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November 20, 2022
My mini-review of BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER.
Short version: I suspect that Earth-2’s version of BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (the one starring a cancer-free Chadwick Boseman) isn’t nearly as good as this one. Instead, we get the movie where the director and writers of a popcorn superhero picture suddenly have to address themes like grief, anger, and loss. Lucky us.
Slightly longer version: I liked BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER, but there’s a lot of sadness in it, and the sadness makes the characters choose poorly at times. I’m not claiming that it’s an extremely deep movie, except by popcorn movie standards. The action is fun and the characters more so (they wisely gave Winston Duke more to do in this one, and he was up to the challenge), but cheerful, this movie is not. I also have some piddling objections to why the Wakandans didn’t simply start dropping depth charges (which is the endgame for any sapient water-land battle), but then it was obvious that the writers didn’t think in TTRPG terms. I can live with the results.
Moe Lane
PS: They explained the wing thing.
November 19, 2022
Book of the Week: …You Tell Me.
I’m on my last bar of power, sorry. I might not make it to television. So: open thread on books. Come up with stuff you KNOW the rest of us have never heard of.
So, things were going well until the engine temperature light started flashing.
Turns out that’s bad. Particularly when you’re on the highway.
But AAA came through in the end*, and I am home. I am not writing anything, I have had a drink, and now I am going to watch 1899 until the world stops vibrating. Well, and put up Book of the Week and the weekly Patreon microfiction. Working title for the latter: “The Monkey’s Ass.”
*The amazing part? I’m only about forty minutes late.
Behold! Stellar Con!
I am here! Come by, and buy!
#StellarCon
Behold! I am here. pic.twitter.com/87xOfee97G
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) November 19, 2022
Or just buy!
November 18, 2022
No writing tonight.
1899 has kind of sucked me in. If you do watch it, make sure you set the audio to English (original) and add subtitles. The show is extremely polyglot, and you miss a lot of subtleties if you set it to English (dubbed).
Anyway, I can make it up tomorrow at the con. There’s usually some dead time.
Tweet of the Day, …Okay, Maybe They Were Right To Move The Bills-Browns Game edition.
They’re playing the Bills-Browns game in Detroit because of snowy conditions. There were some complaints about this, until the snowy conditions showed up:
Orchard Park, home of the @BuffaloBills, has seen 66 inches of snow in the last 24 hours!
This is the highest 24-hour snow total ever recorded in New York state.
: @BuffaloBills pic.twitter.com/0TA75yr8M9
— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) November 19, 2022
66 inches of snowfall is almost but not quite taller than my head*. That probably qualifies as ‘too much snow for football.’ Even in upstate New York.
*I’m a hobbit, remember?
Just watched the first episode of 1899 on Netflix.
1899 is very odd and definitely creepy. It’s been noted on Facebook that this show so far has a definite Call of Cthulhu RPG vibe to it with the characters we’ve seen so far, which I can see. I dunno if it’s going to be cosmic horror, but it might be science horror. That will, as they say, do.
The whole thing is on Netflix, and it looks like they dropped the whole series at once. Check it out.
Car loaded up for Stellar Con!
Stellar Con is tomorrow at the APGFCU Arena in Bel Air, MD, 11 AM to 5 PM. I’ll be at the spot on the map below, selling my books! If you’re in the area, stop on by!
November 17, 2022
Tweet of the Day, God But It Was Invigorating edition.
As I all-but-said on Twitter earlier, I’m feeling like G’Kar in the elevator. If Twitter lives, a lot of people are entertainingly freaking out right now; and if it dies, I get to watch. There is no downside.
tbh the twitter panic tonight feels more like old school twitter than it has in maybe a decade
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) November 18, 2022
