Recent content by MarkB

The one that always seems weird to me as a Brit is Bonfire Night. On the one hand we're making a family event out of symbolically executing a person via immolation, with the kids being traditionally the ones to prepare the sacrifice. And on the other we're celebrating the failed detonation of...

That's too limited a view. I'd like to think that the day of my birth had devastating historical consequences too.

"They spelled my name wrong."

Not all that many, because it's one of those details that rarely finds its way into a description unless it's significant. Yeah, having some gargoyles posing in postures of terrified surprise would be a good bit of misdirection on their part, if a little meta. EDIT: And now I'm wondering about...

That does highlight one of the usual issues with gargoyles, though - usually nobody's fooled by them. One mention of statues in a location description and the players are just waiting for them to come to life (or turn out to be medusa victims). It rather ruins the "ambush" part of their ambush...

I mostly remember being icked out by the body-swap kludge they used in order to still have their back-on-Earth segments in their lost-in-space series. It was pretty eww in concept from the start, and then they played into the eww, having characters pursuing sexual relationships in other peoples'...

The "friendly to both fans and new viewers" thing is going to be an interesting balance. By the time it stopped airing there had been a lot of technical advances and international agreements to the point where it hardly seemed feasible for everything not to go fully public and those technologies...

From Terminator 2, after John notices the police have arrived. "How many?" "Uh, all of them, I think."

On the other hand, if the game in question was invented for the movie or show and doesn't exist outside of it, can it really be said to be based on a game? You wouldn't say a movie was based on a novel if that novel only existed within the fiction of the movie.

Netflix.

Yeah, it is understandable, and as part of the campaign's premise it'd be tough to single out a PC as not having been implanted. And while, in the videogame, it's not like the characters are constantly under control, there are definitely struggles for control involved. Getting around it would...

In the original Klingon.

It's a smaller ship, but that's not a bad thing. We don't need to go out adventuring in a massive Galaxy or Sovereign class. Could definitely do with distributing some more power to internal systems though, enough to run a couple of light bulbs.

Helmsman Ortegas: "Hey Captain, I fly the ship. Any idea where I should fly it?" Captain Ortegas: "Not a clue. I fly the ship. Comms, any messages about where we should fly the ship?" Comms officer Ortegas: "Having trouble finding the "receive" button, Sir. I just fly the ship."

Voyage Home lacks allegory? I'd have said it's more like it wears it right on its sleeve.