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frecklenog · 1 year ago

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after spending an evening listening to jessie gender tell me about starfield, capitalism, gender, selfhood, and ursula k leguin, i had. some Thoughts about another science fiction series; one you're probably at least somewhat familiar with if you follow this blog or watch ms gender's videos.

to start off; hey. this is partially based on my own experiences, my understanding of them, and how that lens can be applied to star trek. it's also very much inspired by the work of jessie earl, whose channel i can't recommend enough. she's funny, intelligent, kind, and an incredibly gifted writer, and she's a gift to both the star trek, trans, and "video essay youtuber" communities. show her some love!

that said, i want to start by looking at star trek. we all know the vulcans, don't we? pointy ears, green blood — spock's dad's side of the family. gifted with telepathic abilities, vulcans are practitioners of the mind meld, also called things like a mind link, probe, touch, or fusion, which is exactly what it sounds like. it allows two (or more, on occasion) sentient life forms to exchange thoughts as though they were one being.

of course, this kind of thing is common in media. steven universe has gem fusions, which should be examined from a plural viewpoint in their own right. x-man charles xavier almost routinely delves into the minds of others. but rarely does it have any lasting impact on the characters. even star trek itself falls into this, with doctor leonard mccoy not getting nearly enough screentime in the voyage home to show off what must have been the intensely strange experience of carrying spock's katra within him. (maybe that's addressed in a novelization or comic that i'm just unaware of, but regardless, i haven't seen it, and i think that's a travesty. (and if you know of a book where that gets touched on oh my god give me the fucking link now-))

there are instances of star trek mind melds having lasting effects, as discovery shows part of sarek's katra being permanently linked to michael burnham, though that could be considered an extenuating circumstance, what with her being on death's doorstep at the time of the meld. which most trek fans probably already know, and is honestly more fantastical than i care to bother reading with a plural lens. however, star trek is a fandom with nearly sixty years of history, including hundreds of books and comics from various authors and publishers. these stories are plentiful, bizzare, and sometimes outright terribly written. i don't blame anyone for not having read them all — to do so seems like a terrifying task.

but the one i want to look at right now is a particular run of the star trek: the next generation comic, published in 2000 by wildstorm comics.

the run is called perchance to dream — a lovely, flourishing name for a comic where half of the plot could be it's very own jessie gender video for how much sexual weirdness goes on (but i'll leave that to the professionals). the part we're going to focus on is that the b-plot of the run surrounds captain jean luc picard, captain of the uss enterprise-d. the comic is set after the events of the star trek: the next generation season 3 premiere, best of both worlds: part 2. in that episode, the captain had been disconnected from the borg hivemind (after being assimilated in part 1), and he returned to duty as usual at the end of the episode (though he does choose to go on leave in the following episode). it's also set after another episode from later on in season 3, — episode 23, sarek, wherein picard preformed a mind meld with sarek in order to allow the aging ambassador better emotional control, as it was being ravaged by his bendii syndrome — essentially, vulcan dementia.

the a-plot of the run isn't really important to us, i'm afraid — although it reveals to us in the second issue that worf accidentally killed a kid on another soccer team as a child. suffice to say, one of the abilities of the aliens the crew has to play diplomacy with is that they can prod into people's traumas through their nightmares. they have a lot going on. it's a comic book from 2000, what did you expect?

and, speaking of things that are easily dated, the third issue of the run brings us to the second part of today's topic.

image id: a comic book page. beginning at the top, a narration box reads: "chief medical officer's log, stardate 48503.8. lieutenant commander data, doctor selar, and i have gone through the damiano [alien] records regarding the chova. while no direct way to combat the weapon was ever developed we have discovered that certain people were immune to the chova's effects and could destroy the weapon." doctor beverly crusher is beside the narration box, depicted from the shoulders up, facing slightly to the right and saying "there has to be another way." a vulcan -- doctor selar -- is viewed from the waist up, holding a padd in her right hand and facing to the right of the page. she is saying "we have been over the records six times a piece, doctor. if there is anything to find, it is likely that we would have found it by now." data, an android designed to appear as a human with pale yellow plastic skin, is holding a book slightly behind doctor selar. his mouth is slightly open as he speaks. "i believe doctor selar is correct. this is the only course of action open to us under the circumstances." to the right of this panel is another shot of beverly from the shoulders up, this time facing to the left. her expression is stern as she says "i know, i know, it's just-- it could kill him." in the next panel. beverly is shown from the back, and captain jean-luc picard enters, saying "you sent for me, doctor?" beverly responds, "yes, jean-luc. please sit down." below this, the left panel takes most of the remaining page. this time we see captain picard from the back, while beverly faces the reader head-on, speaking first. "we've gone through the records chief du're [irrelevant one-off character from the a-plot] provided. it turns out that there was one group of people who were immune to the chova when it was first used. mpd's." jean-luc repeats "mpd's?" curiously. to the right, data is shown from the shoulders up, saying; "mpd stands for multiple personality disorder. mpd can come about through psycholo--" but beverly interrupts him; "not now, data." end id.

ah, multiple personality disorder. a term that hasn't been clinically used since 1994. these days, we call this dissociative identity disorder (did), but it's one dissociative disorder of many, which is what beverly is talking about. for whatever reason, people with this sort of dissociative plurality seem to be immune to the specific trauma nightmares induced by these aliens. (finally, some good news.)

okay, neat! so, dissociative disorders and plurality have been canonically addressed in star trek. let's see how it goes!

image id also available unbroken in alt text. image id pt 1: beginning in the top left corner, beverly is shown from the shoulders up, facing the right side of the page as she speaks. "the point is the people who are afflicted with more than one personality would destroy the chova before it could affect them. the chova was only built for one personality. mpds would literally overwhelm it." in the next panel, to the right, picard is shown from the chest up, partially obstructed by speech bubbles. facing right, he asks; "how does this help us?" beverly is also in this right panel, although from behind, and nearly completely obfuscated by speech bubbles. she answers; "well, mpd was never a common occurance, and it's almost unheard of these days.there've only been two cases reported in the federation in the last two hundred years -- and damiano [the alien planet] hasn't seen a case in the last fifty."beverly continues. "however, we do have someone on the enterprise who has the makings of a classic mpd. i'd like your permission to ask this person to volunteer to undergo a mind-meld with doctor selar in order to bring the submerged personalities to the fore."

this particular line, i take umbrage with, as dissociative disorders are a lot more common than people might think, and star trek has shown us a future as tumultuous as our own present for decades. there would absolutely be people experiencing some level of multiplicity in everyday life both within the federation and without. but, again, this was written in the 90s, i think? i don't know how long it takes a team of professionals to make a comic book. but, i digress.

image id pt 2: picard responds; "permission granted, as long as it remains on a volunteer basis. who is the officer in question?" below, the leftmost panel is larger than the right. beverly crusher is shown in profile, facing right, with doctor selar and data behind her from the chest and shoulders up. picard is on the right of the page, slightly smaller, but also in profile, facing right to contrast beverly as he listens to her speak. "it's someone who's been exposed to an especially intense vulcan mind-meld, who lived another life for thirty-five subjective years— and who had a second personality grafted onto his own for a brief period by the borg. the next panel takes the entire width of the page, and much of the height. picard is shown in the middle, standing in a purple void. around him are three other male characters shown in bust. from left to right, they are; kamin, a humanoid man bearing great resemblance to an older imagining of jean-luc picard, wearing a plain blue shirt. sarek, a vulcan with grey hair, a turquoise shirt, and a green stone amulet on a large gold chain around his neck. he is cast in shadow and his eyes are not visible. locutus, an ashen version of jean-luc picard, with about a third of his face obscured by black metal exoplating and implants that surround his right eye. tubes come off of his face and neck, trailing behind him, and a red light made to shine at his point of focus shines from the side of his head. there are several yellow narration boxes, which read as follows. "sarek of vulcan. picard mind-melded with the legendary ambassador in order to lend him strength for an important negotiation — an act that almost cost picard his sanity." "kamin of kataan. a probe sent out by kataan before their sun went nova allowed picard to live most of kamin's adult life as a way to remember his people."

oh, yeah. did... did i not mention that that happened?

basically, he was targeted by a device that beamed him into the world's most immersive vr game — kind of like the one from rick and morty? if you watched that? if you didn't, sorry for bringing it up, and if you did, ditto. but it forced picard to live out an entire life as though he'd been abducted by aliens and placed in a sims game. though, ultimately, the plot intricacies of the inner light are beside my point.

image id pt 3: "locutus of borg. quite simply, the greatest nightmare of picard's entire life. the subversion of his intellect, his will, his very self to the collective of the borg." "all three are part of him, but they do not dominate. if picard does as doctor crusher suggests, he will subsume himself in order to let the others come to the fore. for sarek, for kamin, he would be willing." "but locutus--?" the next panel takes a little more than half of the remainder of the page. a narration box in the upper left reads; "then he thinks of his first officer, counselor, chief of security, chief engineer, and all the others who have fallen victim to this vicious weapon." the rest of the panel shows two sleeping figures, both humanoid, in what is presumably sickbay. the last panel takes the remainder. a narration box in the upper left reads; "and jean-luc picard makes the only decision he is capable of making." captain picard is shown from the shoulders up, facing slightly to the left and saying; "what do i need to do?" below his speech bubble is another yellow text box, which reads "to be concluded..."

...which is how issue 3 leaves us.

fortunately, we can pick up in issue 4 with ease, since these comics are over twenty years old. i'm going to do my best to limit my use of comic pages, juuuuust in case, but once we reach the sixth page, with the credits...

image id: a two-page spread. beginning in the uppermost left corner, narration boxes read; "welcome to the mind of jean-luc picard." "'locutus' was a personality superimposed upon picard when he was taken by the borg, meant to serve as the spokesperson for that cybernetic race's ruthless assimilation of what they described as the 'authority-driven culture' of the federation." "ambassador sarek of vulcan suffered from bendii syndrome. in order to keep the effects of this devastating illness from endangering his final mission, sarek entered into a deep mind-meld with picard in order to give the ambassador emotional control and stability." "kamin was a prominent member of the community of ressik on the long-dead world of kataan. a probe sent by the kataan people allowed picard to live kamin's life for several subjective decades, although less than half an hour passed in reality." "all of these personalities have made up a part of jean-luc picard, but he remained dominant." "until now." "this is the mind of jean-luc picard." the left page is mostly taken up by a large illustration of locutus, drawn in far more detail than before. trailing off to the right are two tubes or wires, as well as a speech bubble that reads "resistance is futile." also on this page are the details of the comic title, run, issue number, writers/artists, and copyright. taking up most of the right half of the right page is sarek of vulcan, drawn in less detail than locutus, but easily recognizable. his hair is a lighter grey, he is wearing white and cream robes and an amber amulet on a thick gold ring around his neck, and he is holding up his right hand in a vulcan salute/ta'al. depicted below sarek is kamin, drawn from the shoulders up, wearing a plain white shirt with a collar. below kamin is captain picard, also shown from the shoulders up, in his starfleet uniform, and surrounded by four lights, with two on either side of him. (there is also further copyright information beside him in fine print.)

...i'm pretty sure that this analysis falls under the "commentary" part of fair use. right?

but, regardless, this is kind of a huge thing to drop in a comic that virtually no one has bothered to read. i mean, especially when, amidst the clashing of picard's plurality with the a-plot, we get this panel;

image id: a single comic panel. kamin is shown from behind, speaking to locutus and sarek within a noneuclidean space with four circular white lights shining in the distance. "what is going on?" kamin asks. "we have been subdued for too long. but now we shall dominate, as we were meant to." locutus replies. sarek interrupts. "your logic is flawed, locutus. we are all merely aspects of jean-luc picard's mind." "you may be sarek of vulcan, but we are of the borg."

sarek is able to acknowledge himself, kamin, and locutus as "aspects" of captain picard, despite picard rarely if ever sensing them or their influence. picard is being, not just implied, but explicitly stated to have a latent form of plurality, and perchance to dream depicts it in a way that strikes true to members of my own system, at times, with certain alters first making themselves known in the front already well aware of who they are, and having existed without the my knowledge due to dissociative barriers that only came down later in life.

unfortunately, because this is a star trek media, locutus ends up assimilating kamin in the headspace and forcing himself into the front. however, as he does it, he says something that does, to an extent, resonate with the experience of being one among many, for better or worse.

image id: a single comic panel. locutus is shown facing the viewer, and his chin and the top of his head are cut off by the borders of the panel. his light breaks the plane of the panel to simulate the effect that it is shining into the "camera." locutus's mouth is open as he speaks; "for too long you have suppressed us, picard. but you are of the borg."

plurality is a defense mechanism by the brain to protect against trauma. it is, from what i have seen, more common among those who are already neurodivergent, which already presents in a myriad of ways. mixing the ugly truth of trauma with the raw reality of mental illness caused by it can result in certain alters feeling as though they are being suppressed by not being allowed to front and live their own life, depending on how the system functions. admittedly it is more common in fictional depictions of dissociative disorders for these alters to simply live their own lives in secret anyway, as is the case in the marvel tv series moon knight with marc spector, steven grant, and jake lockley (along with the other possible members of their system who may or may not be present depending on the canon, but those are the main three). but, in reality — or at least my experience — this more often translates to alters making themselves social media accounts, or using services like tupperbox or pluralkit on discord, or finding other ways to more discretely express themselves, such as icon changes or status updates.

but, getting back to star trek, this is ultimately a one-off comic. so captain picard saves the day with his secret alters, ends the mind meld with doctor selar, and goes back to living his life as a singlet, ready for the people of the future to be able to easily comprehend without having to read a very specific comic run from 2000.

...right?

image id: part of a comic page. each panel takes up roughly one quarter of the page each. in the first panel, counselor deanna troi is seen standing, having just entered captain picard's ready room. picard is shown from the back, sitting at his desk. "counselor! good to see you up and about." he greets her. "it's good to be up and about." she responds. "playing some old tunes?" [picard had been playing the ressikan flute prior to her entry.] picard responds. "mmm. i wanted to make sure that i still remembered how." in the next panel, we look over counselor troi's shoulder and across the desk at captain picard. "were you worried that you wouldn't?" she wonders. "actually, yes," picard answers. "after what happened..." the third panel shows picard facing the viewer head-on from the shoulders up. he continues, "i suppose i knew intellectually how close to the surface locutus, sarek, and kamin were. but i never really thought about it. they were — memories, experiences. no different from any other. but they're much more than that." the fourth panel shows counselor troi, facing slightly to the right as she speaks. "not much more. all three of them are part of you. but the important word is you. the fragmentation was artificially induced." picard asks; "was it?"

ultimately, yes, this is a one-off comic run that isn't very well known, and i only read because i took a personal interest in the subject matter. i knew going in that it wasn't going to fundamentally change the entire fandom's understanding of captain picard, or make the star trek fandom an instant haven for systems everywhere. but, still, captain picard has his doubts, and that truly touched me when i first read it as someone who was actively reckoning with the fact that past traumas that had impacted me more than i realized.

the comic goes on for a while longer, but the last thing it has to say on the subject of plurality is this.

image id: a single comic panel. counselor troi is seated in one of the chairs in captain picard's ready room, facing him from across his desk. she is on the left, facing partially right, and he is on the right, in profile facing left. the dialogue reads as follows. picard wonders, "was it [the dissociative fragmentation of his identity] truly a creation of the mind-meld, or was it simply breaking a dam that was already cracked?" riker interrupts over the comm. "riker to picard." "go ahead, number one," picard tells him. "it's time to beam down to damiano for the ceremony, sir." "thank you, commander."

and that's it. picard asks a question, then gets called away and never tells us his answer.

i think, at least subconsciously, that might be part of why i held star trek: picard to such a high standard.

to be clear, i hadn't read this comic when the first season of picard was coming out. but i was starting to grapple with my plurality, and i used fictional media as a means to do that (as is still evidenced by things like my system simon tag). the first season of the show was centered around both picard's relationship with both his legacy and his history with the borg collective. as mentioned in perchance to dream, captain picard had previously been assimilated by the borg collective — a cybernetic hivemind from the delta quadrant that absorbed cultures and species into itself, effectively wiping out the cultural histories of entire planets, at times, in their quest to become the "perfect" life form through a combination of genetic engineering and mechanical augmentation. and, as this happened, i came to know a young man named hugh who took form within my mind. a fictional introject, or fictive, of the character of the same name from season 5, episode 23, i, borg. with his help, i grew to further understand my own plurality, and saw the potential for our stories to be told in the wake of reclamations from the borg collective. the reclamation project became a hyperfixation, and—

and then came the jurati collective.

my own system bears no connection to the jurati collective, but it is a wonder, and can be examined through a plural lens as an allegory for our own experiences as dissociatives. many consciousnesses, all working together as one towards a common goal, and willingly. after all, what is a system if not a hive within one body?

and then came picard's third season, completely ignoring her, along with all the unique perspectives that stories surrounding her might have offered in favor of what felt like a final next generation movie.

ignoring me, it felt like.

is that silly? probably. but, try as i might, i am human, and so i have a propensity for illogic — no matter how much my autistic brain craves structure and definitive explanations in order to understand the world.

i'll be honest, i'm not sure how to end this. but, sometimes i remember the time in season 6, episode 20, the chase, when picard became incredibly excited about an ancient alien society that believed people were, indeed, collectives within themselves.

"...the kurlan civilisation believed that an individual was a community of individuals. inside us are many voices, each with its own desires, its own style, its own view of the world." -captain jean-luc picard

and i realize that, with the core tenant of this series lying in the infinite diversity of both the known and the unknowable — the building blocks are already in place. star trek is a media that has grown over the decades, and hopefully will continue to do so, because there are still so many ways for new and interesting and meaningful stories to be told within this franchise.

but, if you can't summon your representation from a nostalgiabait sequel/reboot within a preexisting intellectual property... there's nothing to stop you from crafting your own story and letting loose as many systems as you like.

#shut up emrys #star trek #star trek tng #star trek the next generation #the next generation #jean luc picard #captain picard #multiplicity #plurality #actually multiple #actually plural #first time using those tags. whoogh #uhhh. unsure of other tags..#i think that’ll do tbh

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arieslost · 2 months ago

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hi aries!! been a while since i've seen you on my feed so thought i'd just ask how are you, how are you feeling about this weekend, the triple header etc

unfortunately it has not been kind to my drivers at all :( lewis at the back in the usa, then oscar at the back in mexico so i'm hoping that all goes well for charles because he's the last one that hasn't fallen victim yet to an awful quali 😭

omg hi anon!!! i’ve missed talking to everyone so this message made my day!!!

i’m doing okay, trying my best to get back into the writing groove because i’ve had the WORST writer’s block for months now and i want to get back to posting 😭

so far things have been better than worse for me during this triple header— charles leading a 1-2 and winning in austin and then our 1-3 last weekend (that should’ve been another 1-2 but i digress) was amazing as well.

i have to be honest, i am low key dreading this weekend. we’re at that point in the season where every single point REALLY counts, and now that ferrari has moved into second place in the WCC and charles is still in contention for the WDC (so long as he scores a certain amount of points in every race) i’m beyond stressed. especially because last i checked the weather isn’t looking too great and i’m having flashbacks to our double DNF in canada 😫

i couldn’t believe what happened to lewis in austin!!! my jaw literally dropped when he DNF’d. and oscar’s Q1 exit had me SHOCKED, but at this point he’s in a completely different car than lando because he has yet to receive the upgrades. that and he was a victim of track limits 💔 he might be getting them this weekend though so we’ll see what happens!

i too am hoping for fantastic results for charles (and ferrari) because that’s my ride or die fr. i’m also hoping for another great performance from franco; he has truly entranced me in the short time he’s been on the grid and now i fear i’m in love with him.

regardless of what happens, i will be watching everything with my heart in my throat 😍😍

#aries answers #anon <3

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danielleverboskirealtor · 1 year ago

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dizzyduck44 · 4 years ago

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So let’s be fair, that was the experience of being a life long F1 fan all rolled into one race!

That was heartbreaking for Charles. That should never happen to any driver. He deserved better. Shame on you Ferrari.

Max was imperious today. That was a solid drive start to finish. It is so easy to throw it all away and he didn’t. We are seeing someone believe he can win this unfold in front of our eyes.

Carlos, who would have thought it would be him getting Ferrari’s first podium of the season? Again can’t fault him. I think to have his old McLaren friends beside his new team must reassure him he’s doing something right.

Lando, what can we say, 50 laps trying to avoid a penalty and 20 trying to hold on to his podium position. That boy earned his podium today. As a fan was it fun to watch? Erm no.

Seb, well we know the car doesn’t have the pace so to finish 5th is outstanding. A deserved Driver of the Day. Pair that with the bold strategy of Stroll and a well deserved double points finish for the team.

Gio, he has been on the pace and up the top end of the field all weekend. That may get over looked because of other events but again deserved his points. Is there anything better than seeing someone for a lower team have a fantastic weekend?

Lewis, it is what it is. Tough to take for his fans but a momentary blip. Any other track he would have made up the places.

Valtteri should be gutted. I don’t think I have ever seen anyone retire from a race like that. That was almost as heartbreaking as Charles.

Daniel. I almost couldn’t watch Lando pass him. I know this is only temporary, there is something in the DNA of the McLaren that just doesn’t work for Daniel. It’s no reflection on him as a driver. It just hurts to see.

Was the race interesting to watch? No it was dull as ****

In conclusion, F1 is never fair, it’s heartbreaking, boring and stressful to watch at times and at some point you will want to throw something at your telly. The highs are great, the lows are gut wrenching. It’s ok to congratulate other drivers that do well and be disappointed for others regardless of who you follow.

#f1 #formula one #monaco gp 2021 #max verstappen #carlos sainz junior #charles leclerc #lando norris #daniel ricciardo #sebastian vettel #antonio giovinazzi #lewis hamilton #valterri bottas

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chibimyumi · 5 years ago

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Hi I have a question I was curious what you thought about the episodes about Jack the Ripper episodes 3-6? And about the anime season 1 and 2 and the other series? Thank you for answering the question

Dear Anon,

In general I am not quite positive about any animated rendition of ‘Kuroshitsuji’, so if you’re interested in reading my mostly negative opinion, please proceed ^^

TL:DR

Season 1 - Ep. 3-6 - Personal rating: 2/10

Season 1 General - Personal rating: 3/10

Season 2 - Personal rating: N.A.

Book of Circus - Personal rating: 8/10

Book of Murder - Personal rating: 8/10

Book of the Atlantic - Personal rating 6.5/10

Season 1 - Episodes 3 - 6

Personal rating: 2/10

I personally despise the anime version of the Jack the Ripper arc because of multiple reasons.

1. The manga portrayal of Grell in that arc wasn’t great to begin with, but it was the anime that ultimately caused many people to believe Grell is a psychopathic gay, crossdressing man. The heavily gay-coded visuals (both manga and anime) alone of course were already pointing to Grell being a flamboyant male, but the additional gay-coded voice to her may have been what delivered the ultimate blow. Because anime is voiced, it often leaves a more lasting impression on people.

2. it’s not just for Grell’s portrayal. I also despised how the anime basically signal-boosted the corset scene that presented the sexualisation of a 12 year old as something that is part of a serious murder investigation. And when the sexual tension was later denied by showing ‘it was just a corset’, it was supposed to be ‘a comedic tease’ rather than a major sigh of relief.

Yes, it was just the faithful portrayal of canon. I am not saying the manga is less guilty; I am saying that the anime signal-boosted these two very harmful things without explicit warning.

Season 1 in General

Personal rating: 3/10

The good things:

In general the first season did have some fairly nice parts, hence the marginally higher personal rating. I quite liked the scene where anime!Sebastian shoved the visitor into the oven (+1pt) , for example. And I also liked the adaptation of the mini arc where O!Ciel was kidnapped by the mafia. (+1pt)

The finale makes little sense, but I did like the charm and atmosphere it delivered. I understood that the 24 episode series had to deviate from the canon storyline in order to tell a whole story within so few episodes.

The season finale managed to bring an ending that befits the theme of ‘Kuroshtisuji’: a suitably dark, ominous conclusion of a demon receiving the payment for his part of the contract. The choice of only showing Sebastian closing in on his prey from 1st person perspective before the screen blacking out was fantastic. It really reminded me as a viewer that in the end, I am but a helpless human; that regardless of what we may think Sebastian is, the last we’ll see of him is him being a predator to his prey. (+1pt)

The… not so good things.

Curry bread shuriken? (-1pt) The child king and prince arc? (-1pt) Pluto? (-1pt) **Angela/Ash!? (-2pt) The reaper library? (-1 pt. What was it even trying to achieve?). Ruining the most epic revelation of our protagonist’s arch enemy and spoiling the manga!?!?!?! (-1pt)

**They wanted to portray the genderlessness of angels, and so they decided to…. make this angel bi-gender in the loosest sense of the word? And then there is the EXPLICIT intention of giving Angela small breasts… because she can’t be “too much of a woman” (their actual words). PSA to women with small breasts!! Hear that!? You’re not too much of a woman!!

The rest is self explanatory.

Season 2 in General

Personal rating: N.A.

I deny its existence. If this season had existed, I would have said it took everything I hated about season 1, amplified them multi-fold, and… shoved all of those ingredients into a worse context. It ruined the significance of the S1 finale, and shoehorned ‘reasssssonsss’ to insert the new characters.

Also… apparently a contract now is as binding as a pinky swear between toddlers?

Also, I’d like to add how even both voice actors of the two demons hated it.

Ono Daisuke (Sebastian) was asked for his opinion of season 2, and he said that: “even I, Sebastian, learned of new sides of this character that I never expected to see”. Sakurai Takahiro (Claude) in turn, was asked why he thought they cast him for this role, to which he replied: “because he wears glasses, just like me. I think it’s called the glasses-casting-method.”

Book of Circus

Personal rating: 8/10

The animation itself felt quite static, but it was nice to finally see something animated almost perfectly faithfully to canon. The voice actors poured in so much more life and passion, and the cinematic record of Joker was very powerful.

Book of Murder

Personal rating: 8/10

I liked it, and the soundtrack chosen for these OVAs were great and fitted the theme perfectly. The animation, just like BoC, was quite static, but otherwise it is faithful to canon and represented the atmosphere quite well. First when Jeremy was introduced in the manga, many people really had no clue that he was Sebastian; the result of theories flying around in the fandom was quite nice.

In the anime, because Jeremy’s eyes were red, and because Ono Daisuke has a rather distinct voice, it was almost an instant giveaway to people who didn’t read the manga. But it’s fine. Ono Daisuke pulled everything out of his sleeve, and it was charming.

The French. I loved hating it. I don’t think I could have done a better job, but I loved hating it. French speakers out there, what did you think? ( ´艸｀)

Book of Atlantic

Personal rating: 6.5/10

I actually didn’t like it a lot, even though I went to the cinema for it THRICE!(σ＾罒＾)σ━━━!!

The good things:

Even though I didn’t really like the addition of the Double Charles, I did like love how they inserted a burn by Sebas at Grey’s expense. I think it was a wonderful re-introduction of Trash Demon™ being the salty prick he is, and how it tied back to the events of BoM.

The soundtrack designed for the movie was also great in my opinion, and the scene where Lizzie revealed herself was very touching. Me and many in the cinema were sobbing like babies, and the times that I went with people who don’t read the manga were also great, because they shock on their faces was ART.

Finally, I really liked how they concluded the story with everyone on the rescue ship. It really gave this very nice feeling of the survival of a big adventure.

The bad things:

The number 1 sin has to be how they trimmed Sebastian’s cinematic record, even though that is easily the biggest highlight of the Campania Arc. HOW COULD THEY!? ヽ(`Д´💢)ﾉ

The second thing is the ATROCIOUS animation. For the anime I understand why it would have limited budget, but the movie though? The movie was marketed SO big! some city buses in the city where I lived at the time wore the BotA skin! All Animates were PLASTERED with commercial for the movie… and then… this ⇊. I think EVERYONE agreed the CGI was jarring at least, and turned something so threatening into something nobody could take seriously.

This ⇊ was not necessarily bad animation, just a very dubious choice that I personally find quite tacky.

The third thing is - like I said before - the insertion of Double Charles who didn’t seem to add anything to the story. The time that went to their screentime could much better be spent on Sebas’ cinematic record.

Welp, that was all! Thank you for reading my rant!!! What did you guys think of the animated adaptations?

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France is a great nation with huge amounts of spots to visit, regardless of whether you like nature, culture, history, urban areas, etc, you'll generally discover something to your taste. Paris is France's fundamental goal, however, where to go once you've visited it or on the off chance that you essentially don't care for being encompassed by crowds of visitors? Look at these extraordinary other options and top urban communities to visit in France, ideal for a second outing to France or just if you need to go past Paris and find a greater amount of France.

Aside from Toulouse and Decent in Southern France, you can visit the entirety of different urban communities recorded underneath as a day-trip from Paris.

Top urban communities to visit in France

Lille

France's fourth-greatest city, Lille is accepted to have been established in 640 by two monsters. The primarily composed proof of the city goes back to 1066, however, the city just turned out to be a piece of France in 1667. Lille's memorable focus is confirmation of the city's rich past and is a building jewel. For all the excellence of the memorable focus, Lille is the ideal mix of conventions and innovation.

Best places to visit in Lille

There are huge amounts of spots to visit in Lille, a few, some portion of the UNESCO World Legacy Rundown, the greater part of them situated in the Vieux Lille (Old Lille). Here are the city's fundamental attractions:

Palais des Beaux-Expressions de Lille (Royal residence of Compelling artwork): Probably the greatest exhibition hall, set in a delightful structure from the nineteenth century, it grandstands perfect works of art from a large portion of Europe significant craftsmen.

Musée des Canonniers Sédentaires de Lille (Inactive Heavy weapons specialists Historical centers): set in an antiquated religious circle, this exhibition hall highlights relics from the Sainte Barbe Fraternity.

Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse: an antiquated medical clinic established in the thirteenth century in the Flemish compositional style.

Pasteur Foundation Exhibition hall: a mix of a House Historical center and a science gallery, displaying science objects from all periods.

Charles de Gaulle House: In case you're a history buff you can visit the house where Charles de Gaulle was conceived and grew up.

Normal History Gallery

Lille's Places of love: Blessed individual Etienne, Sacred individual André, Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Heavenly individual Maurice, Notre-Woman de la Treille, Sainte-Catherine.

The city entryways: Porte de Roubaix, Porte de Paris, and Porte de Gand.

The old strongholds: the fortress and the Fortification du Réduit.

Beffroi de L'Hôtel de Ville: an immense pinnacle from which you'll get an all-encompassing perspective on the city.

The city's Travel industry Office offers strolling visits in English of the Noteworthy Center each Saturday at 10:15 AM (13 euros). The visit begins before the Rihour Royal residence.

What to eat in Lille

The nearby dishes you should attempt are the Welsh (lager marinated bread, barbecued with ham, mustard, and cheddar) and the Cramique, a kind of sweet bread (you'll locate the best ones at the Boulangerie Brier).

Instructions to get to Lille

From Paris Nord train station, a TGV train will take you in less than 1 hour to Lille, so you can even simply go as a day-trip from Paris. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});

Reims

Reims is celebrated for its UNESCO World Legacy Church that is unquestionably worth a look just as the entire memorable piece of town. Reims is one of France's most seasoned city, it used to be a significant spot during the Gallic time frame, even before the Roman victory. Hints of the considerable number of civic establishments that went through the city can, in any case, be discovered, making Reims an extraordinary spot if you like history and design.

Best places to visit in Reims

Gallo-Roman remnants: the cryptoporticus and the Mars Entryway.

Historical centers: Expressive arts Gallery, Holy person Rémi Exhibition hall (UNESCO), Hôtel Le Vergeur Gallery.

Places of worship: Holy person Rémi Basilica (UNESCO), Sainte-Clotilde Basilica, House of God of Our-Woman (UNESCO), Holy person Jacques Church.

Tourist spots: the Carnegie library, the drama, Bourlingrin Lobbies, Tau Royal residence (UNESCO).

What to eat in Reims

Reims is a city perceived for its gastronomy, you will discover 5 Michelin-featured eateries and a lot of less expensive other option. The best spot to attempt nearby nourishment is the Bourlingrin showcase (Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays morning). Nearby treats incorporate the Jambon De (Reims' ham) and the Roll Rose or Rose treat (rose as the shading, not the bloom), you can locate the best ones at the Maison Fossier, it very well may be eaten alone or dunked in a cup of champagne. Reims being at the core of the Champagne area, you can't pass up on the chance to drink Champagne. If you put in a couple of days in Reims, you can likewise visit a vineyard (or a couple).

Step by step instructions to get to Reims

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Metz

A medieval city, Metz is loaded with memorable tourist spots that merit examining. Walking around the memorable focus, going through cleared avenues and gothic structures, a visit to Metz makes for an incredible day-trip from Paris. You can likewise put in a couple of days and investigate the dazzling Lorraine locale or close by Luxembourg.

Fundamental spots to visit in Metz

Historical centers: Pompidou Center (contemporary workmanship gallery), Cours-d'Or Historical center (unbelievable building including archeological, medieval, and expressive art shows).

Holy places: Holy person Etienne Basilica (one of the most elevated gothic buildings in Europe), Sanctuary Neuf, Knights House of prayer (an ideal mix of Roman and Gothic engineering), Holy person Maximin Church, Holy person Pierre-Aux-Nonnains Church (Metz's most seasoned structure), Récollets Shelter.

Tourist spots: Drama Theater (the most seasoned one in France), Holy person Louis Plazza, the Armory (a military structure worked by Napoleon the third and transformed into a social place), Porte des Allemands (what's left of the medieval bulwarks), the Train Station, Foch Road.

Metz The travel industry Office has assembled an application so you can visit the city and its environmental factors all alone. It's in English and it doesn't require the web once it's downloaded. Download it here on the Application Store or here on Google Play.

What to eat in Metz

You presumably definitely know the area's most average dish: the Quiche Lorraine, a dish you totally need to attempt in Metz. On the sweet side, the district makes France's best mirabelles (little yellow plums), so attempt a Mirabelle pie or any deserts with it. They likewise make an extraordinary Mirabelle alcohol.

Step by step instructions to get to Metz

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Strasbourg

Strasbourg is one of a kind city in France, its engineering is so unique thus lovely, it would be one of my top picks for urban areas to visit in France. Simply strolling around, along the waterways, one can't become weary of taking a gander at the customary houses and structures. Strasbourg Noteworthy Center is known as La Grande Ile (the Enormous Island) and is a UNESCO World Legacy Site.

Best places to visit in Strasbourg

Historical centers: Alsacian Exhibition hall, Vodou Stronghold, Pays du Hanau Gallery.

Places of worship: Strasbourg House of prayer (a gem of gothic design), Holy person Pierre-le-Jeune Church, Holy person Thomas Church.

Tourist spots: Kammerzell House, Rohan Royal residence, the Neubau, Kleber Court, Broglie Square, Republic Court, the Military Representative's Inn.

Neighborhoods: La Grande Ile, the Quartier des Meuniers (mill operators' quarters), the Neustadt (work by the Prussians after they attached the locale in the twentieth century), the European Quarter.

What to eat in Strasbourg

Alsacian gastronomy is perceived as fantastic all over France, the acclaimed Choucroute is one of its tokens (cabbage and wieners, you can get a veggie-lover choice). The best sort of eateries to attempt neighborhood dishes are the Winstubs you'll effectively discover in the memorable focus. You shouldn't either miss the wine, one of the locale's claims to fame.

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Dijon

Wealthy ever, Dijon used to be the capital of the ground-breaking Dukes of Burgundy and is one of the top urban communities to visit in France. The notable community is staggeringly all around safeguarded and brimming with astounding buildings. Make a point to stop at the travel industry office where they'll give you a mobile visit map.

Fundamental spots to visit in Dijon:

Exhibition halls: Artistic work Historical center, Archeological Gallery of Dijon (set in the antiquated Holy person Bénigne Convent), Consecrated Craftsmanship Historical center, Impolite Historical center (François Inconsiderate's figures, set in an old church), Magnin National Exhibition hall (private workmanship assortment set in a wonderful royal residence).

Houses of worship: Chapelles des Élus, Holy person Philibert Church, Notre Lady Church, Holy person Bénigne Basilica, Holy person Michel Church.

Milestones: the Burgundy States and Dukes Castle, Bretagne de Blaney Lodging, Sassenay Inn, Berbisey Inn, Coeur de Roy Inn, Philippe-Le-Bon Tower, Moise's Well, and the Champnol Charterhouse.

What to eat in Dijon

We as a whole know Dijon Mustard, and if you need to study it or even figure out how to make it, head to the Moutarderie Fallot, the main spot where they despite everything make it the conventional way. Gingerbread is additionally a nearby delicacy, you should attempt the Nonettes, treats made with gingerbread, orange preserves, and nectar. On the off chance that you like cheddar, attempt the Époisse, made with bovine milk and refined with grape Eau-de-strive. Run of the mill principle dishes would be the Oeufs en Meurette (eggs presented with a wine sauce), the well-known meat Bourguignon, Bourguignon-style (snails cooked in margarine, parsley, and garlic).

Instructions to get to Dijon

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Lyon

Lyon is known for its Light (Celebration des Lumières) which happens each year toward the start of December. The entirety of the city's fundamental structures is lit up with many-sided plans. Regardless of whether you can't make it to the celebration, Lyon is as yet worth a look. Lyon is an energetic city where you'll discover something to do to anybody's taste. From landmarks and historical centers to nightlife and gastronomy, the city has everything.

Lyon's beginning goes back to the Gallo-Roman period, strolling in the Vieux Lyon (Old Lyon), you'll have the option to see hints of all the human progress that past through the city. A large portion of Lyon is a UNESCO World Legacy Site.

Principle spots to visit in Lyon

Exhibition halls: Junctures Gallery (world-prestige contemporary historical center), Artistic work Gallery (set in a monastery from the seventeenth century), Lyon History Exhibition hall, Lumière Historical center.

Holy places: Fourvière Basilica, Holy person Jean-Baptiste House of God, Holy person Nizier Church, Holy person Bruno-Les-Chartreux Church, Holy person Bonaventure Church, Sanctuary du Change.

Tourist spots: the Traboules (paths to move between different streets, through structures), the Roman theater, the Trois Gaulles Amphitheater, the Water systems, Tony Garnier Paintings, Thomassin House, Chamarier House.

What to eat in Lyon

Store meat is the city's primary claim to fame from Rosette to Brioched Saucisson, you'll discover a wide range of dry ham and such. Another average dish is the Salade Lyonnaise (lettuce with fats and a poached egg). If you like cheddar, you should attempt the Holy person Marcelin. On the sweet side attempt the Praline Pie, it's remarkable and flavorful.

Step by step instructions to get to Lyon

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Nice

Decent is one of the top urban areas to visit in France. It's an extraordinary city and the entryway to the Area district. Aside from visiting the city, there are huge amounts of activities close by, including unimaginable scenes and one of a kind encounters. The city's birthplaces go back to the vestige, walking around the downtown area you'll have the option to perceive how conventions and advancement mix impeccably.

Principle spots to visit in Nice

Exhibition halls: Land Amata Ancient times Historical center (the significant site where the principal hints of fire training were discovered), Asian Expressions Gallery, Matisse Exhibition hall (set in a seventeenth-century estate), Masséna Exhibition hall, Credulous Workmanship Gallery. Compelling artwork Exhibition hall, Lascaris Royal residence, Cimiez Archeological Historical center, Regular History Gallery.

Temples: Holy person Martin Church, Notre-Woman Basilica, Sainte-Rita Church, Chapelle de la Miséricorde, Sainte-Réparate House of God, Russian Standard Church.

Milestones: Holy person François Square, the Mediterranean Royal residence, Mont Alban Stronghold, Hôtel de Ville (Town Lobby), Rossetti Square, Prefecture Castle, Régina Inn, Cours Saleya, Promenade des Anglais, Drama, Negresco Inn.

What to eat in Nice

Salade Niçoise needs no presentation, you certainly need to attempt the first one when you're in Decent. You ought to likewise attempt Socca, a kind of pizza with the batter made of chickpea flour, and the Pissaladiere, a sort of quiche.

Instructions to get to Nice

From Paris Gare de Lyon you can get a TGV to Decent, it takes 5 to 6 hours. Then again, you can fly from the most significant European urban areas. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});

Toulouse

Nicknamed the pink city, Toulouse is a bubbly understudy city where you'll discover a lot of bars and eateries and an intriguing social scene. Toulouse is the entryway to the Occitanie locale, which will permit you to observe an alternate culture and conventions.

Fundamental spots to visit in Toulouse

Historical centers: Bemberg Gallery (Renaissance and Impressionism gallery set in the city's most delightful house), Le Manor d'Eau (photography displays), Compagnonnage Exhibition hall, Holy person Raymon Archeological Historical center, Georges-Labit Historical center, Vieux-Toulouse Exhibition hall.

Holy places: Holy person Sernin Basilica, Holy person Etienne House of prayer, Jacobins Cloister, Holy person Jerome Church, Notre Lady de la Dalbade, Carmelites Sanctuary.

Tourist spots: Assezat Inn, Pont Neuf, Files Tower, the Capitole, Roman Amphitheater, Bernuy Lodging.

What to eat in Toulouse

Store meat is a neighborhood delicacy, you'll locate the best one at the market, attempt the Jambon de porc noir de (Bigorre Dark Porc Ham), the Toulouse wiener and the Goose Foie Gras. On the sweet side attempt Fenetra (almond and lemon cake) and Violette's confections.

Instructions to get to Toulouse

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a top city to visit in France. Celebrated for its heavenly wine, the city has a ton to offer as a traveler goal. Losing all sense of direction in the UNESCO noteworthy focus' little lanes, visiting exhibition halls and hundreds of years old houses of worship, attempting the neighborhood luxuries, you'll begin to look all starry eyed at Bordeaux.

Fundamental spots to visit in Bordeaux

Exhibition halls: Aquitaine Historical center, Expressive arts Gallery. Bernard Magrez Social organization (set in an excellent eighteenth-century house), Ethnography Gallery, La Cité du Vin (Wine Exhibition hall).

Houses of worship: Sainte-Croix Monastery, Flèche Holy person Michel, Annonciade Religious circle, Notre Woman Church, Holy person Seurin Basilica, Holy person Pierre Church.

Milestones: Grosse Cloche (the Enormous Chime), Cailhau Entryway, Rohan Royal residence, Bourse Square, Pey Berland Tower, Gallien Castle, Tourny rear entryways.

What to eat in Bordeaux

Obviously, one of Bordeaux's primary claim to fame is wine, attempt to visit a vineyard if you can or go to a wine sampling. You'll likewise discover probably the best shellfish there just as heavenly meat, with the popular rib steak presented with its Bordelaise sauce. For dessert, you can't miss the Canelé, one of my preferred French sweet, you'll locate the best ones at Baillardran or La Toque Cuivrée.

The most effective method to get to Bordeaux

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Tour

Visits are, for the most part, left aside by universal vacationers and they're absent on something incredible. Not exactly an hour from Paris, the city has a great deal to offer. The memorable focus is staggering and the gastronomy delectable. Visits it's likewise a decent base-camp to visit the numerous close by mansions.

Principle spots to visit in Tours

Historical centers: Expressive arts Exhibition hall (set in the Archevêques Royal residence), Compagnonnage Gallery.

Places of worship: Holy person Gatien House of prayer, Holy person Julien Church, Holy person Martin Basilica.

Places of interest: Mourn Colbert (from the Medieval time), grieve de la Scellerie (collectibles' shops, book shops… ), Incredible Théatre, Beaune-Semblançay Motel and its wellspring, Lament Nationale, Plumereau Square, Sacred individual Pierre-le-Puellier garden, Tristan House, Charlemagne Tower, lament des Halles.

What to eat in Tours

Like the most run of the mill dishes in France, nearby indulgences incorporate meat and cheddar. The initial ones you ought to eat are the Rillettes de Visits (a kind of paté), the Millions (spiced pork confit), and the Andouillete (hotdog). For the cheddar, you can't miss the Sainte-Maure (goat cheddar). On the sweet side, attempt the Nougat de Visits (a cake), the Face de Rabelais (brioche), and the Poire Tapée (which means beaten pear).

The most effective method to get to Tours

From Paris Montparnasse, you can get a TGV that will take you to Visits in about 60 minutes. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});

Tips for visiting France's top urban areas

Ensure you take a TGV train, the others can take twice as much time;

Book your train ticket ahead of time, it will be less expensive by and large;

Make a point to book your convenience ahead of time too;

Continuously stop at the traveler office, they can prescribe the best places to visit, the best eateries, etc, and they frequently sort out guided visits;

Get familiar with some French;

Pack agreeable shoes as you'll need to do a great deal of strolling;

A large portion of the urban communities in France have a city pass you can purchase at the travel industry office;

Some French jargon to realize when visiting France's top urban communities

Bonjour – Hi

Merci – Much obliged

S'il-vous-plaît – It would be ideal if you

Exculpation – Sorry

(Est-ce-que) vous parlez anglais? – Do you communicate in English?

Je ne comprend pas – I don't comprehend

Je ne parle pas français – I don't communicate in French

Où est… ? – Where is… ?

Je voudrais… – I might want

Combien ça coûte? – What amount does it cost

source https://www.travelwiide.com/2020/04/travel-top-urban-communities-to-visit.html

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What you need to know to run a card gaming tournament!

Hey everyone!

In case you didn’t know me, I’m Charles Butler—also known as TaxiCAB in the Level 99 Games online community. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been running the largest Exceed tournament of all time, Matchup Madness, clocking in at 95 competitors! With the group phase of our tournament having just ended, I thought I would tune in and help some of the players at home looking to organize your own tournaments!

When running a tournament, the first thing I always ask myself is “What is the ultimate goal of this tournament?” For Matchup Madness, that goal was to bring the community together and to give newer community members the resources they need to grow and thrive.

The groups (or as we call them ‘pools’) phase of the tournament was designed to help introduce players to both veterans in the community and each other, letting them form connections and get advice from some of the more skilled players.

After being introduced, the bracket stage is a great follow-up as people cheer on their favorites and learn from the greatest as they throw down. But not every tournament should have this goal: sometimes you’ll want something quick and easy to run with friends and have fun on the weekend, maybe you want something like a spectator sport—designed to keep excitement running high and have things shakeup at any moment—or you might even want a ‘themed’ tournament that brings people out of their comfort zone!

Bracketeering

Once you have a goal in mind, you’ll want to make sure you pick the style of bracket that best fits what you want to do. Most people know the common ones, but I’ll share my insight into the pros and cons of what styles I’ve come across.

Round-Robin

Is the ideal competitive format. Every player gets to face each of their competitors, so no one can be put at a disadvantage by facing against the favorite to win round 1. Unfortunately, round-robin falters because of the amount of time it requires, especially in tournaments that have a sizable number of participants. With a tournament like Matchup Madness, doing round-robin would take approximately 9 and a half months, which means at our rate of 1 round every 3 days, we wouldn’t finish until early 2021—yikes. Even with a smaller group like 8 people, it would take you 7 rounds to finish, so make sure you know you’ll have the time if you want to run this format.

Single-Elimination

The most well-known format out there. It’s easy to run, gets to the point, and gives everyone just one shot to give it their all—making every match important and exciting. However, it often comes under a lot of criticism as a competitive format, just one mistake or misplay means that your run is over, which can create a lot of stress. Additionally, being placed into a match with a stronger player often means you don’t get a chance to show what you can do, and means you can’t play any more matches until the tournament is over. If you need something quick, single-elimination is great! Otherwise, consider one of the other formats as it will often give your players a better experience.

Double-Elimination

Extremely similar to Single-elimination, but gives each player one more chance before they are knocked out. When participants lose they are sent into a separate ‘losers bracket’ where they fight for their chance to have a shot against the champion. This means that not only do players get a second chance—but that second chance will be against someone in a similar situation, making it great for newer contenders to meet each other and find a practice buddy. Double-elimination does take a few more rounds than single and is complex to bracket correctly. So if you need it done quickly or don’t have access to an online bracket manager like Challonge (https://challonge.com/) you may want to consider something else.

Swiss

Probably the most popular format for weekly events. and great for tournaments where you want to let people find new friends around their skill level. In the Swiss format, each player gets to play in every round and is matched against a player with the same win-loss record as them, so players who lose the first match will get paired with each other. As far as time goes, it’s an extremely flexible format as you can set the number of rounds to whatever fits in your schedule. What swiss doesn’t excel at, however, is determining a true ‘winner’. Often, in swiss, multiple competitors will end the tournament with the same record, so there is no single champion. If having that champion is important to you, consider one of the elimination formats instead.

Gauntlet

A bit of a weird format that thrives on the spectator experience. Used by many TV game shows like Family Feud, and more casually by fighting game players, gauntlet runs only a single match at a time—letting the winner stay in, and the loser be rotated out. Prizing for this style of tournament often scales with your win-streak, or is decided by the last man standing. For a truly competitive event, this format is horrible, as coming in early puts you at an overwhelming disadvantage. As a spectator sport, or weekly streamed feature, this format can excel at creating exciting narratives and sowing chaos as players quickly rotate in and out.

Making Fun Formats

Once you’ve decided on your style of bracket, it’s time to decide what ruleset you want to run for your group. The sky is the limit with themes and challenges you can come up with, so make your mark!

Allowing just a specific season is great for release events and giving players random characters can force them out of their comfort zone. Putting aesthetic themes like “Halloween”, “Wearing White”, or even “Final Destination, No items, Hats only” can also be great for exploring new matchups while still giving people some control over what they want to play, just make sure that everyone knows the rules before the event.

If you want to run a more competitive event, running with the standard “Bring 3, Pick 1” organized play format is a solid bet. In my local scene, we also added a ban into the mix so that players could be forced off their mains, and be encouraged to develop multiple characters.

In a similar vein, Matchup Madness is running a format called ‘Semi-Conquest’ which is a spinoff of Hearthstone’s Conquest format that requires you to only win with 2 of your decks instead of all 3—which forces players into playing a variety of matchups.

Tools of the Trade

Running a tournament—especially a larger one—can quickly become an overwhelming ordeal. Luckily, TOs (Tournament Organizers) have a slew of tools at their disposal to help things run smoothly and make their job a little bit easier.

Challonge

(https://challonge.com/) - The most popular, and completely free, bracket managing website out there. It is absolutely essential to any would-be TOs. The software allows you to create and run most types of brackets, trivializing the process of setting up Swiss or Double-Elimination tournaments. Unfortunately, Challonge isn’t great for communicating with players, so running the tournament off of a forum, or discord is your best bet to put up announcements and updates as your event progresses.

Google Drive

(https://drive.google.com) - Speaking of communication, Google Drive is also a fantastic way to communicate with your players, especially for longer announcements or rulesets that you want people to be easily able to reference back to, like this one: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n7ydfrl5YNvAfYv-xe2uQCMZamSNghWB7NA4CeQ6Rus/edit.

Google Sheets in specific is a powerful tool that lets you compile and analyze data from larger events.

For Matchup Madness, I’ve used it to record character win rates, let people see their fellow competitor’s roster, and keep a feed of every match as it's reported. You can check it out here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A5W60hMQ8YMZcArc8pWY2XarqqWPR_ry97XQH9OEy2U/edit?usp=sharing.

Discord

(https://discordapp.com/) - Is my personal favorite way to quickly message and interact with my friends and community members. Its rise in popularity in the gaming sphere means that many of you already use it—but there are a few tricks you can do to make it work for you as a TO.

Every user has something called a ‘Real ID’ that lets you quickly find and tag them regardless of if they share the same username as someone else, have it in a different language, or even if they keep changing their tag. Mine is 163739706863910912. To access it, you first need to turn Developer Mode on in your settings, under the ‘Appearance’ tab. Then you can right-click any user to ‘Copy ID’ and get their ID string. Group DMs are another powerful way to put players in contact with each other, although you will need to make sure you add them to your friend list before you can put the message channel together.

I’m looking forward to seeing how Matchup Madness ends, and to starting up a more casual weekly event on the discord as we prepare for the next big one. So stay tuned and make sure to join the Level 99 Games community discord at https://discord.gg/KQtrkGc if you haven’t already! If you have any ideas for formats you would like to see run or want any advice for setting up a tournament with your friends, feel free to contact me on discord at TaxiCAB#6036. I don’t bite, and always love to help out!

Charles Butler (aka "TaxiCAB") is a College Student and Tournament Organizer enjoying the rain up in the Pacific NorthWest. Meet him in person on the Level 99 Games Community Discord!

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Using a tour on the Adelaide river gave me the opportunity to begin to see the approaches of your crocs once they’re getting ready to assault. Litchfield Nationwide Park is a fantastic

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There have been a few indications that IF the White Sox were to buy before this season’s deadline, they will not be going all out for the big names like Bumgarner, Greinke, or Stroman. With that said, here is a list of three players the Sox might have a shot at acquiring at a low cost.

Aaron Sanchez

Sanchez hasn’t had the best season (5.53 FIP, 0.2 fWAR). However, he does have a shot at improving. He has bounced back and forth between the minors, Injured List and MLB over the last couple seasons and only has one Arbitration season on his contract for 2020, which I do not see much of an increasing salary (currently $3.9 million), if he doesn’t turn things around. It depends what you need to give up to acquire him, but he’s a guy to keep in mind. He’s only 27, so he could be worth it.

Daniel Norris

Norris is having a decent season (4.62 FIP, 1.1 fWAR), and he’s only 26. The Tigers are bad. That rotation is young, but if they don’t plan on competing for a couple years, Norris could be on the way out. It’s worth the inquiry if the Tigers are willing to part with him.

Mike Leake

Leake is the most expensive option. He’s making $16 million this year, $15 million in 2020, and $18 million in 2021. It obviously depends on how much money the Mariners are willing to eat in a hypothetical trade, but he owns a 4.89 FIP and is currently worth 0.9 fWAR. The savvy veteran is worth a look.

Regardless of who the White Sox look to acquire, they need to act. This starting rotation is teetering. Reynaldo got shelled again yesterday. Detwiler has been OK through two starts. Gio has been fantastic. Cease could be a solid starter for the rest of this season, but he’s only one start in and showed a lack of control with his fastball. Bañuelos is eh. Covey wasn’t that great before but figures to return. Good teams need pitching depth. The above three acquisitions would improve the team. It’s worth the venture. Let’s beat those Cubbies, get to .500 before the break, get Anderson back and make the rest of the season even more exciting!

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We were never supposed to get Charles Xavier on Legion. When the show was developed, FX and Fox made it quite clear that though a passing reference may be made to David’s famous mutant father, the character was unlikely to appear on screen. In Fox’s eyes, having Patrick Stewart or James McAvoy appear as Professor X on the FX series would only further muddle the already complicated X-Men timeline, and Noah Hawley’s wigged out vision for his series didn’t quite align with their prized X-Men franchise cash cow, so having another actor portray one of the principal leads of their series wouldn’t be preferable either.

With the Fox-Disney merger, all of those hang-ups and worries would disappear. Fox’s X-Men franchise took a bow with the disappointing, under-performing Dark Phoenix, and without having to shepherd the mighty mutant IP for another round of films, Fox allowed Noah Hawley to play with one of their prized toys, this time casting Game of Thrones alum Harry Lloyd as the powerful telepath. It’s a wonderful development for the series, as the introduction of Charles Xavier and his lover Gabrielle Haller leads to one of the series’ finest hours.

Per Hawley’s style, Charles and Gabrielle’s origins aren’t cut and copied from comic book lore to the screen, but core elements of their backstory remain in place. Charles meets Gabrielle, a Holocaust survivor, in a mental institution, instantly mirroring the meet cute of David and Syd in Season 1. For a show that has delighted in masking what era the events take place in, this is the first solid conformation that the late 60s/70s aesthetic of David’s world isn’t just a stylistic choice. Anyway, Charles uses his ability to help the near catatonic Gabrielle (played by Mr. Robot’s Stephanie Corneliussen) clear out the debilitating trauma she experienced. Charles knows that his powers are intrusive and can be easily abused, highlighted in a brilliant, unsettling black and white scuffle in a foxhole during Charles’ apparent time as a soldier, so he makes it clear that he only uses his powers to help.

Charles and Gabrielle fall in love within the walls of the institution like some quirky indie dramaedy, and Charles then uses his telepath abilities to free them from hospital. The two have David together, but after sensing Amahal Farouk with an early version of Cerebro, Charles leaves in search of the man that shares some of his abilities. During her time alone, Gabrielle longs for Charles and also struggles as Farouk torments her and tries to infiltrate the body of David. Throughout all of this action, we watch as Gabrielle sees visions of the adult version of David and hears his cries for his mother. Using Switch’s abilities David has time traveled to witness his parents’ history and prevent Farouk from entering his body as an infant, but for some reason, Gabrielle cannot quite see or hear David despite his attempts.

Toward the episode’s end, David is able to make himself visible during one of the Shadow King’s disturbing tricks on Gabrielle, but Charles returns just in the nick of time to interject and dispel David from the past. However, in the aftermath, Gabrielle is returned to her catatonia as the Shadow King takes advantage of a distracted Charles and swoops into David. It’s still unclear how time travel exactly works in this story, so it’s possible that David’s interactions with his mother from the future are and always have been partly to blame for David’s essential possession. Another interesting wrinkle is the presence of the World’s Angriest Boy doll. I took it to be a physical representation of the trauma or mental health issues that people pass down to their children, but it could also represent that the memories or past that we are witnessing have already been distorted by the Shadow King.

Regardless, after David is driven out of the past, he’s desperate to return, but Switch is too drained to help him. She loses another tooth, which seems to be a consequence for using her time traveling abilities. There’s no telling how David will react to Switch not being able to help him in the way that he envisioned. We’re left with the lingering, fantastically creepy image of Amahal rocking baby David on his knee.

“Chapter 22” is a fine reintroduction to Charles Xavier, but an even better episode of Legion. It’s able to tell a compelling love story while working in some patented psychedelic and disconcerting imagery. Utilizing non-linear storytelling, we’re able to watch as Charles makes the mistake of engaging a monster and how that monster takes away all that is truly important to him. I also love the cinematography in the episode and how Legion is always changing up its look based on the tone or setting of the story. As someone who has been annoyed with this show at times in the past, an episode like “Chapter 22” reminds me why I fell for this series in the first place.

Nick Harley is a tortured Cleveland sports fan, thinks Douglas Sirk would have made a killer Batman movie, Spider-Man should be a big-budget HBO series, and Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson should direct a script written by one another. For more thoughts like these, read Nick's work here at Den of Geek or follow him on Twitter.

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND April 5, 2019 - SHAZAM, PET SEMATARY, THE BEST OF ENEMIES, PETERLOO

Sadly, this is yet another weekend where I wasn’t able to see two of the three new movies, but that’s because I’m in Las Vegas covering CinemaConfor The Beat, but I do want to write a little more about a movie coming out this weekend that I want to put a little added focus on. Back in the day, I used to include a “Chosen One” in each week’s column, and I’m getting to the point where I’d like to try to do something like that again… and so, after the jump, you will get my review of one such film.

That movie is PETERLOO (Amazon), the new movie from director Mike Leigh, an eight-time Oscar nominee whose work has garnered him much respect and whose work I’ve especially enjoyed, particularly Vera Drake and Happy-Go-Lucky. The first of these is significant because it’s one of Leigh’s rare historic pieces but his last movie Mr. Turner went one further by telling the story of a real person, in that case, painter J.M.W. Turner, as played by Tim Spall.

Peterloo is somewhat of a departure for Mr. Leigh, since it isn’t focused on a small group of two to four characters, instead telling a massively complex storyline about a peaceful rally in Manchester that was racked by violence when politicians decided to disperse the crowd.

I have to admit that as Peterloo began on the battlefield of Waterloo, I wasn’t sure to expect, thinking it might be Leigh’s attempt at a war film, but the story follows a young bugler, Joseph, whom we see on the battlefield before he returns home to Manchester with a case of PTSD. His family, and in fact, the whole town, is suffering from poverty and hunger, and there’s a growing desire to be represented in the Parliament in London so that things might improve. The city’s grew white hope is one Henry Hunt, played by Rory Kinnear, and he’s going to travel up to Manchester to talk to the people who will presumably vote for him.

Once it gets going, Peterloo is such a fascinating film. I’m really curious to see how Americans will react to it, because while it’s just as typically British as Leigh’s previous work, it’s a movie that’s more about British history and British politics, and I’m just not sure if that’s the sort of thing that will connect with Americans.

I can completely understand why some might be frustrated with Leigh’s latest, because it is very long, it does take some time to get going, and a lot of time you might not know exactly what is going on or what is being discussed. I certainly wasn’t exactly sure what was going on or who some of the characters were as they flew through the vast ensemble cast moving from one character and location to another. Eventually, you get used to this pace and start seeing familiar faces that makes things much clearer. Leigh also uses this tactic to create layers that build and build to the climactic last half hour of the film where violence disrupts an otherwise peaceful day. It’s quite the counterpoint to the war scene that opens the film, but don’t worry. Joseph doesn’t get lost in the shuffle, as you might suspect, because it really follows his journey despite often focusing on others.

One of the things I especially liked about Leigh’s latest is that while it does often get somber and serious, there’s still a wit to it, especially in the way it deals with the stupidity of the politicians and magistrates who seem to have little care for the people they’re supposed to be representing.

Oddly, two days after seeing Peterloo, I saw the Broadway musical Hamilton, a historical piece that takes place in America earlier than the events of Leigh’s film, but it offered a similar resonance to me, even though it did so with musical numbers rather than talking.

Leigh’s screenplay is another masterpiece, but I was equally impressed by the casting of such a large ensemble, many with British actors whom few on these shores will have ever seen or heard of. I’m really curious to know where he found them, because he’s become so known for working with the same small group of actors over the years, and almost everyone in this movie is new to the Leigh camp.

Personally, I think this is Leigh’s best film in many, many years, possibly on par with some of his best work even though I know it deals with a far more difficult (and localized) subject. Regardless, it’s also a film I will gladly see a second time just to catch some of the nuances I may have missed the first time around.

Rating: 8.5/10

Now, back to your regularly scheduled preview column…

As far as the wide releases, I’ve only seen one of them and that was SHAZAM! (New Line/WB), the latest DC Comics character to be brought to the big screen, in this case by Swedish filmmaker David F. Sandberg (Lights Out). I already reviewedthe movie for The Beat, so I don’t have much more to say about it (other than my Box Office Preview, which is ALSO at The Beat), but I did enjoy this quite a bit, maybe not as much as Aquaman but definitely as much as Wonder Woman. It’s a good movie that shows you can do something different with supereheroes and still make a movie work on its own merits (rather than connecting to future movies)

The other movie I’m really looking forward to seeing (when I get back from Vegas) is the new version of Stephen King’s PET SEMATARY (Paramount), directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, who found some fans in the horror crowd with their earlier film Starry Eyes. I guess the cast could be more interesting, although I do love John Lithgow and Amy Seimetz has been a favorite of mine from the indie work she’s done. And I don’t hate Jason Clarke either, although some of his choices in films (other than last year’s Chappaquidick, in which he was great) sometimes leaves me scratching my head.

Robin Bissell’s THE BEST OF ENEMIES (STXfilms) is a civil rights drama that one would normally see during Oscar season, since it stars Oscar winner Sam Rockwell and nominee Taraji P. Henson. This story is interesting to me as someone who loved last year’s Green Book, mainly because there are stories like this (and that) from the ‘60s that deserve to be told. Unfortunately, I’m missing this due to CinemaCon as well, so hopefully I’ll have a chance to see it when I’m back in New York.

LIMITED RELEASES

Besides Peterloo, reviewed above, there’s a few other films I recommend seeking out, and hopefully the first three of these will expand into other places than big cities after this weekend:

Correction: Oops!! It looks like I missed the fact that Teen Spirit will not open in select cities until April 12, so I’ll rerun my write-up on it next week

Seemingly a lost project/movie, the late filmmaker Sydney Pollack was commissioned by Warner Bros. Records to capture a concert by Aretha Franklin singing gospel songs for a movie, but it was shelved due to technical difficulties. More than 45 years later, that concert is presented in AMAZING GRACE (NEON), and if there ever was any doubt in your mind about what an amazing singer Franklin was, this movie will certainly change that. It opens in select cities.

Opening in New York, L.A. and other cities is Emma Tammi’s Western werewolf movie THE WIND (IFC Midnight), which played at TIFF and Fantastic Fest last year and the more-recent What the Fest in New York. It stars Caitlin Gerard from Insidious: The Last Key as a rugged woman who has moved into a cabin on the American frontier in the early 19thCentury, where she immediately starts feeling as if there’s a sinister presence, possibly tied to the only other couple who lives out there. Her husband (Ashley Zukerman) doesn’t believe her. If you like Westerns and want to see one with a dominant female presence (both in front and behind the camera) then you’ll want to check this out.

I guess this is as good a place as any to mention that one of my favorite filmmaker Terry Gilliam’s new movie The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will be available to see nationwide on Tuesday via Fathom Events. The movie, starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce and a number of amazing European actors who I was unfamiliar with, is one that Gilliam has been trying to make for over 20 years and no surprise, it harks back to his great films like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and The Fisher King, which came out during the filmmaker’s heyday. I’m just so happy Gilliam was finally able to make this movie, and it actually turned out quite well.. maybe a little weird for some tastes, but not too weird for lifelong Gilliam fans like myself.

Hilary Duff stars in the title role of Daniel Ferrands’ THE HAUNTING OF SHARON TATE (Saban Films) about the murder of the 26-year-old actress who was pregnant with Roman Polanski’s baby when she was murdered by Charles Manson and his cult.It opens in theaters and will be available On Demand starting Friday.

Jordan Downey’s The Head Hunter (Vertical) involves a medieval warrior who is protecting the kingdom from monsters, collecting their heads as he slays them. The one monster he hasn’t killed yet is the one that killed his daughter, so he travels on horseback to try to get revenge. It opens in select cities and On Demand.

Jai Courtney stars in Shawn Seet’s adaptation of Colin Thiele’s Storm Boy (Good Deed Entertainment), an Australian drama in which the retired businessman Michael Kingley reflects back on his past life. Some of these memories including a story about how as a boy, he rescued an orphaned pelican and named it Mr. Percival.

Filmmaker Emilio Estevez’s latest film, the political drama The Public (Greenwich), will also open Friday after playing TIFF and a few other festivals. It stars Alec Baldwin with Estevez, Jena Malone, Taylor Schilling, Christian Slater, Gabrielle Union, Michael K. Williams and Jeffrey Wright, and with a cast like that, do you really need to know what the movie is about? Okay, fine. It takes place in a public library in Cincinnati where a number of homeless patrons take it over during an Arctic blast, seeking shelter from the cold but also staging an act of civil disobedience, in the process.

Showing FREE OF CHARGE at New York’s Film Forum (as part of their annual Free Movie Week) starting Wednesday is Cam Christiansen’s animated doc Wall, which looks at the decision by Israel to build the 435-mile long wall to separate the Palestinian West Bank from the rest of Israel. Building that $4 billion wall meant the confiscation of 4,000 acres of Palestinian land and the destruction of 1,000 trees…and that area is still in disarray. So yeah… building walls is a bad idea.

Stephanie Wang-Breal’s documentary Blowin’ Up (Once in a Blue) deals with the first-ever court created to deal with prostitution in Queens, New York, the Queens Human Intervention Trafficking Court led by the Honorable Toko Serita. The purpose is to help deal with the women and girls arrested for prostitution who are illegal Asian immigrants or are black, Latina or trans, so they get shuffled through the system without it ever dealing with the complex reasons why they turn to prostitution. The doc opens at the Quad in New York Friday and then in L.A. on April 12.

Opening at the Metrograph in New York City is Qiu Sheng’s feature debut Suburban Birds (Cinema Guild) involving two narrative strands, one involving land surveyors who are laying subway tracks, the other involving pre-adolescents who rove the streets of the town unsupervised. It sounds…um… interesting?

Josh Stewart from Criminal Minds writes, directs and stars in Back Fork (Uncork’d) as family man Waylon who is struggling to keep his life together after tragedy, becoming more dependent on pills. Also starring Agnes Bruckner, the film will open in select cities and be available On Demand starting April 9.

LOCAL FESTIVALS

First up, on Tuesday began the 11th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival at the JCC Manhattan, celebrating those who have fought past what would normally be considered “disabilities” to greatness. It kicked off with the Opening Night Gala and Screening of Irene Taylor Brodsky’s Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, a documentary about a boy with genetic deafness who grew up with cochlear implants whose grandfather is adverse against using such technology in his old age. The festival runs through April 9 where the Closing Night film is Nick Kelly’s The Drummer and the Keeper about a drummer dealing with a bipolar diagnosis. In between is a full line-up of narratives and documentaries exploring different disabilities from blindness to mental disorders, and it’s quite an amazing array of films, many which might not ever get distribution, sadly. Screenings take place all over the city including Bellevue Hospital, Lincoln Center and the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.

Although the 22nd Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival takes place in Durham, North Carolina – home of Duke University -- starting Thursday, I do have a love for the documentary genre that makes me want to mention the amazing programming, which will include a thematic program called “Some Other Lives of Time,” curated by Oscar nominee RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening). Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s American Factory is the opening night film while the Aretha Franklin concert doc Amazing Grace (released this weekend in other cities) closes this year’s festival. There’s an amazing line-up of docs in between, some that have played other festivals like David Modigliani’s Running with Beto and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, and others that are premiering at Full Frame. American Factory directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert are getting a tribute with all of their earlier features and shorts shown, as well as their new film about a General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio that closed, forcing 2,500 people into unemployment. This is a festival I’ve wanted to attend for so long and I do have friends in the Durham area that would make this worth a visit, but it’s only four days from Thursday through Sunday, so can’t do it this year.

Also, the Havana Film Festival New York begins at the Museum of the Moving Image on Sunday.

STREAMING AND CABLE

This week’s big Netflix release is Brie Larson’s directorial debut UNICORN STORE, in which she plays a 20-something artist named Kit, who is kicked out of art school, forcing her to move back home with her parents. Just as Kit decides to finally grow up, a salesman, played by Larson’s Captain Marvel co-star Samuel L. Jackson, shows up to offer Kit her heart’s desire. Based on a script by Samantha McIntyre, the film also stars Joan Cusack as Kit’s mother.

Netflix also has a number of new series starting on Friday including Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (from Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa) and the eight-part nature series Our Planet, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

I didn’t go to Sundance so I haven’t had a chance to see Rashid Johnson’s Native Son, starring Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Kiki Layne, Ashton Sanders, Sanaa Lathan and Elizabeth Marvel, but that will premiere on HBO this Saturday night.

REPERTORY

METROGRAPH (NYC):

On Friday, Metrograph will open a restoration of King Hu’s little-seen 1973 martial arts film The Fate of Lee Khan (Film Movement Classics) but the real winner this weekend is the Playtime: Family Matinees screenings of one of my childhood faves, Ken Hughes’ Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), starring Dick Van Dyke. Late Nites at Metrograph will show Sion Sono’s 2016 film Anti-Porno, which I may have seen before or maybe I just saw the trailer at Metrograph when it screened there a couple years back. I can’t remember! Also, the Total Kaurismäki Show continues through the weekend with Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) on Thursday, more esoteric films like Juha (1999) and Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994) on Saturday, Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994) on Sunday and then his recent The Other Side of Hopeon Monday. That series continues through next Wednesday. Thursday also continues the Academy at Metrograph series with a screening of the 1959 rom-com Pillow Talk.

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

Weds and Thursday are double features of Jack Nicholson’s 1971 film Drive, He Said with the 1972 John Wayne movie The Cowboys. Friday and Saturday, the New Bev does a sci-double feature of Silent Running (1972) and The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971). This weekend’s KIDDEE MATINEE is Tom Hanks and Joe Dante’s The Burbs (1989), the Friday midnight screening is Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (Multiplex version) while the Saturday night midnight offering is John Landis’ 1978 comedy classic Animal House. A 4-track mag print (whatever that is) of Carl Foreman’s war movie The Victors (1963) will screen on Sunday and Monday. Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) will also screen on Monday afternoon.

FILM FORUM (NYC):

Besides debuting an uncut (220 mins. With intermission) version of Franesco Rosi’s 1979 epic Christ Stopped at Eboli (Rialto Pictures), the Film Forum is screening the 1968 war film Where Eagles Dare introduced by British author Geoff Dyer (who wrote a book about the movie) on Saturday, and then John Boorman’s 1967 film Point Blank on Sunday, also introduced by Dyer.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

Noir City: Hollywood – The 21stAnnual Los Angeles Festival of Film Noir continues through the weekend with chronological double features of 1955 films The Big Combo and Bad Day at Black Rock on Weds, the 1956 films A Kiss Before Dying and The Harder They Fall on Thurs, and then 1957′s The Midnight Story and Monkey on my Back Friday, Clara Bow’s Call Her Savage from 1932 with a Forbidden Hollywood presentation on Saturday, along with Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil and Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows, both from 1958. The series ends on Sunday with I Want to Live (1958) and Cry Tough (1959).

AERO (LA):

I wish I lived in L.A. right now because the Aero is launching a Mike Leigh retrospective called “Bleak, But Never Boring: Life According to Mike Leigh” starting Friday with a double feature of Naked (1993)and Meantime (1984), Saturday is Secrets & Lies (1996)and Vera Drake (2004), then Sunday is Life is Sweet (1990)and High Hopes (1988). On Thursday, the Aero is ALSO showing Animal House… but with guests!

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

Strange Desire: The Films of Claire Deniscontinues through the weekend with Bastards and The Breidjing Camp on Thursday, Towards Mathilde (2005) with the 2002 short Vers Nancy and US Go Home (1994) & the doc Claire Denis, The Vagabondon Saturday. Denis’ fairly recent film Let the Sunshine Inwill screen again on Sunday, as will Denis’ 1994 film I Can’t Sleep.

MOMA (NYC):

Modern Matinees: B is for Bacall continues with 1966’s Harper Weds, Woman’s World (1954) Thursday and Robert Altman’s Pret-A-Porter (Ready to Wear) (1994) on Friday.

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

Besides taking apart in a few film festivals mentioned above, MOMI will also screen Antonio Tibaldi’s On My Own (1991) with Tibaldi in person.

QUAD CINEMA (NYC):

Bertrand Blier’s Get Out Your Handkerchiefscontinues…

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART (LA):

Friday’s midnight screening is the anime classic Akira.

The IFC CENTER in New York seems to be in-between repertory programs, while FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER is still focused on New Directors/New Films through Sunday.

Next week, Lionsgate revives Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, this time played by David Harbour, Tina Gordon’s comedy Littlestarring Regina Hall and Issa Rae, and LAIKA Studios returns with their latest stop-motion animated film Missing Link.

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Knock Knock

Latest Review: Starring Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie and Matt Lucas Guest starring: David Suchet Co-starring: Mariah Gale, Mandeep Dhillon, Colin Ryan Ben Presley, Alice Hewkin, Bart Suavek and Sam Benjamin Written by Mike Bartlett Directed by Bill Anderson Produced by Nikki Wilson Executive Producers: Steven Moffat and Brian Minchin First broadcast on BBC1 on Saturday May 6th at 7:20pm This review contains spoilers and is based on a standard, non-binaural preview version of the episode. Speaking at the BFI/Radio Times TV Festival last month, Steven Moffat remarked that one thing he'd like to do after showrunning Doctor Who is write a play. Moffat has done his bit for trafficking between the worlds of theatre and TV talent this season, however, by securing the services of both Rona Munro and feted playwright and Doctor Foster creator Mike Bartlett. King Charles III, one of Bartlett's recent and highly successful plays, is about to hit our television screens in an adapted version, whilst 2016's Wild -- a piece based loosely on the Edward Snowden case which took a radical turn into almost Who-esque territories -- has shown Bartlett's affinity with relevant material. Now, it would seem, is very much Mike Bartlett's time to clamber aboard the occasionally creaking but always smartly veneered Whoniverse. Knock Knock is, let's face it, a rather cheesy title, gesturing at those repetitive old "Who's there?" jokes that probably still generate endless amusement among the programme's youngest fans. But by giving this reference an adult spin -- for this is a riff on the venerable haunted house subgenre -- Bartlett cleverly blurs together child and adult sensibilities right from the outset. Playing with the Doctor's relationship to Bill, and having her address him as "grandfather", is also a lovely throwback to the 1960s show; I initially responded to it in exactly this manner, as a gift to long-term fans. But cunningly, it also slots perfectly well into the theme of this episode's eventual and familial denouement, a smart tongue-and-groove piece of thematic construction (and generational confusion) that's hidden in plain sight. Writers new to Who have a tendency to emulate the leading tropes of their commissioning showrunner -- Matthew Graham's Fear Her often felt like RTD-lite, and Stephen Thompson's The Curse of the Black Spot replayed Moffat's favoured device of 'technology gone awry'. Here, we get an aspect of the ordinary, everyday world transformed into a fantastical threat, something which, though it has an extensive history in the programme, has also become part of the Moffat repertoire. And there's a kind of variant take on "are you my mummy?" which harks all the way back to The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. Having said that, Bartlett doesn't only seek to fit seamlessly into the Moffat-esque way of things, and also stamps his own mark on proceedings, notably in a comedic sequence criticising the state of students' rental accommodation in the UK, albeit imparting its critical stance with a deftly light touch. On the minus side, I felt that Bartlett was sometimes a little cramped by the demands of a 43-minute single episode when he's evidently used to working with longer dramatic forms that have more space to unfold characterisation (something that the serialised Doctor Foster achieved quite brilliantly). Since the haunted house story calls for a number of characters who can be bumped off, Bartlett is also pretty much obligated to give Bill a decent number of housemates. This immediately causes a difficulty because each one threatens to become a student stereotype or a single-note creation. Perhaps slightly fewer students to be menaced by Wester Drumlins -- sorry, Bill's new residence -- would have helped on this front. The tightly-coiled demands of an episode that has to set up atmospheric menace before delivering a pay-off 'reveal' also make life slightly difficult for guest star David Suchet, who is required to oscillate between ordinary-but-odd, outright creepy, and something far more essentially and basically human. It's a tough ask, and in places Suchet's performance seemed a little too mannered to me. But regardless of that, Doctor Who is fortunate to attract actors of such calibre, and I was admittedly disappointed that fan speculation regarding 'the Landlord' (that he would become a recurring character of some mysterious and Time Lordly status) fell wide of the mark. Suchet's character is very much a one-shot, belonging to this story alone. Series 10's Vault storyline continues to gather pace, and the concluding moment -- withholding a reverse shot that would have revealed who was in there -- was deliberately cheeky, and all the more effective for it. But an episode entitled Knock Knock is bound to rely, more than most Doctor Who, on its sound design and soundtrack. On the whole, this worked very well, though the level of aural threat could perhaps have been more intense (I'll be interested to see whether advance hype surrounding this as a very scary episode is reflected in the general fan and audience response, as well as how much difference the binaural version makes). I'm a horror fan, but for my money this was far stronger on atmosphere and build-up than any genuine sense of shocks, jumps or 'scares'. The monsters' mass presence was, in the end, effective without being remarkable -- we dodged a Tractator-level incident, to be sure, but all the CGI hordes still felt generically competent rather than truly memorable. And packing an episode with wood-related content is, I suspect, always going to be a risk in terms of inciting reviewers' puns or provocations (you can just imagine how any journalist looking for a punchline would reach for their finest grain of 'wooden' material). Actually, focusing on this dimension -- something that has rarely featured in Doctor Who other than as a challenge for the sonic screwdriver -- gives this episode a very specific and quasi-historical flavour. Yes, it's a present-day story, but instead of brutalist concrete-morphing creatures, steel-and-chrome monstrosities, or electronic/nano-techno-villains, there is something almost pleasingly quaint, if not retro, about a good, old wood-based threat. There's a sense of sedimented history, and the dust of ages, that setlles over 'Knock Knock', making the eventual reveal of Eliza's presence (and identity) an integral part of this 'return of the repressed past'. Knock Knock does what the best of contemporary Doctor Who has always strived for: it combines fantastical threats with social commentary and moments of touching emotion and humanity, at the same time as fusing 'child' and 'adult' levels of meaning. As the proverbial 'family television' it also uncovers a gothic, dysfunctional family -- one that needs to be fixed by the Doctor's intervention. Holding on to the past at any cost is shown to be a powerful mistake, and 'Knock Knock' is ultimately about a very different kind of fear to its earlier evocations of creaking floorboards and unseen forces, zeroing in on the fear of loss, and all the misguided actions it can provoke, rather than notching up a villainous case of megalomania or 'evil'. In this, it marks its distance from certain previous incarnations of the show, and develops an approach highlighted in The Pilot. But the question that remains, given the Doctor's chatty engagement with the Vault's occupant, is whether he too, like the Landlord, is mistakenly holding on to an aspect of the past... In a week or two, we'll start to get some answers. http://reviews.doctorwhonews.net/2017/05/knock_knock.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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