I don’t have anything smart to say about either, but both are very good movies that I would definitely recommend.
The third and so far last Prefect Dreyfus Emergency brings me finally back to the point of having read everything Revelation Space. The book picks up a while after its predecessor, and… I have no idea how to keep this spoiler free, so I’ll just say that it brings the as-of-now trilogy to a satisfying conclusion, while leaving open possibilities to tell more stories in the Glitter Band of Yellowstone.
(I highly recommend to read Aurora Rising and Elysium Fire first, and I highly recommend every single piece of Revelation Space-fiction this man has ever written.)
On the one hand, there’s not a lot to say. It’s an Assassin’s Creed game. It’s set in Ancient Egypt in an attempt to tell the story of how things came to be, backfilling the series-defining artefacts away from being biblical into being ancient. It’s an alright story, it’s good gameplay, and I cannot clearly explain why but I found the ending, while not bad, very lacking.
The DLCs were pretty good, especially the Curse of the Pharaohs, but that one has… no proper ending at all? The quests just are over at some point? Or I’ve missed something bigger. I don’t know.
It plays well. I had fun. I don’t know if I would actively recommend it.
A book about refrigeration, the history thereof, and it’s impact on every single part of the food chain.
A good read, with tons of interesting things to learn along the way.
How dare, Riot. HOW? DARE!?
The second season is every bit as excellent as the first one. Animation, music, story, style, everything.
It is also even more hard-hitting, and I am still a bit shell-shocked from running through it in three days. This whole thing gave me A Lot of feelings, and all the interspersed fluffyness made the gut-punches hit so much harder.
I do recommend it, but this is not “light entertainment”.
This thing holds up as perfectly on the second run as on the first, and oh boi did I forget how constantly hard-hitting this was.
Hopefully I’ll now manage to ge relatively quickly into S02, finally.
A “reconstruction of the filmed version of a puppet play that was never performed” by the c-atre collective, this open-source play (link below) follows a group of coffee-bots unhappy with their working conditions making their way to the Boss Planet to update the system. It is slightly absurd and utterly delightful, and contains some very good musical numbers.
A (translated) collection of science-fiction short stories, none of which is actively bad, but also none of which really connected with me. I also found them pretty uncomfortable at times.
Nonetheless, if you’re looking for 70s scifi written by a non-american, non-male writer, consider taking a look.
A very beautiful animation piece about re-uniting a divided village, finding a meaning in one’s life, found family, and the importance of a working postal service.
Very heartwarming.
Do recommend.
This sure was A Movie.
A Christmas Movie, even.
A movie in which Santa gets kidnapped for nefarious purposes, and The Rock and Chris Evans go looking for him, and that tells you all you need to know.
It was not terrible, it was entertaining, it was alright.
