Susan

OKAY, final episode! I am hype because I remember pretty much the ending and NOTHING ELSE ABOUT THIS EPISODE. ... Which means that the beginning of it is going to be so rough, because oh my god Yuri, WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS.

[Master post of reactions is here!]

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So the tl;dr is basically that Yuri On Ice is STILL GOOD and makes me super emotional about these beautiful gay muppets being in love and terrible at communicating that. IT'S SO GOOD.

In "movies with splend" adventures: last year (Omg that sounds so dramatic, but it was literally like December) we had an afternoon of watching ridiculous Hitman movies! I don't have a lot to say about the Timothy Olyphant one beyond "I AM UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THIS" and "WHY IS THIS VERSION OF AGENT 47 SO SQUISHY?" (although props for the convoluted plot, that's fine), but I got to rewatch Agent 47: The Misadventures of Katia Van Dees, which I am 100% HERE FOR, so you know what that means! CAPSLOCK AHOY!

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My livetweet: here! Sam's livetweet: here!

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Okay but the thing that's interesting as well is tracking the improvements in graphic UIs, because that's quite cool. It's really weird tracking over a decade in cinema through one franchise, okay!

I yelled on twitter here, and Sam yelled here!

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splend has never seen any of the Resident Evil movies past the first one, and because I am the GREATEST SISTER IN LAW of all time, I obviously brought all of them round to inflict on him. We're probably watching the first three today and the next three another day, and sadly scarimonious can't come and yell about them, but she's with us in spirit twitter and tim-tams! THIS IS FOR YOU.

My initial tweetstorm is here! splend's is here!

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Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya should really be my thing. I like to imagine that it got made because someone in the office accidentally sent in their Fate/Card Captor Sakura fusion AU instead of their work, and management went "!!!!!" It should be my thing! I like magical girls capturing cards! I like the Fate mash-up of mythologies and Pokémon battles! I like yelling at my ships and the steady inexorable knowledge that this is basically a slasher movie in terms of survival odds! I should be the target audience for this show!

... Except that someone went "Fuck, how can we get straight dudes to watch this show?" and the answer was "I dunno, ramp up the male gaze and put in a ludicrous amount of fanservice, that should get 'em."

Motherfuckers.

(I actually asked Lex "Was it really that bad? I know it was bad enough that I stopped watching like three episodes in, but was it that bad?" And even Lex was like "Oh yeah." And my tolerance for fanservice was a lot higher back when Lex was watching Kaleid Liner. Apparently it got better after I stopped watching, but it also got a hell of a lot worse.)

ANYWAY, yes, it has Illya as an adorable happy magical girl trying to catch the cards of heroic spirits that Rin and her rival let loose; Illya's rival/best friend is a magical girl called Miyu who is VERY SERIOUS. Like, full-on "There is an entire episode revolving around how she can't use magic to fly because she understands too much physics to suspend her disbelief." That part is REALLY CUTE. And they made a movie that's entirely just Miyu's backstory and pretty much no fanservice! EXCELLENT.

Disclaimer: there are spoilers for both the show, the main Fate universe (Mainly Zero, Stay/Night and Unlimited Bladeworks), and the movie here! I'm not sure how much of Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya you need to have seen for the movie to make sense – I've only seen three episodes, but also Lex has seen all of it so whenever I was like "Wait, no, what was that about?" Lex was there to explain what the hell. So... Fair warning, I guess! The important thing to know is that this branch of the Fate multiverse revolves around the heroic spirits being embodied through cards.

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Lex and I are watching Jurassic Park today because he has a film club at work and I have transcripts, and these have conveniently overlapped so we have the one film to watch! ~Spoilers!~

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Guys... Did we have an episode that made sense?

(I would like it noted that I asked Lex when new episodes of "the bad show" came out and he knew EXACTLY what I meant. He SAYS it's because it's the only show we're watching together, but you and I know the truth.)

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I AM PLAYING EPISODE IGNIS, LET'S SEE HOW THIS GOES. I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T LIVETWEET IT BECAUSE SPOILERS (I AM PROBABLY GONNA LIVE TWEET IT A LITTLE BIT, I'M UNDER ORDERS), SO I WILL KEEP MY LAPTOP OPEN AND WHENEVER I WANT TO TWEET I WILL YELL HERE INSTEAD. SPOILERS, OBVS.

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... Man, you can really see the descent into broken sobbing over the course of this playthrough, whoops. Like, I did A LOT of yelling on twitter, so the people in my Dying Lesbian Noises corner probably got a lot more capslock in their mentions than they were expecting, but I'M SURE IT'S FINE.

WE HAVE A NEW ENDING. A BETTER ENDING. EVERYTHING IS FINE.

Right, I have finished the Gladio and Prompto DLCs! I am nearly ready to start the Ignis one (which I think Baco and Squeem are hype for, at least, because apparently it manages to make FFXV almost a good game.), but I ran out of time to play it today. (I will TRY to play it soon, but it's not my PS4 so I am pretty much fitting it in as and when sithe isn't using it.)

BUT, I might have feelings? And spoilers for two of the DLC and the full game? (I will come back with more complete thoughts about Prompto in a bit, I swear, this is mainly yelling about Gladio.)

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