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I was so checked out during the finale that I didn't even stop to think of this. Why would The Boys suddenly be okay with her, but especially why Butcher? If anything, she should have gotten the cruelest kill in the series, seeing as she's no longer superpowered and is effectively just another...

This is yet another area where the clear lack of budget ends up hurting the show. For example, could you imagine a scene where Homelander in a fit of insecure panic sets up an exclusive show for his most diehard fans where he butchers Starlighters to show his powers and stroke his ego? I think...

If you don't mind being spoiled about the comic, there's a tragic irony to the show now:

The Boys finale, 5/10 A sucky-ass, drag-ass season ends with a mediocre finale. Not nearly as terrible as I'd expected, and about as good as I'd hoped. And so it ends, not with a bang, not with a whimper, more of a tacit "Well, that's a wrap. Everyone go home". The series ended up being two...

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 5/10 Watched this to see if the two later movies of the trilogy worked better as one giant film and no, they don't. This is even more of a mess than Chest: there's even more characters, backstabbing, switching allegiances, deals and motivations this...

The Boys S5E7 Jesus christ what a snooze. I legit don't know how the finale could salvage this overdose of sleeping pills. This season officially sucks. One episode left of the whole series, yet everything's hanging in the air as if we were only halfway through. Boy, I sure am glad we had time...

Hurry up Tomorrow, 2/10 Had another one of my bad movie nights, and this was the first one we watched. It's a companion piece film to The Weeknd's album of the same name, and it's (nominally) about a fictionalized version of The Weeknd - played by The Weeknd himself no less - struggling with...

So something got fucky with my PS5, and it decided to reverse-delete my Lies of P saves, ie. restore the ones I thought it deleted, but in return deleting the save I'd most recently started. Oh well. I was playing it to go through the DLC again anyway, which I was about halfway through on a NG...

I decided to rewatch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest after not having watched it possibly since the 00s, so I watched about half of it. This one I had much less recollection of than the first: I remember action setpieces and Davy Jones, but the mechanics and details of the plot eluded...

Mostly stylistically, because gameplay wise Lies of P is kind of an amalgam of all the Souls games, but perhaps most closely to Sekiro: the emphasis on parrying and filling a stagger bar are core to the experience, and dodging is nowhere nearly as viable as a tactic as in Bloodborne. Unlike...

I started up Lies of P again. I think Shadow of the Erdtree may have permanently damaged my relationship with soulslikes. I just cannot bring myself to think of playing Elden Ring again: my foremost thoughts of revisiting are all negative. The hours-long startup process of gathering the golden...

A.I. - Artificial Intelligence, 4/10 Boy, what a stupid-ass movie. This is the notorious collaboration turned posthumous hybrid between Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg about a boy robot in the not-so-distant future who wants to become a real boy. It's perhaps best remembered for basically...

Serial Mom, 3/10 This is a 1994 John Waters joint. Kathleen Turner plays the mom of your almost cartoonishly typical 1950s-style sitcom family (despite this being set in the 90s), who in secret does obscene prank calls, and one day turns into an on the spot serial killer over the most mundane...

Caught up on The Boys. It's just becoming more and more apparent that they didn't really have a long term plan as much as they had a general idea of where things were supposed to go in the final season. It just feels like an interminable fetchquest: we gotta find A to get to B to find C to get...

I've been continuing to devour Second Apocalypse, which feels like binging on 50 pounds of five-star filet mignon: utterly delicious and I can't stop, but at the same time I feel like I'm not really stopping to appreciate all the flavours. Which is why i might just read through the series right...