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Woodstone Manor: The I-saac Sees All (Spoilers&Speculation)
Bruinsfan replied to Neptune's topic in Ghosts (US)
Considering that said parties are for gay men, Trevor's already halfway there to being the entertainment. -
Definitely reserve a seat for me at that table. Nancy is just so viscerally unpleasant to watch and listen to. And I can't even find any narratively redeeming features for Stephanie. (I have developed a fondness for Flower, but she's the ghost I would miss the least out of the main 8, so I think Sheila Carrasco's maternity leave was a happy bit of synergy.)
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Sas knew he had the power before there was a house there, when he and Thorfin were the only ghosts present. Presumably he found it out via proximity to fellow members of the Lenape, or European settlers who were in the area before Isaac's time.
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I suppose Angrboða could still be her mother like in the myths. Either as a jötunn Odin dallied with, or as an Asgardian wife prior to Frigga. In Norse mythology Odin had a lot of kids by a lot of mothers, though Hela wasn't one of them.
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To be fair, I don't think Marvel (or any other studio) worries about backlash from Nazis for not treating their culture with sensitivity and respect. I too really enjoyed the episode—Kahhori was a very appealing character who got me interested in her story in a surprisingly short amount of time. And the dialogue being almost entirely in languages other than English was icing on the cake. I'd be more than fine with the series exploring the setting with original characters instead of existing MCU ones if this level of quality could be maintained.
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The multi-megaton steam explosion sounded very off to me. I know volcanic explosions involving seawater can be that massive or more, but I don't see how a superheated steam explosion of thousands of tons of water could equal millions of tons of dynamite. I get that the ecological impact could be just as severe because of the greater amount of radioactive material carried aloft by the steam and rained down for hundreds or thousands of kilometers. But I would expect the power plant to be pulverized, not completely disintegrated at the center of a kilometers-wide crater.
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Say What?: Commercials That Made Us Scratch Our Heads
Bruinsfan replied to Lola16's topic in Commercials
Maybe boat maintenance is so expensive she can no longer afford her mortgage? -
I also like how instead of having Luke be oblivious to his crush on Nathan, he's fully aware and all-in. Plus, it was hilarious when he objected to backup Nathan being traded for him and started fanning the gangster faster.
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S04.E07: Chapter Thirty-Five: The Endless
Bruinsfan replied to saoirse's topic in Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
That was Luke Cook voicing Salem, though I agree that getting Nick Bakay to reprise his role would have been the cherry on top of this delicious sundae. The meta-ness of existence as an eternal sitcom set really worked for me, and sold the mind-bending qualities of the Eldritch Terrors far better than hobos or tentacles or jackbooted hall monitors could. -
S04.E06: Chapter Thirty-Four: The Returned
Bruinsfan replied to saoirse's topic in Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
The basic idea of the Returned as the distinction between life and death being erased to the detriment of both was pretty chilling, and I liked Lazarus being presented as its representive facing off in a chess game against the natural order in the form of Mambo Marie. But the conflict also manifesting as a battle of the bands MCed by Lucifer was terribly cheesy, and the guy playing the ringleader of Satanic Panic may have rivalled Musetta Vander for terrible line delivery. -
S03.E08: Chapter Twenty-Eight: Sabrina is Legend
Bruinsfan replied to Lady Calypso's topic in Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
More importantly, how did he manage that so casually in the first place? Tricking and trapping Sabrina I'll buy, she tends to accept everything at face value and act before thinking things through. But I can't imagine Lucifer or Lillith being so trusting of his duplicitous clay ass, and the former has already proved that most methods of containing him are very temporary at best. -
S03.E07: Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Judas Kiss
Bruinsfan replied to Lady Calypso's topic in Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
It makes no sense that there are longtime inviolable rules for the succession of Hell when it's a monarchy established by an immortal ruler, who's incidentally standing right there being lectured about who gets his throne of they win the competition! -
S03.E06: Chapter Twenty-Six: All of Them Witches
Bruinsfan replied to Lady Calypso's topic in Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
Aside from the fact that Zelda recently had everyone saying their prayers to Lilith before going to bed at night, you'd think the fact that she's the world's oldest witch, still in possession of her full powers, and was able to at least temporarily restore Sabrina's witchcraft after she'd given her power away might have figured into the decision of whether or not to welcome her. -
S03.E04: Chapter Twenty-Four: The Hare Moon
Bruinsfan replied to Lady Calypso's topic in Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina
Something I don't get is the show's insistence on the Dark Lord and his creator as newer usurpers to the old gods of antiquity. Even in the real world that's probably only true from a Eurocentric perspective, as I believe worship of Yahweh in the Middle East goes back to the late Bronze Age similar to the Greek myths the pagans draw on. But in the context of the show we've literally seen a flashback to Lilith—the first woman—wandering after being kicked out of the Garden of Eden. And the pagan deities sure didn't have worship established in the Americas first if that's where Satan landed after his fall and ran across her. -
Certainly he's a huge upgrade from Jesse Eisenberg. It'll be interesting to see what he does as someone with few redeeming features.