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Sam and Brennan have done a really good job of not making the Candescent Creed completely cartoonishly evil and one-dimensional; the viewer can see why ordinary people follow it and get comfort from it and have faith in it and, just like Wick, have to reckon with that genuine comfort existing simultaneously with the massive amounts of harm that is both directly enacted by the Halovars and perpetuated through its scriptures.
THIS FINALLY ARRIVED!
I think the delay was over 6 months and then two days ago I got a message saying that something was arriving today. I couldn’t remember what it was, as I hadn’t ordered anything lately. And then I thought ‘oh! could it be??’ And yes, yes it was. I can’t wait to dive in.
If you are interested in English Victorian History, English Heritage on youtube has some excellent cooking videos with Mrs Crocombe.
Travis was right to hate shopping episodes this whole time—one trip to the tailor’s and Teor was almost turned into a coat
Thaisha, you can kill the gods, but at the end of the day there is still an incredibly powerful being shaping your world and your fates and he’s some guy named Brennan who likes birds.
Have we talked about Azune’s tattoo at all? “Have mercy on those I send you” sounds almost religious to me—my first thought was that it sounds like a prayer to a god of death to judge the people Azune kills mercifully, but that would be WILD considering the setting. His position as an Arcane Marshal seems to involve prisoner transport—is it a plea for mercy to the new authorities of society? Also WILD. It could also be related to his time as a soldier, but how? Azune Nayar what the fuck is your deal
The shift from people two episodes ago cheering on Occtis for standing up to Julien by asserting his status as a noble of the Sundered Houses, to those same people now jumping down Thaisha’s throat for saying he’s still connected to his family is. Quite interesting.
Furthermore, we’ve seen him not disagree with some of his family’s methods (4x17, Thaisha: “Are you justifying the large mobile cage?”/Occtis: “We always have them.”) and state that he’s not opposed to trying to resurrect Sylandri; it is absolutely fair for Thaisha to be worried about his attitudes and sympathies and for her to think it’s necessary to check him.
I find it odd how many people are acting like Matt straight up lied about having Deirta’s typhros in mind for Essek’s motivations originally, and I think it’s related to a greater lack of understanding of canonicity in actual play. We see this same lack of understanding have the opposite effect when people badger the actors about ships that never happened and then act like “yeah maybe if things had gone differently” is hard confirmation.
Some people appear to be coming at the typhros reveal from the angle of “Matt meant that in C2 Deirta 100% had typhros to this degree and from his first appearance to Jester and Fjord’s wedding Essek has had the exact same motivations as he does in the show, but if you look at this interview Matt did during the campaign he says something else,” and so they arrive at “he’s lying to retroactively justify this change that I don’t like.” A much more likely explanation if you’re approaching the situation in good faith is that Deirta’s typhros was part of his original concept for Essek, and informed Essek’s early motivations, but Matt moved away from it later or decided to focus on other things by the time he gave the interview answers people are holding up as sacred gospel.
Many things in actual play, from PC motivations to NPC backstories, exist in a kind of Schrödinger’s canon—the player/GM may initially play a character with a certain motivation or fact in mind, but change their mind about it later. Until it is revealed to the audience, it is neither canon nor non-canon. (I’ve also seen this referred to as soft canon.) But it informed their performance in the moment nonetheless! And this adaptation, in which they’re changing a lot, is the perfect time to explore aspects of characters that were previously soft canon.
It was annnnnn itsy bitsy teenie weenie jet-black cloth-of-souls bikini that she made for the first time today!
