The past is a foreign land
Feb. 16th, 2023 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveSo on Wednesday I watched Hereditary and it didn’t okay out like I expected At all. I’ll say know more for those that haven’t seen. (I am puzzled though that ao3 has a bunch of fics of the son, Peter, with Donnie Darko).
Today was the update for Dreamlight Valley and I’ve not been on much but I have met Olaf and started his quest. I’m curious how Mirabel will show up, and the new storage thing. Fall guys has also had an update that’s baffling. Instead of having a weekly kudos shop it’s now daily, but the amount of kudos you can get is still low. (Things in the kudos store can be over 2000 kudos, the most kudos you can get per day is 200 so you can see the problem) there’s a kudos event running now but even that won’t help too much
Safari decided to die today which pissed me off. I’d not got as many tabs as when it happened last time but still, it’s so annoying. I suspect it did it because it needed an update to the OS but fuck that, I’m switching to Firefox. (It also means I might be late replying to comments since I lost the tabs I had open with them, ugh)
Tonight I continued with the Who run, watching The Crusade. I had mixed feelings about it going in. On the one hand it was an ep I’d never seen before (due to it being one of the missing ones), on the other they opted not to animate it but use telesnaps. And also I found the early historical eps I’ve seen to be kinda… boring. I also expected it, from the title to be more focused on the actual crusades with… I dunno, fighting and such.
While there was some fighting, it wasn’t much of the focus. In fact the episode was more about Barbara being kidnapped (much like in The Romans) and Ian going off to try and find her. (Only that doesn’t go well)
I’d say the best parts of the ep were Ian being made Sir Ian, Joanne (the Kings sister) rightfully being pissed about being offered to marry someone and the final scene of guards seeing the tardis vanish.
The two missing parts do suffer because they’re telesnaps instead of the actual episodes or animation so those parts do become rather … stilted, with it being hard to tell what’s going onto (not to mention the unflattering faces in some of them). And Ian did end up in the desert somehow which felt… odd.
But by and large it proved to be a little better than I expected it would be. It’s a shame there’s no specific special features for it though. There’s no making of or behind the sofa (not a sppurprise there though , but it’s odd they’re lacking on eps and makes me worry for early seasons), there’s not even something on how/why telesnaps were done which would’ve proven interesting. There is something about the writer which I’m curious about as well as a convention thing, but those are for another time.
For now I’ll watch the Xbox ambassadors stream, maybe fic some and debate what to do when the stream finishes. If I’m tired I might go and doze or put on the next hyacinth disaster, but I might game some.
Today was the update for Dreamlight Valley and I’ve not been on much but I have met Olaf and started his quest. I’m curious how Mirabel will show up, and the new storage thing. Fall guys has also had an update that’s baffling. Instead of having a weekly kudos shop it’s now daily, but the amount of kudos you can get is still low. (Things in the kudos store can be over 2000 kudos, the most kudos you can get per day is 200 so you can see the problem) there’s a kudos event running now but even that won’t help too much
Safari decided to die today which pissed me off. I’d not got as many tabs as when it happened last time but still, it’s so annoying. I suspect it did it because it needed an update to the OS but fuck that, I’m switching to Firefox. (It also means I might be late replying to comments since I lost the tabs I had open with them, ugh)
Tonight I continued with the Who run, watching The Crusade. I had mixed feelings about it going in. On the one hand it was an ep I’d never seen before (due to it being one of the missing ones), on the other they opted not to animate it but use telesnaps. And also I found the early historical eps I’ve seen to be kinda… boring. I also expected it, from the title to be more focused on the actual crusades with… I dunno, fighting and such.
While there was some fighting, it wasn’t much of the focus. In fact the episode was more about Barbara being kidnapped (much like in The Romans) and Ian going off to try and find her. (Only that doesn’t go well)
I’d say the best parts of the ep were Ian being made Sir Ian, Joanne (the Kings sister) rightfully being pissed about being offered to marry someone and the final scene of guards seeing the tardis vanish.
The two missing parts do suffer because they’re telesnaps instead of the actual episodes or animation so those parts do become rather … stilted, with it being hard to tell what’s going onto (not to mention the unflattering faces in some of them). And Ian did end up in the desert somehow which felt… odd.
But by and large it proved to be a little better than I expected it would be. It’s a shame there’s no specific special features for it though. There’s no making of or behind the sofa (not a sppurprise there though , but it’s odd they’re lacking on eps and makes me worry for early seasons), there’s not even something on how/why telesnaps were done which would’ve proven interesting. There is something about the writer which I’m curious about as well as a convention thing, but those are for another time.
For now I’ll watch the Xbox ambassadors stream, maybe fic some and debate what to do when the stream finishes. If I’m tired I might go and doze or put on the next hyacinth disaster, but I might game some.
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Date: 2023-02-18 07:25 pm (UTC)I've got very mixed feelings about The Crusade. On the one hand most of the guest actors are fabulous and the producer excellent (Douglas Camfield rocks!) but on the other telesnap reconstructions are always rather boring make it hard to really get into the story. I do like how pro-active Barbara is though - whenever she's captured she immediately sets about trying to escape. She doesn't need Ian rescuing her.
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Date: 2023-02-18 07:31 pm (UTC)Yeah the guest stars were great! But I agree telesnaps just make it harder to follow! I’d heard someone say it wasn’t animated because there was a lot going on (hence me expecting fighting and such) but it didn’t seem like there was really so it’s a shame. That’s so true! He should know she can take care of herself