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Mod Note: I am... somewhat boggled. Like, you just responded to a post of mine in this thread. You know I'm gonna get a ping from the system, and that I'm highly likely to then come and read the thread... ...and, that's the moment when you choose to make the discussion personal about another...

Tell me that you missed my mentioning how you provide mechanical support so that isn't an issue, without telling me that you missed it... How many individuals do you get to present to your players in a session that are getting more than a mere brushing of their surface? I've seen folks around...

Did someone teach you that a story should have one, singular, "THE point"? That person was incorrect. Wow, are you wrong. IT speaks to the loss of childhood innocence, and how that's a one-way gate you can never return through. The book also has themes regarding how monsters like...

So, I think you're being a lot more specific with that then the "Die Hard, on an X" trope generally is.

(Rhetorical, generic "you" below, not you, Alkaizer, specifically) So, do you just drag someone onto a dance floor, and ask them to do the polka, and expect them to do it well the very first time? If you don't do it again for months, do you expect it to go well the second time? No. In...

So... Aliens?

Given that IT is specifically about a bunch of kids who experience horrors, and then the same characters as adults, carrying that trauma, dealing with the same horror all over again?

I don't know if there are any other full-on direct callback episodes yet. There are a ton of references though. Like, "Spock Amok" where he and T'Pring swap bodies, is a reference to TOS "Amok Time". Everywhere we see Doctor Korby looking for tech that will make people immortal is a reference...

To quote wikipedia: "Paramount+ constructed a video wall to allow for virtual production, based on the StageCraft technology used on the Disney+ series The Mandalorian (2019–2023). The new virtual set was built in Toronto by visual effects company Pixomondo, and features a 270-degree, 70 feet...

I think there's apt to be issues when it is just tacked onto an otherwise traditional approach to running the game, and when it is new. When everything in a player's experience is that the GM does not want their input, or will use their input against them, or that they might just do it wrong...

Especially when Doug Jones was sooo good, and they had the whole fearful to fearless dynamic for him as a leadership development arc. But, also, this thread's about SNW, not Disco, so... to at least continue thematically on captains... How are folks taking the slow-slide-in of Kirk? I am...

It is actually okay - you asked a question rather than make an assertion. :)

So, I have no problem with Disco season 1. But... while I give Trek loads of leeway on its science.... one kid growing up around a lot of dilithium destroys pretty much all the dilithium in the galaxy, instantaneously, because he gets scared once? That was just too frelling goofy to bear...

I haven't watched Picard season 2 yet, only S1 and S3. But, lemme tell ya, Mecha-Space-C'thulhu from Beyond the 5th Dimension there in Season 1? Not impressive. A bit too on the nose of "deus ex machina".

Enemy Mine (the novella, 1979) predates The Return of Starbuck (Galactica 1980, 1980), which predates Enemy Mine (film, 1985). And that novella won the Hugo and the Nebula awards, so it wasn't obscure at the time. Base credit to Barry Longyear.