it's not even that Buffy's finale is bad but it comes at the end of a very dire season and there's basically no time for anything, but somehow angel's finale despite being super rushed cuz they got cancelled managed to blow through everything it needed to and delivered a thematically perfect ending

If you'd said to me a year ago that I'd like angel's finale more than Buffy's I'd have told you you were crazy but here we are

yeah, and just being more prominent means you're probably not going to be as consistent, to use an example from a different property I think Steven Moffat has written both some of the absolute best and absolute worst episodes of Doctor Who ever and both are equally spread across his time on the show

ah I see
Maybe he is falling off since those last clone wars eps were before most of the other recent stuff he's done, I haven't gotten to most of the D+ shows yet in my big Star Wars watch though so I can't really speak for them other than I've enjoyed basically all I've seen of his animated stuff

I haven't dug into bad batch yet but I think the final season of clone wars is excellent and I liked the first set of those Tales shorts

Like I can't even say he's fallen off cuz the final 4 clone wars episodes which he has sole writing credit on are incredible and I've heard Bad Batch was also pretty high quality

I think he just doesn't do live action well, his animated stuff has been pretty consistently solid from what I've seen (even before clone wars, he directed a lot of very good episodes from Avatar season 1)

That's pretty much how you have to play d1 if you're going as nonlethal as possible tbh most of the other tools are loud/violent

The Lord Of The Rings: The Appendices:

Sometimes you gotta follow up the yearly holiday viewing of eleven hours of movie with twenty five hours of what's probably the most in-depth "making of" documentary in cinema history

hey did you guys know viggo mortensen actually broke two toes when he ki--

The Lord Of The Rings: The Appendices:

Sometimes you gotta follow up the yearly holiday viewing of eleven hours of movie with twenty five hours of what's probably the most in-depth "making of" documentary in cinema history

hey did you guys know viggo mortensen actually broke two toes when he ki--

They were probably doomed the moment Guillermo Del Toro left the project

they're not

irredeemably awful

But they're very obviously compromised by a lot of development difficulties and Warner Brothers mandating a lot of stupid shit

🎉 HYPNOSPACE OUTLAW MENTIONED 🎉

Thing That Made Me So Mad I Almost Forgot To Put It On The Topster: Doctor Who: Series 15, and the single most bungled finale I've ever seen that show slop out

And finally, to contrast, Thing That Will Be Hard To Keep Off My GOTY List Next Year: Deltarune

Happy New Year!

Most Depressingly Formulaic: Death Stranding 2

Most Cathartic Villain Death: The Owl House

Best Twitch Streaming Necromancer: Nona The Ninth

Game Everyone Loved That I Just Thought Was OK: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Well, we've reached the end of the year. To be honest, I ended up finishing way less things than I expected this year, but I think me not trying as hard to stay caught up on the newest games let me enjoy the stuff I played a lot more, and find excellent older stuff.