Urula K. LeGuin passes at 88

What could easily have been one of the more difficult battles (with a three-headed Belial devil) went relatively easy.  Because we still had a 19th level Paladin backing us.  And a pretty perfectly tricked out one at that.  Multiple beneficial Auras, channel smite and regular smite did Ol' Maggotty in.  Along with the wizard keeping it in combat ( Read more... )

Fun if slight movie.  Good, if somewhat forgettable musical numbers.  Predictable really, but charming.  But charm it has by the bucketful.

1/1 - 1/18
Travelers s.1

1/8 - 1/15
Travelers s.2:  A fairly clever time travel show.  Basically future people live in underground bunkers 'cause everything is total shit.  So to fix that they've figured out a way to send peoples minds back in time.  Where they can then overwrite someone in the past.  But for ethics reasons they only pick people who ( Read more... )

Its a tale as old as time.  Lonely woman meets handsome stranger and falls in love.  Sure the stranger is an abducted semi-amphibious fish-man being studied in a secret government lab.  An off-beat love story set in Cold War Baltimore, where mute Eliza (Sally Hawkings) falls for the captive Amphibian Man (Doug Jones).  So she works to free him from ( Read more... )

This week we fought a bloat wizard and some devils. The spiked ones who got away from us in the armory lo these many weeks ago.  But that poor evil wizard did not have things go its way. Bill's cleric and the summoned paladin reflected his big mass damage spell back on him and then our witch turned him to stone. And then Matt tried to dump the ( Read more... )

the Crown s.2:  Although the final episode of the season is a bit muddled and weaker-overall, still a lot of greatness covering mostly the 60s era of Queen Elizabeth.  Claire Foy still manages to convey an amazing range in simple silent sequences or with an arched eyebrow.  She will be especially missed as they change casts for the next season.
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This week saw Downsizing which was mostly clever and funny. In it a method of shrinking organic matter down to a fraction of its original size safely is discovered.  So a Matt Damon sized-human would end up being like 5 inches tall.  Within a decade communities of the Small spring up around the world, for both environmental and economic reasons ( Read more... )

the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel s.1: The series dragged a little bit in the middle, but the acting was first rate.  Tony Shaloub and Kevin Pollack made me want to see more of their father characters.  And the same for would-be manager Susie, played by Alex Borstein.  But Rachel Brosnahan's lead was a delight, especially during the stand-up segments.
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 This session much time was spent trying and failing to order food.  So I didn't get the lamb platter from the Grekkie place nearby ( Read more... )