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@locopells.bsky.social
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Na’rìng Tawtute. No, it doesn't quite make sense. Casually cynical, serially sardonic & frivolous flippant. Alliteration appreciator and ellipsis enthusiast... Former AC Forums Mod.

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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 1h
I THINK it's just the way they bicker like an old married couple that's the joke, rather than any particular queer commentary, but as the only one whose opinion we trust is gone now, who knows...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 1h
Fair enough.
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 1h
Oh, it was absolutely for commercial reasons, I'm just saying the narrative justification isn't unreasonable.
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Dave (DABS) @plutobro.bsky.social · 12h
Columbus never discovered America! 🚩🚩🚩
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 3h
Oh, I'm not saying the narration didn't work, I'm just saying they overused it - we didn't need it describing the departure of Death as we were watching it, for example.
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 12h
This place is never beating the allegations...
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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 14h
It does make me sad that we're all talking about this because a tired and exhilarated new dad made his first ever dad joke (is that a thing in the US too?) and Bluesky didn't get the joke🤷‍♀️
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 12h
The post on Twitter turned out to be a late night, sleep-deprived joke, that he later deleted - but not before everyone here had had a chance to have a meltdown about it...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 12h
The second series actually removes large chunks of the book...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 12h
static.klipy.com
I See You're A Man Of Culture As Well Meme
ALT: I See You're A Man Of Culture As Well Meme
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 12h
Avenged hasn't, but with Ian Holm gone...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 12h
Please God no, producers really need to get that Dahl does not work if you try to turn the weirdness up further than the source material.
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 12h
Not necessarily, the second series actually cut quite a lot...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 12h
How long did Johnny and the Bomb run for?
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 12h
Yeah, and a pretty shit one at that. Percy Jackson has proved that the movie to series model can work...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 12h
There's enough excuses to dunk on JKR without inventing frivolous ones - we did the whole "No, the Worst Witch did not invent the concept of magic schools" thing here about two years ago...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
A and C eternally getting mistaken for a gay couple is one of the running side jokes in the book, if they were ever actually meant to be, that wouldn't have worked. NG just seemed to have a habit of diversifying his adaptations, to cover his own shortcomings...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
And even then they rather overused the narrator, at times where they weren't really needed...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
It's pretty good, although as said, it does contrive to basically skip the last third of the book.
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
That's basically the last season of Strange New Worlds...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
And rather killed the surprise of seeing Lyra's world interact with ours. (Not helped by Lyra's world being significantly less visually distinct from ours than the film version was)
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
Yeah, and Caspian is done dirty because of it. Susan and Lucy have most of their contributions cut for a start. I get the impression they wanted the rush through it to get to Voyage.. (It's also one of the main reasons that the film version is arguably the better one, for all its shortcomings)
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
The Borrowers did the same, they did all four books in two series. (Yes, I know there's actually five books, Avenged didn't come along until later)
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
TTTE always felt a LOT longer as a kid...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
How many live action Wind in the Willows are there? I know I've seen one in the 90s, but that's all I know. .
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
Well that's what happens when you keep a series going past its source material...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
Yeah, but those would all be 22 to 23 episodes long - that's like 16 to 18 hours.
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
They pass through his backyard, it's not THAT egregious an inclusion - at least for the second part, the third one is a bit more so.
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 13h
To be fair, The Hobbit compresses time frames whereas LOTR will describe every single uneventful day of a week of walking - both sets of films kinda tread the middle ground there. .
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Pete Geller @petegeller.bsky.social · 15h
When you gotta go, you gotta go 🤷‍♂️
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 22h
I swear I didn't know the electric guitar QIACKED songs...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Or, you know, a single player game with a finite campaign and no live service elements...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Don't worry, digital copies are fairly cheap these days.
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Probably because audiobooks of Hitchhiker's Guide is basically the radio show without the full cast...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The latter, I assume.
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The dog basket was a clue...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
static.klipy.com
That was not my fault
ALT: That was not my fault
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
TRAIN NERD ACTIVATE
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
*taps the pinned post*
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Get out
ALT: Get out
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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You know what 50cent did when he was hungry? 58
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At least the movie side of all the ad-supported stuff realises that as long as they stick it all at the start, while we're still getting snacks, going to the loo, etc, and don't interrupt the movie itself we'll tolerate it...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/loco...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It was - he deleted it and basically said that three sleepless nights will do that to you.
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Apparently: "the thing about everyone sharing a ragebait twitter post over here- when you aren't on twitter- is that you all missed the guy delete the post, explain that it was a poorly thought out joke because he is the father of a literal three day old and he's very tired"
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Max Zorin already tried...
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
But how will we earn our Bluesky credentials, if we're not Very Loudly declaring How Offended we are, or how we're Not Doing something for X Reason...
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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's set in Toronto, the raccoon capital of the world. Have a weird feeling that you're being watched? It's a raccoon. Hearing nocturnal noises, it's a raccoon. Suspect you have a banshee? It's a raccoon. Muffins disappearing? Also a raccoon. mashable.com/article/racc...
mashable.com
A raccoon broke into a woman's kitchen and ate her English muffin
Respect.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/10/2026
that's strange because i define it as "paying a fair amount of taxes so my neighbours don't go bankrupt paying for their cancer treatment". but what would i know, i only live in a country with socialised healthcare
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Locopells @locopells.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yep. Basically their Jack the Ripper.
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