In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using
the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.
However, it's a major election date in the US, so if you can, please vote! Can't say it any simpler than that.
Actually, no, I'm going to be more direct, even if I have no personal horse in this race not being in the same country, this is too important. Vote Democrat, it's that simple. The Republican party are frankly (and again, this is an outsider POV) horrifying in their stated intents. Election deniers and conspiracy theorists are on the ballot, and that's just their basic mindset, not even their political policies, though abortion rights alone should be enough.
This weeks car-crash social media viewing was, for a change, not the UK political scene (which is still a mess), but Elon Musk attempting to pull a Liz Truss on Twitter. EG take charge, make really unwise decisions very quickly and then be surprised as the whole thing implodes, explodes, and plodes in entirely new directions incomprehensible to human senses. From haggling with Stephen King about how much is appropriate for blue check mark accreditation, to firing a significant percentage of the workforce with almost no notice (possibly illegally in many cases) and then apparently having to offer some of them their jobs back because no one else knew how to make the things they worked on work.
The Dragon Prince Season 4, "The Mystery of Aaravos" arrived (after three years) and I'd forgotten how gorgeous this series was, both in terms of appearance and the soundtrack. These nine episodes were a bit of a slow burn and have a darker underlying story than previous seasons, and they might not be the deepest characters ever written, but they are engaging (Even Soren, the somewhat irritating former bully turned good-natured (if not the brightest) knight managed to be appealling) and the series does attempt to stress that there is a difference between ending a war, and building a peace between former enemies. It also keeps it's casual acceptance of queer folk on track, with a somewhat surprising reveal about one character being handled with refreshing matter of factness and sensitivity.
"Enola Holmes 2" is also now available, for those who enjoyed the first adventures of Sherlock's younger sister.
I tried watching the revamp of the 90's anthology series "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" and was sort of put off by how much the basic premise was changed. Rather than the simple and fun idea of kids with nothing in common other than a love of scary stories getting together to tell scary stories after dark (and establishing that this was a tradition going back at least three generations), this one makes them also the protagonists in an actual horror story. (Between this and the likes of the recent Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys series also embracing the supernatural as plot point, I'm sort of missing the more mundane series).
On the other hand The Sandman is confirmed for a second season!
On that note, question for the week: Your favourite horror author (if you have one)? (Okay, I should probably have asked that around Halloween, but I forgot)
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