Cthulhu cannot die, so that is off the table. But I do believe Vader would defeat him. It is not like Vader is going to go insane from merely witnessing the Mighty Cthulhu's cosmic horror. It would take a long time, but I think Vader would eventually chop Cthulhu up into little pieces, and toss him back into R'yleh. And then maybe blow it up with the Death Star.

But of course once the stars are right again, Mighty Cthulhu will rise from the waves once more...

Lol that would be something to witness!

I just finished watching A New Hope again. For the most part it dovetails in perfectly after seeing Rogue One. Everything we saw in Rogue One looks just like it does in A New Hope, especially the Death Star interiors and control screens and the Rebel Base stuff. Even the little personnel carriers in the Yavin base look the same. One little discrepancy I noted was that in the beginning of A New Hope Vader confronts Leia and says "several transmissions were beamed to this ship". But we (and he) saw in Rogue One that the plans were transferred to the Tantive IV on a data card, not by a wireless transmission. But that aside, it does look as if both films were essentially shot back to back. In the extras on the Rogue One disc, Gareth Edwards says that was exactly what he was looking to do.

Now I want to hear Mark Hamill do some of Luke's lines in his Joker voice. Well, almost...

Well the plans where transmitted from Scariff maybe that's what Vader meant in ANH.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0fLBp__vABk

I was thinking that too. But it is really stretching it. I think they went with the disc in Rogue One because in A New Hope we see Leia put the data disc into R2. But we never saw her copy the plans onto the disc before that. So in Rogue One we see the data copied onto the disc, and handed to her. That keeps the continuity intact. It just does not entirely match with what Vader said 40 years ago.



I love Mark Hamill's Joker. He is my favorite actor for that part. Hamill himself seems to have a lot of fun doing the voice. Perhaps too much...

Lol, oh yeah, he's perfect!

I just finished watching Moana. It was excellent. I was laughing when Moana insisted she was not a princess, and Maui shot back: “If you wear a dress and have an animal sidekick, then you’re a princess.” A very fun movie with a heart of gold.

I have also been listening to more of the Dark Adventure Radio Theater shows. Yesterday I did The Thing On The Doorstep, and today The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Next up is Dagon - War of the Worlds. From what I understand it is a completely new story, based on the War of the Worlds, but with Dagon instead of Martians. It is amazing how well done these things are. I just love them. This is all I can think when I go to the HPLHS site now.

And wow, Sean Branney from HPLHS just dropped me a short email saying what a great pair of shows I picked to buy the last time - The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Dagon - War of the Worlds. I figured they would dovetail nicely together. So fan girl *Squee!*

Escape from New York!

You're Snake Plissken? I thought you were dead?


In other news I did listen to Dagon - War of the Worlds when I was at work Friday. It was really cool. It does pick up where The Shadow Over Innsmouth left off. The protagonist from SOI makes a brief appearance in War of the Worlds as well. It is an entirely new story, inspired by HP Lovecraft, and from real life The War of the Worlds radio broadcast. Basically it is the latter, but with Deep Ones instead of Martians. It was a lot of fun.

I also forgot to mention that a while back I listened to The White Tree. It is another original radio show by HPLHS. This one is a story of Inspector Legrasse from The Call of Cthulhu. It is a very neat mashup of a KKK group that have blended into cthultists. So far everything HPLHS has done has been outstanding.

So full of 80's cheesy goodness! That and Big Trouble in Little China are a couple of Khajiit's favorite movies from that era!


Shouldn't these be going into the "Now Listening Thread", hmmm? j/k!
Khajiit still needs to check these out at some point.

TBH, I don't know if they should go in the Now Listening thread. They aren't songs, but stories, so I decided to lump them in the movie topic.

Khajiit was just funning with you!

I listened through most of The Brotherhood of the Beast today, another Dark Adventure Radio Theater show. I say most, because this one has 4 endings. Each is a different plan that the protagonists have to choose from to resolve the cosmic horror that they uncovered. I have only listened to 2 of the endings. This is really cool, it is like those old Choose Your Adventure books. But in a radio program.

BoB is also neat because it is not only an all new story, but it is a gaming tale, based off the Fungi From Yuggoth adventure for The Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. I remember this! I had it, and I was going to run my group through it, but never had the chance. I went looking for it just now, but could not find it or any of my old Call of Cthulhu rpg books. They might not have survived my last move. Or maybe I gave them away. I cannot remember. In any case, it was really cool. It brought back so many gaming memories.

That's cool that you had this experience!

I finished the last two endings of Brotherhood of the Beast. Wow, they did not pull any punches. Our team of intrepid adventurers really paid the price for saving the world. Well, in the endings where they did! I hope they make a sequel to it, as one character's fate sort of hangs in the balance (at least in one of the endings).

I have traded a few more emails with Sean Branney (one of the people who runs HPLHS, and stars in and co-produces their movies and radio shows). He told me that they did have Guillermo del Toro over to their offices more than once, and suggested to him that they go in on doing an At The Mountains of Madness movie as an indie film, rather than a big studio venture. The studio killed his Mountains of Madness movie idea, so maybe? I heard that del Toro even had Tom Cruise on board to star in it. Tbh, I just cannot see Cruise starring in a Lovecraft film. Or it being a big summer blockbuster. There is a fan base for Lovecraft, but not that much. The smaller indie movies like the ones HLPHS did work much better for Lovecraft.

In any case, these are some really cool guys.

In a Lovecraft film?! No way José!

Perhaps the studio thought the same thing. But they probably killed it more because there was no romance in it, and no happy ending. And it was going to be expensive. I honestly don't think any Lovecraft movie that costs 150 million to make is ever going to come close to making that back at the box office. There just isn't that kind of audience for Lovecraft. The only way to do it is in an indie movie.

Yeah this one agrees. Not to mention there are people who denounce Lovecraft as "racist".

Darth L Jackson and Darth Schwarzenegger

Lol those are really funny!

I am finally watching season 3 of Rebels. I just finished the Imperial Supercommandos episode. I had already realized that Kevin McKidd plays Fenn Rau from the previous episode Rau was in. Saxon's voice in this episode sounds familiar too. Now that I see the end credits, I realize why. Ray Stevenson does his voice! How cool to have Legionary Pullo and Centurion Vorenus in the same episode! Of course they are both Mandalorians.

Titus Pullo!!! Vorenus was kind of "meh" in Khajiit's opinon, but the poor guy had a tough life.

Fortune-Pisses-On-My-Face Vorenus and Mump-Off-You-Pig-"Lover" Pullo! Raaaagh, now THAT was a show!

Caesarion: Blather? It's my sacred duty. By my blood, I will not rest until I have avenged my mother and redeemed my father's name.
Titus Pullo: Listen, about your father...

Master Manly Pullo: Of course, your best method for pleasing a woman is the warm, beating heart of an enemy. I mean, women'll say they don't like it, but they do. Makes them wet as October!

Lol

Aw man! You guys remember Deadwood? Another great HBO show!

I think my favorite Rome quote was this:

Mark Antony: He let Pompey go and you let him live?! The man should be made an example of!

Caesar: Any other man, certainly. But those two, they found my stolen standard, now they survive a wreck that drowned an army and find Pompey Magnus on a beach. They have powerful gods on their side and I will not kill any man with friends of that sort.

That's a good one!

Caesar's lampshade hanging (on the two's plot armor) too OP!

#PlsNerf

I just got done watching Arrival. It was good. Really good. But a bit slow. It could have been 20 minutes shorter. Towards the end some things started to feel like Deus Ex Machina too. But I have to admit that those things were completely logical, and were part of what made the story the story. I don't want to give away spoilers, so I cannot go into details. If you are in the mood for a good cerebral drama about an alien first contact, you won't be disappointed.

I saw From Beyond today. It is even worse than I remember! But wow, Barbara Crampton!

Just watched Aliens

Ho.

Ly.

[censored].



I didn't like the first film. I thought it was too long, too slow, and overly populated by idiots(not to mention a particularly obnoxious jumpscare cat).

But Aliens is so much better. In every way.

Khajiit doesn't remember much about Alien. He remembers Jonesy and the Bilbo Baggins Synth going haywire, and of course the Xenomorph wreaking havoc on the crew. Then it gets sucked out an airlock. Pretty much all you need to know.

You mean you forgot Sir John Hurt's chestburster moment?

Surely you can't just lump that in with the rest of the havoc.

Yes Khajiit can! And he did!

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy 2 today.

9.5/10

Never saw the first one. The Racoon thing threw Khajiit off. Is it an alien that looks exactly like a bipedal, sentient version of an earth racoon, a mutant, or what?

PRODUCT OF SAYEEEEEEENS

Oh so he's a mutant or the subject of a forced evolution experiment?

Product.

Of.

Sayeeeeeeeeeeeens.








...


Lol product of like, being spliced again and again and again until he was Le Next Step in Racoon Evolution.

Gotcha. Khajiit was looking at a list of good horror films that "you may not have seen" yesterday and sure enough there was a few that sounded interesting that this one hasn't seen. Perhaps he will check out Guardians after he watches some of those.

I'm bingeing Star Trek: Voyager right now. Deep Space Nine is up next!

I could never get into Voyager. I did watch DS9 for a while, but I think I just got burned out on Star Trek back then, as it came after all 7 years of Next Gen.


I put the following in the wrong topic the other day!

I started watching Haunted. I videotaped it back when it was on tv 15 years ago. Last year I broke down and bought it on dvd. I finally got around to watching it again. It is still a solid tv show. It is too bad it only went for about a dozen episodes.

I am also doing a Hunger Games marathon, this time on 4k. Every time I watch the series, I like it more. I am surprised no one has ever made a Mockingjay armor mod for Skyrim or Fallout. It would be perfect for either game.

Khajiit is watching a fun little show on the Flix of the Net called The 100. It's about the people of a space station (called "The Ark") that was built to protect a group of people from the ravages of a nuclear war down on earth. It's unclear when this space station was built and by whom (at least in the first season, of which Khajiit is about halfway through), but in any case, 97 years after they first inhabited the station it is discovered that the station is failing. They then round up 100 juvenile delinquents who were imprisoned for various crimes, load them in a dropship with little wrist monitors, and send them down to earth to see if it's survivable on the planet's surface. What ensues is a sort of descent into savagery that Khajiit found entertaining. Worth a watch, as long as you aren't expecting too much from it.

I tried 100, but could not get into it. I kept thinking that I would kill almost all of those douche bags if I was there (like the ones stopping others from eating, when they didn't even kill the game). It annoyed me so much that those people were still alive after three episodes, that I gave up.

That is the problem with playing a character like Persephone. Sometimes she rubs off on me too much.

I enjoy The 100. Thought the first season was a bit hit and miss, but once it gets into more stuff with the Grounders it gets pretty good.

Khajiit is looking forward to more interaction with the Grounders! This one would join Grounder Princess Anya's crew any day!
Khajiit suspects she'd probably just have him killed though. Lol

I watched the new Rings today. It was ok, but nothing great. It adds more to the backstory, with Samara's mother, and how she was conceived, and orphaned. But it just does not live up to the first movie.

I'm watching season 4 of Doctor Who.

Well, new Doctor Who, really.

Well, new NEW Doctor Who, since it's David Tenant.

The two-parter in The Library. Bloody good stuff. Genuinely creepifying(because yes, that's a word now), on so many levels. It's like a horror film with a pg rating. River Song annoys me, but apart from that, it's bloody brilliant.