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Hey @Snarf Zagyg just wondering if you'd seen The Phoenician Scheme yet, and where you'd rank it? Without going into spoilers, Michael Cera is as perfect a fit for a Wes Anderson as you would expect.

My first exposure to The Orville was coming across it while channel surfing. I think within 3 mins there was a joke about glory holes. Other than that it felt like a blatant Next Gen rip-off. I'll take an ambitious and original idea like Discovery over that every day of the week.

I think he's only a producer, but anything with Seth Macfarlane's name attached is an auto-skip for me.

ironic isn't it.

I never said he was motivated to cause others pain. He wasn't doing it wittingly, but it's the only thing he really achieved. When he starts to learn Dedra had used him, his first response is to choke her. When he learns what they were doing on Ghorman his response is to take out his...

Between this, the Spinal Tap reboot and the Naked Gun reboot, I think Spinal Tap is the only one I have any hope for.

I thought his death was perfect. To be taken out by the pacifist leader that he'd been taking advantage of, just as he'd realised he had been used too was IMO, pure poetry. Syrill represented the inherent pathetic cowardice and cruelty of fascism. He doesn't deserve a speech, he was a nobody...

Meanwhile, the post credit montage where we see what happened to various supporting characters was brutal.

The way Dedra uses Syrill wouldn't have as much impact if they weren't in a relationship. Her treating a life partner this way tells us more about her character than if she was just using a work colleague. Without their relationship we also get none of the dynamics between Dedra and Syrill's...

You kinda answered your own question. Their relationship mirrors, or rather it contrasts with Cassian and Bix’s relationship. That’s part of the point. It emphasises how Syrill and Dedra’s relationship is transactional, and based on personal benefit by comparison. There’s a banality to it which...

Exactly, she was a cog in the machine who ended up making cogs for the machine. Her ending was poetic to me.

A few quickies: Wild Beyond the Witchlight - we steamrolled the first Witch, she rolled poor initiative and was dead before her turn. Homebrew 5E - We picked up the game after a bit of a break. During the session we got ambushed by a group that included a Raksasha. BECMI game - I found out...

I thought one of the many interesting things about Dedra and Syrill was that under different circumstances they could have been a part of the rebel alliance. At least, that's what they show hints at.

Just while we're on this tangent, Acolyte always felt like a YA show to me. Anyway, now back to the Andor memes...