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Sep. 5th, 2022 05:25 pmToday I had some mail come, in the form of The Abominable Snowmen blu ray. It’s the newest (and, sadly, seemingly last) animated episode.
The animated eps usually add something that weren’t present in the original ones. Be it making the sets appear bigger, adding a full little Easter eggs or just having a colour version (alongside a black and white one). This episode went a bit further, making another change which is kinda bigger.
See the episode is set in a Tibetan monastery in the Himalayas, yet the actors used were predominantly white made up to look non-white. In the animation the characters are more appropriately Asian. You could make an argument about that being a good or bad call, but I think it’s the right one.
The ep is a little… plodding, as 6 episode stories usually tend to be. At least it’s not the usual format of people getting captured, escaping and recaptured (although there is an element of that). And it works pretty well, although it could’ve been wrapped up a little better.
It’s also funny that the main ‘villain’ (well human puppet of the villain) is referred to as the master. Even more so considering how he manipulates and uses a form of hypnosis. It’s nice that Victoria gets a lot to do in this ep too (and funny how quickly her eagerness to explorer, and Jamie’s unwillingness, flips when it changes from a possibility of a beast and a human)
It’s also funny that the ep ends with Jamie saying he hopes the next stop is somewhere warmer… cause the next ep is The Ice Warriors which is even colder. (Though the actual yeti at the end looked off somehow).
I usually the making of separately, especially after a long ep, but mum was curious so I ended up disc switching to it. A large portion of it is filmed at the location the ep was filmed, in Snowdonia, and it looks absolutely beautiful, I’d love to visit it sometime.
It was nice to see everyone reminiscing over the filming, and pics of the yeti costumes do look so cuddly. It was also nice (and surviving) that they had some footage of Deborah Watling and her dad from older interviews. Especially touching was they interview one of the guys that played a yeti and he ended his interview saying he was the last one left…. It’s especially pouring now that he has since passed as well.
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Now onto over things.
Things do seem to be better now then they were. After spending a few days upstairs I did end up coming down and things seem mostly back to normal. Although there’s still some annoyances (mum suggests the table I bought in shifts position, I doubt it will fit where she wants it).
I was planning to start watch Star Trek Discovery, since I used a month free code from Xbox game pass but…. It hasn’t worked out. For some reason we don’t have paramount +’s app on uk Xbox (which wtf especially since Halo is a big draw) and getting it to play on Microsoft edge… isn’t working. I’ve emailed them and waiting to hear back bit… ugh.
Friday was the first two eps of Rings Of Power and I ended up watching both of them. No spoilers, but I thought it was pretty great and I enjoyed it. I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes.
Also on Friday, ironically while watching an Xbox uk stream, I had a twitter dm come through from them. There’d been a twitter comp to win a code for Destiny 2 and I won one, which was pretty cool. It’s gonna give me more incentive to get back on it (especially since it’s space pirates).
Saturday wasn’t too exciting daytime wise. We watched the first ep of Ridley on itv player (though it did fight us for it) and who knew that Adrian Dunbar could sing like that? (I do thing the first ep was better than Sundays but).
Nighttime was Wilbur’s Lahore, which was a bit annoying cause it got delayed about three times. As a character finale it did have feels to it…. And then ended up with Wilbur being from Utah which is a very wtf moment (especially with him doing a live action bit for it) but yay ghostbur has friend! It’s a shame Quackity didn’t appear, though he does have his lore thing this week which… might he plain it.
Sunday I finally watched the extended version of The Two Towers and now I have had that end credits song in my head. It’s just so haunting.
I’m awaiting two things to come from the mail. The Punz bees are supposedly handed off to Evri, but the tracking has not been updated in close to a week now. I’m also waiting for something I won on eBay, which hasn’t been sent yet. I’ll have to email them if there’s no updates.
We are apparently going out next week to Birmingham, so we might go to one of the heritage week things (as well as seeing the bull if it’s still there). Someone at mums book group mentioned doing a walking tour so maybe we’ll look into one (I’m curious about the catacombs one but the dates are likely off)
I’m hoping to do stuff this week since my energy has been so off but I guess we’ll see.
The animated eps usually add something that weren’t present in the original ones. Be it making the sets appear bigger, adding a full little Easter eggs or just having a colour version (alongside a black and white one). This episode went a bit further, making another change which is kinda bigger.
See the episode is set in a Tibetan monastery in the Himalayas, yet the actors used were predominantly white made up to look non-white. In the animation the characters are more appropriately Asian. You could make an argument about that being a good or bad call, but I think it’s the right one.
The ep is a little… plodding, as 6 episode stories usually tend to be. At least it’s not the usual format of people getting captured, escaping and recaptured (although there is an element of that). And it works pretty well, although it could’ve been wrapped up a little better.
It’s also funny that the main ‘villain’ (well human puppet of the villain) is referred to as the master. Even more so considering how he manipulates and uses a form of hypnosis. It’s nice that Victoria gets a lot to do in this ep too (and funny how quickly her eagerness to explorer, and Jamie’s unwillingness, flips when it changes from a possibility of a beast and a human)
It’s also funny that the ep ends with Jamie saying he hopes the next stop is somewhere warmer… cause the next ep is The Ice Warriors which is even colder. (Though the actual yeti at the end looked off somehow).
I usually the making of separately, especially after a long ep, but mum was curious so I ended up disc switching to it. A large portion of it is filmed at the location the ep was filmed, in Snowdonia, and it looks absolutely beautiful, I’d love to visit it sometime.
It was nice to see everyone reminiscing over the filming, and pics of the yeti costumes do look so cuddly. It was also nice (and surviving) that they had some footage of Deborah Watling and her dad from older interviews. Especially touching was they interview one of the guys that played a yeti and he ended his interview saying he was the last one left…. It’s especially pouring now that he has since passed as well.
***
Now onto over things.
Things do seem to be better now then they were. After spending a few days upstairs I did end up coming down and things seem mostly back to normal. Although there’s still some annoyances (mum suggests the table I bought in shifts position, I doubt it will fit where she wants it).
I was planning to start watch Star Trek Discovery, since I used a month free code from Xbox game pass but…. It hasn’t worked out. For some reason we don’t have paramount +’s app on uk Xbox (which wtf especially since Halo is a big draw) and getting it to play on Microsoft edge… isn’t working. I’ve emailed them and waiting to hear back bit… ugh.
Friday was the first two eps of Rings Of Power and I ended up watching both of them. No spoilers, but I thought it was pretty great and I enjoyed it. I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes.
Also on Friday, ironically while watching an Xbox uk stream, I had a twitter dm come through from them. There’d been a twitter comp to win a code for Destiny 2 and I won one, which was pretty cool. It’s gonna give me more incentive to get back on it (especially since it’s space pirates).
Saturday wasn’t too exciting daytime wise. We watched the first ep of Ridley on itv player (though it did fight us for it) and who knew that Adrian Dunbar could sing like that? (I do thing the first ep was better than Sundays but).
Nighttime was Wilbur’s Lahore, which was a bit annoying cause it got delayed about three times. As a character finale it did have feels to it…. And then ended up with Wilbur being from Utah which is a very wtf moment (especially with him doing a live action bit for it) but yay ghostbur has friend! It’s a shame Quackity didn’t appear, though he does have his lore thing this week which… might he plain it.
Sunday I finally watched the extended version of The Two Towers and now I have had that end credits song in my head. It’s just so haunting.
I’m awaiting two things to come from the mail. The Punz bees are supposedly handed off to Evri, but the tracking has not been updated in close to a week now. I’m also waiting for something I won on eBay, which hasn’t been sent yet. I’ll have to email them if there’s no updates.
We are apparently going out next week to Birmingham, so we might go to one of the heritage week things (as well as seeing the bull if it’s still there). Someone at mums book group mentioned doing a walking tour so maybe we’ll look into one (I’m curious about the catacombs one but the dates are likely off)
I’m hoping to do stuff this week since my energy has been so off but I guess we’ll see.
