12-13-2020, 10:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-13-2020, 10:43 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Woah. That boofed blonde hair in that vid above that tg just posted. Dang Anya, wth? DON'T WATCH THAT VID IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH THIS SHOW. It's packed with spoilers.
We finished it tonight. It was entertaining, even uplifting. There were some bits that struck me as absurd but the style and look of the series was captivating enough for me to overlook all that. The addiction story arc didn't work for me - it was too cartoonish. And Anya was very charismatic. Those eyes. Those huge anime peepers. That really worked for the chess scenes.
As some of you might remember, my PhD thesis was going to be on chess and fencing. tg shot my photos for the experiment. There's a lot of research on how chess masters think and I was proposing to map that on fencing masters, all because of a dumb saying that 'fencing is the physical chess.' Now I don't play chess. I disdain games in general but chess is particularly annoying. However, I do admire the symbolism of it. So it worked for me on a symbolic level but the depiction of how chessmasters think did not.
We realized we've had a run of orphan stories - this, Great Expectations, The BFG. Well, it's better than the menstrual blood run we had before although this miniseries was part of that.
No sword fights. Mildly DOOM recommended.
We finished it tonight. It was entertaining, even uplifting. There were some bits that struck me as absurd but the style and look of the series was captivating enough for me to overlook all that. The addiction story arc didn't work for me - it was too cartoonish. And Anya was very charismatic. Those eyes. Those huge anime peepers. That really worked for the chess scenes.
As some of you might remember, my PhD thesis was going to be on chess and fencing. tg shot my photos for the experiment. There's a lot of research on how chess masters think and I was proposing to map that on fencing masters, all because of a dumb saying that 'fencing is the physical chess.' Now I don't play chess. I disdain games in general but chess is particularly annoying. However, I do admire the symbolism of it. So it worked for me on a symbolic level but the depiction of how chessmasters think did not.
We realized we've had a run of orphan stories - this, Great Expectations, The BFG. Well, it's better than the menstrual blood run we had before although this miniseries was part of that.
No sword fights. Mildly DOOM recommended.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse