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Yeah, Moonraker wasn't a planned outing. In the end credits of The Spy Who Loved Me it even says that Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only. But then Star Wars happened and suddenly SPACE was the big selling point, so let's get in on the action! No time to write a new script, let's just recycle...

I was mostly going from Metacritic. Average review score 81% and user rating 7 didn't seem stellar. I'll take a look at some more actual play and may give it a go.

How is Avowed? It's been tempting me, but the reviews seem rather mixed.

I have a soft spot for this one as it's literally the first movie I remember seeing at the cinema. To me the Lotus is the Bond car (I had the diecast toy of it) and a lot of the stunts and action sequences still stand up well. Plus not just one but two evil lairs! But yeah, Moore's fighting...

I'm getting there. I've started playing BG3 maybe a dozen times, but only played it through to the end once.

It's been ages since I played something actually new. Months since I even switched on my PS5. The last new AAA game I bought was Spider-man 2, there just haven't been any recent releases that have caught my eye. Most recently I've been playing through both XCOM and XCOM 2 for the nth time...

The new digitally enhanced edition in which the younglings shot first.

Yeah, one batch per story arc, which I guess is better for viewer retention, but seems like it'll reduce the impact. Part of what made the rising tension of the first season's arcs work was having to wait for the next episode.

Reminds me of the question that comes up most often from work colleagues when I say that I spent my vacation at a convention playing role-playing games. "Did you win?" "Um..."

It doesn't sound like you want this monster to have unlimited reactions. You're not, for instance, looking for it to be able to make opportunity attacks multiple times per round. So what's wrong with just saying "this ability does not expend the creature's reaction"?

Creatures of fundamental chaos and evil would be ruled by their whims and passions, and as exemplars of an opposed philosophy there's little that arouses a demon's passionate hatred more than a devil.

I'm just imagining a Solo-style prequel in which Bond drinks his first martini, drives his first Aston Martin, fires his first Walther and seduces-and-abandons his first evil henchwoman all in the same training-mission-gone-real.

Nice ring. Can I get it on Amazon?

Coming soon, the remake / reimagining of Tomorrow Never Dies, in which Bond confronts the evil foreign governments whose restrictive regulations are preventing people from accessing the media corporation's wonderful services - Live and Let Prime.

Do you want steampunk devils? Because this is how you get steampunk devils.

Star Trek has its weird Progenitors / convergent evolution thing to explain why pretty much everyone in the galaxy looks like humans with wibbly foreheads, so it does tend towards the generic. Would've been nice to see a bit more variation though.

Or it was never about them lacking understanding of linear time, so much as their understanding of time being so far beyond ours that they had to get an explanation from our perspective in order to calibrate just how far they'd need to dumb down their explanations. In other words, their...

That's kinda the issue, though. How do you do a fresh new take on a fresh new take?

It's a great aesthetic when it's used right. One of my complaints about TLJ was that they did lean in on it too hard, with the Resistance bombers flying over the dreadnaught and dropping bombs on it, and the Supremacy's heavy cannons firing shots that arced upwards to fall down on the Resistance...