism left, right, and center. Making it all bronze age accurate would be a far greater slight to the source material than what they did.