Recent content by Swanosaurus

You're right, I think the Ghorm thing is what stuck with me towards the end. Overall I think there were just two Episodes I didn't really care for that much, and that were the first two of season 2. I just couldn't get into the whole stealing an experimental TIE fighter thing and the weird...

Tangential to Alien Earth, but here's a theory: As far as can be seen from Alien-Alien3, Weyland Yutani isn't an all-powerful megacorp; and they aren't obsessed with the alien. Much more likely, the alien is a side-project to them that's on a strict budget. Look at Alien: The Company knew...

Not sure if it has already been mentioned, but Secrets of Zir'an. Neverly properly read it (partly due to the layout issues), but the premise of a secondary fantasy world that is more or less on our current techlevel sounds really interesting and unique. Also, I really liked Timothy Brown's...

I'm so terribly on the fence about this ... I used to run a long Numenera campaign. Really loved it. A friend of mine is occassionally running Numenera for me now, and I also love it as a player. I own the old Cypher System core book and a few supplements. The supplements are good reads. Still...

I just finished watching Andor, and I'm pretty impressed and moved by it. It has managed to kind of overwrite Star Wars (which I'm generally luke-warm on) for me; Andor is now the "real" story about the fight against the empire, with the OT as a kind of side-plot. It implicitly changes the whole...

And about Hermit: Does he seem weird to anyone else besides me? Not in the "I'm an android!" way, it's more like psychologically, something seems to be really off. When he says "This discussion is over" to the bald guy and turns away, he really walks as if he already knows he has lost ... which...

A few more thoughts: I love the interaction between Aarush and Morrow, but boy, does Morrow's plan suck! "Bring me an egg. Meet me outside." How is that supposed to play out? And then, he makes it even harder, both morally and practically: "Get someone facehugged, hide them for one or two days...

Episode 4 is really putting a lot of things into motion ... Wendy/Xenomorphs echoes Alien Ressurrection, but in a more interesting way. I'm still curious if they'll come up with an explanation for her "hearing" the aliens. The computer scientists (what's his name) pointing out the craziness of...

What's really interesting about Lovecraft is how openly he displays how his classism and racism is rooted in anxiety and ambivalence. It's like he's lying down on the dissectioin table for the reader. Take The Shadow over Innsmouth: The whole raid, the opportunity to symbolically kill what...

I suspect this one might actually be a popular opinion. It's at least popular with me!

Alien3 is the best of the sequels by far. Event Horizon is far superior to its pseudo-intellectual, offensively sexist imitator Sunshine. Had the Watchmen movie stuck to the octopus ending, it would have been really great. The Last Jedi is the best of the sequel trilogy (I know, not saying...

Well, there's still five episodes to come ...

Liked Episode 3, but I'm prett much where Snarf Zagyg is ... I hope it turns out as good as it could be. Not a fan of that lung/tadpole thing at the very end. This seems to be an extremely arbitrary experiment to make. An unrelated thought: I hope they keep away from five-minute gestation time...

I'd be fine with all the stupid stuff in Prometheus, but I just hate the engineers. Such a disappointing demystification of the pilot.

Thanks! I didn't make that connection, I somehow thought there must also be a Maginot in Peter Pan or something ...