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Dec 21, 2019 04:58PM
I have watched Eps. 2 & 3 and I am liking it now, mainly, as I thought, for the Yennefer and Ciri storylines.
Dec 21, 2019 12:41PM
I've only watched the first episode too. It was disappointing and I have played the games and read one book.I'll give it a few more episodes. We haven't seen Yennefer yet.
Her story and Ciri's may yet save it.
When was the, retrospective start of this calendar we're using?1st of January, 1 CE
That makes the end of the first decade, 31st December, 10 CE
Every decade starts on a year ending with 1
and ends on a year ending with 0
Same with Centuries and Millenniums.
Scientific American agrees with me ;-)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
Trike wrote: "He really likes starting decades off with weird mindjobs, don’t he?2000: Memento
2010: Inception
2020: Tenet"
Just to be the pedantic old fart I am, ;-)
They are all end of decade years
What were your favourite books of the 2019 Sword and Laser picks?Jan- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Feb- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Mar- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Apr- Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
May- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Jun- The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Jul- Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols
Aug- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Sep- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Oct- Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes
Nov- The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Dec- Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
My Top 3 Overall were:
The Calculating Stars
Trail of Lightning
The Snow Queen
The Calculating Stars was my 2nd favourite book of the year, including everything else I read. It was beaten by its sequel The Fated Sky.
My guess is the helmet thing will be silly ;-)I want to know how they are tracking their targets with the fobs. Are they tracking the midi-chlorians?
Rob wrote: "I eventually plan to rotate services too, but for now they got me using most of them like a sucker.."
That's what I do. When Disney+ and Apple TV+ started I dropped Stan and Netflix. I'll just rotate every few months (depending what's on)
Though I still do have satellite TV (our cable) just for the footy and cricket.
Mark wrote: "In case you haven't seen the email from disney+, episode #7 drops Wed Dec 18 along with a sneak peek at Rise of Skywalker"I have an App for that :-)
It has already told me that. Which was a nice surprise.
I assume it drops at 7PM tonight (for me) which is Midnight PST
"The Imagineering Story" is really good. If you are a fan of the Disney parks, you'll love it. It deals with all the different parks around the world. It really gets into the nitty gritty of how they got made. The internal and external politics. The problems they had to solve.But it does it a way that is respectful to the people doing the work.
I am surprised that Disney hasn't made a park in Oz.
Ryan Reynolds character is called Guy and he's a character in a video game that is now free to do whatever he wants.Movie writers don't always overthink their titles ;-)
I didn't know that was Fiolini.I was more excited that "The Kurgan" (Clancy Brown) played Burg, the big red guy with horns.
I'm not a big fan of releasing it all at once. It does stifle the week to week speculation and discussion that we get with the other shows.I have to catch up with a few other shows before I can start this 4th season.
Trike wrote: "Now, if it had been Ferrari...."What if it's a Ferrari with J.J.Abrams sitting in the drivers seat, listening to an audiobook of Binti, while "The Empire Strikes Back" plays on the dashboard monitor?
It looks like they are sticking to the episodic storylines.We got the prison breakout episode this week.
I am still liking it. Tadpole Merch keeps getting the good scenes.
(view spoiler)
We knew it was coming. Merch is on its way.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/12/ha...
Not all, but some of the comedy in Discworld is absurd. Some is not.Monty Python did the occasional straight comedy, as did Spike Milligan.
Wacky absurd humour It is a style of comedy that the English does better than the rest of the world.
Like, Monty Python, The Goon Show, The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh
The commonality would be the absurdist style of comedy that Monty Python and The Goon Show had.Spike Milligan was one of the greatest pioneers and exponents of that style.
Pratchett's work is a similar style. So much so, that Monty Python members have been involved in adaptations of his work.
Terry Jones was one of the writers on "The Watch" when they first tried to get it made for TV. He has dropped out now.
Terry Gilliam was going to make a movie version of "Good Omens" at one time. They even had a script ready.
Eric Idle was the voice of Rincewind in the video game "Discworld"
Mark wrote: "Dave, thanks for reminding us about these books."You're welcome :-)
I am constantly pleased at the quality of the titles they give away.
I have got over 30 free books from this book club and most are books I would read.
This months FREE book from tor.com is available now.Wild Cards 1 by Various authors. Editor George R.R. Martin
Available until 11:59 PM ET, December 13th, 2019
https://ebookclub.tor.com/
It's got the "Stranger Things" kid in it. It looks like they are going for a similar vibe to that.
Matthew wrote: "Clarification maybe? Isnt hogfather the fourth Terry Pratchett novel read by the podcast? Good Omens, Wee Free Men, then Wyrd Sisters being the other three."We never read "Wee Free Men" for S&L
Just Hogfather, Wyrd Sisters & Good Omens
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