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☆ Phew finally an update that's not just going on about GotG3. I hope everyone had a good Memorial Day who celebrated, or who just had the day off at least. We never do anything particularly exciting for Memorial Day, this year as usual we just had the family together and did some grilling since the weather was nice. I made them watch Black Panther Wakanda Forever since I wanted to re-watch it lmao I've rekindled my love for MCU Namor.
☆ Other things I've finished since the last non-GotG update... I watched the D&D Honor Among Thieves movie! It was really fun, you definitely don't need any D&D knowledge to enjoy it. The most unrealistic part of it was that everyone was straight lol nobody has an all-straight D&D party. But even so, Chris Pine was enjoyable as your standard Chris Pine funnyman character (this is not bad), though my favorite character was definitely Xenk. Wish he'd been in it more, his interactions with the team and Edgin especially were so good. The epitome of a one-off NPC that the players love so much they force the DM to bring them back into the story lmao. But yeah if you like fantasy action movies I recommend watching!
☆ I also watched the final season of His Dark Materials, which was...interesting. I've never read the books--I tried to read The Golden Compass twice when I was younger but never got hooked enough to finish it or the series, so I went into the show not knowing anything past book one. I think the show was very well made, everything looked great and the acting was very good, though I don't know how accurate an adaptation it was. I never understood before why some Christians hated these books so much, having only read part of book one; I was like, is it because the animal souls are called "demons"?? And then you get into the real plot with the Magisterium and Asriel's war against Heaven and it's like oh sjdhfskjhdf yeah that'll do it. So yeah it's NOT subtle at all in it's messaging but as someone who never read the books it was interesting to finally see what it was all about since the books were very popular when I was in school.
☆ And then there's Lycoris Recoil oh my god. They lured me in with the yuri bait and girls with guns trope and then hit me with the unexpected old man yaoi backstory drama. Where is my Mika/Yoshi prequel?? But yeah I really hope whatever "new animation project" they've recently announced is a proper sequel or something, I don't feel like Chisato and Takina got any real closure to their story, especially after what happens in the last couple episodes? Even so I think it's worth watching overall, it's only 13 episodes and the characters/their relationships really make it since the plot imo is kind of weak. But the animation is nice, I loved the characters, and the action sequences are decent. I don't have any real hope for Chisato/Takina becoming canon lmao but we can dream.
☆ Other things I've finished since the last non-GotG update... I watched the D&D Honor Among Thieves movie! It was really fun, you definitely don't need any D&D knowledge to enjoy it. The most unrealistic part of it was that everyone was straight lol nobody has an all-straight D&D party. But even so, Chris Pine was enjoyable as your standard Chris Pine funnyman character (this is not bad), though my favorite character was definitely Xenk. Wish he'd been in it more, his interactions with the team and Edgin especially were so good. The epitome of a one-off NPC that the players love so much they force the DM to bring them back into the story lmao. But yeah if you like fantasy action movies I recommend watching!
☆ I also watched the final season of His Dark Materials, which was...interesting. I've never read the books--I tried to read The Golden Compass twice when I was younger but never got hooked enough to finish it or the series, so I went into the show not knowing anything past book one. I think the show was very well made, everything looked great and the acting was very good, though I don't know how accurate an adaptation it was. I never understood before why some Christians hated these books so much, having only read part of book one; I was like, is it because the animal souls are called "demons"?? And then you get into the real plot with the Magisterium and Asriel's war against Heaven and it's like oh sjdhfskjhdf yeah that'll do it. So yeah it's NOT subtle at all in it's messaging but as someone who never read the books it was interesting to finally see what it was all about since the books were very popular when I was in school.
☆ And then there's Lycoris Recoil oh my god. They lured me in with the yuri bait and girls with guns trope and then hit me with the unexpected old man yaoi backstory drama. Where is my Mika/Yoshi prequel?? But yeah I really hope whatever "new animation project" they've recently announced is a proper sequel or something, I don't feel like Chisato and Takina got any real closure to their story, especially after what happens in the last couple episodes? Even so I think it's worth watching overall, it's only 13 episodes and the characters/their relationships really make it since the plot imo is kind of weak. But the animation is nice, I loved the characters, and the action sequences are decent. I don't have any real hope for Chisato/Takina becoming canon lmao but we can dream.
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Yeah I wish the plot had been a little tighter, but it's definitely more about the characters than whatever was going on with the DA and Alan Institute or whatever else lmao. I'm hoping for more news on this supposed future animation project for the series because I liked Chisato/Takina a lot so I want more :(