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Jonathan Sims (He/Him) - Multi award-winning writer & VA.
Writer: Thirteen Storeys, Family Business, The Magnus Archives.
VA: Slay the Princess, The Mechanisms, audiodramas.
Games: MacGuffin & Co.
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The "Ethics" of anything fantastical: necromancy, domestication of dragons, physical enchancement potions, tomb exploration, whatever works for the LARP.
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Might get one for meself - I'm always worried I'm missing out on mealtime learning opportunities.
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I bestow upon you the highest compliment a Brit can give: you were rather pleasant lunchtime company.
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Maybe more limes?
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I saw Company of Wolves for the first time a couple've months back and to be honest I was really underwhelmed, given how much it had been built up to me. It's really all over the place and the story-in-a-story-in-a-story-in-a-dream just got in its own way.
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And a particularly gory or effective transformation sequence sticks in the mind, often hiding the fact that the rest of the movie is just waiting for that sequence.
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Mr Rudolph Morrison, founder and CEO of Morrisons (I assume). Look at his little businessman haircut!
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Here he is at Chistmas!
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There's a cat who's a regular in our local Morrisons as well, bur the staff treat him with sufficient reverence that I believe him to be the manager, or perhaps even Mr. Morrison himself.
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This has really made me stop and think. I've seen so many werewolf movies I think my brain just assumed at least one of them was good.
Fun? Plenty.
Interesting? A few.
Good? Hmm...
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I don't understand, Ross. What do you mean?
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Managed to find an internet archive VHS upload of it, if that helps. Forgot how legitimately unhinged it was
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For some reason "Your dad might hit the ceiling when he hears the footy scores / he’ll do himself a mischief watching Robot Wars!" feels so indelibly 90s that I can't forget it
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Mate, they make so much less sense than you remember.
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For some reason a while ago I watched a compilation of all his weird little robo-poems and they are *baffling*, but the cadence is not lodged in my head
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The Kellys got some fellas to help 'em sweep the floors
But its time to take the trash out, here on Robot Wars
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Masc of the Red Death
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You'll likely pay full price for it, which I know can be rough these days, but whatever discount you mamage to get from these online warehouse places is coming from somewhere, and it's usually the workers.
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Prove it.
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Fair enough - I suppose as one of the unlucky souls who has never been able stop Star Wars meaning a lot to me, it's been very painful for a very long time, so the apprearance of Actually Good Star Wars feels like a big jug of ice water in the desert :p
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While I usually agree that shows are better if they can be their own universe, I actually think one of Andor's real masterstrokes is how well its able to leverage the iconography of Star Wars to add cultural weight to its themes and get right into the meat of things without extensive worldbuilding
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Only in Kayfabe
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Just so you have the context if you make it all the way to the main fight: The three men who take a half an hour to get to the ring are all fighting over who gets to own the little bald man.
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My contention is it IS a sport, but it's one based on Charisma, rather than speed or strength or agility. The better you can display your charisma, the more the crowd responds to you, the bigger the storylines you'll be written into, thus it is at once both scripted and competative.
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And one of them's the baddie and you all have to go BOOOOOO when they do a big hit
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I find it incredibly fascinating. It tickles my brain in writing, sociological and performance ways. And also they'll sometimes do a jump that makes you go WOOOAHHH
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We've recently gotten into The Wrestling and it's a lot of fun, though you're not wrong about it being an unfiltered look directly into the American psyche. What you have to remember at all times is that its what the US has instead of Panto
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I will defend Gunther - he's coded first world war German, rather than Nazi, and is actually one of the best heels currently working, along with his compatriot who is called Ludwig Kaiser and looks like a 1920s German bodybuilder
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Reminds me of a Tumblr post I saw recently earnestly defending Frodo for paragraphs and, like, all their points were correct but... Who were they defending him from? Frodo Baggins has no haters.
They're just such uncontroversially good movies its funny to me when people Fandom Takes about them
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Its not scary its COOL
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Yeah, but those basically are beards, and theres no shortage of skeletons with beards. I'm talking about *stubble*
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Couldn't disagree more: we shouldn't preclude childless women from spending their vouchers on Age of Sigmar, The Old World, even Blood Bowl. Hell, call me a political extremist if you like, but I actually think they should even cover the Black Library.
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All the while being helped/taunted over the radio by John, the brother they abandoned in space and who can now do nothing but watch (and manipulate?)
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I assume you've seen the 1979 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy starring Alec Guinness, but if not it's worth a watch as there are some real echoes of it in Andor.
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Dave, you probably haven't noticed, but actually (and I think you'll get rather a kick out of this) by moving just a single letter of the title, you can make it read as... "Tron Arse". Which I'm sure you'll agree is very funny indeed.