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shadowhiveOnce again the past days have been low energy with my focus not being as there as I hoped.
Castle reruns started on channel 5 this week so we’ve ended up watching those. It’s such a great show and it’s so good seeing it from the start. I’m just a sucker for detective shows, especially with an outside consultant, they’re always fun.
I watched the other resurrection of the daleks special features, which were mostly with Janet Fielding (Tegan) and damn. I’d no idea that she’d had cancer, or that she’d been married to someone that she found out was dealing arms. Like ?? That’s so crazy. Plus there were cute seals.
I’ve also been continuing Tomodachi Life, which now has 3/4’s of MCR (minus Frank) and four people from Stranger Things (Dustin, Steve, Jonathan and Argyle). It’s funny seeing them go around doing their silly lil things. I wish I had art skills to make use of custom stuff and I do hope they add more things. I think the best of the miis I’ve made were Seapeekay and Ray.
I am still going on Pokopia, mostly still trying to get rid of ash. I think I have all the recipes now (bar the last few levelling ones) though I still need to get Pokémon. But the ash has sidetracked me and there’s so so much. Person who decided on that, you’re insane.
Also I watched Maul Shadow Lord, albeit a bit belatedly. Ugh the empire is there and being assholes. I really hope we get stuff that isn’t so empire centric some day but this was still pretty good. It was surprising how they made Marrok’s comeback so threatening too.
Wednesday was a trip to get mums meds which went wrong cause some weren’t there and so that’s caused issues (she has a certain make, but apparently they’re not getable anymore and we don’t know why). I did get a marvel rivals graphic novel and the usual Lego magazines from sainsburys, plus gaming books from Aldi but not much else.
So Stranger Things Tales From 85 went live yesterday and I watched the first two eps (I’d have watched another but, as is often the case tiredness hit) so thoughts ahoy.
Before I go into detail I have enjoyed it so far in general. But more thoughts are under the cut (with - when we get to more detail to avoid spoilers)
I so I saw the first two eps which were Welcome To Hawkins New Kid and Bad Harvest. The episodes are about 30 mins long which makes a nice length to watch and, again, if my eyes weren’t getting sleepy I might have watched the next one.
The series is set in the winter of 85 (January specifically) so it’s between series 2 and 3 of the main show. So the gate is closed, there’s a mention starcourt opening and Hawkins lab is abandoned.
The show opens with someone in a hazmat suit chasing a creature and using a flamethrower on it (a very cool looking shot). While said creature is destroyed it sends out these particles, akin to spores, which of course the hazmat person misses, with it landing elsewhere and taking root…
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So like I said I enjoyed these first two eps. And I am really glad that Dustin feels really well served so far (his voice is the best sounding of the bunch too). Hopefully Will gets a bit more to do too.
Visually it does look better than I thought it would, with the opening scene really setting off how nice this could look. Yeah the faces do take a bit of getting used to but I warmed to them as the eps went on.
The new creatures do look really cool. There’s a ‘snow shark’ that’s really threatening (and creepy too!) plus there are some pumpkin based vine creatures and ep 2 ended with another plant creature. And yeah I’m a sucker for plant creatures so naturally I do love that. (Of course that does bring the issue of why they only show up here but who knows maybe there’ll be an explanation)
But that I feel is gonna be the main issue people have with this. Because being set between seasons 2 and 3, with new creatures and people and showing that stuff from the upside down is still around despite the gate being closed…
Like don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed it and I’m totally invested and I wanna know what happens. But it’s gonna be strange seeing season 3 with them so sure everything is over when this happened a few months after season 2.
Plus there’s Nikki, a new friend they’ve made, I like her well enough, but it already does fell galling they told someone else and for her not to come up. It feels inevitable something bad will happen to her as a result too. But I guess we’ll see.
And again my enjoyment is only based on 2 eps, it could go so wrong in the last 8 and become terrible, but I’m hopeful it won’t be. (Feel free to point and laugh if that changes)
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So yeah I think I might try and watch the series over the weekend (superseding the plans I originally had for nighttime stuff).
General night time stuff I wanna watch being Heated Rivalry, The Beauty and Pizza Movie (plus I wanna finally get back to Welcome to Derry I’m determined to finish the last eps over the next two weeks). Also I am thinking of doing a Mandalorian rewatch but I dunno i can squeeze it in before the film. We’ll see.
Plus I wanna watch the blu rays of Warning From Space (and maybe other things too, like Life Force, Sacred Spirit and Weapons).
But next week is one of those busy weeks. Mum’s friend coming (ugh), food shop delivery, mum’s birthday and free comic book day/theatre open day.
Castle reruns started on channel 5 this week so we’ve ended up watching those. It’s such a great show and it’s so good seeing it from the start. I’m just a sucker for detective shows, especially with an outside consultant, they’re always fun.
I watched the other resurrection of the daleks special features, which were mostly with Janet Fielding (Tegan) and damn. I’d no idea that she’d had cancer, or that she’d been married to someone that she found out was dealing arms. Like ?? That’s so crazy. Plus there were cute seals.
I’ve also been continuing Tomodachi Life, which now has 3/4’s of MCR (minus Frank) and four people from Stranger Things (Dustin, Steve, Jonathan and Argyle). It’s funny seeing them go around doing their silly lil things. I wish I had art skills to make use of custom stuff and I do hope they add more things. I think the best of the miis I’ve made were Seapeekay and Ray.
I am still going on Pokopia, mostly still trying to get rid of ash. I think I have all the recipes now (bar the last few levelling ones) though I still need to get Pokémon. But the ash has sidetracked me and there’s so so much. Person who decided on that, you’re insane.
Also I watched Maul Shadow Lord, albeit a bit belatedly. Ugh the empire is there and being assholes. I really hope we get stuff that isn’t so empire centric some day but this was still pretty good. It was surprising how they made Marrok’s comeback so threatening too.
Wednesday was a trip to get mums meds which went wrong cause some weren’t there and so that’s caused issues (she has a certain make, but apparently they’re not getable anymore and we don’t know why). I did get a marvel rivals graphic novel and the usual Lego magazines from sainsburys, plus gaming books from Aldi but not much else.
So Stranger Things Tales From 85 went live yesterday and I watched the first two eps (I’d have watched another but, as is often the case tiredness hit) so thoughts ahoy.
Before I go into detail I have enjoyed it so far in general. But more thoughts are under the cut (with - when we get to more detail to avoid spoilers)
I so I saw the first two eps which were Welcome To Hawkins New Kid and Bad Harvest. The episodes are about 30 mins long which makes a nice length to watch and, again, if my eyes weren’t getting sleepy I might have watched the next one.
The series is set in the winter of 85 (January specifically) so it’s between series 2 and 3 of the main show. So the gate is closed, there’s a mention starcourt opening and Hawkins lab is abandoned.
The show opens with someone in a hazmat suit chasing a creature and using a flamethrower on it (a very cool looking shot). While said creature is destroyed it sends out these particles, akin to spores, which of course the hazmat person misses, with it landing elsewhere and taking root…
-
So like I said I enjoyed these first two eps. And I am really glad that Dustin feels really well served so far (his voice is the best sounding of the bunch too). Hopefully Will gets a bit more to do too.
Visually it does look better than I thought it would, with the opening scene really setting off how nice this could look. Yeah the faces do take a bit of getting used to but I warmed to them as the eps went on.
The new creatures do look really cool. There’s a ‘snow shark’ that’s really threatening (and creepy too!) plus there are some pumpkin based vine creatures and ep 2 ended with another plant creature. And yeah I’m a sucker for plant creatures so naturally I do love that. (Of course that does bring the issue of why they only show up here but who knows maybe there’ll be an explanation)
But that I feel is gonna be the main issue people have with this. Because being set between seasons 2 and 3, with new creatures and people and showing that stuff from the upside down is still around despite the gate being closed…
Like don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed it and I’m totally invested and I wanna know what happens. But it’s gonna be strange seeing season 3 with them so sure everything is over when this happened a few months after season 2.
Plus there’s Nikki, a new friend they’ve made, I like her well enough, but it already does fell galling they told someone else and for her not to come up. It feels inevitable something bad will happen to her as a result too. But I guess we’ll see.
And again my enjoyment is only based on 2 eps, it could go so wrong in the last 8 and become terrible, but I’m hopeful it won’t be. (Feel free to point and laugh if that changes)
-
So yeah I think I might try and watch the series over the weekend (superseding the plans I originally had for nighttime stuff).
General night time stuff I wanna watch being Heated Rivalry, The Beauty and Pizza Movie (plus I wanna finally get back to Welcome to Derry I’m determined to finish the last eps over the next two weeks). Also I am thinking of doing a Mandalorian rewatch but I dunno i can squeeze it in before the film. We’ll see.
Plus I wanna watch the blu rays of Warning From Space (and maybe other things too, like Life Force, Sacred Spirit and Weapons).
But next week is one of those busy weeks. Mum’s friend coming (ugh), food shop delivery, mum’s birthday and free comic book day/theatre open day.
