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For the first couple of seasons he plays an occasional recurring character. Later he becomes more frequently recurring. He's good in it. The show is a western procedural that is decent overall with a few caveats. Gary Farmer (Uncle Brownie) was in an episode.

This episode had two seasons to deliver on, and I think it did well considering that pressure. They got to me with the editing there near the end. I have "The Lost Boys" soundtrack on CD. The best and most 80s secondhand bookstore purchase ever. I assumed they organized the memorial given the situation with Daniel's parents, and that they were preparing the next steps.

This movie starred Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz, and was directed by Francis Lawrence. A legacy sequel has just been announced. I think there is a lot to appreciate about this movie. It is beautifully shot with excellent creature design. There are strong supporting performances from Tilda Swinton and Peter Stormare. There are flaws. Some of the digital effects have aged, but no more than any other movie from the era. In places, the central performances and dialogue are a bit awkward. One complaint that I've seen from comics fans is that this was not representative of Hellblazer and its characters. From what little I've read, that's true. However, I think if you can think of this as a different take somewhere out in the multiverse, it's an entertaining movie. I am curious to see Keanu Reeves get a second shot at this character.

I would like to have seen the dye-free version as well. My understanding is that to do that traditional red velvet cake you need raw cocoa powder (blog article).

I felt bad for Donny. I thought the show could have done better by him. Mel was always conniving, and interested in transforming Niles into a more ambitious person. Donny was a good person to Daphne. They had a chance at giving him his own happy ending when they showed him getting married at the court house a little while later, but they messed that up when they came back later and he was divorced.

I liked the yo-yo macarons because of the little fondant string. I thought that was a perfect whimsical addition. A lot of the shaped macarons were quite large, and as sweet as they are I couldn't imagine finishing one. Dried fruit is rarely for me, and even less so when it is metaphorical flies. I was glad that Paul complemented Syabira's feathers, because they were beautiful even if off target. If they do a chocolate week I'm curious to see what she does. I've never seen a cookie recipe using lard, only butter or vegetable shortening. I've only seen lard in American biscuit/scone type recipes, which are supposed to be fluffy. Which character from Pan's Labyrinth was that brandy snap mask supposed to be? Was it the Pale Man? For me that is the single most horrifying movie creature ever, and it is not green.

This episode was so simple but executed so well. The new spirit was a good contrast with Bear's spirit. She seemed like the right person to reach Hokti in the way that Bear's spirit is the right person to reach him. I was looking up cast members from this episode, and the guy from the waiting room isn't an actor, he was the show's gaffer for most of the first season. His list of credits is crazy.

I admit to fast forwarding through opener once I saw where it was going, but I really enjoyed the rest of the episode. I agree with @ombre, the atmosphere from the judges, Noel, and Matt was pretty good and better than the last couple seasons. I felt like Matt turned himself down half a notch, and he got a couple smiles out of me. I wonder if everyone is a little more relaxed now that they are out of the pandemic bubble seasons. In the first challenge Sandro had the only "mini" cakes, but most of the entires looked good. I hope Maisam gets a little steadier. I always feel bad when the young ones struggle. My favorite house was the pebble dash one. I had to look up pebble dash; I never knew the name for that before. It was clear that Will wasn't going to last but I did like the look of his apartment block, and that Noel recognized it.

That makes me uneasy. Blade Runner 2049 was the perfect legacy sequel in that it was very good and that it failed at the box office, preserving the legacy of the original while not tempting an immediate rush to cash in on the world by minting shallow follow-up content.

I have watched some strange episodes of television, and that was one. I can see why they would opt for a secret society this satirical rather than bringing the actual KKK into it. I did appreciate the return of the Deer Lady. And I don't mind the idea of Big having a friend in Kenny going forward. I'm sorry he missed Bigfoot there at the end.

I love this scene, but I always wonder, and sorry if it's been asked before, but is anyone else familiar with the version from I Love Lucy? The background is that while traveling in France, Lucy was arrested for paying with counterfeit money.

I'm kind of glad they led with Sunrise, Sunset, because that gave a heads up to what this episode would be. It was surprisingly touching. I will miss baby Colin. I wonder if Colin Robinson had discovered his energy vampire batcave sooner, would he have grown up faster? Perhaps his nth childhood would have been quite short. They've said Colin Robinson doesn't sleep. Maybe when he's alone he goes into instinctual trances, and sleepwalks his way into preparing for his next transition. I wouldn't be surprised if he is hiding some memories from Laszlo. When Laszlo asked if he remembered doing an annoying voice at Sean's, he did. And I can't imagine how Guillermo will react to actually being a vampire. When Jenna turned, there was a transition period. I wonder if we'll start with that. As always, I guess we'll see next year.

It did not click for me that it was Amber Midthunder until I saw her name in the credits. She was really funny in a deadpan way. I loved Cheese's reactions to her speech around the time she got to lizard ancestors. That was a low blow, dropping Jackie, and could have cracked her head. I'm worried about where a show like this is going with that feud. Also in keeping with the dark parts under the comedy was that White Steve's happiest memory was being beaten into his gang.

I will be a little disappointed if this is the end for Marwa. It was so painful to watch Guillermo walk away. There are still two wishes left, though. I hope teen Colin comes to appreciate all Laszlo has done for him. I imagine we're close to his reemergence as an energy vampire. I was fond of Wraith Charles. I'm also fond of "Only Lovers Left Alive." It's quiet and contemplative. It also features a supporting role from the gone far too soon Anton Yelchin.

In the first episode they approached the comic portrayal of Dream, though the structure of that story makes it easier to hold him at arm's length. But even then, they drew back a bit from the comics. For example, they showed him in the Dreaming without his helm just as the episode started. I suppose they wanted to make it clear that the protagonist isn't a skull-headed creature. It would have been much more dramatic and disorienting to have him just appear in the circle. They did recreate that magnificent overhead image, at least.

I don't know that Morpheus was unlikable at the beginning of the comics. I think it was more that he was so Other that the audience didn't expect him to be nice. In this series he is presented in a more human way, and that makes his motives and actions subject to human judgement. He comes off as an odd mix of arrogant and naive. It doesn't completely balance, but it's watchable. It's a decent adaptation. The John Burgess updates were especially good. The timeline was hand waved for all the characters who were alive at the time of Dream's imprisonment. But there is a particular scene I would change with a magic wand. I wanted to be really touched by Abel's conversation with Goldie. That is one of the moments in the comics that just got to me. There was so much pathos in that moonlit still panel, with a pained, teary Abel and the innocent little gargoyle, wishing for better but not hopeful that it would come. It was too blithe in the series.

While I didn't want to see the violence, I did feel they glossed over Calliope's suffering. There could have been more scenes from her perspective while Richard was prospering. Fry was exactly as horrible as I expected him to be, but then Derek Jacobi can bring menace. I did like the interactions between Calliope and Dream. The Dream of 1000 Cats was as perfect an adaptation of a comic story as I've seen. There are a few more stories that show the Dreaming from other points of view, and I hope we see them adapted.

I thought this was about as good an adaptation as could be expected for the circumstances. It was surprising faithful but streamlined, and they actually brought hints forward that will pay off later, if the series is renewed. The changes to the story were logical, and there's nothing I particularly fault in them. And the Gault/Jed storyline was a nice improvement. The visuals couldn't compete with the comics, but I braced myself for that. As others have mentioned, the tone is what is most different. It's taking some getting used to. The dark parts are only gray compared to the comics. The character that they absolutely nailed was Desire. Death was good, and Dream and the Corinthian were good on balance. I also liked this Lucienne, who was more developed. I was worried about Patton Oswalt being broad as Matthew, but I thought he did well. The many veteran character actors really delivered and gave a lot of depth to little moments. I wish they'd gone for it a little more with the costuming. Desire was stunning, and Death's basic black was canon, but Dream could have been a little more regal and outlandish in the Dreaming, and they could have justified contact lenses there. They did go so far as to have Fun Land's hat, which I never thought they would do. If there is a second season I'll watch it.

I'm a little confused as well. Given the '70s flashback of Brownie and Bucky's fist fight in the second episode of the season, and Cookie's pre-teen '80s dancing here, it's clear Brownie is from Mabel's generation. His role in the vigil was also of the older generation. So perhaps he was speaking more metaphorically about Cookie, and it was Mabel that brought him up. As for Brownie looking older than Mabel, I'll go out on a limb and say Brownie's lived life a little harder.

Honestly this came together much better than I thought it would. Even going into last episode I couldn't imagine them pulling the threads together into something that was at all foreshadowed. While not all questions were answered, and the mystery was secondary to the season, I think there is enough of a through line for me to accept Poppy as the killer. I thought she looked sufficiently different at Poppy not to be recognized, especially as Becky and Poppy were both background characters in their own lives. I imagine that as she investigated Cinda's knock off podcast and her own idea about Rose Cooper she also learned more and more about the Arconia. That may have been as much of an impetus to interact with Bunny as the painting was. Poppy or Kreps probably spied on Bunny and saw some of her secret comings and goings. I think revealing herself as Becky was probably more about persuading Mabel that Cinda was guilty than anything else. She must have sworn Mabel to secrecy and believed that Mabel would go along with it. Finally Oliver get's his son to look at Mrs. G. Even if it was a ploy, I choose to believe that he has gotten some level of support for the bird. Season 3 brought to you by Gut Milk Ultra. It's a murder in a building, at least.

Agree this was a solid movie, and I'll probably rewatch it at some point. I agree it hangs together better as a movie than Predator 2. Predator 2 suffers from the near distopian future as seen from the 80s setting. This really takes the idea of that gun given to Danny Glover's character and runs with it. There were a lot of good surprises and improvisation in dealing with all the threats that characters faced. While the CGI was noticeable I didn't think it was egregious. It told the story effectively, and with some particularly gory details in the deaths of the animals. I think this carried on the idea that the Predators have a hunting code, but only up to a point. Here the predator's weapons were calibrated to be like the weapons he encountered in his Prey. He started out more or less hand to hand with the snake, the wolf, and the bear - while still wearing hopelessly advanced camouflage. While fighting the Comanche he used darts and a spear to parallel their bows and spears - but he has laser guidance and repeat fire. With the French, who used a net on him, he used a net on one of them - a net that was robotically controlled to slice one of them into a thousand pieces. And with them he felt entitled to use explosives and saw blades. So, he is playing at fighting fair, but he's still a trophy hunting alien. By far the biggest tell about his supposedly fair code was that when Naru managed to get his spear and tried to use it on him, it retracted itself so that he couldn't be killed with it. Fortunately the laser targeting of his sights wasn't clever enough to distinguish between him and a target. I previously saw Amber Midthunder in Legion, and while she was interesting there she has improved as an actor here. Agreed.

Sean has almost died a whole lot. I'm starting to wonder if Sean is going to be baby Colin Robinson's first victim when he reaches energy vampire maturity. I loved Guillermo's abuelita both recognizing that Nadia was a vampire and ripping off that chair leg to use as a club. The Jersey Devil was equal parts creepy and ridiculous.

It's interesting to see how the death of Elora's mother was the pivotal event for the previous generation, much like Daniel's death is the pivotal event for the current generation. For the people affected there is before, and there is after. I feel like funerals are like this when its for someone you've known all your life, but that was only a third of their life. But the best moment was "Where the f*** 'd that horse go?" ETA: Sonic should be forking over sponsor money at this point. Maybe they are.

My money is on this angle. If Cinda - or her staff - started investigating the Arconia and its history after her first visit from Charles, Oliver, and Mabel, someone may have come across the mysterious disappearance of Rose Cooper. What a perfect subject for a podcast. Digging into her history led to Leonora Folger, who can't answer questions on her own behalf, and to Bunny, who was not interested. Bunny was a guardian of the Arconia and that painting. If someone wanted to get their hands on it, she might have protected it by putting a fake on display. And if investigators started finding out about plans for the Arconia or other unsavory history, Bunny would have been the person blocking the investigation. Bunny's death may have been an accident during an unexpected struggle, but why waste a death when you could use it as a jumping off point for a new, different podcast. I liked the whole confrontation between Oliver and Teddy. Howard popping on and off was icing. That bulldog playing Winnie was incredibly well trained and stood perfectly on mark during the elevator fight. And the conversation later was sad, weary, and touching. It also brought us another dark tale from about Teddy's father from underneath the polished Dimas facade.

At Comic Con this year there was some cosplay from the movie. On Gizmodo there were three chefs with Raccacoonie (one, two, three) and a family group.